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History & culture · Challenging

Ulster Bank £20 note

The Ulster Bank paper £20 note is a banknote issued by Ulster Bank. It is valued at twenty pounds sterling. In February 2018 Ulster Bank confirmed that their banknotes would be printed in polymer and be the first United

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History & culture · Developing

Kings Norton Stop Lock

Kings Norton Stop Lock () is a Grade II* listed building at Kings Norton Junction on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal near its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. It is the only guillotine-gated stop-lock on a

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Mingbulak oil spill

The Mingbulak oil spill, also known as the Fergana Valley oil spill, was the worst terrestrial oil spill in the history of Asia. The oil spill was caused by a blowout on March 2, 1992 at the Mingbulak oil field in the Fe

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French privateer Mars (1746)

Mars, was a French privateer. Mars was involved in a naval battle in Loch nan Uamh during the Jacobite rising. captured her off Cape Clear in 1747. Following the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746

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Uniform fourpenny post

handstruck 4 The uniform fourpenny post was a short-lived uniform pre-paid letter rate in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that lasted for 36 days from 5 December 1839 until 9 January 1840. The Uniform Fourpen

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Shaw Hall factory

Shaw Hall factory was a 19th century cotton mill in lower Matley, Hyde, Greater Manchester in which nearly 200 people worked. The mill is marked as Shawhall Mill and Mount Pleasant Mill in maps of 1898 and 1910, respecti

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