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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 45736
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 56454
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 5 bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 8 555
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Saturday Yesterday 22 536
'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Thursday Friday 10 307
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Tuesday Tuesday 10 363
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Monday Monday 15 515
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 19 Oct 19 8 433
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 18 Oct 18 11 408
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 2 221
The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 3 Oct 3 4 362
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 3 Oct 3 1 347
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 29 Sep 29 6 2131
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 27 Sep 27 3 1057
On September 26, 1905, Einstein published the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, on the special theory of relativity. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 26 Sep 26 3 555
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 17 Sep 17 6 2956
On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 16 5 1901
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 14 Sep 14 4 617
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 14 Sep 14 18 2362
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 0 813
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 2 817
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 1 883
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 11 Sep 12 9 3221
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 9 Sep 9 3 715
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 5 Sep 6 4 843
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 1 Sep 1 3 519
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 1 Sep 1 11 586
For my birthday, my wife has agreed to set me free in a good bookstore to buy three books. 6 NNadir Aug 27 Aug 27 10 801
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 25 Aug 25 3 945
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 25 Aug 25 5 1402

World History Continued...

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Violence and Inequality: The Great Leveler. 0 NNadir Aug 9 Aug 9 4 592
The Mystery of Winston Churchill's Platypus Has Been Solved. 1 NNadir Aug 9 Aug 9 9 721
Mosiac Inscription Connects Justinian to Ancient City in Kosovo 0 ZDU Aug 9 Aug 9 2 523
Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit Ins ended today 25 July 1960 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 530
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 5 628
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 521
On this day, July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 501
On this day, July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 575
On this day, July 24, 2013, a high-speed train derailed rounding a curve in Spain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 497
The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump 0 thucythucy Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 825
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 596
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 2 617
Anyone know anything about the women who worked in Blechley 5 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 714
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 4 545
Fate of Pets in the Holocaust, a 2015 blog I found 6 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 948
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 6 663
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again as 22 massive blocks resurface from the seafloor after 2,000 years 5 ZDU Jul 2025 Jul 2025 53 2342
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 817
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 651
On this day, July 13, 1955, British nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 857
Maybe NSFW. Children from the Lodz Ghetto September 1942 & Chelmno train from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 936
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 7 678
On July 3, 1938, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 629
7/7 London bombing attacks. 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 874
Battle of Balikpapan July 1945 1 VGNonly Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 781
July 1st, 1936. Sachsenhausen a concentration camp was opened- from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 889
Why Hitler did not go to the top of the Eiffel Tower in June 1940- from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1115
IMAGE MIGHT NOT BE SAFE FOR WORK--The execution by Nazis of Lepa Radić at age 17 (eloons place 1 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1247
On this date in 1918, the "Llandovery Castle" was sunk 0 ITAL Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 789
On June 24, 1982, all four engines of British Airways Flight 009 failed when it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 906

World History Continued...

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On this day, June 10, 1942, Lidice, Czechoslovakia, was destroyed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1031
mahatmakanejeeves you are a blessing and a glory to us. 4 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 989
The Naval Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942-1943 - Animated (ALL PARTS) - Youtube. 0 Eko Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 836
Who Wrote the Bible? AI Uncovers "Likely Authors" 4 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1429
The Bone Hunter: unearthing the horror of war in Okinawa - documentary -- The Guardian 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 833
On this day, June 10, 1944, German troops massacred 228 men, women and children in Distomo, Boeotia, Greece. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 865
On this day, June 10, 1944, six hundred forty-two men, women, and children were massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 905
Ancient 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex found under destroyed Syrian house 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1021
DDay+1, a German-Jewish refugee w/the Brits on Gold Beach from twitter 1 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 956
From youtube- 1964 CBS Reports, Ike & Cronkite on the beach 7 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1361
Things I learned today from a twitter history acct 2 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1075
DDay radio broadcasts. 2 & a half hours worth from youtube 0 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 912
From twitter, this account is following the very early hours of the paratroopers 9 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 15 1513
There are many threads on Bluesky & the loons place today about the Landings 81 yrs ago 4 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1117
Mothers of the Disappeared: Challenging the Junta in Argentina (1977-1983) 1 struggle4progress May 2025 May 2025 3 1080
Chile: Struggle against a military dictator (1985-1988) 0 struggle4progress May 2025 May 2025 3 902
On this day, May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with cowpox. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 1071
May 10, 1933, The Nazis begin burning books. From twitter 1 irisblue May 2025 May 2025 4 2531
On this day May 9, 1921, Sophie Scholl was born. The German That Refused to be a Nazi. 1 spike jones May 2025 May 2025 8 1186
VE Day, 80 yrs ago, 8 May 1945, Churchill, Truman & Stalin announcements 6 irisblue May 2025 May 2025 7 1512
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