Holocaust Memorial Day 2013: Our duty to victims of the Nazis, says Angela...
Said Germany had ‘everlasting responsibility… for victims of World War II and for the Holocaust’ Added that each individual can help ensure racism and anti-Semitism have no chance Duty: Angela Merkel...
View ArticleValley of poverty: The desperate pictures of rural America that show...
Pictures of Appalachia by photographer John Dominis appeared in 1964 issue of LIFE, titled ‘The Valley of Poverty’ 60% of families fell below poverty level with the average family income of $841 a...
View ArticleA HISTORY OF ENGLISH POPULATION
The Population of Ancient England About 650 BC a people called the Celts migrated to England. Then in 43 AD the Romans invaded. It is impossible to accurately estimate the population of England before...
View ArticleBattle of Stalingrad: Russia marks 70th anniversary of key WWII fight
The bloodiest and longest standoff of WWII – the Battle of Stalingrad – lasted 200 days and claimed 2 million lives. Russia is marking the 70th anniversary of this epic struggle, which became the...
View ArticleBritain chemically bombarded Iraq in 1920s
The use of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, over which the country was invaded by US and British forces in 2003, goes back to the early days of the twentieth century when British officials had...
View ArticleMugshots of mobsters in the 1930s New York found in private diaries of...
Eugene Canevari joined the New York Police Department and worked for 24 years in crime He dealt with some of the most prominent New York organized crime figures of the era Upon retiring in 1952 he took...
View ArticleThe ghosts of Hitler's European fortress
Photographer captures images of decaying World War Two bunkers in Holland, France and Belgium These are the World War II bunkers that still crouch on the landscape as echoes of the biggest conflict in...
View ArticleJapan finds rare photo of Hiroshima bomb mushroom cloud
A rare photograph has been discovered in the Japanese city of Hiroshima showing the mushroom cloud from the US atomic bombing of the city in two distinct parts. A curator at the Hiroshima Peace...
View ArticleSwedish Forced Sterilisation Programme
Social Democrats implemented measures to forcibly sterilise 62,000 people For over 40 years, young socially marginalised working class women in Sweden faced the danger of forced sterilisation. This was...
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Reza Aslan on Zealot, Fox News and Richard Dawkins
The US academic – whose latest book, Zealot, was a bestseller even before his extraordinary Fox News interview went viral – talks about religion, his celebrity status and death threatsWhen a video goes...
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Guardian first book award 2013 longlist combines sex and psychoanalysis
Stephen Grosz's The Examined Life goes up against a Facebook thriller and Sex and the Citadel, a study of intimacy in the Arab world, on a varied list of nominees• Gallery: the nominees in...
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