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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 44245
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 55466
Dictatorship torturer 'Turco' Julian dies in prison 1 mahatmakanejeeves 11 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 1 221
James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88; February 17, 2025 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 4 Saturday 5 343
Medieval Africa (The Medieval Podcast) 0 eShirl Thursday Thursday 2 231
Who could this possibly be? 3 Lionel Mandrake Tuesday Tuesday 0 515
On the night of March 24-25, 1944, the "Great Escape" occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 1 239
On this day, March 24, 1999, the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 165
On this day, March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed in the French Alps. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 213
On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed after the pilot's son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 2 249
X declared war on the USA, but the USA never declared war on X. 6 Lionel Mandrake Mar 19 Mar 22 2 486
Spinoza's 'Ethics': What do you mean by 'God'? 0 Uncle Joe Mar 21 Mar 21 4 299
On this day, March 21, 1768, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 21 Mar 21 1 189
On March 18, 1996, 162 people were killed in a nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 0 189
'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 17 Mar 17 7 287
On March 3, 1944, the deadlist railway accident in Italian history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 14 Mar 14 0 238
On this day, March 14, 1926, 385 people were killed when a train derailed while crossing a bridge in Costa Rica. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 14 Mar 14 2 203
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. On this day, March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 14 Mar 14 2 193
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 12 Mar 12 2 216
On March 11, 2004, terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 12 Mar 12 1 178
Detectorists! Mystery of Jersey's huge iron age hoard may have been solved 1 cbabe Mar 11 Mar 11 10 345
Anti-Nazi Resistance in Berlin -- and Its Lessons 2 struggle4progress Mar 8 Mar 8 6 332
Front page, The New York Times, Monday, March 7, 2022. Yes, disturbing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 7 Mar 7 9 587
On March 5, 1966, a BOAC 707 Boeing disintegrated in mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 7 Mar 7 4 336
The soldiers who broke Hitler's mind 1 struggle4progress Mar 6 Mar 6 10 340
The True Story The Hunt For Red October 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2 Mar 2 2 395
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost 'Match of the Century,' Dies at 88 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 1 Mar 1 2 283
On this day, February 28, 2001, two trains collided after a Land Rover fell onto the tracks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 28 Feb 28 0 357
On this day, February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 27 Feb 27 4 283
On this day, February 26, 1995, Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 26 Feb 26 1 284

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Russian police arrest man holding up blank sheet of paper 2 Uncle Joe Feb 25 Feb 25 6 453
Why Narcissistic Leaders Always Fail (In The End) 2 Uncle Joe Feb 23 Feb 23 7 639
Rome's Antico Caffe Greco - Historic Coffee Bar, Writers, Artists, Goethe, Twain, Est 1760, Spanish Steps 0 appalachiablue Feb 23 Feb 23 7 454
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 2 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 21 Feb 21 3 288
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 1 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 21 Feb 21 2 291
On February 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin declared the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics independent from Ukraine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 21 Feb 21 4 266
On this date, February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 19 Feb 19 4 250
Gil Won-ok, Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan's Apology, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 18 Feb 18 6 318
Music of the Edelweiss Pirates 3 struggle4progress Feb 17 Feb 17 1 320
Miss Pavlichenko 2 struggle4progress Feb 16 Feb 17 2 309
How Doctor Lyubov Langman Died (Sorochitsy) 0 struggle4progress Feb 17 Feb 17 4 278
Before the advent of electric lighting, theaters used heated calcium oxide (quicklime) 1 elleng Feb 14 Feb 15 18 567
The Belgian hit list 1 struggle4progress Feb 15 Feb 15 1 360
The aristocrat and the communist 0 struggle4progress Feb 14 Feb 14 1 319
Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance 0 struggle4progress Feb 14 Feb 14 1 301
On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 13 Feb 13 4 307
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 1 292
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1 Uncle Joe Feb 11 Feb 11 3 357
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 0 Uncle Joe Feb 10 Feb 10 2 309
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete 3 Uncle Joe Feb 5 Feb 5 3 512
On this day, February 4, 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 4 Feb 4 1 350
Mandela Destroys Arrogant Journalist After He Disparages Support for Palestine/Libya/Cuba (1990) 0 Uncle Joe Feb 3 Feb 3 6 414
Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? 10 multigraincracker Feb 2 Feb 2 3 931
How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2 Feb 2 7 514
80 Years Later: Anne Frank's Sister Breaks Her Silence 0 Uncle Joe Jan 30 Jan 30 12 894
Marie Louise von Franz - "When A Man Has Not Developed His Anima, His Feminine Side Is Narcissistic" 3 Uncle Joe Jan 27 Jan 28 10 685
The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 27 Jan 27 24 1252
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 7 656
On this day, January 27, 1945, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through the barbed wire of Auschwitz. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 12 656
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 26 Jan 26 3 468

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The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 25 Jan 25 12 735
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 25 Jan 25 4 473
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 23 Jan 23 15 479
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 21 Jan 21 5 448
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 3 462
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 21 Jan 21 1 338
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 21 Jan 21 6 465
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 18 Jan 18 10 566
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 18 Jan 18 6 474
On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 2 361
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 3 330
On this day, January 17, 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 17 Jan 17 2 369
Hitler Created a Fictional Persona To Recast Himself as Germany's Savior 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 7 604
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 1 422
Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide; The Fake Funeral of Hitler in Marolles, Brussels, Belgium 1945 0 appalachiablue Jan 14 Jan 14 3 582
Krupp Trial 1947-48, Nazi Clemency, Steel Industrialist, Slave Labor; Flick, IG Farben; J McCloy; Marshall Plan 1 appalachiablue Jan 13 Jan 13 4 554
On this day, January 12, 2000, Britain lifted its ban on LGBT people serving in the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 0 377
January 12, 1925: A murder that shook British India and toppled a king 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 5 516
Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese internment camps 6 Beringia Jan 6 Jan 8 15 854
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