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There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...

The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly ...

September 1943. Italy had just signed an armistice with the Allies, but the German military wasn’t going to let them go ...

One of Cornwall's most intriguing sights and a lesser-known piece of 20th-century Cornish history is the longest grave in ...

After a parent dies, children commonly wish they had asked more questions about their family’s history. Anyone who has ever ...

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In 1944, two British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Billy Moss, aided by local ...

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped ...