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A. He was both a hero and traitor in the American War of Independence. He started as a patriot, but will be remembered by most Americans as the man who tried to hand over a fort to the British
01:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002 A. Possibly not. Evidence has just emerged that the history of Offa's Dyke - the largest man-made structure in Britain - is not what we previously thought. Q. Conventional view A. The
01:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002 A. A Saxon leader who fought the Normans on the Isle of Ely shortly after the conquest. His story fired popular imagination and is mixed with much myth and folklore. Q. Such as A. Hereward was
01:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002 A. Specially minted silver coins distributed by the Queen to pensioners at a special service on Maundy Thursday - the day before Good Friday. The tradition dates back at least 1,400 years. Q.
01:00 Mon 11th Feb 2002 A. Which one Queen Victoria's confidant or the abolitionist Q. The anti-slave campaigner. A. Ah. That John Brown. He was born in Torrington, Connecticut on 9 May, 1800, son of a wandering New
01:00 Mon 11th Feb 2002 A. Indeed. The new statue of Lady Thatcher has prompted a Commons problem. It has highlighted that there are plenty of images of some Prime Ministers - but others have been forgotten. MP Tony
01:00 Mon 11th Feb 2002 A. A daring Second World War in the Philippines in January, 1945. It is being made into a new Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise. It is based on a book called Ghost Soldiers by Hampton
01:00 Mon 04th Feb 2002 A. Yes. Traditionally, he was murdered, buried in an obscure spot in Hertfordshire, then his body moved to Westminster Abbey. Now it's thought his real grave might be in Stirling, Scotland. Q.
01:00 Mon 04th Feb 2002 A. Very unpleasantly, according to a report by medical detectives. Q. Tell me more. A. King Herod - or Herod the Great - was one of the nastiest characters in the New Testament. During his
01:00 Mon 04th Feb 2002 A. American patriot, famous for riding to warn comrades of the approaching British. He was also an engraver, dentist, artist and participant of the Boston Tea Party. Q. But what about this ride
01:00 Mon 28th Jan 2002 A. Sixty years ago, 15 top Nazi and SS officials sealed the fate of European Jews at a meeting about 'the final solution of the Jewish question'. They met in a villa on Berlin's Wannsee lake.
01:00 Mon 28th Jan 2002 A. Thanks to seeker for the question. It's an amazing find and might, according to experts, force historians and archaeologists to reconsider their view of ancient human history. The remains have
01:00 Mon 28th Jan 2002 A. It now seems that the basis for Hamlet's beautiful and tragic lover may be based upon a Warwickshire girl who committed suicide. Q. Explain. A. Archaeologists have uncovered a well in
01:00 Mon 28th Jan 2002 A. Indeed. The Bronze Age ritual circle discovered off the Norfolk coast is now believed to have been built by a Scandinavian tribe building a gateway to next world. Q. What is Seahenge A. A
01:00 Mon 21st Jan 2002 A. As in 'put your John Hancock on that' He was the man who put his large signature defiantly in the middle of the American Declaration of Independence. Q. Why A. Hancock was president of the
01:00 Mon 21st Jan 2002 A. Two abstract representations engraved on pieces of red ochre. They have just been recovered from Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of the Indian Ocean in South Africa, 120 miles east of
01:00 Mon 21st Jan 2002 A. It just depends upon your point of view. It was either the Americans' generous plan to help war-torn Europe remain stable; or another attempt to expand American imperialism into another sphere.
01:00 Mon 14th Jan 2002 A. The moment, in February, 1948, when the Communists took over all of Eastern Europe. Q. Background A. The Soviet army began to occupy Eastern Europe in 1944 after the Nazis fled. The area
01:00 Mon 14th Jan 2002 A. No. It's just a web rumour, a modern myth, an urban legend. Q. So how did this rumour start A. Jackson has had numerous plastic surgery operations over the years and his appearance -
01:00 Mon 14th Jan 2002 A. Absolutely - but give it a little while. Millions of amateur family historians were left frustrated in the first few days of the Public Record Office putting the 1901 census online. Q. Why
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