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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Normandy’s D-Day World War Two beaches become UNESCO heritage site

image for illustration: Omaha Beach, Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, reports Reuters.

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