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New Zealand
The New Zealand shooting is now among the deadliest massacres in recent world history
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A massacre that left at least 49 people dead at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand rocked communities across the world as reports …
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Great Britain
Stonehenge was 'hub for Britain's earliest mass parties'
bbc.co.uk
Evidence of large-scale prehistoric feasting rituals found at Stonehenge could be the earliest mass celebrations in Britain, say archaeologists.
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Asia
Cook Islands considers name change to reflect heritage
bbc.co.uk
The Cook Islands in the South Pacific is considering a name change to reflect its Polynesian heritage.
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Archaeology
Archeologists discover series of tunnels below famed Alcatraz prison
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Archeologists have confirmed a long-held suspicion of historians and say that famed Alcatraz prison was built over a Civil War-era military …
TIME
Pope Francis
Pope Francis Says Secret Archives On Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII Will Be Opened Early
TIME - Billy Perrigo
Pope Francis announced Monday that the Vatican’s archives on controversial World War II-era pope Pius XII would be opened up eight years earlier than planned, in 2020, a move seen as an olive branch to
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Slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime
The Guardian - Amanda Holpuch
Ona Judge, the enslaved woman who fled President George Washington to live for decades as a fugitive, gave just two interviews in her lifetime. The will of Lisette Denison, born in 1786, is the only surviving
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Bad habit: historians find record of nun who faked her own death to pursue 'way of carnal lust'
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Historians at the University of York have uncovered the tale of a 14th-century nun who escaped from her convent by faking her own death to follow “the way of carnal lust”. A letter hidden away in medieval
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Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii
The Guardian - Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
Archaeologists working in a richly decorated house in ancient Pompeii have discovered a stunningly preserved fresco depicting the mythological hunter Narcissus enraptured by his own reflection in a pool
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'Very Likely' Finnish Volunteers Helped Kill Jews in World War II: Report
TIME - JARI TANNER / AP
(HELSINKI) — An Israeli Holocaust historian praised authorities in Finland on Sunday for publishing a report that concluded Finnish volunteers serving with Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS “very likely” took in
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Israeli historian lauds Finland for report on WWII killings
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A senior Israeli Holocaust historian is praising Finnish authorities for publishing a report concluding that Finnish troops likely participated in the mass murder of Jews during World War II. Efraim Zuroff,
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Holocaust row taints Hungary's House of Fates museum project
bbc.co.uk - By Nick Thorpe
Pilots landing after dark at Budapest international airport will soon have a new star to navigate by - a giant Star of David. It will be lit up from the side of a tower resembling stacked cattle trucks.
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Switzerland
Bronze Sheet from Luristan
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Illustration by James Blake Wiener published on 29 October 2017 About the Author James is a writer and former Professor of History. He holds an MA in …
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Mexico
Roman Mosaic with Partridges
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Illustration by James Blake Wiener published on 01 November 2017 About the Author James is a writer and former Professor of History. He holds an MA in …
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Don’t Let the Rise of Europe Steal World History
realclearworld.com - Peter Frankopan
Where to begin says a lot: world history courses should teach about the whole world, not just the latest winners Read Full Article »
Northern Europe
Don’t let the rise of Europe steal world history – Peter Frankopan
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The centre of a map tells you much, as does the choice where to begin a story, or a history. Arab geographers used to place the Caspian Sea at the …
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Russian parade marks 75 years since WWII siege of Leningrad
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg is marking the end of the World War II siege by Nazi forces with a large military …
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Australia Day celebrated amid 'Invasion Day' protests
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Australia Day celebrations are under way, marking the anniversary of the beginning of modern Australia - although thousands are attending "Invasion Day" protests instead.
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Auschwitz historians painstakingly work to preserve personal belongings of the victims to keep 'memory of their owners alive'
Fox News - Don Snyder
Survivors and dignitaries are assembling Sunday at Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp where more than one million prisoners, mostly Jews, were
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Berlin
Berlin police seize 3 Hitler paintings as possible fakes
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BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police say three watercolor landscapes allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler are being examined by experts to determine if …
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Holocaust survivor to share his experience in live webcast
The Guardian - Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
The hour-long webcast will feature Harry Spiro, 89, being interviewed by Judge Rinder A Holocaust survivor will give live testimony of his experiences of a Nazi concentration camp and death march in a
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The Russians know exactly what Putin and Trump talked about, but we probably won’t find out for decades
The Washington Post - By Anton Troianovski
MOSCOW — The United States has no detailed record of President Trump’s five face-to-face interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the past two years, The Washington Post reported last week.
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WW1 German submarine emerges from French beach
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A World War One-era German submarine has started to emerge from a beach in northern France. Historians say the UC61 was sunk by its crew after being caught laying mines in July 1917. The submarine started
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Pyramid stone row: Egypt asks Museum of Scotland for papers
The Guardian - Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Libby Brooks in Edinburgh
Row over plans by Edinburgh museum to display stone from Great Pyramid of Giza escalates The Egyptian government is calling for access to the certification documents for all Egyptian antiquities displayed
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Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be given Jewish funeral
The Guardian - Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Remains of five adults and a child to be laid to rest in UK after being stored at the Imperial War Museum for 20 years More than seven decades after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, the remains
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In Video: Lego builders chart world history
independent.ie - Press Association Reporters
The exhibition will run until March 9. Pivotal moments in world history have been recreated in Lego by artist Warren Elsmore for the Brick History …
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Blue tooth reveals unknown female artist from medieval times
bbc.co.uk - By Matt McGrath
The weird habit of licking the end of a paintbrush has revealed new evidence about the life of an artist more than 900 years after her death. Scientists found tiny blue paint flecks had accumulated on
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Russia searches for Napoleon's gold
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A Russian historian has come up with a new theory about the legend that the French Emperor Napoleon hid wagonloads of stolen treasure during his disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812. Viacheslav Ryzhkov
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D-Day landings
UK's Royal Mail sorry for D-Day landings stamp blunder
Reuters India - by Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Mail apologised on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops