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NY Times Magazine NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News British History The internet's most comprehensive information resource for the times, places, events and people of British history. New Where Are They Now? - Burial places of Britain's rulers New The Knights Templar - the mysterious ending of a strange organization. New St. New Lives of the Queens of England: - A series of articles by Heidi Murphy - Catherine of Valois - Catherine of Braganza Major Content Sections King Arthur - The greatest legend of all! Narrative Histories England - by Peter Williams, Ph.D. Time Periods Prehistoric Britain - Index of period resources Roman Britain - Index of period resources Anglo Saxon Britain - Index of period resources Medieval Britain - Index of period resources Reformation & Restoration - Index of period resources Age of Empire - Index of period resources Modern Britain - Index of period resources Myth, Legend & Folklore - Index of period resources Other Resources Important Arthurian Sources & Texts De Excidio Britanniae - c.540, Gildas. Featured Pages:

MAGAZINE Autostraddle | News, Entertainment, Opinion, Community and Girl-on-Girl Culture Welcome to the BnF The Bibliothèque nationale de France collects, preserves and makes known the national documentary heritage. The BnF’s collections are unique in the world: 14 million books and printed documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps and plans, scores, coins, medals, sound documents, video and multimedia documents, scenery elements... All disciplines, whether intellectual, artistic or scientific, are represented in a comprehensive way. About 150 000 documents are added to the collections each year thanks to legal deposit, acquisitions and donations. Today, the BnF’s digital library, Gallica, provides access to over three millions documents. Numerous cultural events highlight and make known the library’s outstanding collections: exhibitions, lectures, symposiums, concerts and meetings are planned all the year long. Main services How to find us? François-Mitterrand Library Quai François-Mauriac 75706 Paris Cedex 13 Address and transports - François-Mitterrand Library Visiting the library

Science Two possible explanations of mysterious earthquake lights — Centuries of humans have reported strange lights moving along the ground before an earthquake strikes. Now, two different teams of scientists have two competing theories that could explain where those lights come from and how they're made. — Maggie • 5 Maggie Koerth-Baker at 6:57 am Fri, Apr 11, 2014 • 16 Oarfish are freaky sea dragons. Video Link A biologist trying to go to Mars — Biologist Chris Patil is one of the 1058 people chosen (from more than 200,000 initial applicants) to participate in the second round of Mars One astronaut selection. The side-effects of surviving HIV — There are side-effects to being an HIV controller — a person whose body naturally suppresses the virus without medication. David Pescovitz at 10:18 am Tue, Apr 8, 2014 • 18 This video explains the weirdness of the McGurk effect, a perceptual illusion demonstrating that understanding speech is not just about what we hear, but also what we see. Read the rest

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