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You don’t have to battle tourist hordes in the world’s most-visited country. Here are 10 of its relatively less-visited but ...
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was once a prominent player in the Eastern Bloc, with a relatively advanced industrial base during the Cold War. However, one of ...
Germany’s opera houses have been rattled by aging audiences, diminished public funding and a decline in civic life. Can these ...
The Civic Media Observatory looks into narratives surrounding Syria's transitional president in the aftermath of his toppling of the tyrannical Assad regime after 61 years in absolute control of the ...
Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...
Mahashivaratri is celebrated every year on the thirteenth night and fourteenth day of the month of Phalgun in the Hindu calendar which falls in February or March Unlike most Hindu festivals which are ...
The Eddison family suffered terrible loss during World War II. A plaque near a Canberra shopping centre car park offers an ...
Okafor If history has taught anything to nations and peoples who have suffered collective trauma, it is that when their ...
Lockerbie suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Masud's trial will probably begin in April 2026, according to a status conference report ...
The weaponisation of food echoes the horrors of the Jewish ghettos, as Palestinians are pushed beyond the limits of human ...
Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.