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On this day, April 22, 2004, there was a massive explosion on a train in North Korea. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 1285
Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Song 2 Uncle Joe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1512
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1228
Liberation of Bergen Belsen by the British Army 15 April 1945 Info from twitter & BBC 4 irisblue Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1850
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 irisblue Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 992
Berlin & Moscow: Rare Footage Revealed War's Aftermath UNCENSORED 1 Zorro Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1558
Thousands cheer madly as Titanic leaves Southampton on maiden voyage, April 10, 1912 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1852
One hundred years ago today 0 struggle4progress Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1376
The image that changed our view of the Universe forever BBC Global 0 Uncle Joe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1525
Rare Color Footage of Berlin After WWII - UNCENSORED - World at War 3 Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1962
Sound like anyone you know? 0 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1395
Dictatorship torturer 'Turco' Julian dies in prison 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1343
James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88; February 17, 2025 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1904
Medieval Africa (The Medieval Podcast) 0 eShirl Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1276
Who could this possibly be? 3 Lionel Mandrake Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1912
On the night of March 24-25, 1944, the "Great Escape" occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1370
On this day, March 24, 1999, the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1132
On this day, March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed in the French Alps. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1219
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 1246
X declared war on the USA, but the USA never declared war on X. 6 Lionel Mandrake Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 2180
Spinoza's 'Ethics': What do you mean by 'God'? 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1225
On this day, March 21, 1768, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1228
On March 18, 1996, 162 people were killed in a nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1099
'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1353
On March 3, 1944, the deadlist railway accident in Italian history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1178
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 1085
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 1050
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1061
On March 11, 2004, terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 962
Detectorists! Mystery of Jersey's huge iron age hoard may have been solved 1 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1375

World History Continued...

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Anti-Nazi Resistance in Berlin -- and Its Lessons 2 struggle4progress Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1344
Front page, The New York Times, Monday, March 7, 2022. Yes, disturbing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1412
On March 5, 1966, a BOAC 707 Boeing disintegrated in mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1160
The soldiers who broke Hitler's mind 1 struggle4progress Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1221
The True Story The Hunt For Red October 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1270
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost 'Match of the Century,' Dies at 88 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1223
On this day, February 28, 2001, two trains collided after a Land Rover fell onto the tracks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1243
On this day, February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1146
On this day, February 26, 1995, Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1395
Russian police arrest man holding up blank sheet of paper 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1524
Why Narcissistic Leaders Always Fail (In The End) 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1614
Rome's Antico Caffe Greco - Historic Coffee Bar, Writers, Artists, Goethe, Twain, Est 1760, Spanish Steps 0 appalachiablue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1334
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 2 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1099
The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power Part 1 Free Documentary History 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1119
On February 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin declared the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics independent from Ukraine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1246
On this date, February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1010
Gil Won-ok, Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan's Apology, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1080
Music of the Edelweiss Pirates 3 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1372
Miss Pavlichenko 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1168
How Doctor Lyubov Langman Died (Sorochitsy) 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 911
Before the advent of electric lighting, theaters used heated calcium oxide (quicklime) 1 elleng Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1434
The Belgian hit list 1 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1143
The aristocrat and the communist 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 944
Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance 0 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1010
On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1159
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 1 946
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1072
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 934
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete 3 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1531
On this day, February 4, 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1114

World History Continued...

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Mandela Destroys Arrogant Journalist After He Disparages Support for Palestine/Libya/Cuba (1990) 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1060
Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? 10 multigraincracker Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 2772
How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin 2 Uncle Joe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1375
80 Years Later: Anne Frank's Sister Breaks Her Silence 0 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1596
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 1660
The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 24 2395
On January 26, 1972, an air stewardess fell 33,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1291
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 1763
🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II 2 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 1528
The Theory of STUPIDITY Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2 Uncle Joe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1614
On Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1405
Valerie Andre, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1326
On this day, January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1157
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 1010
On this day, January 21, 1976, Concorde entered commercial service, on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 997
How a town in Poland - once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.- BBC broadcast 0 irisblue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1099
Life in Fascist Italy, Il Duce, Dictator Benito Mussolini 1922- 1943 0 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 1136
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars -- Italian history I did not know 1 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1155
On this day, January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 994
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