Sixty years on from the 1953 east coast floods, one in 25 homes in England and Wales is at risk of coastal flooding, the Environment Agency has warned.
What is striking is that sixty years on it is still important, still arguably imperative that France should celebrate the official narrative - the one from which the allies are largely missing.
Over sixty years on and the trust is the only UK charity with a national network of nine specialist wetland visitor centres, and is the home to the world's largest collection of swans, geese, and ducks.
Sixty years ago on Friday, we learned just what that can mean.
Sixty years ago on the 1 February 1953 fierce storms battered the east coast of Britain and resulted in the deaths of more than 300 people, 24, 000 homes were flooded and more than 30, 000 people were left homeless.
"Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel, " Mr Abbas said shortly before the vote in New York.
Sixty years after it was founded, on a colonial system unrivalled in its savagery, the African giant was thriving on slaughter elsewhere.
The technology for making crude atomic weapons at least as destructive as the ones dropped sixty-three years ago, first on Hiroshima and subsequently on Nagasaki, is widely available.
For the past twenty-five years he has worked on and supervised some sixty projects sponsored by the UK Research Councils, government and industry, the US government and the EU, amongst others.
It is a bewitching moment and even at the distance of sixty years, watching and hearing the tumble of his words on film, you feel their irresistible, almost spiritual force.
One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago.
Sixty years later, that was not a consensus shared in this year's general election as debate on today's challenges gathers pace.
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White starts by pointing out that Asia has lived under and benefited for some sixty years from a unchallenged and unchangeable U.S. strategic military and geopolitical primacy, based primarily on naval, nuclear, and air power.
While that may have been true fifty to sixty years ago, most notably during the Great Civil Rights Movement, the two major political parties have moved on.
The fifth, the end-Cretaceous event, which occurred sixty-five million years ago, exterminated not just the dinosaurs but seventy-five per cent of all species on earth.
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