Our college takes us on an excursion each month - and they are like "mystery trips" as we are given scant information about them. Often we have the name of a town or city or tourist spot and that is all.

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The start of April marks the start of the Major League Baseball season in the United States. For the Chicago Cubs this season marks 100 years since they have won the World Series. While in contrast the New York Yankees have won 26 World Series during the last 100 years.

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Australia has a 200 year old history of European settlement, and I can recall when I was in England and Ireland in 2005, how overwhelmed I was to see old castles, buildings, and historic pieces of hundreds of years of age. How am I going to feel when I see and touch things that are over 2000 years old? Chinese history goes back 5000 years! And there is much in the country that is as it was thousands of years ago. The Great Wall of China was started 2000 years ago!

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Archaeologist now believe that the human sacrifices that the Mayan people preformed were boys not girls. Originally the belief was that the Mayan sacrificed girls and young women because the remains often were adorned with jade jewelry.

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Sara Jane Moore has been released from prison after serving 32 years in Federal prison. Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975. Sara Jane Moore raised and fired a 38 caliber revolver at President Gerald Ford shooting over his head by several feet.

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The famous Ellora caves are located in the lap of the Chamadari hills. These historical caves are regarded as world heritage and are situated 18 miles northwest of Aurangabad. The Ellora Caves are as old as 300 years. At first sight, the Ellora appears to the visitors as an asymmetrical ridge of rock, emerging vertically from the ground

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Tha first doctor at the scene of the car smash that killed Princess Di in the Pont de Alma tunnel in Paris on the 31 August 1997 thought she would survive her ordeal.

He stopped his car and ran across the road to the smoking wreck to offer help to the woman in the back of the car, whom he failed to recognize.

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On October 24th 1901 Annie Taylor became the first person to plunge over Niagara falls in a barrel. Annie Taylor climbed into her barrel and the presser inside was increase to 30 p.s.i with a bicycle pump. She survived the plunge with a few cuts and bruises but other then that she was fine. Annie Taylor lived in poverty and she believed that if she did this stunt she would be rewarded with fame and fortune.

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I just watched the “lost book of Nostradamus” on the history channel. It’s about a book that just recently has been uncovered that is believed to be written in the 16th century by Nostradamus. Some people believe that Nostradamus predicated the end of the world in his many writings. In fact Nostradamus has predicted the end of the world in 2012. Something to do with the alignment of the galaxy or something like that. Personally I think it’s a bunch of BS but it makes for interesting fiction stories.

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The Vatican in Rome has allegedly published secret documents concerning the trial of the Knights Templar, including a parchment - long ignored because of a vague catalogue entry in 1628 - showing that the pope of that era, Pope Clement V, initially absolved the medieval order of heresy.

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