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Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

How did it become a gesture of well-wishing to say to an actor before they go on stage "break a leg"? (Photo by Andrys Lukowski via iStock/Getty Images Plus)

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The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

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Destroyer escorts fire depth charges against submarine raiders in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

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James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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Chloroform, Jean Harlow and the Marquess of Dorset: 3 things that happened On This Day 7 June

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Voltaire, Vanessa Bell and Joan of Arc: 3 things that happened On This Day 30 May

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The princes in the Tower

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Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

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An illustration from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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