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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 46358
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 56825
On this day, January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, exploded and fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 0 201
Roman Polanski On Escaping The Jewish Ghetto In World War II The Dick Cavett Show 0 marble falls Thursday Thursday 1 329
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 5 Jan 5 7 263
On this day in 1919 - German Workers Party founded in Munich 0 irisblue Jan 4 Jan 4 2 276
Alice in Wonderland, the Boer War, Racism, and British Imperialism and Empire. 3 NNadir Jan 3 Jan 3 5 407
On this day January 3, 2003, Greta Thunberg was born. 2 spike jones Jan 3 Jan 3 6 236
NUTS! Gen. Anthony McAuliffe Refused To Surrender, The Bulge, Bastogne, Belgium, Dec.1944 0 appalachiablue Jan 1 Jan 1 5 268
Charles Dickens' London Home, Christmas Tour - Literary Giant, Victorian Era Social Critic 📚 5 appalachiablue Dec 29 Dec 30 8 435
Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 5 irisblue Dec 29 Dec 29 8 434
Images from the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 16 irisblue Dec 16 Dec 17 24 1025
American troops captured by the Nazis in the Ardennes in Dec 1944 3 irisblue Dec 17 Dec 17 8 628
Glen Miller disappeared over the English Channel today 15 December 1944. 3 irisblue Dec 15 Dec 15 3 429
So I just finished (finally) Jackson's book "France on Trial" and am moving to Elkins "A Legacy of Violence." 2 NNadir Dec 4 Dec 5 4 556
Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world 2 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 3 486
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 3 6 410
On this day, November 30, 1945, U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was shot for killing the survivors of a sunk target. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 30 Dec 1 17 766
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 1005
Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡ 0 appalachiablue Nov 23 Nov 23 6 504
My grandparents' war. PBS 5 elleng Nov 23 Nov 23 7 660
Holocaust Hero Sir Nicholas Winton Rescued 669 Children in Czechoslovakia from Nazis, Eve of WWII, Kindertransport 2 appalachiablue Nov 18 Nov 18 7 513
Benjamin Ferencz 'Last Surviving Prosecutor WW2 Nuremberg Trials' War Crimes - US Lawyer, WW2 Veteran, DDay, The Bulge 2 appalachiablue Nov 11 Nov 15 5 579
History being made at a urinal. 6 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 14 7 861
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 12 997
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire 60 Minutes Australia 1 Uncle Joe Nov 10 Nov 10 8 579
A empire is a machine powered by blood. 0 Eko Nov 1 Nov 1 7 534
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 30 Oct 30 1 418
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 6 bucolic_frolic Oct 26 Oct 29 9 1196
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Oct 25 Oct 25 22 1145

World History Continued...

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'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Oct 23 Oct 23 10 723
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Oct 21 Oct 21 10 757
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Oct 20 Oct 20 16 867
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 19 Oct 19 8 832
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 18 Oct 18 11 743
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 2 542
The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 679
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 653
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2476
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1378
On September 26, 1905, Einstein published the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, on the special theory of relativity. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 897
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3316
On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2213
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 981
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 2731
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1132
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1123
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1197
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3601
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1040
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1162
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 841
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 938
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 1213
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1280
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1765
Violence and Inequality: The Great Leveler. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 917
The Mystery of Winston Churchill's Platypus Has Been Solved. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1078
Mosiac Inscription Connects Justinian to Ancient City in Kosovo 0 ZDU Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 832
Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit Ins ended today 25 July 1960 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 874

World History Continued...

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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 5 956
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 826
On this day, July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 819
On this day, July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 886
On this day, July 24, 2013, a high-speed train derailed rounding a curve in Spain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 801
The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump 0 thucythucy Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1152
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 934
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 2 948
Anyone know anything about the women who worked in Blechley 5 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 1085
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 4 868
Fate of Pets in the Holocaust, a 2015 blog I found 6 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1398
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 6 989
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again as 22 massive blocks resurface from the seafloor after 2,000 years 5 ZDU Jul 2025 Jul 2025 53 2746
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1140
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 954
On this day, July 13, 1955, British nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1167
Maybe NSFW. Children from the Lodz Ghetto September 1942 & Chelmno train from eloons place 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1300
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 1000
On July 3, 1938, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 938
7/7 London bombing attacks. 1 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1212
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