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Decades after it was taken, AI has helped name the Nazi in a Holocaust photograph long shrouded in mystery - and changed how we remember it.

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Before the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 was called, a crisis had begun to appear within the Christian Church revolving around one of the most important beliefs of Christianity, the Holy Trinity.

In May 1291, the world entered a new era. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say the world left an era behind, because this was the month that saw the end of Crusader power in the Middle East.