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F or the past couple of years much of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, was reduced to rubble by demolitions. Now luxury ...
Dublin’s goal, according to Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, has been to undermine the Jewish state’s ability to defend itself ...
Polish Culture Minister Hanna Wroblewska has called the 1945 Soviet operation, the so-called Augustow Roundup, in which more ...
A long-standing campaigner against anti-personnel mines, Cambodian Tun Channareth was in Geneva to defend the convention ...
A new exhibition titled "Nasi chłopcy" (Our Boys) at the Museum of Gdańsk, exploring how tens of thousands of Pomeranians ...
A World War II exhibition about Polish soldiers forcibly recruited into the Nazi armed forces has triggered strong reactions ...
Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in ...
I will note that the recipient of the letter is someone I know a bit about; I would like to know more about his time in London, circa 1930-1932. I understand that he attended the London School of ...
In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...
Manchester's own piece of Cold War history survives in the form of the Guardian telephone exchange. Also known as 'Scheme 567 ...
Ryōchū, a Zen monk turned Warsaw bohemian, and his son Yoshiho, a key Japanese ally of the Solidarity movement – as their ...
A warm orange sun cushioned by clouds fizzles down before me. As it vanishes, it leaves behind a smudge of hot pink, ...