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Britain’s forgotten war

As we mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, we must not forget the many thousands whose lives were taken or ...
A coastal village once stood on stilts on a Bering Sea island, until its residents were forced to move to the mainland of Alaska nearly 100 miles away.
The days of our teens and early adulthood provide the most vivid of all past memories. A new paper questions just how much we ...
British troops led by an eccentric genius. With their distinctive slouch hats, the Chindits were the highly trained special ...
Alice de Janze was buried somewhere within the bushes of Satima School in the wind-whipped plains of Nyandarua.
Somewhere between the ferry ride and your first glimpse of Lake Erie’s endless blue horizon, a magical thing happens at Oak Point State Park—your phone suddenly feels as relevant as a fax machine at a ...
The USS South Dakota Day of Honor drew in a large crowd at the South Dakota Battleship Memorial Saturday morning. The ceremony pays tribute to the 80th anniversary of the ...