Tiny village hidden just off the A1 that has a dark history and links to royalty
Fotheringhay Castle was once the seat of power of the Dukes of York, but now it's a pile of bricks on the site where the ...
Tiny village off UK A road that hides a dark history
Located just off the A1, in Northamptonshire, is the tiny village of Fotheringhay, of which the historian John Nicholls wrote ...
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This Tragic European Monarch Was Executed for Treason on Her Cousin’s Orders
Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...
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It happened today – this day in history – February 8
Mary, Queen Of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44. 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads ...
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Alton's 1946 mill fire causes $1.5M damage, injures six firefighters
Alton's worst fire erupted at Russell Milling Co., causing $1.5 million in damage and injuring six firefighters.
History Today: When Nasdaq, world's first electronic stock exchange, opened in 1971
On February 8, 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq) opened. In 1960, the ...
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Alton's 1946 mill fire causes $1.5M damage, injures six firefighters
Also on this date: In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. In 1693, a charter was ...
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World/nation trivia: The week of Feb. 1-8
1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was ...
Mary is executed by Elizabeth I – 1587
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