For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside.
Day: October 9, 2010
Rare Titanic Letter Heads for Auction: Big Pics
A rare, first-person account of the ordeal of one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster will soon hit the auction block.
Simon Schama’s appointment as history tsar an insult, says Mary Beard
The appointment of historian and presenter Simon Schama as the Coalition Government's new history tsar has been condemned as insincere and insulting by a leading academic.
Michelangelo’s er..Tracey? – mirror.co.uk
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Yersinia pestis bacteria confirmed as cause of Middle Ages ‘Black Death’ plague epidemic
The latest tests conducted by anthropologists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle Ages.
