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Taking a look back at the first Kentucky Derby nearly 150 years ago
Saturday will mark the 150th running of horse racing's most prestigious race.
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Tracing the footsteps of Kings Cliffe US WWII pilot killed in action nearly 80 years ago
In February 1945 a 23-year-old pilot already 4,000 miles from home, on the cusp of his adult life, climbed into his cockpit and rolled off down a Kings Cliffe runway. Fighter pilot Sidney Stitzer was part of a mission to disrupt the German railway network. But he never returned. His plane was hit by metal from an exploding train car and he died. This weekend, his nephew Bill Emanuel travelled from Denver, Colorado, to that overgrown Northamptonshire airfield to stand in the very spot in which...
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Has the home of Rome's first emperor finally been found? Scientists discover a villa near Mount Vesuvius where Augustus may have died 2,000 years ago
The 'extravagant' villa contains huge elaborate pillars, ancient pots known as amphora that likely held wine and even a statue of Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility.