Britannica's 2025 Year in Review

Britannica's 2025 Year in Review

Relive the big events of 2025.
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Media Editor: Lee Goldstein
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    Learn about Camilla's life, including her unlikely path to becoming queen consort of the United Kingdom.
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    Overview of the siege of the Alamo.
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    Learn about Operation Barbarossa, the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union that began in June 1941. From The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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    Learn how historians use secondary sources to understand past events, such as the creation of the London Metropolitan Police Department by Sir Robert Peel.
  • Schmidt Ocean Institute
    Biologists consider the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) either the largest or second largest invertebrate in the world, both titles being shared jointly with the giant squid (genus Architeuthis).
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    Historical interpreter Stephen Seals talks about how he educates the public on the history of slavery at colonial Williamsburg.