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• Scientists shatter timeline of human fire-making with 400,000-year-old discovery in England - The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, pushing back the timeline by 350,000 years from previous findings.
• White House pressures Smithsonian for internal records, warns funding could be withheld: report - The White House reportedly threatened to withhold Smithsonian funding unless the museum system provides internal records by Jan. 13 over American history exhibit concerns.
• Archaeologists find artifacts older than Stonehenge beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament: 'Incredibly rare' - Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.
• Famous Titanic passenger’s pocket watch that stopped at moment doomed ship sank sells for record at auction - A historic Titanic artifact auction set a new record when a passenger's 1888 gold pocket watch sold for $2.3 million, continuing the maritime disaster's collecting fascination.