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“In some cases death came immediately; in others, after many days,” the historian Procopius wrote as a terrifying disease scythed through Constantinople in 542...
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President Vladimir Putin said Monday the memory of Russia’s heroism and sacrifice during World War II will endure as his country marked the 70th...
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Geeks who brought the Macintosh computer to life became Silicon Valley rock stars on Saturday, with people asking for autographs or photos while celebrating...
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An American professor and prominent Holocaust scholar said Sunday he was handing back a Hungarian state award in protest at the government’s “falsification of...
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Soldiers waded onto a beach, fighter planes flew overhead and jeeps filed along the seaside at Anzio in Italy this weekend as the resort...
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Hundreds of private letters, notes and photographs belonging to Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler have been found in Israel, a German newspaper reported Saturday. Himmler,...
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The Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp in southern Poland said Monday it had launched online Holocaust awareness...
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A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander...
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A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander...
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A drunken man has been arrested for trying to douse the eternal flame at the landmark Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, police said...