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Capital city of the Czech Republic
Primary evidence that Nazi leaders threatened and justified reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s May 1942 assassination appears in contemporaneous Nazi orders and official communications, in high-level...
Pluto is not classified as one of the eight “planets” under the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 definition; it is officially a dwarf planet because it orbits the Sun and is spherical but “has ...
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 after a cascade of mass protests, negotiated transfers of power, and political openings that began in Poland and spread across the region; key pro...
The most thoroughly documented of Jewish communities are those from , from various French domains (notably 1182 and kingdom-wide actions in 1306 and 1394), and from ; surviving documentation for these...
The clearest primary Nazi documents pointing to both the planning and the administrative implementation of the “Final Solution” are internal memoranda and bureaucratic reports—the Göring memorandum of...
Reporting and official records show multiple high‑profile Republican officeholders and party officials convicted or sentenced for crimes involving children — notably former North Dakota state senator ...
Gestapo archival reporting—reproduced in postwar histories and reference works—recorded that investigators briefly suspected Lidice because several Czechoslovak army officers exiled in Britain had ori...
In 1939 the world’s largest concentrations of Jews were in Eastern Europe — Poland (~3,000,000), the European Soviet Union (~2,525,000) and Romania (~980,000) — while major city centers included Warsa...
was a Bohemian-born Austrian baroness, novelist and leading pacifist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose anti-war writings, organizing and international activism culminated in the as recog...
The band is The Henhouse Prowlers, a Chicago-based four-piece bluegrass/Americana quartet that formed in the Rogers Park neighborhood and has released multiple studio albums, most recently Unravel (pe...
Multiple songs titled “Nobody’s Girl” exist and they use very different lyric approaches: Bonnie Raitt’s 1989 song (written by Larry John McNally) is a narrative portrait of an independent, elusive wo...