The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...

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Ahead of the start of the Year of the Book, former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves appeared on the ETV2 show "Plekktrumm," to ...

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Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the ...

The comedy-drama The Full Monty (1997), starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Hugo Speer was filmed on location in Sheffield ...

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In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

The family tree of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is quite long, given he has been married five times. Here are the details.

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