As I watched a biography of Henry VIII recently, I found it striking the similarities between him and our own monarch residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation begins, the question is: did she 'sidestep crucial matters'?

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.

1933: Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February. 1934: Fire destroys Hakodate, Japan, killing about 1,500. 1935: Persia is officially renamed Iran ...

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In 1413, England’s King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V. In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London.

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