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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in WWII? (No)
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On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II
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Museums where you can discover the world's ten oldest artifacts
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Williamsburg marks the 250th anniversary of 'the shot not heard around the world'
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Lux Radio Theater - Tonight Or Never (1937)
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The great big pseudoarcheology debunk
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Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon code breaker
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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There is no such thing as a golden age or a dark age
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Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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How a simple tractor conquered the South Pole
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Conquest of the Incas
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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A Texas horned toad once survived thirty-one years in a time capsule
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US John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets
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McCorry's Memoirs - Era 5: Blasts From the Past (1987-1992)
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Stoicism’s appeal to the rich and powerful
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The failure of the land value tax in the UK
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Some of the world's most famous chess pieces, the Lewis chessmen from the 12th century, are coming “home” to Trondheim this spring in a special exhibition
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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Beatrice twice queen of Hungary
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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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What do historians do?
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Bob & Ray For the Truly Desperate (1946~1988)
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Five unusual ways people in different cultures used lead—and suffered for it
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The engineering marvel built to defend against Americans - The grisly history of the Rideau Canal
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Restitution project genealogists track down rightful heirs of Nazi-looted books
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The forgotten story of the largest stadium ever constructed
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
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The Tiananmen Square protests in pictures, 1989
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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Age of invention: How coal really won
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Playing God - Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2017)
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David Ingram and the Lost Cities of Native North America
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Hidden pyramid structure discovered near Caral, Peru
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Advice for time traveling to Medieval Europe
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Resistance when the tyrant is in power: Florence’s Vasari Corridor
20 votes