It was July 9, 1945, and Belgium was going through a complete overhaul. Just seven months prior, the Western European nation ...

George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city ...

Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical talent had a slightly better chance of surviving the Holocaust... and one ...

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...

The women who stood on top of Denali in July of 1970 and weathered the storms to return alive were not mythological heroes. Nor should they have to be. They were real people, with their own ...

On March 16, 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

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1687 – French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the ...

Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, has died aged 105. Born ...

Over the past three years of full-scale war, Ukraine’s cultural figures have shifted from focusing solely on their craft to ...

Overbroad authority’ that’s been used to intern immigrants may be subject to ‘staggering abuse,’ law and policy institute ...

THE recent announcement about improving Bradford Playhouse is welcome news in this year of the UK City of Culture.