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Kindertransport: Jewish Children Rescued From Nazi Europe After Kristallnacht 1938, Sent To Britain 4 appalachiablue Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 2370
Scientists in Morocco unearth Stone Age hand-axe site dating back 1.3 million years 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 12 1700
Well-Preserved Visigoth Sarcophagus Found at Roman Villa in Spain 6 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 15 2208
Traces of Submerged Roman Road Found Beneath Venetian Lagoon 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1651
Spain: Unease Over Planned Statue Honoring Elite Troops In Military Dictator Franco's Fascist Mvmt. 4 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 2151
Amateur Metal-Detectorist Finds Viking 'Piggy Bank' Filled With 1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins 2 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 12 1809
Deposed Ninth-Century King May Have Called This Cave Dwelling Home 4 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 2214
The terrible beauty of reading Max Hastings. 1 NNadir Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 1490
Nazi Germany, Opposition To Hitler: 'They're Drunk On Propaganda' 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 1 1457
One of Napoleon's Hats Could Fetch 600,000 Euros At Auction In Paris 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 1591
American Nazis, The German American Bund: Fascist Groups in Europe 1920s, 1930s 2 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 4 1923
Hitler's Forgotten Ally, Croatia's Ante Pavelic: Pre-War Fascists, Nationalists In Nazi Europe 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 2199
Kim Hong-do, Korea's Renaissance Painter 0 soryang Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1876
Metal Detectorist Discovers Black Death Period Coins 2 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 9 1873
This date, 28 June 1935, Paragraph 175 & 175a. 0 irisblue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 1619
Christopher Clark: The 1848 Revolutions 1 bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1504
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt 3 Montauk6 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 1630
I wonder why so many scholars of Islam pronounce Caliph as 'CAY-liff' & not 'cah-LEEF' 5 Bucky Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 2468
Elzbieta Wondraczek born this date survived Auschwitz 1 irisblue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1487
Odd Arne Westad - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations 0 soryang Jun 2021 Jun 2021 0 1835
David Dushman, Russian tank driver who helped liberate Auschwitz passed away today 0 irisblue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 1498
World's oldest, continually operating university, was founded by a Muslim woman 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 1617
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 appalachiablue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1485
*Five centuries ago, a major revolution overturned traditional ship designs; 2 elleng Jun 2021 Jun 2021 6 1679
Sir Ken Adam: German Fighter Pilot In Brit RAF WW2; Film Design Awards, James Bond, Dr Strangelove.. 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 1 1961
Sand Dunes Preserved These Roman Baths in Spain for Thousands of Years 1 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 2 1509
Nazi Princesses, The Fates of Top Nazis' Wives & Mistresses: Mark Felton Prod. 3 appalachiablue Feb 2021 May 2021 12 4249
Mexico City Marks 500th Anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitln 0 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 0 1209
Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula: Epic Moments In Rap History 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 1 1810
SS Bank Heist - Berlin 1945 0 bucolic_frolic May 2021 May 2021 1 1505

World History Continued...

