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The best planet duo of 2015 - Venus and Jupiter

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imageAll eyes on Venus and Jupiter - this image from Austria, June 15.H. Raab/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

They are the two brightest planets in the night sky – the cloud-covered world of Venus and the enormous gas giant Jupiter. Put them together and it’s a double delight. We are set for a stunning sight at the end of the month that’s sure to...

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As soon as Waterloo was over, poets flocked to the battlefield

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imageThe perfect spot for artistic contemplation.

Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815 has long been recognised as one of the decisive moments of world history. The conflict was also a key event for many of the major British writers of the Romantic Period. As Francis Jeffrey, the leading literary reviewer of the day,...

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Waterloo won, war over: the painting that captures the moment

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imageDavid Wilkie, Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch, 1822.

Picture the scene: it’s the summer of 1815 and a cluster of veterans huddled around an old pensioner reading from a newspaper have just received confirmation of the Allied victory over Napoleon at Waterloo on Sunday 18 June.

You register various responses. There’s the...

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