Nurses quit NHS to work in Lidl because pay, hours and benefits better

With an astonishing shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK, the NHS continues to face a drain on staffing as nurses quit for better pay, hours and benefits in supermarkets like Lidl.
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Battle of Gettysburg Finale | HistoryNet

Grievously wounded in body and spirit, the Army of Northern Virginia limped painfully away from Gettysburg while Union commander George Gordon Meade followed slowly -- too slowly, thought Abraham Lincoln.
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Walking in the Steps of an Ancestor in Pickett's Charge

150 years ago today, the author's forbear survived one of the bloodiest failed assaults of the Civil War
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The inside story of the soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion

In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger stunned the nation when it broke apart 73 seconds into flight. This is the story of the soccer ball that survived -- and the family that sent it into space, twice.
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“My Hands and Heart Full” - National Museum of Civil War Medicine

How did Civil War surgeons cope with the unbelievable amount of suffering they experienced on a daily basis? There is a familiar figure in Civil War literature: that of the surgeon operating in the immediate aftermath of battle. General Carl Schurz described a familiar nightmarish scene at Gettysburg:
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English Russia

Welcome to English Russia - see blog posts
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The Mystery of ISIS' Toyota Army

The question remains: why is the US Treasury carrying on with this transparent charade about how ISIS was equipped with hundreds of Toyota vehicles?
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