Georgiana Cavendish, the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire.
She lived a remarkable and unconventional life marked by fashion innovation, massive gambling debts, political campaigning, and a highly public, complicated ménage à trois
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Leopold I transformed Austria into a great power.
He helped repel the 1683 Ottoman Siege of Vienna, reclaimed most of Hungary, and checked Louis XIV’s expansionist ambitions in the West.
A gifted patron of the arts, he also helped transform Vienna into a great Baroque capital.
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Timber framed Building at 45 High Street, Leominster, Herefordshire
An early 17th-century listed building (Grade II).
Is something amiss on the surface of the second floor?
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Bees aren’t the only pollinators keeping plants alive
The King's Arms, Holywell Street, Oxford 🍻
Oxford’s oldest pub, pouring pints since 1607.
Though rebuilt in the eighteenth century, hence its Georgian appearance.
It is owned by Wadham College, whose students live on the upper floors.
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10 June 1982
Captain Gavin Hamilton was killed during a skirmish near Port Howard, West Falkland.
Posthumously awarded the Military Cross for his actions, Capt Hamilton now rests at Port Howard.
Hamilton Point, West Falkland is named in his honour.
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10 June 1880
A Polish Jew, Chaim Rubin, was born in Tarnów.
A merchant.
In #Auschwitz from 26 February 1942.
No. 25512
He perished in the camp on 4 March 1942.
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Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, was accused of witchcraft by her stepson Henry V in a likely political move to seize her wealth and help fund his wars in France.
After years under house arrest, she was released and eventually had her lands and fortune restored.
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10 June 1940
French Jewish girl Camille Himmelfarb was born in Paris.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 September 1942 in a transport of 1,003 Jews deported from Drancy.
She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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10 June 2013
A German World War II bomber was raised from the English Channel.
The Dornier Do-17 aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast during the Battle of Britain.
Before 2013 it had been lying on a chalk bed in 50ft of water on the Goodwin Sands, for over 70 years
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