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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 46043
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 56630
So I just finished (finally) Jackson's book "France on Trial" and am moving to Elkins "A Legacy of Violence." 2 NNadir Thursday Friday 4 258
Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world 2 erronis Thursday Thursday 3 266
On this day, December 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 6 216
On this day, November 30, 1945, U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was shot for killing the survivors of a sunk target. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Monday 17 522
Poland Oak Tree, 650 Yrs Old, Believed to Have Hidden 2 Jewish Brothers in Trunk, WW2 Nazi Occup. 4 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 24 23 795
Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡ 0 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 23 6 336
My grandparents' war. PBS 5 elleng Nov 23 Nov 23 7 423
Holocaust Hero Sir Nicholas Winton Rescued 669 Children in Czechoslovakia from Nazis, Eve of WWII, Kindertransport 2 appalachiablue Nov 18 Nov 18 7 329
Benjamin Ferencz 'Last Surviving Prosecutor WW2 Nuremberg Trials' War Crimes - US Lawyer, WW2 Veteran, DDay, The Bulge 2 appalachiablue Nov 11 Nov 15 5 391
History being made at a urinal. 6 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 14 6 593
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 11 777
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire 60 Minutes Australia 1 Uncle Joe Nov 10 Nov 10 8 403
A empire is a machine powered by blood. 0 Eko Nov 1 Nov 1 7 372
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 30 Oct 30 1 248
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 6 bucolic_frolic Oct 26 Oct 29 9 942
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Oct 25 Oct 25 22 927
'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Oct 23 Oct 23 10 516
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Oct 21 Oct 21 10 567
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Oct 20 Oct 20 16 695
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 19 Oct 19 8 635
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 18 Oct 18 11 573
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 2 375
The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 3 Oct 3 4 515
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 3 Oct 3 1 491
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 29 Sep 29 6 2293
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 27 Sep 27 3 1206
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 3 711
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 17 Sep 17 6 3115

World History Continued...

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On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 16 5 2048
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 14 Sep 14 4 786
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 14 Sep 14 18 2551
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 0 962
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 2 962
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 13 Sep 13 1 1031
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 11 Sep 12 9 3402
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 9 Sep 9 3 864
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 995
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 673
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 754
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 1007
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1102
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1591
Violence and Inequality: The Great Leveler. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 755
The Mystery of Winston Churchill's Platypus Has Been Solved. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 902
Mosiac Inscription Connects Justinian to Ancient City in Kosovo 0 ZDU Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 673
Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit Ins ended today 25 July 1960 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 704
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 5 777
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 673
On this day, July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 650
On this day, July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 722
On this day, July 24, 2013, a high-speed train derailed rounding a curve in Spain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 646
The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump 0 thucythucy Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 984
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 766
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 2 772
Anyone know anything about the women who worked in Blechley 5 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 902
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 4 694
Fate of Pets in the Holocaust, a 2015 blog I found 6 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1172
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 6 820

World History Continued...

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Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again as 22 massive blocks resurface from the seafloor after 2,000 years 5 ZDU Jul 2025 Jul 2025 53 2538
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 969
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 795
On this day, July 13, 1955, British nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1002
Maybe NSFW. Children from the Lodz Ghetto September 1942 & Chelmno train from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1113
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 7 833
On July 3, 1938, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 781
7/7 London bombing attacks. 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1034
Battle of Balikpapan July 1945 1 VGNonly Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 935
July 1st, 1936. Sachsenhausen a concentration camp was opened- from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1060
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 1295
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 1416
On this date in 1918, the "Llandovery Castle" was sunk 0 ITAL Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 954
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 1074
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 1221
mahatmakanejeeves you are a blessing and a glory to us. 4 irisblue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 1170
The Naval Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942-1943 - Animated (ALL PARTS) - Youtube. 0 Eko Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 978
Who Wrote the Bible? AI Uncovers "Likely Authors" 4 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1611
The Bone Hunter: unearthing the horror of war in Okinawa - documentary -- The Guardian 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 992
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 1022
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