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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 46327
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 56810
On this day, January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, exploded and fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. 3 mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago 1 hr ago 0 158
Roman Polanski On Escaping The Jewish Ghetto In World War II The Dick Cavett Show 0 marble falls Thursday Thursday 1 295
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 7 240
On this day in 1919 - German Workers Party founded in Munich 0 irisblue Sunday Sunday 2 245
Alice in Wonderland, the Boer War, Racism, and British Imperialism and Empire. 3 NNadir Saturday Saturday 5 351
On this day January 3, 2003, Greta Thunberg was born. 2 spike jones Saturday Saturday 6 206
NUTS! Gen. Anthony McAuliffe Refused To Surrender, The Bulge, Bastogne, Belgium, Dec.1944 0 appalachiablue Jan 1 Jan 1 5 246
Charles Dickens' London Home, Christmas Tour - Literary Giant, Victorian Era Social Critic 📚 5 appalachiablue Dec 29 Dec 30 8 406
Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 5 irisblue Dec 29 Dec 29 8 400
Images from the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 16 irisblue Dec 16 Dec 17 24 976
American troops captured by the Nazis in the Ardennes in Dec 1944 3 irisblue Dec 17 Dec 17 8 605
Glen Miller disappeared over the English Channel today 15 December 1944. 3 irisblue Dec 15 Dec 15 3 406
So I just finished (finally) Jackson's book "France on Trial" and am moving to Elkins "A Legacy of Violence." 2 NNadir Dec 4 Dec 5 4 543
Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world 2 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 3 473
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 3 6 398
On this day, November 30, 1945, U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was shot for killing the survivors of a sunk target. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 30 Dec 1 17 755
Poland Oak Tree, 650 Yrs Old, Believed to Have Hidden 2 Jewish Brothers in Trunk, WW2 Nazi Occup. 4 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 24 23 995
Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡ 0 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 23 6 490
My grandparents' war. PBS 5 elleng Nov 23 Nov 23 7 646
Holocaust Hero Sir Nicholas Winton Rescued 669 Children in Czechoslovakia from Nazis, Eve of WWII, Kindertransport 2 appalachiablue Nov 18 Nov 18 7 499
Benjamin Ferencz 'Last Surviving Prosecutor WW2 Nuremberg Trials' War Crimes - US Lawyer, WW2 Veteran, DDay, The Bulge 2 appalachiablue Nov 11 Nov 15 5 561
History being made at a urinal. 6 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 14 7 841
A man sits before a pit of the dead. Nazi soldiers surround him--one aims a gun at his head. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 4 Nov 12 12 981
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire 60 Minutes Australia 1 Uncle Joe Nov 10 Nov 10 8 569
A empire is a machine powered by blood. 0 Eko Nov 1 Nov 1 7 520
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 30 Oct 30 1 402
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 6 bucolic_frolic Oct 26 Oct 29 9 1163
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Oct 25 Oct 25 22 1129

World History Continued...

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'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Oct 23 Oct 23 10 711
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Oct 21 Oct 21 10 742
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Oct 20 Oct 20 16 856
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 19 Oct 19 8 808
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 18 Oct 18 11 734
On October 15, 1887, Frederick Fleet was born. At 11:39 p.m. on April 14, 1912, he sighted an iceberg. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 16 Oct 16 2 530
The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 670
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 641
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2466
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1363
On September 26, 1905, Einstein published the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, on the special theory of relativity. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 871
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3288
On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2203
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 947
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 2718
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1121
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1111
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1188
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3584
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1028
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1149
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 822
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 924
For my birthday, my wife has agreed to set me free in a good bookstore to buy three books. 6 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1200
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1263
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1752
Violence and Inequality: The Great Leveler. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 906
The Mystery of Winston Churchill's Platypus Has Been Solved. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1064
Mosiac Inscription Connects Justinian to Ancient City in Kosovo 0 ZDU Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 822
Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit Ins ended today 25 July 1960 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 858

World History Continued...

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On this day, July 25, 1943, the Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 944
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 815
On this day, July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 805
On this day, July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 874
On this day, July 24, 2013, a high-speed train derailed rounding a curve in Spain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 789
The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump 0 thucythucy Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1138
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 918
On this day, July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers were executed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 935
Anyone know anything about the women who worked in Blechley 5 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 1072
On this day, July 17, 1918, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, was sunk. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 855
Fate of Pets in the Holocaust, a 2015 blog I found 6 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1377
On this day, July 14, 1902, an expedition led by Agustin Lizarraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 976
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again as 22 massive blocks resurface from the seafloor after 2,000 years 5 ZDU Jul 2025 Jul 2025 53 2730
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1128
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 938
On this day, July 13, 1955, British nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1155
Maybe NSFW. Children from the Lodz Ghetto September 1942 & Chelmno train from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1290
On July 6, 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 986
On July 3, 1938, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 929
7/7 London bombing attacks. 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1198
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