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Newmarket. British Horse Racing.

The Rowley Mile racecourse sports a brand new grandstand which is a great feature of this wonderful racetrack.

The Aintree Grand National - History Of The Race

The Aintree Grand National is many things but easy to pick a winner isn't one of them, and some people resort to the pin!

12 21 2012 - End of the World?

12 21 2012 is the last day in the Mayan Calendar. What significances does this have with mankind? Is this really the end of the world?

The Great Legacy Of The U.S. Coast Guard

The U.S. Coast Guard was officially started in 1915, although it had existed before in two parts. One of those parts was the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which has been around since 1790.

Flagler County, Florida - An Unheralded History

Find out why Flagler County, Florida was the scene of intense national rivalries during the era of early European explorations, as the colonial powers fought to control territory.

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine in the latter part of 2004 consists of a series of protests and other events and actions related to allegations of massive corruption in the government which was then led by the former President, Yanukovich.

Taras and Andriy Shevchenko and Chernobyl in Ukraine

Biography on Taras and Andriy Shevchenko and Chernobyl disease in Ukraine.

U.S. Independence Day History, A Patriotic Gift

The history books in school never told you a lot of what happened during the Revolutionary War. Patriotism is (NOT) a sin, and the Fourth of July has always had more to it than fireworks, beer, picnics, baseball games, and another holiday off.

Ivar (Ivor) (Ivarr) the boneless Ragnarsson

Ivar known in Old Norse as Ivarr Beinlauss possible meaning, bone-loose or bone-less. (Could it be that he suffered from brittle bone disease or was he simply double jointed or could he have been exceptionally tall and loose limbed). What ever his disability was, if it was indeed a disability, it certainly did not affect his mind. He was already the King of Dublin when he masterminded and led, along with his brothers, Halfdan and Ubbe the great Danish army that arrived in three to four hundred longships to land in East Anglia in 865.

London Bridge Is Falling Down

London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady. So goes the old nursery rhyme that most likely records the destruction of the bridge by Olaf the Norwegian Viking.

Tutimaios The Pharaoh Who Lost A Country

Tutimaios (Tutimaeus) (Timaus) (Dedumose1) Tutimaios according to Manetho was the Pharaoh that lost his country to the foreign invaders known by many as the Hyksos, although the Egyptians themselves would have used the term Aamu meaning in rough translation Asiatics. While we are on the subject of names in those far off days Egypt would not have been the name the locals called the country. The occupants of the rich fertile lands of the Nile Valley would have called it Kemet, Kem, or the Black Lands, (as opposed to the Red Lands of the desert).

Jesus Christ, narcissist?

Illegitimate and adopted children, especially of humble origins, often develop narcissistic defenses to fend off persistent feelings of inadequacy and inferiority.

Civil War Medicine

Civil War medicine was a far cry from today's medical technology. Back during the Civil War medical practices were pretty inept and ineffective.