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1) City walls of Bam, Iran (Corbis) 2) Anti Aircraft guns in action in Hyde Park, London (Getty) 3) Relief sculpture at Ta Prohm, Angkor Wat (Corbis) 4) Two boys walking down a backstreet in Manchester (Getty) 5) A Coptic cloister in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt (Corbis)    

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1522: Ferdinand Magellan's expedition is the first to circumnavigate the globe, but Magellan dies en route.

1651: Charles II spends the day hiding in an oak tree following defeat by Oliver Cromwell at Worcester.

1666: The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished after much of the city and St Paul's Cathedral are lost.
   

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