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The 1800s saw the Pound Sterling to US Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate by and large maintain a rate of around $5 to every £1 with the notable deviations from the rate seen to be aligned with ...
A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers ...
Going back a bit further, it’s possible that a living Greenland shark might have also observed the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, which occurred in the mid-1800s. This ...
The New Year’s races have been a part of Kiwi life for a while now, as seen in these articles from the 1800s. A public meeting was held at 7.30 p.m. this evening in Mr Scrimgeour’s hotel to ...
Speaking about the arduous process Ivan Calandra, archaeologist at LEIZA, said: “The challenge in the analysis was that the silver sheet was rolled, but after around 1,800 years, it was of course also ...
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Often lavishly decorated, the pistols are made until dueling falls out of favor in the mid-1800s. This pair of 1786 flintlock pistols was made with ivory stocks and unusually elaborate decorative ...