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German-born physicist Albert Einstein.

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Albert Einstein

Einstein on the run

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Einstein on the run: when the brilliant scientist fled to England

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

8 of the nicest kings in history

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

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5 things you need to know about Armistice Day

Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Where was the Armistice signed?

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

In pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

It is 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s concrete solution to the mass haemorrhaging of its citizens at the height of the Cold War. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

Podcast Website Large Helen Fry - WWII Intelligence

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Secret listeners

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

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Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

Q&A Who were Prince Albert’s family, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas?

Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933

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Hitler’s millionaire backers: how Germany’s elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

Sir Max Hastings. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

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Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”