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The world remembers the Romanovs, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. Yet some of history’s most compelling princely traditions emerged from a land whose significance predates their kingdoms: the Holy Land. There are few places on Earth where history carries the…
WOWT This Day in History for Sunday, October 18 Pearl car show raises money for Palmer Home for Children Jackson fire spreads to trees amid dry, windy conditions Capital City Pride festival focused on visibility, acceptance for LGBTQ community
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On the Hudson River at Albany, N.Y., lies USS Slater (DE-766), the last of her kind still afloat in the United States. During World War II, 563 destroyer escorts fought German U-boats in the Atlantic, according to the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum,…
El Obeid: Sudan’s Economic and Historical Heart U.S. Envoy to Sudan: Al-Burhan’s Decisions Are Positive US Senator: Iran War Has Cost the US Treasury $23 Billion So Far Sudan Liberation Forces Alliance Opposes Chaos and Urges Support for… Musa Hilal Urges…
Today is Friday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2026. There are 76 days left in the year. In 1758, American lexicographer Noah Webster was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1793, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded during the French Revolution. In 1859, radical abolitionist…
Nowlebanon Beirut, Lebanon — The Department of History and Archaeology and the History and Archaeology Student Society at the American University of Beirut will host a public discussion of Nada Abdel Samad’s book, When the Jewish Balconies of Wadi Abu Jamil…
LONDON: The renewed offensive by the Houthi militia in Yemen has raised fresh concerns about the fate of a cultural heritage already battered by more than a decade of war, destruction and looting. The impact of the latest fighting on…
New Lines Magazine How Shukri Al-Quwatli’s Memoir Changes Our View of Syria’s History The only such account written by a president of the country opens up long-forgotten aspects of the national story On the slopes of Mount Qasioun, overlooking the…
On June 10, 1943, as the Nazis were systematically murdering the Jews of Europe, the Alabama legislature took a stand that no other American state had yet taken. By unanimous vote, it adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish…