Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

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Archeologists have long struggled to figure out what Roman dodecahedrons are or what purpose they were originally used for.

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Police have recovered the three swords stolen from the Chaguaramas Military History and Aerospace Museum (CMHAM) last month. On April 16, CCTV cameras captured four bareback men stealing the swords ...