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There are few sources referencing Boone's trial, but some are available.
Daniel Boone is a defendant in a court martial. The criminal charges against him assert that is a traitor.
After an opponent dies following a fight in 1743, John ("Jack")Broughton introduces boxing's first rules.
The Ancient Greeks support boxing as a sport when they include it in the Olympics as a early as 688 BC.
In 1935, the underdog Braddock fightschampion Max Baerfor the Heavyweight title and wins.
Mayes' Tuscan home is named Bramasole (English translation is "yearning for the sun").
The Atlantic Forest is a forest area which once covered a great part of Brazil, but most of it is now cut-down.
Polish mathematicians help Britain's Alan Turing create a decoder to the Enigma machine.
The Navy plans to retire Brashear from active duty, but he endorses his own orders to go back to diving school.
Today's India and Great Britain bear little resemblance to the time of William Makepeace Thackeray; learn about some of these differences.
Tone kills himself rather than be hanged as a traitor, and becomes a martyr.
Ambrosius Aurelianus, a Roman, leads the Britons in battles against theAnglo-Saxons in the 5th century.
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