2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (324+ words) 112.ua Kyiv Unveils Digital Archive Detailing Victims of the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict (1939–1947). Launching the Digital Archive of Victims from the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict According to Espreso.tv: On September 9, Kyiv will host the launch of a digital database documenting the victims of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (135+ words) The US Navy’s L-boat submarines during WWI L-boat submarines1 / 10The US Navy’s L-boat submarines during WWIFrom the trenches of Europe to the mushroom clouds over Japan, the first half of the 20th century reshaped armed warfare So far, World War I (WWI) and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (20+ words) USA Today This Philly museum is closing after nearly 200 years...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (721+ words) The city was on edge in the summer of 1945 over what the press dubbed the Flashlight Burglar It was all crime all the time in the Sept. 4, 1945, edition of The Vancouver Sun. The rest of the world was celebrating the…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (417+ words) Only two of Empress Zita's grandchildren knew of the priceless jewels — including the Florentine Diamond — that their grandmother had secreted in a Quebec bank vault QUEBEC CITY — Vast as the lands of the Habsburg empire were, they never included Canada....

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (565+ words) A May 8, 1889 story said the location on the Inlet would "permit the most timorous (to enjoy) in security the pleasures of sea bathing.” One of the first businesses in what became Vancouver was Spratt’s Oilery, a “floating cannery” on the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (243+ words) On Sept. 1, city council will debate the city’s Heritage Places Strategy (HPS), a report a year and a half in the making. Goals include widening the lens to include natural heritage, Indigenous history and, as its name suggests, “places.” There…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (266+ words) Twenty-four years after Dr. Patrick Julig published findings dating human activity at site as long as 10,500 years ago, student Chris Hogge guides visitors through the site's historical walking trail and interprets the museum's exhibits One of Northern Ontario’s most significant…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (464+ words) In 1950, a pregnant military wife boarded a US Air Force plane despite husband’s chilling warning....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (138+ words) Historian Sumit Sarkar transformed the study of modern India by connecting political history with culture, economy and social change, while engaging deeply with the challenges of the present Sumit (without suffix, prefix, surname — that is what he liked) published…...