| | Malta's George Cross by The Ovi Team 15th April 1942; the people from the tiny Island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea ( 121 sq miles ) are awarded The George Cross by King George VI. Malta played a crucial role in World War II owing to its proximity to Axis shipping lanes and the G | |
| | Rosenbergs by The Ovi Team 29th March, 1951; Rosenbergs found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage for their role in providing nuclear secrets to th | |
| | Paris Commune by The Ovi Team The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 28 to | |
| | Greek Independence by Thanos Kalamidas March 25th for the Greek people is a very special day and a dual celebration. On this day in 1821 the Greeks began a revolution against the Ottoman Empire that led to freedom and independence after 400 years of occupation and for the Greek Orthodo | |
| | Profumo Affair by The Ovi Team 22nd March, 1963; The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, has denied any impropriety with the model, Christine Keeler. Later in June John Profumo did admit to having an affair with Christine Keeler and resigned from his post as | |
| | First Rocket Launch by The Ovi Team 16th March, 1926: The US professor and scientist Robert Hutchings Goddard, Ph.D. launches the world's first liquid-fuelled rocket.A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains | |
| | The Luddites by The Ovi Team March 11th 1811, the Luddites destroy the machines of textile factories in Nottingham feeling that the machines were replacing them letting them without jobs. The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth centur | |
| | Archbishop Makarios by The Ovi Team 9th March, 1956; in a hope to ease tensions in Cyprus British authorities have ordered the deportation of the Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios. Instead of easing tensions in Cyprus more violence broke out on the Island and Britain w | |
| | The iron curtain ...speech by The Ovi Team 5th March, 1946; Winston Churchill delivers one of the first speeches condemning what he thought was a Soviet Union bent on the expansion of communism in Europe and around the world, during the speech he coined the phrase "The Iron Curtain | |
| | Hindenburg First Official Flight by The Ovi Team 4th March, 1936; The Hindenburg makes its First Official Flight in Germany. The Hindenburg built by the Zeppelin Company was 804 ft long filled with highly inflammable hydrogen to provide the lift and four 1,200 hp Daimler-Benz diesel engines g | |
| | The Lindbergh baby by The Ovi Team 1st March, 1932; The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped when stolen from his crib at the family estate in Hopewell, New Jersey. | |
| | The Battle of Los Angeles by The Ovi Team 24th February, 1942; Los Angeles sightings on this day called by the contemporary press "Battle of Los Angeles", a Plane / Blimp / Weather Balloon / UFO is fired on with a massive anti-aircraft artillery barrage but is not hit, Air raid | |
| | Gutenberg prints the first Bible by The Ovi Team 23rd February, 1455; Johannes Gutenberg prints the first book. Johannes | |
| | King Tutankhamen by The Ovi Team 16th February, 1923 : The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen recently unearthe | |
| | The forced suicide of Socrates by The Ovi Team On 15th of February, 399 BC the philosopher Socrates stood before a jur | |
| | Dead Sea Scrolls by The Ovi Team 13th February, 1955; Israel has bought four Dead Sea scrolls written at various times between the middle of the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD. From the Syrians for $250,000. The scrolls together with many others discovered in 11 caves in a | |
| | Waitangi Day in New Zealand by The Ovi Team Waitangi Day commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840. | |
| | When Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor by The Ovi Team 30th January, 1933; Adolf Hitler the leader of the National Socialist German | |
| | The end of the Shah's ruling by The Ovi Team 16th January, 1979: The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, is forced to flee the country when his army mutiny and violent demonstrations in the streets against his rule. | |
| | The "Star of the West" incident by The Ovi Team 9th January 1861, the "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".The Star of the West was a civ | |
| | Leonardo's flying machines by The Ovi Team 3rd of January 1496, Leonardo da Vinci tried for the first time unsuccessfully unfortunately to fly with one of the flying machines that had become his passion for long time. So that makes a great chance to remember the unbelievable creations o | |
| | Retaking Granada by The Ovi Team January 2nd 1492 marks the end of the Arab occupation in Spain and the return of Granada to the Spanish royal family. In the 8th century, nearly all of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered (711–718) by Muslim armies (see | |
| | Remember 2009 - Part II by The Ovi Team Sometimes it is good to remember what happened through the year that just ends and this is what we are going to do; we started yesterday with the first six months of 2009 and here the last six. July 2009 | |
| | Remember 2009 - Part I by The Ovi Team Sometimes it is good to remember what happened through the year that just ends and this is what we are going to do in two days with the first six months todayJanuary 2009January 1 – Austria, Japan, | |
