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[History: General]: Holocaust denial law signed by president
Mar 10th, 2010

HUNGARIAN president Laszlo Solyom yesterday signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years’ jail.

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  • [History: General]: David Ross: Historian and authority on Sir William Wallace
    Mar 10th, 2010

    David Robertson Ross, a passionately patriotic Scot, specialised as a writer and historian in the story of the great Scottish hero, Sir William Wallace. In 2005, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Wallace’s execution, he trekked the 450 miles from Robroyston in Glasgow to London, retracing the route his hero followed to his grisly execution in 1305.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Cambodia puts the cremation site of Pol Pot on ‘historic’ tourist trail
    Mar 10th, 2010

    The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia’s dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot.

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  • [History: 1066-1500]: Medieval village to be protected
    Mar 10th, 2010

    A County Durham village with a population of 63 is given Conservation Area status.

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  • [History: General]: ‘Heroes of Holocaust’ honoured
    Mar 9th, 2010

    GORDON Brown last night paid tribute to the “selfless humanity” of Britons who helped save Jews and other persecuted groups during the Second World War as they were ho

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Arnold Beichman Dead: Anti-Communist Author And Scholar Dies At 96
    Mar 9th, 2010

    Arnold Beichman, 96, an author, scholar and influential polemicist best remembered for his sharply anti-communist writings, died Feb. 17 in Pasadena, Calif. He had congestive heart failure.

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  • [History: 1750-1900]: Queen Victoria statue attacked during Jacob Zuma’s UK trip
    Mar 9th, 2010

    A statue of Queen Victoria was daubed in graffiti in Port Elizabeth a day after president Jacob Zuma hit out at the UK media claiming the British viewed Africans as “barbaric”.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Nazi-doodlebug-powered father of all paintball guns patented
    Mar 9th, 2010

    Invention made in ‘exploding turnip’ town. Coincidence’ Intriguing and/or terrifying news from the world of paintballing today, as it has emerged that an inventor in America has been granted a patent on a fearsomely powerful new paintball gun, powered by the same “bunker buster” principle as secret World War II Nazi superweapons.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: French resistance heroine who saved over 100 lives dies
    Mar 8th, 2010

    A French resistance heroine who saved over 100 lives and survived a Nazi firing squad has died at her English care home aged 105.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: WEB EXCLUSIVE: The 1937 “Hitler Youth visit ” story from our archives
    Mar 8th, 2010

    Click here to see the Free Press story of the “Hitler Youth” visit – which has hit the national headlines today.

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