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History


Significant past events, influential figures, and cultural moments that shaped society. Ancient civilizations, wars, social revolutions, historical landmarks, and biographies.

 The Eiffel Tower.

Arthur Frommer discovered Europe for middle-class America

 Béla Károlyi.

Béla Károlyi, coach of Nadia Comăneci and Mary Lou Retton, dies at 82

 Interior of the Titanic on Nelson, a Titanic-themed pub and restaurant decked out to resemble the famous ocean liner.

Gold watch given to Titanic hero sells for record £1.56 million

 Notre-Dame de Paris.

Notre-Dame Cathedral to reopen in December 2024 after extensive restoration

 British prime minister Winston Churchill, Piccadilly Circus, London, England, after his re-election in 1951.

Stolen 1941 Churchill portrait found in Italy, to be returned to Ottawa hotel

 James Dean.

Biography claims James Dean paid ex-lover to hide his sexuality before 'East of Eden' premiere

 An artistic portrait of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

This week in Jewish history: The Black Death pogroms, death of Rabbi Sacks

By Steven Drucker
 Grace Kelly 1929 – 1982.

Her Grace: Remembering “Her Serene Highness” Grace Kelly

 Frank Auerbach, 1975-6.

Frank Auerbach, renowned figurative painter and Holocaust survivor, dies at 93

 Shinto shrine in Kyoto.

Over 500,000 ceramic 'ghost coins' from World War II discovered in Kyoto warehouse

 ISIS in Aleppo, Syria. 2017.

ISIS Prisons Museum: Documenting the horrors of Islamic State detention centers

 Cawdor Castle near Inverness, Scotland.

Bust used to hold open a shed door to be auctioned for £2.5 million

 Message bottle. Image: Quasimondo is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

Engineer discovers 132-year-old message in a bottle at Scottish lighthouse

 An explosion and smoke are seen after members of Hamas security forces destroyed a missile, which witnesses said was fired by an Israeli plane during an eight-day conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 13, 2012.

This week in Jewish history: Kristallnacht and Israeli campaign in Gaza

By Steven Drucker
 Soviet era cars standing in a row at an open air exhibition.

First car produced in soviet-era Poland goes on display after decades of search

 Kiki Hakansson, Tempo issued in 1951 published by Mondadori, Italy.

Kiki Hakansson, the First Miss World and Swedish Beauty Queen, passes away at 95

 Elizabeth II wedding cake at Bermondsey Biscuit Museum.

Rare slice of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding cake sold at auction for £2,200

 Madeleine Riffaud, Festival d'Angoulême 2022.

Madeleine Riffaud, French resistance heroine and war correspondent, dies at 100

 Bo, walks freely on the South Lawn of the White House on April 24, 2009 in Washington.

U.S. Presidents and their unforgettable pets: a short history

 Bank Under Siege.

Netflix miniseries explores infamous 1981 bank heist linked to attempted coup

 The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Recovered ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' up for auction

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