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The Friday Digest 08/05/15

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This week's update features the sinking of RMS Lusitania, Napoleon's last journey and the pre-war cars found in a Texas barn. 

 

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The great crime of the First World War?


* RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank in eighteen minutes. This eyewitness account of the sinking is heartbreaking and the civilian toll was extrememly high but who was to blame for the deaths of 1,201 people?


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Was the WW1 U-boat a death trap?

 

* Was the First World War U-boat a death trap?


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The Houses of Parliament, seen across Westminster Bridge. Adrian Pingstone

 

* Thirteen things you didn't know about the history of British democracy.


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'The Westminster canvass' 1784. Charles James Fox as Guy Fawkes. (Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

 

* Nine general election curiosities through history.


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Election montage


* Every number one, ever, on polling day


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Survivor: Eberhard Wendler, left, a British farm worker and two other POWs in 1945

 

The day that Deutschland died: retracing the fate of captured Axis soldiers at the end of the Second World War


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Hana Katz in Israel after the war

 

* Tracing the children of the Holocaust


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Russian rivals: Sergei Kirov (centre), flanked by Anastas Mikoyan and Joseph Stalin, October 11th, 1932.


Killings and the Kremlin
 

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| © Eugene_Antonov

 

Could a woman become a knight in medieval times?  


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archery_medieval_england

A review of Archery in medieval England.  

 

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Before and after images of the mosaics

 

* The Roman mosaics 'ruined' in a botched restoration in Turkey


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Bronze figure of Ajax. Greek, 720–700 BC. H. 6.7 cm. British Museum, London 1865,1118.230


* The passion of Ajax


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c50 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


* Six things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra


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The world’s oldest complete copy of the Ten Commandments, written on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscript will be displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

 

* The Ten Commandments Dead Sea Scroll is to go on display for the first time in Israel


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Eco Comics Cerne Giant character

 

* The Cerne Abbas chalk hill giant has been censored for a comic because some outlets had refused to release it.  



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John Parker and Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

 

* Mr Darcy and the sex scandal: the real-life aristocrat who inspired Jane Austen


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Cunard's Three Queens sail in formation from Southampton

 

* The 'three queens' ships marked the start of Cunard's 175th anniversary celebrations.


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Napoleon on St Helena


* Napoleon's last journey


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Two ruined boxes


* The yard for red phone boxes that ring no more


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Transparent graphic overlay in this image shows the dimensions and placement of the first Jamestown colony church, based on archaeological findings. Still screenshot from Youtube video, Experimental archaeology: bringing Jamestown's early church to life, by Jamestown Rediscovery.

 

* Archaeologists rebuild the 1608 church where Pocahontas was married.  


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The 1932 Cadillac 370B V-12 Convertible found in the barn (pictured) could fetch $350,000 at auction

 

* Five perfectly preserved pre-war cars worth $700k have been found inside a Texas barn


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They love it boss! It's a smash. Image from Girl in Dior Photo: Courtesy of NBM Publishing


* The story of Dior, now in comic-book form ...


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shoes

 

* Something’s afoot: investigating the names for shoes

 

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* These dreamlike autochrome portraits from 1913 are among the earliest colour photographs.

 

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The New Yorker writer who didn't publish for 30 years



* The New Yorker writer who didn't publish anything for thirty years.  

 

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'I know what it is like to be picked on'



* Ten times J.K. Rowling has inspired Harry Potter fans

 

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Citizen Kane


* Is Citizen Kane more than just a great movie


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John Doughterty

 

* Copyright: it's a piece of cake, right


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Ruth Rendell

 

* The book trade has paid tribute to the 'insightful' Ruth Rendell who died on Saturday 2 May

 

* Macmillan partners with BitLit on ebook bundling but what are your thoughts?  


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