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Shipwrecks

The Milan

At 5:31pm on a cold January day in 1888, the 1,049 ton schooner-rigged steamship the Milan, bound for Bristol from Alexandria with a cargo of 500 tons of cottonseed, ran aground…

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Legends

Saving Megan

Megan dropped the carving knife and stared at the tiny kitchen window. The storm had arrived with all its fury, but that wasn’t why she was trembling, it was the icy…

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Requiem for Red Lady

On Thursday January 23, 1822, Reverend William Buckland, Professor of Geology at Oxford University, and Theresa Talbot of Penrice Castle made an astounding discovery in the Paviland Caves between Port Eynon…

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