The death of Klaus-Michael Kühne, one of Germany's wealthiest businessmen, has renewed attention to the historical origins of his family's fortune and the activities of its logistics company during Nazi rule. Kühne died on Aug. 23 in Schindellegi, Switzerland, at 89, according…
The former Soviet administrative unit that emerged as independent Ukraine in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union was bounded by the exact borders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). That is, it comprised a wholly unnatural polity whose…
A 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic has been unveiled at a shopping mall in England. The ancient artwork has been initially discovered by construction workers building the shopping mall in southeast England back in 1988 but due to insufficient funding to study the…
Aspasia was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. She and Pericles, the great general and politician, fell deeply in love. What else is known about her? Not a lot. And yet she was famous in her own time,…
Nov 6, 2026 00:14 86 On November 6, 1920, Serbian troops entered the Tsaribrod, Bosilegrad and Strumica regions, as well as parts of the Tran and Kula regions. The territories were severed from Bulgaria following the Treaty of Neuilly, signed on November 27, 1919, and entering into force…
Archaeologists studying a 2,300‑year‑old Sska kurgan in Almaty, Kazakhstan, that was robbed in antiquity have uncovered a small gold bear figurine and many human remains. Preliminary research suggests the tomb may contain four adults and three children—an unusual…
In its lead story on the rejection of the Italian ultimatum and the general mobilization, the newspaper reported: “Italy demanded today, at six o’clock in the morning, the unconditional surrender of Greece, threatening, in the event of refusal, to occupy…
The Fight, ©Caine, all right reserved Fuck Cancer: Caine’s Journey Follow us on Twitter – voyager@affinityvoyager Teh Al Gory Rhythm recommended this video to me, and I listened to it whilst heating the house: I am not a historian, but…
Iron Age people were on the move 5:00 PM CST on November 5, 2026 The origins of the Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, and the Nordic languages) have been the subject of debate for decades among linguists. Now geneticists are getting in on…
Home - Trending - France emptied Lake Guerlédan and 2 million people walked into the valley hidden beneath it, and what they found was not the drowned village many stories describe In April 2015, French energy company EDF finished emptying Lake Guerlédan, the largest…
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