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The Cuban Missile Crisis: At The...

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: At The Brink

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Take a look back at 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that nearly led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Capability Brown’s Unfinished Garden

Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. Three hundred years ago, he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land, for some of the most influential people in the 18th century. But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board – his own garden.

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Putin thanks Kim for troops

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