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Rachel Aspden

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Underdog victories at the World Cup: what were the biggest and best upsets?

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By Rachel Hall Verified, Rachel Aspden Verified, Paul MacInnes Verified, Seán Clarke
| Yahoo Sports Canada Verified
This year, the biggest ever World Cup will feature 48 teams, an increase from 32, opening up the tournament to even more upsets, shocks and surprises. The vagaries of the World Cup draw have given rise to classic underdog victories over the years, from an amateur USA team’s shock defeat of the then-favourites England in 1950 onwards. But what does the data tell us about upsets in football’s modern era?
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Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain's woodlands

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By Rachel Aspden Verified
| MSN UK Verified
Rachel Aspden It may not sit well with the politicians who now seek to govern it, but Britain has always been a land of immigrants – our “native” fauna and flora among them. More than 10,000 years ago, in the wake of retreating ice sheets, trees from the warmer south began to re-colonise this chilly north-western fringe of Europe: first birch, then hazel, elm, oak and alder.
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Islamesque by Diana Darke review - the diverse roots of medieval architecture

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By Rachel Aspden Verified
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
From Cairo to Istanbul, the ancient cities of the eastern Mediterranean tell a story of conquest, trade and coexistence written in stone. Jerusalem’s seventh-century Dome of the Rock and its surroundings are dotted with recycled Persian, Greek, Hasmonean and Roman stonework, along with choice fragments from churches. In Damascus, the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque features intricately carved capitals from a Roman temple and relics of St John the Baptist transferred from the church it replaced.
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