4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (111+ words) Israel Bull Dayan 1967 Bluefield Daily Telegraph General Odd Bull, right, United Nations cease fire representative in the Middle East is seen with General Moshe Dayan, Israeli Defence Minister, during their meeting in Dayan's office in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 23, 1967. - City…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (418+ words) Defying dictator Salazar's orders, Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes issued 30,000 life-saving visas in 1940, sacrificing his career. In the summer of 1940, as Nazi forces swept ruthlessly across France, the streets of Bordeaux swelled with thousands of desperate refugees. Behind the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (986+ words) This year is the 44th anniversary of the 74-day Malvinas (Falklands) War between Argentina and Britain in 1982. The conflict—which ended in Argentina’s defeat—began on April 2, 1982, claiming the lives of 907 people: 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 from Britain and three Falkland Islanders....

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (888+ words) 06 July 2026, 18:45 Tell us about the “Crimea Beyond Empires” project. How did the idea arise to use the collections of the Odesa Archaeological Museum to save Crimean heritage, given that most of the peninsula’s material culture is currently under occupation? The…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (377+ words) As in other contexts, Portugal developed over centuries through forms of collective organisation that long preceded modern concepts of the social economy. Understanding this trajectory requires going back to medieval rural communities, traversing the reformist movements of the nineteenth century,…...