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Mexico City: 500 Yrs Since Spanish Conquest Battle 1521: Smallpox Epidemics, Abuses, Colonial Rule 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 2 1275
***Inside the Met PBS 0 elleng May 2021 May 2021 0 1117
Silver Medieval Seal Featuring Engraved Roman Gem Unearthed in England 1 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 10 1638
Runes Found on Seventh-Century Cow Bone Could Change Slavic History 2 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 12 1597
A Day In Germany 1945, World War II. In Color, Sound Added, Spectacular Footage 4 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 6 2142
How Fashion Helped Defeat 18th-Century Anti-Vaxxers 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 8 1485
THE DARK AGES: Just How Dark Were They After The Fall of The Roman Empire? 8 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 15 2897
Serge & Beate Klarsfeld, Heroic Nazi Hunters Still Fighting For Justice 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 6 1560
Paris 1940- Nazi Occupation: Lambeth Walk Nazi Parody Film 2 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 5 1753
A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia 0 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 5 1381
Brave French Woman Saved Artworks From Nazi Theft in WW2, Rose Valland, Monuments Men 2 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 12 2091
The Roman Empire vs. The Mongol Empire At Their Peaks 6 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 May 2021 5 2071
March 1939, Europe Before WW2: Color Home Movies 0 appalachiablue Apr 2021 Apr 2021 3 1403
Site of Julius Caesar's Assassination Will Be Transformed Into Open-Air Museum 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 8 2119
Trove of 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Mirrors Found in Ancient Chinese Cemetery 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 10 1228
536 was 'the worst year to be alive' 11 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 54 4550
Paris Walks, Hemingway's Paris: PBS, 'Hemingway Behind The Scenes' 0 appalachiablue Apr 2021 Apr 2021 2 2214
The 1884 Berlin Conference and the Partition of Africa 2 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 4 1553
Japanese Swords as Symbols of Historical Amnesia: Touken Ranbu and the Sword Boom in Popular Media 1 soryang Apr 2021 Apr 2021 1 2008
Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate 7 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 6 1996
Mein Kampf: The Secrets of Adolf Hitler's Book of Evil Free Documentary GROUNDBREAKING 1 bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 1636
Portugal Confronts Its Role In The Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade, International Day of Remembrance 0 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 1644
The Famous Wartime Couple That Changed Photography: Robt. Capa, Gerda Taro. Spanish Civil War, WW2 0 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 10 1853
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 Mar 2021 16 1568
The Peasants' Revolt 1381, Begun By A Baker Serf. The 14th Century, 100 Years of Struggle 3 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 6 2053
Hitler's 'Iron Maidens,' Women Awarded The Iron Cross in Combat, WW2 2 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 3 2646
Harvard professor sparks outrage with claims about Japan's 'comfort women' 3 Eugene Mar 2021 Mar 2021 3 1933
An Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988 2 OnDoutside Feb 2021 Mar 2021 3 3018
How a ring tells the story of a forgotten secret agent (BBC) 2 eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 Mar 2021 5 2054
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Mob Violence, Assassination of Protestants By Catholics, 1572 France 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 2343

World History Continued...

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Ever wonder where the Foo Fighters got their name? 5 captain queeg Feb 2021 Feb 2021 2 1493
'The People Are Revolting' Count de Money; The French Revolution, Hist. of The World, Mel Brooks 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 6 1915
Fires of The Spanish Inquisition, Horrors of The Roman Inquisition 7 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 2141
American Virginia Hall, The Most Feared Spy of WWII 2 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 1615
African colonies after Berlin conference 1884 0 elleng Feb 2021 Feb 2021 4 1235
'All Creatures Great and Small': Who Was the Real James Herriot? 0 elleng Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 1374
Photographs of People In The 1840s: Early Traces of Reality 7 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 30 3780
What Began The Rise Of Fascism In Europe? Titans Of The 20th Century 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 7 1422
Stonehenge may be a rebuilt stone circle from Wales 18 left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 Feb 2021 25 8200
Two Harvard professors request publication on Korean comfort women be suspended 3 soryang Feb 2021 Feb 2021 2 2199
1935, Berlin Germany business man on his way to work 0 irisblue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 1337
The Nazis took the lives of the young and the older ones 0 irisblue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 1482
The Russian Revolution 1917 2 bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 Feb 2021 2 1364
Fall of Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army, this date 0 irisblue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 1212
because of the detective work 2 friends separated as childhood friends are reunited 0 irisblue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 1250
Workers Find A Hidden Staircase That May Change The History Books 11 yuiyoshida Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 3047
200 years after Napoleon defeat, Russia and France bury their dead 0 catbyte Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 1433
Bavarian (Germany) Supreme Court grants Hitler parole on December 19, 1924 2 steve2470 Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 1521
Rembrandt, Dutch Slave Trade On 4 Continents: New Exhibit, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 1820
A good news tweet from the US Holocaust Museum and some follow up info 0 irisblue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 6 1295
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