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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 44146
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 55407
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 2 160
On March 11, 2004, terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 1 125
Detectorists! Mystery of Jersey's huge iron age hoard may have been solved 1 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 9 266
Anti-Nazi Resistance in Berlin -- and Its Lessons 2 struggle4progress Saturday Saturday 6 269
Front page, The New York Times, Monday, March 7, 2022. Yes, disturbing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 9 530
On March 5, 1966, a BOAC 707 Boeing disintegrated in mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 4 283
The soldiers who broke Hitler's mind 1 struggle4progress Thursday Thursday 10 277
James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88; February 17, 2025 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 4 Mar 4 4 269
The True Story The Hunt For Red October 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2 Mar 2 2 328
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost 'Match of the Century,' Dies at 88 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 1 Mar 1 2 225
On this day, February 28, 2001, two trains collided after a Land Rover fell onto the tracks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 28 Feb 28 0 290
On this day, February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 27 Feb 27 4 234
On this day, February 26, 1995, Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 26 Feb 26 1 231
Russian police arrest man holding up blank sheet of paper 2 Uncle Joe Feb 25 Feb 25 6 395
Why Narcissistic Leaders Always Fail (In The End) 2 Uncle Joe Feb 23 Feb 23 7 568
Rome's Antico Caffe Greco - Historic Coffee Bar, Writers, Artists, Goethe, Twain, Est 1760, Spanish Steps 0 appalachiablue Feb 23 Feb 23 7 381
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 2 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 21 Feb 21 3 236
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 1 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 21 Feb 21 2 243
On February 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin declared the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics independent from Ukraine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 21 Feb 21 4 220
On this date, February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 19 Feb 19 4 204
Gil Won-ok, Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan's Apology, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 18 Feb 18 6 266
Music of the Edelweiss Pirates 3 struggle4progress Feb 17 Feb 17 1 264
Miss Pavlichenko 2 struggle4progress Feb 16 Feb 17 2 257
How Doctor Lyubov Langman Died (Sorochitsy) 0 struggle4progress Feb 17 Feb 17 4 233
Before the advent of electric lighting, theaters used heated calcium oxide (quicklime) 1 elleng Feb 14 Feb 15 18 494
The Belgian hit list 1 struggle4progress Feb 15 Feb 15 1 309
The aristocrat and the communist 0 struggle4progress Feb 14 Feb 14 1 276
Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance 0 struggle4progress Feb 14 Feb 14 1 243

World History Continued...

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On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 13 Feb 13 4 261
On this day, February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-un's brother, Kim Jong-nam, was assassinated with the nerve agent VX. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 13 Feb 13 1 245
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1 Uncle Joe Feb 11 Feb 11 3 309
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 0 Uncle Joe Feb 10 Feb 10 2 263
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete 3 Uncle Joe Feb 5 Feb 5 3 456
On this day, February 4, 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 4 Feb 4 1 305
Mandela Destroys Arrogant Journalist After He Disparages Support for Palestine/Libya/Cuba (1990) 0 Uncle Joe Feb 3 Feb 3 6 370
Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? 10 multigraincracker Feb 2 Feb 2 3 847
How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2 Feb 2 7 465
80 Years Later: Anne Frank's Sister Breaks Her Silence 0 Uncle Joe Jan 30 Jan 30 12 827
Marie Louise von Franz - "When A Man Has Not Developed His Anima, His Feminine Side Is Narcissistic" 3 Uncle Joe Jan 27 Jan 28 10 634
The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 27 Jan 27 24 1198
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 7 612
On this day, January 27, 1945, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through the barbed wire of Auschwitz. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 12 608
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 26 Jan 26 3 416
The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 25 Jan 25 12 679
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 25 Jan 25 4 413
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 23 Jan 23 15 422
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 21 Jan 21 5 398
On this day, January 21, 1854, a White Star Line vessel sailing from Liverpool sank on its maiden voyage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 21 Jan 21 3 413
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 21 Jan 21 1 292
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 21 Jan 21 6 417
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 18 Jan 18 10 517
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 18 Jan 18 6 428
On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 2 316
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 3 293
On this day, January 17, 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 2 318
Hitler Created a Fictional Persona To Recast Himself as Germany's Savior 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 7 555
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 1 377
Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide; The Fake Funeral of Hitler in Marolles, Brussels, Belgium 1945 0 appalachiablue Jan 14 Jan 14 3 538

World History Continued...

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Krupp Trial 1947-48, Nazi Clemency, Steel Industrialist, Slave Labor; Flick, IG Farben; J McCloy; Marshall Plan 1 appalachiablue Jan 13 Jan 13 4 506
On this day, January 12, 2000, Britain lifted its ban on LGBT people serving in the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 0 336
January 12, 1925: A murder that shook British India and toppled a king 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 5 473
Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese internment camps 6 Beringia Jan 6 Jan 8 15 780
On this day, January 8, 1981, a local farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported a UFO sighting. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 8 Jan 8 3 451
How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts 2 Uncle Joe Jan 7 Jan 7 11 740
On this day, January 7, 2015, the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 7 Jan 7 3 380
Jung vs Buddha: Self vs Non-Self 0 Uncle Joe Jan 3 Jan 3 6 506
Names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators published 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 3 Jan 3 22 980
On this day, December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 31 Dec 31 9 457
On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it, killing all aboard. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 30 Dec 30 1 330
If I were to recommend a highly perceptive and original book on the Second World War, it would be... 3 NNadir Nov 2024 Dec 29 8 931
On this date, December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 Dec 27 2 378
One this day, December 27, 1923, Gustave Eiffel died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 Dec 27 3 389
'Really incredible' sixth-century sword found in Kent 5 Jilly_in_VA Dec 26 Dec 26 32 1681
WW2 Christmas 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne & the Legendary 'Nuts!' That Changed the War ⭐ 8 appalachiablue Dec 26 Dec 26 9 768
On this day, December 26, 1944, the siege of Bastogne was lifted. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 26 Dec 26 6 474
This Day in Labor History: December 25, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 26 Dec 26 2 313
On this day, December 26, 2004, an earthquake and tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 26 Dec 26 1 365
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