| | Theatre Fire in Chicago by The Ovi Team December 30th, 1903; The Iroquois Theatre Fire in Chicago, Illinois, claims 602 lives, the theatre had only been open for just over a month. This is still the worst single-building fire in U.S. history for the number of lives lost. | |
| | The dance of Zalongo by The Ovi Team The term Dance of Zalongo (Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου Horós tou Zalóngou) refers to an event in Greek history, and to a popular dance song commemorating this event | |
| | Nanking Massacre by The Ovi Team December 13th, 1937; Japanese forces capture the city of Nanking and Japanese General Matsui Iwane orders the city of Nanking to be destroyed. Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. Including the massacre of an estima | |
| | Jean Sibelius by Thanos Kalamidas Even though I keep my distance from the pompous Finlandia, Jean Sibelius has managed to grow in me and become one of my most favourite composers especially with his Tapiola. Actually my love to his music has becom | |
| | Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor by The Ovi Team December 7th, 1941; Japan launches a surprise dawn attack using midget submarines, 350 bombers and torpedo carrying planes targeting warships, aircraft and military installations on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and has declare | |
| | Irish Free State by The Ovi Team December 6th, 1922; the Irish Free State is created as a dominion with British sovereign authority under the terms of the Anglo Irish Treaty. Originally the agreement did cover Northern Ireland but Northern Ireland chose the option to opt out of t | |
| | The formation of Israel by The Ovi Team 29th November, 1947, The United Nations votes in favour of partitioning the British controlled Palestine and to allow the creation of an Independent Jewish State of Israel. Arab countries all voted against the creation of Israel and 60 years later | |
| | Jukebox begins by The Ovi Team November 23, 1889; the debut of the first jukebox in Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco California USA.A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine that can play specially s | |
| | Athens Polytechnic uprising by The Ovi Team The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. The uprising began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt and ended in bloodshed in the ear | |
| | Heroes and non-heroes by Anna Oistros Ήρωες και ... αντιήρωες του Πολυτεχνείου | |
| | Elis Island closes by The Ovi Team 12th November, 1954, Ellis Island federal immigration station in New York closes aft | |
| | The Fall of Berlin Wall 20th anniversary by Ilaria Tagliaferri.
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| | The Berlin Wall by The Ovi Team 9th November, 1989, East Germany opened its borders today, allowing its citizens to freely cross into the West for the first time since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Some Germans used hammers to chip away at the Berlin Wall for keepsakes or i | |
| | Facts about the Berlin Wall by The Ovi Team The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961.It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government begun to close the border. In the early morning of that Sunday most of the first work was d | |
| | The Beer Hall Putsch by The Ovi Team 8th November, 1923; Adolf Hitler leads the Nazi Party in failed coup d'état attempt to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany. The attempt fails and Hitler is arrested and charged with high treason. The Nazi party headquarters are rai | |
| | The second battle of El Alamein by The Ovi Team November 5th, 1942; the British win the Second Battle of El Alamein with th | |
| | Cuban missiles crisis by The Ovi Team On the 22nd October, 1962, In a speech to the American people John F Ken | |
| | Battle of Trafalgar by The Ovi Team The Battle of Trafalgar on the 21st of October 1805 was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Na | |
| | That Dirty Colonial War: The Boer Conflict by Binoy Kampmark It was some 110 years ago that the Boer War commenced, a nasty conflict with a miscellany of atrocities befitting a classic colonial engagement. It was waged in the true imperialist mould, revealing an unvarnished desire on the part of an | |
| | Dynamite for peace and science by The Ovi Team Since there is a lot of talk lately about the Nobel Prizes and some controver | |
| | Alexander the Great by The Ovi Team September 20th supposed to be the date of birth for the Ancient Greek General, Alexander the Great. So some brief information for the great conqueror and king. Alexander III of Macedon, popularly known as Alexander | |
| | On the Element of Fire by David Sparenberg
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| | Treaty of Fredrikshamn by The Ovi Team The Treaty of Fredrikshamn or the Treaty of Hamina (Finnish: Haminan rauha, Swedish: Freden i Fredrikshamn) was a peace treaty concluded between Sweden and Imperial Russia on 17 September 1809. The treaty concluded the Finnish War and was signe | |
| | Christianity: a Private Affair or Part of the European Identity? by Emanuel L. Paparella
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| | A Yugoslav tale by Thanos Kalamidas In the beginning there was a country called Yugoslavia, then came war that resulted in some countries gaining a future, others gaining a questionable future and others with no future at all. It may sound cynical but unfortunately it is true and th | |
