Ada Lovelace
Mathematician famous for her work with mechanical engineer Charles Babbage and writing the first computer program
Alice Ball
Humans
King Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose carried crew from North Africa
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Dr Wu Lien-teh
Humans
The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought
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Henrietta Lacks
Humans
British legal deeds were once written on sheepskin to prevent fraud
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Wernher von Braun
Technology
Algorithm reveals contents of fragile letters sealed for 300 years
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Where was the first city in the world?
Covering much of the Middle East, the so-called Fertile Crescent east of the Mediterranean Sea has often been called “the cradle of civilisation” thanks to the emergence of city-states such as Uruk in ancient Mesopotamia, which became increasingly urbanised from around 6000 years ago.
Humans
Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon
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Health
How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war
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Humans
We’ve just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet
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Humans
Egyptian pyramids really were aligned with the compass points
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