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St Euphemia College hosts Hellenic National Defence delegation
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (237+ words) St Euphemia College welcomed a distinguished delegation from the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS) last week in a visit that brought to life the rich military history shared between Greece and Australia, marking the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of…...
Columbia's Wright House recognized as an Underground Railroad site by National Park Service
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (61+ words) FOX43 Columbia's Wright House recognized as an Underground Railroad site by National Park Service To stream FOX43 on your phone, you need the FOX43 app. Download the FOX43 app Next up in 5 Example video title will go here for this video Before You Leave,…...
Look Back: Tunnels, continued
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (612+ words) News and Sentinel Look Back: Tunnels, continued In the previous Look Back, the existence of local, "so called" tunnels were shared. The last "tunnel" mentioned was at the Meldahl house in Washington Bottoms. Just across the Ohio River and a…...
Wright House recognized as an Underground Railroad site by the National Park Service
7+ hour, 6+ min ago (306+ words) COLUMBIA, Pa. " From the surface, the red brick house located along South Second Street looks like any other in Columbia's historic district. But for local historians, the house is a symbol of freedom. "This was sort of the epicenter of…...
Walking the Grounds Where Millions Were Murdered: TAPinto Boca Raton Publisher's Journey Through Poland and Germany to Understand His Jewish Roots
15+ hour, 29+ min ago (23+ words) TAPinto...
The Enlightenment's invention of racism
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (160+ words) Sunday 17 May 2026 The Sunday poem: Lemons by Patrick Daly Truth, lies and the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge Curran revels in the details of his subjects" interior lives, noting that Kant "delighted in billiards, was "partial to colourful waistcoats,…...
Column: Samuel Williams' journey from slavery to Vermont
15+ hour, 30+ min ago (475+ words) Samuel Williams was not quite 10 years old when he said goodbye to his older brother for the last time. Both boys were enslaved in Charleston, S. C. , the property of a white family who made the decision for them. The brother, several…...
New Whitney Plantation exhibit details how slaves resisted their captures in big and small ways
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (750+ words) A visitor takes in information at the Whitney Plantation. Sharing folktales was a form of resistance among enslaved people. At night and on Sundays, enslaved people worked provision gardens or "patches" to supplement their nourishment. Teaching enslaved people to read…...
HISTORY I A voice against girmit injustice
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1201+ words) IT is now 147 years since the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers to Fiji aboard the ship Leonidas on May 14, 1879, an event that marked the beginning of one of the most significant and painful chapters in Fiji's colonial history....
Safe Haven Within the Circle of Farmington Friends: Freedom Seeking Families, 1800-1865
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (238+ words) Finger Lakes Daily News Our records show you're subscribed. MACEDON " Historian and author Marjory Allen Perez will present Safe Haven Within the Circle of Farmington Friends: Freedom Seeking Families, 1800-1865" at 2 p. m. Sunday, May 17 at the historic Macedon Academy, 1185 Macedon Center Road....