| | Darwinian Lincolnism by Leah Sellers On February 12, 1809, American Abraham Lincoln and Englishman Charles Darwin took their first Breaths of Life. Who could have guessed that those two wriggling, bare bottomed babies would eventually have such a tremendous historical, scientific, ph | |
| | Intentions are Everything by Edna Nelson Current President Obama has spoken in reverence about former President and signer of the Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln. For a man who is sometimes seen as the only promise of a positive future in the US, and an icon for black people ar | |
| | North American Indians: Part One - The Proliferation by Jack Wellman At first, the rugged mountainous and forested realms of the great expanse of the North American Continent stood empty - the only indigenous game were the occupants and, in nearly all the continent, not so much as one human. With the continent l | |
| | Reflections On the Topic of Slavery - Part 3 by Alexandra Pereira We know that modern slavery continues around the world, through the exploitation of workers and their lives, sometimes even in the most “civilized” countries. There are a number of ways in which people can be trapped and used in benefi | |
| | The Portuguese and Spanish Slave Trade - Part 2 by Alexandra Pereira
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| | The Portuguese and Spanish Slave Trade - Part 1 by Ana & Alexandra Pereira IntroductionSlavery is a social-economic system under which a person (the “slave”) is deprived of freedom and compelled to work | |
| | International Day for the Abolition of Slavery by Alexandra Pereira “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, | |
| | "Breaking" News by Jack Wellman
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| | Is Akko Burning? by Gush Shalom THROUGHOUT ITS thousands of years of history, Akko has never been an Israelite town.Even according to the mythological story of the Bible, the Israelites did not conquer the city, which was already an ancient port. The first c | |
| | The truth about nationalisms in Spain by Newropeans-Magazine The definition of nationalism is as follows The term 'nationalism' can refer to an ideology, a | |
| | Victory Lost? by Clint Wayne
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| | Marcus Aurelius' Meditations on Natural Law and Divine Providence by Emanuel L. Paparella In The Republic Plato postulates that the best way to achieve a near perfect polity is to have a philosopher-king as its head. That is of course an ideal that has rarely been achieved in world history and many have branded Plato as too id | |
| | On Being Mystical and Mad in Mongolia by Valerie Sartor On June 26 at 7:30 PM Mr. James Palmer, a youthful but quite knowledgeable historian, gave a talk at The Beijing Bookworm about his first and already highly acclaimed book: The Bloody White Baron. Mr. Palmer is a curi | |
| | The 'Not So' Small Faces of Liberation by Leah Sellers Bastille Day! Liberation Day! July 4th! Independence Day!Days of Historical Memory steeped in traditions and symbols of Freedom - of Liberty and the Actions/ Near Actions which led to that Liberty. The Sacrifices great | |
| | Aristotle, Avicenna, Aquinas on God's Existence by Emanuel L. Paparella As already elaborated in previous articles, there is little doubt in the mind of any educated and fair person that the medieval monks deserve much credit for their enormous contribution to the preservation of Western | |
| | American Politics, Terrorism and Islam: Part 6 by Dr. Habib Siddiqui Dynamics of TerrorismWith all the spectre of violence around us, the foremost question of our time seems to be: how can terrorism be defeated? This billion dollar question however cannot be answered without unde | |
| | Tony Judt on the West's Misremembering of its History by Emanuel L. Paparella Tony Judt, as the consummate engaged historian that he is, has recently written another book on the lessons of history. It is a collection of brilliant essays meant as a reprimand to the liberals who "acquiesced i | |
| | 100 years of Japanese immigration in Brazil by Alexandra Pereira On June 18th 2008, Brazil celebrates 100 years of Japanese immigration that began with the arrival of the Kasato Maru ship, which departed from Kobe to the port of Santos with 165 Japanese families aboard | |
| | Queen of the Waves by Clint Wayne Various poignant moments as you pass through life help to make you realise you are getting older, so this week's visit by the Queen to bade farewell to the QE2 before she sails off to Dubai and her final resti | |
| | Green World, Many Dreams by Vieno Vehko A little Chinese history: on September 12, 1979, Zhang Changlin was working in a local chemical factory in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. He accidentally forgot to shut off a flow valve before leaving work; consequently, 150 tons of wastewater, 30 perc | |
| | Fall of "Ambedkar" father of Indian constitution by Tahir Khan In India, April 14th is celebrated as the birthday of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, also known as Babasaheb. Dr. Ambedkar wrote the Indian Constitution in 1950 but the core issue, still after 58 years, | |
