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Historian Lisa Jardine dies aged 71

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Description: RMS Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland, by Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders. Nearly the length of three football fields Titanic was, at the time, the largest moving object ever created and also one of the most lavishly appointed ships ever built Titanic was the middle ship of the three new super-liners. Her older sister, Olympic, served as a reliable member of the White Star fleet until she was scrapped in 1935 after striking and sinking the famous Nantucket lightship off the eastern cost of the United States. Her younger sister, Britannic, met a fate similar to that of Titanic during World War I when she struck a German mine off the coast of Greece and sank in less than an hour.
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Entrance to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland. Photograph from 1995. (Photo by Votava/Imagno/Getty Images)

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Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

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Richard III theme park to open near Leicester

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Was the skeleton in the Leicester car park really Richard III?

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Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’