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On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed after the pilot's son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1199
X declared war on the USA, but the USA never declared war on X. 6 Lionel Mandrake Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 2065
Spinoza's 'Ethics': What do you mean by 'God'? 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1179
On this day, March 21, 1768, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1173
On March 18, 1996, 162 people were killed in a nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1061
'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1287
On March 3, 1944, the deadlist railway accident in Italian history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1115
On this day, March 14, 1926, 385 people were killed when a train derailed while crossing a bridge in Costa Rica. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1024
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. On this day, March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 999
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1018
On March 11, 2004, terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 920
Detectorists! Mystery of Jersey's huge iron age hoard may have been solved 1 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1313
Anti-Nazi Resistance in Berlin -- and Its Lessons 2 struggle4progress Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1277
Front page, The New York Times, Monday, March 7, 2022. Yes, disturbing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1380
On March 5, 1966, a BOAC 707 Boeing disintegrated in mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1113
The soldiers who broke Hitler's mind 1 struggle4progress Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1170
The True Story The Hunt For Red October 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1215
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost 'Match of the Century,' Dies at 88 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1159
On this day, February 28, 2001, two trains collided after a Land Rover fell onto the tracks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1190
On this day, February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1093
On this day, February 26, 1995, Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1320
Russian police arrest man holding up blank sheet of paper 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1445
Why Narcissistic Leaders Always Fail (In The End) 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1542
Rome's Antico Caffe Greco - Historic Coffee Bar, Writers, Artists, Goethe, Twain, Est 1760, Spanish Steps 0 appalachiablue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1273
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 2 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1049
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 1 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1076
On February 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin declared the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics independent from Ukraine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1178
On this date, February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 966
Gil Won-ok, Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan's Apology, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1032
Music of the Edelweiss Pirates 3 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1281

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Miss Pavlichenko 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1106
How Doctor Lyubov Langman Died (Sorochitsy) 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 876
Before the advent of electric lighting, theaters used heated calcium oxide (quicklime) 1 elleng Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1364
The Belgian hit list 1 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1092
The aristocrat and the communist 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 909
Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 970
On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1096
On this day, February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-un's brother, Kim Jong-nam, was assassinated with the nerve agent VX. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 901
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1019
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 890
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete 3 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1445
On this day, February 4, 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1066
Mandela Destroys Arrogant Journalist After He Disparages Support for Palestine/Libya/Cuba (1990) 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1022
Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? 10 multigraincracker Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 2539
How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1289
80 Years Later: Anne Frank's Sister Breaks Her Silence 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1545
Marie Louise von Franz - "When A Man Has Not Developed His Anima, His Feminine Side Is Narcissistic" 3 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 1572
The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 24 2322
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1246
On this day, January 27, 1945, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through the barbed wire of Auschwitz. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1645
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 1433
The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1540
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1308
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1258
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1095
On this day, January 21, 1854, a White Star Line vessel sailing from Liverpool sank on its maiden voyage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 965
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 948
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1050
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 1095
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1098

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On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 946
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 816
On this day, January 17, 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 947
Hitler Created a Fictional Persona To Recast Himself as Germany's Savior 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1252
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 924
Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide; The Fake Funeral of Hitler in Marolles, Brussels, Belgium 1945 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 1130
Krupp Trial 1947-48, Nazi Clemency, Steel Industrialist, Slave Labor; Flick, IG Farben; J McCloy; Marshall Plan 1 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1284
On this day, January 12, 2000, Britain lifted its ban on LGBT people serving in the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 825
January 12, 1925: A murder that shook British India and toppled a king 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 994
Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese internment camps 6 Beringia Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1830
On this day, January 8, 1981, a local farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported a UFO sighting. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 937
How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1560
On this day, January 7, 2015, the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 954
Jung vs Buddha: Self vs Non-Self 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 967
Names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators published 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 22 1892
On this day, December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 981
On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it, killing all aboard. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 858
If I were to recommend a highly perceptive and original book on the Second World War, it would be... 3 NNadir Nov 2024 Dec 2024 8 1707
On this date, December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 989
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