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    Wanted in Waterford

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    CSI – The Prologue

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    Inside an old mine

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    Blackwater Bank

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    Great Fire of 1922

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    September 1752

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    Ticonderoga Clipper Ship

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    General Paresis of the Insane

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    Visitation of the Plague, London 1665

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    The Past and the Present

    The Past and the Present

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    Fake News 1894

    10 Examples of Fake News from History

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    Sears Roebuck Mail Order Catalogue

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    The Underground Railroad , painting by Charles T. Webber

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    British immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at landing stage

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    Fake News 1894

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  • Military

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    Photograph of the entrance of Portsmouth harbour taken from Gosport between 1890 and 1900

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    Part Three: James and Laura Mackie

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    People

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    My Mother’s Memories

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    Don Brewery

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    sepia toned image of San Francisco taken from Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 panoramic view photograph taken from the top of Mark Hopkins mansion.

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