Stirring World War II Photos That Bring History’s Greatest Catastrophe To Life
Click here to view slideshow Both during and soon after World War I, politicians and pundits began referring to the devastating conflict as "the war to end all wars." One can hardly blame them for such...
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English Nightclubs Install Testing Booths To Check Illegal Drugs’ Purity
TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty ImagesA mock “ecstasy” lab for teaching purposes at the DEA’s new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility in Quantico, Virginia. In England, nightclubs will...
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Unearthed Mummy Child Upends Scientists’ Beliefs About One Of History’s Worst...
Duggan/Current Biology Smallpox has had a devastating history, from ancient Egypt to its worldwide eradication about 35 years ago, but a mummified child recently found in a Lithuanian crypt is...
View ArticleWhat We Know About The Berlin Attacks
https://t.co/CAKpzwNZwf pic.twitter.com/NIzACeRvHa — corteseero (@corteseero) December 19, 2016 On Monday evening, a truck jumped a Berlin sidewalk curb and drove through a crowded Christmas market,...
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Devastating Civil Wars That Make America’s Look Tiny
Wikimedia CommonsBolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd in Moscow on May 25, 1919 during the Russian civil war. Most of us are familiar with the basic facts of the American Civil War....
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How Catherine The Great Shook Up Europe’s Male Power Structure — And Was...
Hermitage MuseumCatherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great), circa 1770. For more than three decades in the late 18th century, one woman ruled with an iron fist over all of Russia. That woman was...
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“Mein Kampf” Storms Bestseller Lists In Germany
TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has recently become a bestseller in Germany, its publisher announced this Tuesday. According to its publisher, the Institute of Contemporary...
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The Vatican Really, Really Hates Cats
Sean Gallup/Getty Images There are two types of people in this world: cat people, and not cat people. Pope Gregory IX, who held the papacy from 1227 to 1241, most definitely fell in the second camp —...
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Vegan Animal Rights Activist Denied Passport For Being Too Annoying
Nancy Holten/YouTubeNancy Holten. A village in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland has denied a vegan woman an application for a passport after residents took umbrage at what they believed to be her...
View ArticleThe Tragedy And Perseverance Of The Holocaust, In 44 Heartrending Photos
Click here to view slideshow On January 19, 1942, Szlama Ber Winer made his escape. During transport from the Nazis' Chełmno extermination camp to the Rzuchów subcamp, the 30-year-old Polish prisoner...
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New Discoveries Shed Light On Lost Kingdom Of The Dark Ages
DGNHAS/GUARD ARCHAEOLOGY LTD Researchers have finally shed some new light on a lost kingdom of the Dark Ages. Archaeologists have discovered evidence that the royal seat of the sixth-century kingdom of...
View ArticleA Republic Collapsed: Inside The Spanish Civil War
Click here to view slideshow By January of 1939, the dream of a true Spanish Republic had shattered. Many of those who composed its short-lived reality — Republican men and women, and elected officials...
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Rising Populism Reminds Pope Francis Of Nazi Germany
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesPope Francis With a wave of populist politics sweeping both Europe and the U.S., Pope Francis recently felt it appropriate to mention the most nefarious instance in which a...
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Thousands Of Unknown Nazi “Killing Fields” Uncovered
AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesAuschwitz concentration camp They thought they would find about 5,000 of them. The year was 1999 and the team was tasked with gathering information on each persecution site...
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United States A Threat Under Trump, EU President Says
Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesPolish President Donald Tusk speaks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on April 25, 2014. The ascension of President Donald Trump to the highest rungs of American power has...
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384-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home
UK National Trust Archaeologists who are helping restore a historic country home in Kent, England have discovered a 17th-century shopping list hidden under its floorboards. Written in 1633, the note...
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Ireland Will Become First Country To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Entirely
Sawtooth/Flickr With a 90 to 53 vote, the Irish Parliament passed a bill on January 26 ordering the state-run Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to divest from fossil fuels. If the bill passes...
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The Rise Of Europe’s Far Right
Milos Bicanski/ Getty ImagesA member of Greece’s far right Golden Dawn party holds a flag as he takes part in a rally in Athens on February 1, 2014. Classical fascism has gone into the history books...
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How a Blond, Blue-Eyed Frenchman Fooled Europe Into Thinking He Was Taiwanese
Wikimedia Commons In the first years of the 1700s, an exotic man from the unheard-of land of Formosa took British society by storm. He wore odd clothes and frequently performed strange religious...
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Six-Hour Work Days A Success in Sweden — Kind Of
Ian Gavan/Getty Images for O2 Spending too much time at the office has been shown to cause depression, sleep problems and a whole host of other health-related issues. Sweden — apparently unsatisfied...
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