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Rome's Birthday, DNA's Secret & the Worst Soft Drink Decision Ever
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From the founding of Rome in 753 BC to a cosmonaut's fatal final journey, this week in history spans millennia of politics, science, sport, and spectacular human error. Twelve stops, many centuries, one calendar week — buckle up.
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On the eighth of May, fourteen twenty-nine, outside the city of Orléans in northern France, a teenage girl in armour changed the course of a war. Joan of Arc had arrived weeks earlier to rally the exhausted French forces, and on this day the English siege that had strangled Orléans for months finally broke.
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