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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 46390
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 56851
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime's Nuclear Program 0 mahatmakanejeeves 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 6 242
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 2 201
British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled veteran 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 6 349
"Hamnet" and the History of History 0 GreatGazoo Tuesday Tuesday 2 363
On this day, January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, exploded and fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 0 238
Roman Polanski On Escaping The Jewish Ghetto In World War II The Dick Cavett Show 0 marble falls Jan 8 Jan 8 1 356
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 5 Jan 5 7 285
On this day in 1919 - German Workers Party founded in Munich 0 irisblue Jan 4 Jan 4 2 297
Alice in Wonderland, the Boer War, Racism, and British Imperialism and Empire. 3 NNadir Jan 3 Jan 3 5 443
On this day January 3, 2003, Greta Thunberg was born. 2 spike jones Jan 3 Jan 3 6 261
NUTS! Gen. Anthony McAuliffe Refused To Surrender, The Bulge, Bastogne, Belgium, Dec.1944 0 appalachiablue Jan 1 Jan 1 5 284
Charles Dickens' London Home, Christmas Tour - Literary Giant, Victorian Era Social Critic 📚 5 appalachiablue Dec 29 Dec 30 8 460
Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 5 irisblue Dec 29 Dec 29 8 465
Images from the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 16 irisblue Dec 16 Dec 17 24 1073
American troops captured by the Nazis in the Ardennes in Dec 1944 3 irisblue Dec 17 Dec 17 8 646
Glen Miller disappeared over the English Channel today 15 December 1944. 3 irisblue Dec 15 Dec 15 3 448
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 4 575
Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world 2 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 3 505
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 3 6 425
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 17 782
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 1022
Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡ 0 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 23 6 519
My grandparents' war. PBS 5 elleng Nov 23 Nov 23 7 680
Holocaust Hero Sir Nicholas Winton Rescued 669 Children in Czechoslovakia from Nazis, Eve of WWII, Kindertransport 2 appalachiablue Nov 18 Nov 18 7 529
Benjamin Ferencz 'Last Surviving Prosecutor WW2 Nuremberg Trials' War Crimes - US Lawyer, WW2 Veteran, DDay, The Bulge 2 appalachiablue Nov 11 Nov 15 5 596
History being made at a urinal. 6 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 14 7 879
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 1015
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire 60 Minutes Australia 1 Uncle Joe Nov 10 Nov 10 8 594

World History Continued...

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A empire is a machine powered by blood. 0 Eko Nov 1 Nov 1 7 546
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 30 Oct 30 1 434
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 6 bucolic_frolic Oct 26 Oct 29 9 1214
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Oct 25 Oct 25 22 1163
'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Oct 23 Oct 23 10 740
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Oct 21 Oct 21 10 777
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Oct 20 Oct 20 16 884
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 19 Oct 19 8 851
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 759
On October 15, 1887, Frederick Fleet was born. At 11:39 p.m. on April 14, 1912, he sighted an iceberg. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 556
The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 695
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 666
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2492
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1395
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 3 910
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3330
On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2229
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 995
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 2748
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1147
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1139
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1212
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3620
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1054
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1178
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 860
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 954
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 1235
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1300
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1781

World History Continued...

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Violence and Inequality: The Great Leveler. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 934
The Mystery of Winston Churchill's Platypus Has Been Solved. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1096
Mosiac Inscription Connects Justinian to Ancient City in Kosovo 0 ZDU Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 848
Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit Ins ended today 25 July 1960 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 890
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 5 975
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 844
On this day, July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 835
On this day, July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 903
On this day, July 24, 2013, a high-speed train derailed rounding a curve in Spain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 815
The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump 0 thucythucy Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1169
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 949
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 2 966
Anyone know anything about the women who worked in Blechley 5 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 1104
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 4 887
Fate of Pets in the Holocaust, a 2015 blog I found 6 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1418
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 1006
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again as 22 massive blocks resurface from the seafloor after 2,000 years 5 ZDU Jul 2025 Jul 2025 53 2765
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1154
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 969
On this day, July 13, 1955, British nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1182
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