They were, according to taste, a fascinating circle of hard-working, free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives “who lived in squares but loved in triangles”.

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ADOLF Eichmann’s story is well-documented: known as the “architect of the Holocaust” for his role in co-ordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was

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A POLISH court convicted three men yesterday of the theft, last December, of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial si

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Graphic brows are bolder, fuller and more expressive than we’ve seen in decades A salvo from the fall runways: Thin is not in–at least when…

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Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us’

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What’s Your Reaction’ What a difference one bookstore can make. In less than two years, a small bookstore housed inside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles airport has sold 13,200 copies of a midlist title published by Minneapolis-based Zenith Press, Hell Hawks!

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Artist dressed child as a series of despots for a photo exhibition.

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Australian relatives of a young soldier killed in the disastrous battle of Fromelles on the western front in July 1916 have responded with joy to the news that his body, buried in a pit with 250 other casualties, has been definitively identified and reinterred in its own grave in a war cemetery in northern France.

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A war hero who helped inspire the film The Great Escape has died aged 87.

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Nazi claims that as many as 500,000 people died during the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War were exaggerated, a group of German scientists have concluded.

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FRAIL, cold and surrounded by death, Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairyta

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MUSIC, cookery and motivational counsel aren’t the ingredients of your average gig, but then Levi Roots is hardly your average gigging musician. His current UK tour may be flagged as promoting his new album Red Hot, but those who recognise Roots

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The almost perfectly preserved brain of a medieval toddler who died 800 years ago is set to provide ground-breaking information into human thought processes.

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Veterans of World War II are to receive further lottery cash to help them visit battlefields overseas.

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BBC Newsline’s North-East reporter, Nicola Weir, reports on the World War exhibition at the Braid Town Hall in Ballymena.

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We ought to be slow to believe the worst about others, quick to report the best. Now, that would be a true memorial to those who died in the Holocaust!

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The interior ministry dissolved the Czech Communist Youth Association (KSM) in October 2006 on the basis that its programme violated the former socialist country’s constitution by advocating the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist order and the social ownership of the means of production.

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No one likes a bully Copyright-dependent industries risk alienating the public and undermining intellectual property laws with their unregulated and aggressive tactics, according to an historian who has studied nearly 400 years of piracy and intellectual property law.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports.

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“Film was never made to feel very welcome in Wales. As a two- or three-year-old infant, stinking slightly of gin and the sweat of the fairground, it ran slap up against Evan Roberts and the religious revival of 1904, and was severely mauled. It survives, but remains retarded to this day,” wrote the distinguished film-maker Wil Aaron in The Arts in Wales 1950-1975, a symposium I edited for the …

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For 94 years the bodies of 249 British and Australian soldiers lay forgotten under a field in northern France. But tomorrow some of the anonymous dead in the mass grave at Fromelles are expected to regain their identities.

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Maybe it’s the Seventies brown suit, the singer’s cheesy grin or the catchy melody where you don’t have to learn the words.

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Human remains found in a Northumberland garden are carbon dated to the 13th or 14th centuries.

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Archaeologists carrying out a dig by a river in a Norfolk town are hopeful of uncovering signs of Viking settlers.

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He sends vile racist texts saying ‘Gas the Jews and the wogs’

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He sends vile racist texts saying ‘Gas the Jews and the wogs’

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What’s Your Reaction’ Workers remove the graffiti, including the phrases “Jude Raus” and “Hitler Good.”

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What’s Your Reaction’ Workers remove the graffiti, including the phrases “Jude Raus” and “Hitler Good.”

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IT may be a stag party too far. After a night of binge drinking and strippers, young Britons are being invited to work off their hangovers on a tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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IT may be a stag party too far. After a night of binge drinking and strippers, young Britons are being invited to work off their hangovers on a tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Nobody is going to win the election by promising to be nice to bankers, but it feels a wasted opportunity to react to the financial crisis in a vindictive way, simply asking for bankers to be punished.

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Nobody is going to win the election by promising to be nice to bankers, but it feels a wasted opportunity to react to the financial crisis in a vindictive way, simply asking for bankers to be punished.

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The lions of Texas are on the loose. As the ancient African proverb predicts, they have found their historian. The powers that be in the…

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The lions of Texas are on the loose. As the ancient African proverb predicts, they have found their historian. The powers that be in the…

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Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are investigating.

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Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are investigating.

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This ornate ivory throne forms the focus for a new exhibition showcasing the love that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared for the arts.

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This ornate ivory throne forms the focus for a new exhibition showcasing the love that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared for the arts.

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He was an artist, inventor, scientist and visionary. Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci can add another string to his bow: Hollywood action hero.

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He was an artist, inventor, scientist and visionary. Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci can add another string to his bow: Hollywood action hero.

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Dear Texas Board of Education, The state of Texas is one of our nation’s largest — and thus, is one of the largest buyers of…

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Dear Texas Board of Education, The state of Texas is one of our nation’s largest — and thus, is one of the largest buyers of…

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Mr. Stites opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement.

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AT LEAST two mass graves containing dozens of people killed by the Nazis have been found on property used by the Austrian army, government officials said yesterday.

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A new exhibition showcases the art Queen Victoria and Prince Albert presented to each other.

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A major exhibition of items made by Channel Islanders in internment camps during WWII goes on display in Guernsey.

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Germany is fighting to keep sealed the Eichmann files detailing the years the Holocaust’s chief logistics organiser spent on the run before he was captured by Mossad agents.

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Britain hatched an audacious plan to assassinate Mussolini at his headquarters in Rome with a precision bombing raid by the RAF’s Dambusters squadron.

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What’s Your Reaction’ A self-made blackjack player who calls himself RobinHood702 (the 702 comes from Las Vegas’ area code), finds those in need and wins hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos, just for them.

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What’s Your Reaction’ A self-made blackjack player who calls himself RobinHood702 (the 702 comes from Las Vegas’ area code), finds those in need and wins hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos, just for them.

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