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| 2019 |
Treasure trove
Metal detectorists Lisa Grace and Adam Staples discovered a hoard of 2,528 silver coins spanning the Norman Conquest of 1066, featuring coins of both Harold II and William the Conqueror.
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| 2018 |
Tacitus
A. J. Woodman published 'The Annals of Tacitus, Book 4' through Cambridge University Press.
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| 2016 |
Tacitus
A. J. Woodman published 'The Annals of Tacitus, Books 5–6' through Cambridge University Press.
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| 2015 | Ukraine initiated a decommunization process that resulted in the dismantling of 1,320 Lenin statues and the renaming of roads and structures previously named under Soviet authority. |
| 2013 |
Tacitus
S. J. V. Malloch published 'The Annals of Tacitus, Book 11' in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series through Cambridge University Press.
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| December 2013 | Jang Song-thaek was abruptly accused of being a counter-revolutionary, stripped of all his political posts, expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), arrested, and executed. As part of damnatio memoriae, his photos were removed from official media and his image was digitally erased from photographs featuring other North Korean leaders. |
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