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Little-Known or Unknown Facts Regarding Queen Elizabeth I’s Death
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Why do we love the seaside?
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How does Martin Parr take a photo?
The Last Resort, an unflinching series of photographs of the working-class seaside resort of New Brighton in Merseyside, brought Martin Parr to wide public attention in the mid-1980s.
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In 1741, Anglo-Irish MP Albert Dobbs commissioned William Moor to search for the North-West Passage, in a bid to strengthen Britain's trade routes.
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