| | The Medieval Monks as Preservers of Western Civilization by Emanuel L. Paparella The term “Dark Ages” was once erroneously applied to the entire millennium separating late antiquity from the Italian Renaissance (500-1500 AD). Today scholars know better. There is a widespread acknowled | |
| | Slobodan Milosevic: The Dividing Spirit by Rene Wadlow A friend, Albert Tevoedjre, at the time President of the African Student Union in France and later government minister of the Republic of Benin, had suggested that African countries put up statues to Adolf Hitler, fo | |
| | The Principle of Complementarity in Bohr's Quantum Mechanics and Vico's Historicism by Emanuel L. Paparella “The concrete without the universal becomes trivial. The universal without the concrete becomes irrelevant” - Alfred N. Whitehead Vico was | |
| | The Legend of Timor Loro Sae by Alexandra Pereira This is the traditional tale about the origins of Timor Loro Sae, which in tetum means "orient land – the land of the rising sun", or "land of dawn", or just "East Timor", | |
| | Freedom is our goal; our lives the price we pay by Rene Wadlow Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise. A British-trained lawyer, he always knew the limits of the law and knew when not to push too far even when his aim was to be arrested. | |
| | Gandhi's "Quit India" speech by The Ovi Team The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the | |
| | Christopher Dawson and the Making of Europe by Emanuel L. Paparella In 1932 Christopher Dawson published a book titled The Making of Europe which had enormous success and established his reputation as a scholar of incredible range and erudition who could communicate with gre | |
| | Spinaloga: The graveyard of Hansen's disease by Thanos Kalamidas Off the shores of Crete there is a small island that symbolizes a very old embarrassing story, not only for Greece, but for the whole world and that’s why you will not find long reports or historical facts in any encyclopedia. Spinaloga is a | |
| | Photography Behind The Berlin Wall by The Ovi Team This exhibition brings together a group of photographers whose extraordinary contribution to European photography has quite literally been 'frozen out' by the cold war. Curated by Matthew Shaul, the exhibition includes works by Arno Fische | |
| | An Arthur who wanted to be king by Thanos Kalamidas One evening, back in the early-80s, I was drinking Yorkshire bitter with a friend in a small local pub somewhere near Huddersfield when the door opened and two men, both of whom looked as though they were ready for a fight, entered. After carefull | |
| | Jesus: A Historical Fact by Jack Wellman Jesus Christ is a fact of history. All secular historians who have any merit admit that, regardless of what they believe about Him, Jesus lived! They can not explain Him away. There are countless authors and Historians, thousands of manuscripts, m | |
| | Human Rights Day and NGO Action by Rene Wadlow The United Nations " spells — and it ought to spell — the end of the system of unilateral action, exclusive alliances, and spheres of influence, and the balances of power and all the other expedients which have been tried for cent | |
| | Finland's Birthday Back-slapping by Asa Butcher On May 1st earlier this year, the United Kingdom celebrated the 300th anniversary of the 1707 Acts of Union that merged the Scots Parliament and the English Parliament to form the Parliament of Great Britain and a single Kingdom of Great Britai | |
| | The Nexus between History and the Self by Emanuel L. Paparella In viewing humanity in its historicity as the primary subject of philosophy, Vico had in mind something very similar to what after Heidegger we describe as “humanity’s being in the world.” Vico, like Heid | |
| | A tragedy by Thanos Kalamidas I have often mentioned that I grew up and met adulthood during one of the darkest times of the Modern Greek history, during the seven years of the military dictatorship. And I have often said that it is very difficult to d | |
| | Machiavelli and the Republic by Jack Wellman The Merchants The landscape was totally devastated. Dead, blotted human corpses littered the field and valley. It seemed the whole of Europe and Ital | |
| | A Revolutionary New View of History and Humanity: 3/3 by Emanuel L. Paparella Sadly, the me-generation of the seventies and eighties and beyond, so concerned with its “life-style,” has yet to discover that Christianity is psychologically much more sophisticated in its insistence that parad | |
| | A Revolutionary New View of History and Humanity: 2/3 by Emanuel L. Paparella For Anselm, the cosmos that God conceived and made (one and the same operation for God) was the object of truth. In other words, the truth consists of knowing the logos content of the world. Its content are not fact | |
| | A Revolutionary New View of History and Humanity: 1/3 by Emanuel L. Paparella Vico’s New Science (1725) is a watershed to modern historicism. He was however too far ahead of his contemporaries to have any direct impact on them. They had already embarked on a Cartesian paradigm of real | |
| | Native American Indian Policy: Removal or Genocide? 3/3 by Jack Wellman Kansas Territory was declared Indian Territory in 1825. This small area, purposed for hundreds of tribes from the east, had no forests, few animals and not much water. This was a disaster waiting to happen. Just after it was called Indian Territor | |
