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89Firing Squad at Dawn - Executions in World War One (WWI)
During the First World War, several hundred men were shot at dawn, by firing squads, made up of their own comrades, supposedly for cowardice and desertion. Many were suffering from trauma and other physical, psychological and / or emotional health problems. A number of them were young boys, who had lied about their age, when they enlisted, and then simply could not cope with the horrors that World War One forced upon them. They died a horrific and terrifying death, when they should have been sen
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83The Staffordshire Hoard and Anglo-Saxon England
The 'Staffordshire Hoard' is a collection of hundreds of beautiful Anglo-Saxon gold items ~ often decorated with garnets. There are religious artefacts and items of jewelry. For some reason they were hidden ~ buried in a Staffordshire field ~ and there they lay, undiscovered, for hundreds of years, until a man with a metal detector unearthed them in the year 2009. Staffordshire is in the English Midlands, and belonged, once, to the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Tamworth in staffordshire was a
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