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Troops approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day © Getty

D-Day: Storming the beaches

H31F3N Portrait of Queen Victoria in her coronation robes 1838

What did Queen Victoria ever do for us?

(Original Caption) NEW YORK: WOMEN'S LIBERATION PARADE ON 5TH AVENUE, 8/26/71.

Women’s Lib: The Second Wave of Feminism

Incised block (talatat) from an Amarna temple, Queen Nefertiti offering a bouquet to Aten. Egypt. Ancient Egyptian. 18th dynasty c 1352 1336 BC. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Top 10… Female Pharoahs

WWI grave at the front – Armistice

“Their name liveth for evermore”

Children apple bobbing for Halloween, with an illuminated Jack-O-Lantern behind © Getty Images

General history

What are the origins of Halloween?

Norman conquest of England in 1066 depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry © Getty

How William won the Battle of Hastings in 1066

Portrait of Olaudah Equiano © Getty Images

Olaudah Equiano, freedom fighter

Haile Selassie in the 1970s © Getty Images

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: A rebel with a cause

How the moon saved Christopher Columbus in 1504 © Getty Images

How the moon saved Christopher Columbus in 1504

When was the first game of football? © Getty Images

When was the first game of football?

Where does the word ‘honeymoon’ come from? © Getty Images

Where does the word ‘honeymoon’ come from?

British Royal Weddings: A Potted History © Getty Images

British Royal Weddings: A Potted History

Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 with a bachelor of arts degree © Getty Images

Helen Keller, the deafblind activist who triumphed over adversity