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Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
34+ min ago (77+ words) April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood says it's sad that Canada is not a country that remembers history very well. Murray Wood delivers sharp, insightful commentary with a…...
Top Links 1067 The collapse of the New Deal financial order. The weakest links in the yield chain. After the Postwar moment, "are we the baddies"?
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (123+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1067 The collapse of the New Deal financial order. The weakest links in the yield chain. After the Postwar moment, "are we the baddies"? Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Rudolf…...
Killed twice: A Bigogwe survivors story of loss and resilience
9+ hour, 25+ min ago (934+ words) In the scenic mountainous region of Bigogwe, in present-day Nyabihu District, the persecution of the Tutsi began long before 1994. ALSO READ: Bigogwe, the place where Genocide was experimented It was here that violence was rehearsed: soldiers from the Bigogwe military…...
April 9: The front page of Times of Malta 10, 25 and 50 years ago
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (115+ words) Portuguese designer Maria Jo'o Bahia has spent over four decades transforming precious materials into pieces that become vessels of memory, identity and connection. April 9: The front page of Times of Malta 10, 25 and 50 years ago The prominent newspaper stories of the…...
Rwanda marks 32 years since 1994 genocide with week-long remembrance
19+ hour, 44+ min ago (237+ words) April 8, 2026 Geraldine Boechat News 0 On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Rwanda has begun its annual commemoration week marking 32 years since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, with President Paul Kagame leading a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where over 250, 000 victims are buried....
This Day in History: Congress establishes Works Progress Administration
12+ hour, 46+ min ago (114+ words) WHSV HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Over 90 years ago on April 8, 1935, Congress established the Works Progress Administration as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. The WPA was established during FDR's third year as president, taking over at the height of…...
Mind Leaps and Imwe host remembrance for Rwandan genocide -
14+ hour, 43+ min ago (484+ words) Etienne Musonera, a professor of marketing at the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business at the Atlanta campus, addressed students and faculty alike at Kwibuka 32, the ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi, on April 1. Musonera is both a…...
Registration recommended for NNK250 lecture April 19
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (160+ words) The Northern Neck Heritage Arts Center will host a NNK250 series lecture from 2-4 p. m. April 19. Dr. Michael D. Ross will present "The Constitution They Argued Over: Power, Democracy and Compromise in 1787." The presentation will be in the meeting building at historic Rice's Hotel…...
Rwanda 1994 - a Genocide Decades in the Making, Not a Spontaneous Tragedy
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (401+ words) The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was anything but a spontaneous act of violence triggered by the crash of a presidential airplane, as often claimed by genocide deniers. ALSO READ: A preventable genocide, a denied responsibility: What 'Corridors of…...
Mozambique marks 50 years of independence from Portuguese colonial rule
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (51+ words) Inbox. lv Mozambique marks 50 years of independence from Portuguese colonial rule On 25 June 1975, Mozambique ended five centuries of Portuguese domination. Nearly half a century later, the country reflects on a hard-won independence after a decade of armed struggle....