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The Island knew how to party for VE Day back in 1945!
Youngsters who attended a VE Day street party Albany Road, East Cowes, in May 1945. (Image: Contributed) Though the victory ...
A spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago has crashed into Earth.The defunct probe from the former Soviet Union, known as ...
Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...
An article by Raymond S. Solomon about the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014 ...
The Department of Defense owns over 70% of the nation’s assets and can’t account for half of them. In fairness, military brass has had plenty of enablers in its failures to tame wild and sometimes ...
BC: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia at the Battle of the Granicus. 1176: ...
Later on, the military barracks in Mechelen were to be used ... and paved the way for the mass killings in the eastern front after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Only in November 1942, did the ...
Palaces and castles in Belarus testify to the country's rich past and are symbols of history and architecture, straight out ...
In 1991, the dying days of the Soviet Union, a letter arrived at the BBC’s Moscow bureau ... providing street indexes and emphasising ‘important objects’, such as barracks and dockyards. Hundreds of ...