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...children and high school students. King hoped to provoke a reaction that would play into the hands of the civil rights movement. He succeeded. The Birmingham police led by Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor – known by reputation to be virulently racist – responded aggressively, blasting protestors with water cannons and unleashing dogs upon them. Images of small children being...

...centre during the battle, took note of all the incoming information and observed from hour to hour the many dispositions of ships and aircraft that in the end brought Bismarck to bay. A reconciliation is necessary between appearance and reality. Chris Williams After 1945, many of the people with interesting experiences of the war recorded their recollections. But some...

...centre stage in the work of the seventeenth century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp, who made a speciality of winter landscapes, particularly skating scenes - you have to remember that the period from about 1550 to 1800 was what is known as the little ice age, when it was so cold that rivers often froze over. It was not just landscape painters who evoked winter in their...