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He was a Nazi hunter — and was killed in the Lockerbie bombing. What does it mean to seek justice for his death?
When war broke out in Europe in early August of 1914, that month’s edition of The Etude, America’s “Journal of the Musician, ...
Long before the rise of modern archaeology in the Middle East, a Czech priest-turned-explorer was meticulously documenting the landscapes, people, and ancient ruins of southern Jordan.Born in 1868 in ...
In 'The Ghadar Movement', Rana Preet Gill offers a carefully researched account of the overseas Indian resistance against British rule.
Capa's tumultuous and all-too-brief life symbolizes the cosmopolitan and tragic Central European milieu of Budapest Jewry in ...
Italy, a key player in the creation of the European Union, born from the rejection of nationalism after World War II, has ...
“ On the morning of May 5, the French tried to intimidate the Mexicans with screeching bugle calls and advanced bayonet maneuvers. But after a full day of fighting, including three unsuccessful uphill ...
Mozart was, of course, a prodigy, playing the keyboard at age 3 and composing starting at age 5. He didn’t pick up the violin, however, until he was 6, studying with his father Leopold, an excellent ...
But the fall of the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 and its aftermath ... and always carried a pistol.” Even as the Red Army closed in on the city, the Arrow Cross launched murderous ...