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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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I levelled the city and its houses from the foundations to the top, I destroyed them, and I consumed them with fire. I tore down and removed the outer and inner walls, the temples and ziggurats built of brick, and dumped the rubble in the Arahtu canal. And after I destroyed Babylon, smashed its gods and massacred its population, I tore up its soil and threw it into the Euphrates so that it was carried by the river down to the sea
- Sennacherib of Assyria, 680 BC
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June 2
1916: MOUNT SORREL, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 13 June 16)
1917: VC won by William Avery Bishop, Royal Flying Corps, near Cambrai, France
1953: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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