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The sinking of HMS Royal Oak

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HMS Royal Oak was attacked on October 14, 1939 by a German U-boat tasked with targeting the Royal Navy's Home Fleet's main base in Scapa Flow.

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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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Why the Fall of Syria Checkmates Russia & Iran

For 54 years, the Assad family dominated Syria’s government, despite a civil war that had raged since 2011. But a renewed rebel offensive against the government that began at the end of November 2024 exposed the Assad regime in the country as an empty house of cards. The Assad family’s rule in the country was decisively overthrown in a matter of only 11 days. 

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Wildlife springs back in California’s wildfire zone

Four months after the Los Angeles area wildfires tore through the Angeles National Forest and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in Altadena, wildlife is returning to the Eaton Fire burn area and scientists are closely tracking them. Kristen Ochoa, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles medical school, first began documenting the plants and animals that live in the area known as the Chaney Trail Corridor in 2024.

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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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Why the Fall of Syria Checkmates Russia & Iran

For 54 years, the Assad family dominated Syria’s government, despite a civil war that had raged since 2011. But a renewed rebel offensive against the government that began at the end of November 2024 exposed the Assad regime in the country as an empty house of cards. The Assad family’s rule in the country was decisively overthrown in a matter of only 11 days. 

Frank.

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Wildlife springs back in California’s wildfire zone

Four months after the Los Angeles area wildfires tore through the Angeles National Forest and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in Altadena, wildlife is returning to the Eaton Fire burn area and scientists are closely tracking them. Kristen Ochoa, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles medical school, first began documenting the plants and animals that live in the area known as the Chaney Trail Corridor in 2024.

AP