A man in southern Sweden was shocked to uncover a human skeleton just 20 centimetres under the ground near a public beach, remains that archaeologists believe belong to a fallen soldier from the Danish occupation of Sweden in the early 1600s.Ronny Gustavsson, head of the Kalmar municipality service project, was on the scene soon after the workers found the bones while digging for a beach extension project in the area. While the digger itself crushed a hole in the skeleton's skull, Gustavsson says the bones have weathered the centuries well.
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Hundreds of pages of the long-lost diary kept by one of Adolf Hitler's advisors were recovered by federal officials, who said today they hope the discovery will be an "important record" of crimes perpetrated during the Holocaust.
A long-missing certificate with Abraham Lincoln's signature was found last week at a college in Pennsylvania by the school president, who knew it was there but had never looked for it. James Douthat, the retiring president of Lycoming College, was cleaning out his closet when he found the 150-year-old document.
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An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century.
A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle. It is believed the stone church was built in the Anglo-Saxon period, after the Romans left Britain and before the Norman conquest of 1066.