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In art, the prepared surface of the canvas or panel on which a painter works. It is usually white paint (over which a warm tone such as Indian red is sometimes laid) or plaster (see gesso). In etching, the ground is the wax coating of the metal plate through which the artist draws with the etching needle.


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Victoria's Wars
Sudan
Chechnya in Focus
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Ramses, Warrior Pharaoh
Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe)
RUSSIA: LAND OF THE TSARS Episode 4
The Krays
The Boys of H Company
The Negotiator
Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed
FIRST 48: Desert Bones/Party's Over
LOST SHIPS: The Ghost Of The Trafalgar
The Baby Blitz
D-Day
The Gunpowder Plot
The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia
The Zulu War of 1879
The Falklands War
Recollections
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Dambusters
'Valkyrie' Interview
The American Civil War: The Road to War
Holt
Museum of London
NAM - Faces of Battle
Breitling Jet Team
Holt Tours
Charlie Wilson's War
The Brits Who Fought For Spain
Veterans Day
Sudan
Chechnya in Focus
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
2 January 1971
Football disaster at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. 66 football fans are crushed to death on the exit steps of the ground towards the end of a match between Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic.
10 January 1863

The first section of London's Underground Railway, the 'Metropolitan' Line was opened, running from Paddington to Farringdon Street.

16 January 2001
The fuel supply tanker ‘Jessica’ runs aground off the island of San Cristoba, part of the Galapagos Islands.
24 February 1991

The Gulf War: coalition forces launch a ground invasion of Kuwait and Iraq.

28 February 1975

43 people are killed on the London Underground when a train crashes at Moorgate Station

1 March 1971
A bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. A group called the "Weather Underground", protesting against American military action in Laos, claimed responsibility.
9 March 1976
42 skiers are killed when a cable car plunges to ground in the Dolomite Mountains in northern Italy.
15 March 1976
In England, the driver of a London Underground train is shot dead whilst chasing a gunman who is believed to have detonated a bomb on his train.
18 March 1979
In England, three men are killed in an underground explosion at Golborne colliery, in Lancashire. A total of 10 men eventually lost their lives as a result of the accident.
24 March 1989
The oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, runs aground off the Alaskan coast, releasing eleven million tonnes of crude oil.
22 April 1945
The Second World War: Adolf Hitler admits to those with him in his underground bunker in Berlin that the war is over and that the only option left for him is suicide.
7 May 2006
In the English Premier League, Arsenal Football club play their last game at their Highbury ground.
9 June 1772
In America, colonists board the Gaspee, a British vessel that ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island, and set it on fire.
21 June 1982
John W. Hinckley Jr, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in March 1981, is found not guilty of attempted murder on grounds of insanity.
21 July 2005
Two weeks after London is brought to a standstill by a terrorist attack, two detonators are exploded on the London underground network in a second failed terrorist attack.
22 July 2005
Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead in Stockwell Underground station, London by British police who mistakenly believe him to be a terrorist.
2 August 1870
In England, Tower Subway opens in London, the world’s first underground railway.
5 August 1963
113 countries including Britain, the United States and the USSR sign a nuclear test ban treaty, agreeing that any further tests should be carried out underground.
23 September 1987
A court in Australia lifts the ban on publication of Peter Wright’s autobiography Spy Catcher. The British government had sought an injunction against the former senior MI5 officer on grounds of national security.
9 November 1963
458 Japanese miners are killed by an underground explosion at a coal mine in Miike, Fukuoka, Japan.
18 November 1987
In England, 31 people are killed as a fire breaks out at Kings Cross Underground Station in London.
23 November 1984
In England, a fire breaks out at Oxford Circus Underground Station in London, luckily there are no fatalities. 
26 November 1862
Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, sends a handwritten manuscript called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
14 December 1900
German physicist Max Planck publishes his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a “blackbody” substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics is born.
 

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