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Over 100 Security Service (MI5) files are being released today covering a wide range of subjects and individuals. Most notably, the files offer fresh perspectives on notorious members of the Cambridge Five spy ring, namely Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby and John Cairncross.
1. Where is the massive Kerak Castle?
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There is nothing more intimately personal than the thoughts in your head, and yet you did not conceive them. They are a continuation of knowledge and ideas that for thousands of years have travelled the globe, shaped by countless minds from all civilizations. In a time of seemingly growing division, that is a thought that ought to bring us all together.
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Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, a boundary stone and a mace head. The items, which show signs of preservation, date from around 2100 BCE to 600 BCE. This collection, it is generally thought, was the world’s first known “museum”.
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1. Who painted The Hunters in the Snow in 1565?
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Reading time: 5 minutes Nations establish their borders through treaties. Rivers are sometimes relied on to set boundaries, but even here tensions rise when there are disputes about interpretation. Is the boundary on the river banks, the deepest part of the river, or the very centre of the flow?
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1. Where was Marco Polo born?
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1. Which line divides North and South Korea?
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1. Which line of English monarchs originated in Wales?
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1. When did the Japanese Shogun impose a sakoku (seclusion) policy?
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1. When did Nicolaus Copernicus publish ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’ which explained that the Earth orbits around the Sun?
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1. When did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
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1. Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
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1. Who led the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition?
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1. When was the first Sino-Indian War?
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1. Which country fought alongside the French and British against the Egyptians during the Suez crisis?
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1. What is the 1916 armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland known as?
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1. Where did Joanna Plantagenet, sister of Richard I Lionheart, become Queen?
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1. In the 1300s, which Empire produced approximately half the world’s gold?
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1. Which Empire operated the Manila Galleon trade?
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1. When did the Wars of the Roses end?
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1. Who painted ‘The Basket of Apples’ in 1893?
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1. Who led the victorious army at the Battle of Poltava?
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1. Which conflict did the Battle of Culloden bring to a close?
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1. Which Greek God did the Colossus of Rhodes represent?
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1. In 1947, what was the first living thing sent into space?
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1. When did the Berlin wall fall?
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1. When did the Spanish Empire reach its greatest extent?
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1. After Shackleton’s ship was crushed by ice in Antarctica in 1916, where did he sail an open boat to in order to organise rescue?
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1. When did the first crusade begin?
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1. Who painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830?
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1. How does history view the English King who agreed to Magna Carta?
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1. Which previous empire did the Byzantine Empire grow out of?
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1. Who painted The Creation of Adam in 1512?
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1. When was the term ‘The Silk Road’ first used?
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1. What is the town of Bury St Edmunds named after?
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