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The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 24 1457
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 824
On this day, January 27, 1945, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through the barbed wire of Auschwitz. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 880
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 641
The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 935
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 670
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 593
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 564
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 3 566
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 452
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 587
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 701
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 600
On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 455
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 443
On this day, January 17, 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 466
Hitler Created a Fictional Persona To Recast Himself as Germany's Savior 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 715
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 503
Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide; The Fake Funeral of Hitler in Marolles, Brussels, Belgium 1945 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 683
Krupp Trial 1947-48, Nazi Clemency, Steel Industrialist, Slave Labor; Flick, IG Farben; J McCloy; Marshall Plan 1 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 670
On this day, January 12, 2000, Britain lifted its ban on LGBT people serving in the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 452
January 12, 1925: A murder that shook British India and toppled a king 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 581
Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese internment camps 6 Beringia Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1010
On this day, January 8, 1981, a local farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported a UFO sighting. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 557
How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1003
On this day, January 7, 2015, the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 492
Jung vs Buddha: Self vs Non-Self 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 612
Names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators published 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 22 1142
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 9 560
On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it, killing all aboard. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 436

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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 1072
On this date, December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 516
One this day, December 27, 1923, Gustave Eiffel died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 475
'Really incredible' sixth-century sword found in Kent 5 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2024 Dec 2024 32 1867
WW2 Christmas 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne & the Legendary 'Nuts!' That Changed the War ⭐ 8 appalachiablue Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 939
On this day, December 26, 1944, the siege of Bastogne was lifted. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 592
This Day in Labor History: December 25, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 401
On this day, December 26, 2004, an earthquake and tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 440
The story of "Carol of the Bells" and its relevance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 1 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 632
On December 21, 2024, at least 41 people were killed in a traffic accident in Brazil. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 434
On December 17, 2023, Maureen Sweeney, weather watcher who influenced D-Day plans, died at 100. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 474
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 4 426
On this day, December 18, 1981, the Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" first took to the skies. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 535
On this day, December 17, 1961, over 500 were killed in the Niteroi circus fire in Brazil. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 466
The Argentine dictatorship's dirty war 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 590
The Revolt of 1381 2 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 20 1204
The French Resistance 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 564
Jewish Partisans Against Nazis 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 514
How Norwegians Resisted Nazi Occupation 4 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1169
The Polish Resistance 0 struggle4progress Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 548
On this day, December 13, 1937, the Nanjing Massacre started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 670
Henri Borlant, French survivor who endured Auschwitz as a teen, dies at 97 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 636
On this day, December 12, 1988, the Clapham Junction rail crash occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 465
Spinoza's God: The Mind-Blowing Philosophy That Inspired Einstein - Baruch Spinoza 1 Uncle Joe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 680
80 Years After December 1, 1944, Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 558
On this day, December 4, 1872, Mary Celeste was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 776
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 713
The world gets its first glimpse inside Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years under wraps 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 13 735
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 1 574
On November 26, 1914, the second most catastrophic accidental explosion in the history of the United Kingdom occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 493

World History Continued...

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On this day, November 26, 2003, the supersonic passenger jet Concorde flew for the last time. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 0 546
On this day, November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was first published. It sold out. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 439
On this day, November 14, 1974, the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton nicknamed "Lucy" was discovered. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 453
On this day, November 24, 2012, the Tazreen Fashion factory fire, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 1301
Truth & Conviction: The Helmuth Hubener Story. Youth Resistance To Nazi Germany, Executed at 17 0 appalachiablue Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 529
Madeleine Riffaud, 'the Girl Who Saved Paris,' Dies at 100 1 Omaha Steve Nov 2024 Nov 2024 13 39736
USA uber alles???!! 2 Montauk6 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 746
Stanislaw Ryniak was born this date in 1915, he was the first Polish prisoner registered in Auschwitz 1 irisblue Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 516
On this day, November 18, 1947, the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 0 484
On this day, November 16, 1938, LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 690
On this day, November 16, 1920, Qantas was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 417
On this day, November 15, 1907, Claus von Stauffenberg was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 494
On this day, November 13, 2015, ISIL conducted an array of terror attacks in Paris. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 0 478
On this day, November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 438
On November 8, 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch, the failed coup d'etat by the Nazi Party, began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 503
"Eat the rich" 2 multigraincracker Nov 2024 Nov 2024 6 491
The Deportation Campaigns of the Great Depression. It has happened here 2 irisblue Nov 2024 Nov 2024 6 451
On this day, November 6, 1986, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 0 272
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November." On this day, November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's plot was thwarted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 6 573
On this day, November 4, 2010, Qantas did not have a fatal accident. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 677
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