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Miss Pavlichenko 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 689
How Doctor Lyubov Langman Died (Sorochitsy) 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 604
Before the advent of electric lighting, theaters used heated calcium oxide (quicklime) 1 elleng Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 944
The Belgian hit list 1 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 710
The aristocrat and the communist 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 596
Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 577
On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 628
On this day, February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-un's brother, Kim Jong-nam, was assassinated with the nerve agent VX. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 563
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 666
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 570
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete 3 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 914
On this day, February 4, 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 687
Mandela Destroys Arrogant Journalist After He Disparages Support for Palestine/Libya/Cuba (1990) 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 667
Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? 10 multigraincracker Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1533
How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 853
80 Years Later: Anne Frank's Sister Breaks Her Silence 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1203
Marie Louise von Franz - "When A Man Has Not Developed His Anima, His Feminine Side Is Narcissistic" 3 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 1046
The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 24 1583
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 879
On this day, January 27, 1945, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through the barbed wire of Auschwitz. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 994
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 743
The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1042
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 793
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 672
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 648
On this day, January 21, 1854, a White Star Line vessel sailing from Liverpool sank on its maiden voyage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 621
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 517
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 645
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 761

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The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 671
On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 509
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 502
On this day, January 17, 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 533
Hitler Created a Fictional Persona To Recast Himself as Germany's Savior 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 798
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 545
Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide; The Fake Funeral of Hitler in Marolles, Brussels, Belgium 1945 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 729
Krupp Trial 1947-48, Nazi Clemency, Steel Industrialist, Slave Labor; Flick, IG Farben; J McCloy; Marshall Plan 1 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 749
On this day, January 12, 2000, Britain lifted its ban on LGBT people serving in the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 498
January 12, 1925: A murder that shook British India and toppled a king 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 641
Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese internment camps 6 Beringia Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1135
On this day, January 8, 1981, a local farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported a UFO sighting. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 605
How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1091
On this day, January 7, 2015, the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 561
Jung vs Buddha: Self vs Non-Self 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 660
Names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators published 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 22 1246
On this day, December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 607
On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it, killing all aboard. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 483
If I were to recommend a highly perceptive and original book on the Second World War, it would be... 3 NNadir Nov 2024 Dec 2024 8 1155
On this date, December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 574
One this day, December 27, 1923, Gustave Eiffel died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 536
'Really incredible' sixth-century sword found in Kent 5 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2024 Dec 2024 32 2023
WW2 Christmas 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne & the Legendary 'Nuts!' That Changed the War ⭐ 8 appalachiablue Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 1076
On this day, December 26, 1944, the siege of Bastogne was lifted. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 653
This Day in Labor History: December 25, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 448
On this day, December 26, 2004, an earthquake and tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 483
The story of "Carol of the Bells" and its relevance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 1 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 693
On December 21, 2024, at least 41 people were killed in a traffic accident in Brazil. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 478
On December 17, 2023, Maureen Sweeney, weather watcher who influenced D-Day plans, died at 100. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 526
On this day, December 23, 1888, Vincent van Gogh severed part of his ear and gave it to a woman in a brothel. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 483

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On this day, December 18, 1981, the Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" first took to the skies. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 580
On this day, December 17, 1961, over 500 were killed in the Niteroi circus fire in Brazil. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 524
The Argentine dictatorship's dirty war 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 641
The Revolt of 1381 2 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 20 1285
The French Resistance 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 613
Jewish Partisans Against Nazis 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 563
How Norwegians Resisted Nazi Occupation 4 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1248
The Polish Resistance 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 588
On this day, December 13, 1937, the Nanjing Massacre started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 734
Henri Borlant, French survivor who endured Auschwitz as a teen, dies at 97 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 728
On this day, December 12, 1988, the Clapham Junction rail crash occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 519
Spinoza's God: The Mind-Blowing Philosophy That Inspired Einstein - Baruch Spinoza 1 Uncle Joe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 740
80 Years After December 1, 1944, Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 613
On this day, December 4, 1872, Mary Celeste was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 920
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 776
The world gets its first glimpse inside Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years under wraps 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 13 794
On November 27, 1835, James Pratt and John Smith became the last people to be executed in England for sodomy. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 637
On November 26, 1914, the second most catastrophic accidental explosion in the history of the United Kingdom occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 551
On this day, November 26, 2003, the supersonic passenger jet Concorde flew for the last time. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 0 597
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