| | Native American Indian Policy: Removal or Genocide? 2/3 by Jack Wellman During the 1700s and 1800s, the vast majority of Americans wanted Indians gone. Out of sight and out of mind. Alive or dead! And the ones with the power and ability to do something about it worked within all of their means to achieve this end. Par | |
| | Native American Indian Policy: 1/3 by Jack Wellman The Spanish had one of the earliest contacts with Native American Indians The Quiveran Plains Indians lived close to where Wichita, Kansas is now located in the central U.S. The Indians were mesmerized by Spanish missionary, Juan de Padilla. They | |
| | Thucydides - The Historian by Jack Wellman Many feel the birthplace of history was Ancient Greece. If that is true, the child prodigy was Thucydides. The word 'history' comes from the Greek historia, and liter | |
| | France and its colonial past by Raphael Hadid Former French colonies are not doing as well as former English colonies. Truth is that France has built nothing positive in its colonies. Yet, officially, French law claims that French colonialism had positive effects.France n | |
| | The Little Rock Nine by Thanos Kalamidas What happened in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, in the US state of Arkansas I think is well known in many ways, including a number of films and books either for the Little Rock Nine or from references to the events. | |
| | Brainwashing for kids by Dimitrios Kontopodis The proposal of the German EU presidency for common European history schoolbooks is terribly interesting, radical and probably unrealistic, at least in the short term. However, the comments that followed, especially the negative ones, are surprisi | |
| | 40-luvun lapsisotilaat by Maippi Tapanainen Viime talvena edesmennyt isäni oli iso ja roteva mies. Vuonna 1924 syntyneenä hän joutui viimeisten joukossa osallistumaan jatkosotimiseen. Hän ei puhunut sodasta, korkeintaan sanoi, että hul | |
| | The Doomsday Clock by Thanos Kalamidas Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has always been one of the books I like and my favorite part is the very beginning when the Earthman finds out that Doomsday is imminent! Howe | |
| | Martin Luther King Day by Jan Sand Like any other organization based on faith in a basic set of principles, a nation has its panoply of saints. Unlike the very strict hierarchy of the Catholic Church, a nation usually has no formal procedure for designating people as fitting this e | |
| | I have a dream! by Thanos Kalamidas Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been one of my role models since I was a kid and first realized the meaning of the words 'racism' and 'prejudice'. Unfortunately, life never made me forget it and it is | |
| | How many Guantanamos in Vietnam? by Thanos Kalamidas While reading the news I had to stop and read something more carefully that mentioned FBI agents accusing the American army of torture in Guantanamo and no respect to human rights. The truth is that the name of FBI, | |
| | Road to independence by Thanos Kalamidas On the 6th of December, Finland celebrates its 89th year of independence. The Finnish nation went through a great deal before it became a country often finding itself as a battlefield between the two mighty northern | |
| | The Antikythera Mechanism by Louie Parsons A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone, but a century ago pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. | |
| | 28th of October in Greece, the OXI day by Anna Oistros Πίσω από τους πολέμους υπάρχουν άνθρ | |
| | The Armenian genocide by Thanos Kalamidas For centuries, Armenians and Turks, among other ethnicities, lived in peace under the Ottoman Empire and the Armenians were known as the "loyal millet". Despite other ethnic minorities and although Armenian | |
| | The shame is always with us by Ergo te Lina Mehmet Ali Birand’s text is translated from Turkish by Ergotelinen Click here to read the original Turkish text. | |
| | Hiç unutamam. by Ergo te Lina Click here to read the article in English. 50 yıl önce İstanbul’da yaşananların canlı t | |
| | Remember Babi Yar: Remember Nitesh Kumar Singh by Thanos Kalamidas The death of the 27-year-old Indian student in Saint Petersburg, Nitesh Kumar Singh, was not the first and, according to what they believe in Russia, won't be the last racially-motivated incident. Bu | |
| | Start of the Spanish Civil war by Thanos Kalamidas The best way to sense what happened during the Spanish Civil War is to read Ernest Hemingway’s novel, For whom the bell tolls. In the book, an American ideologist and expert in explosives finds his way | |
| | Allende introduction by Asa Butcher My reading list of late had been particularly male-dominated, so Thanos suggested a book by Isabel Allende, a Chilean author and one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different la | |
| | Occupy your time by Thanos Kalamidas Living in Europe and being aware of European history, we know that WWII was one of the darkest periods. The occupied countries lived their worst periods and there are tens of hundreds of books talking about this period and the occupation or the re | |
| | Churchill the American by Thanos Kalamidas History is my passion. I love reading history books. I love reading biographies and autobiographies. One of my favourite autobiographies is Winston Churchill’s. The man was history himself, he was the | |
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