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President Vladimir Putin has turned the event into a pillar of his nearly quarter-century in power and a justification of his move into Ukraine.
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Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monday. The remains were found on February 24 at Wolf's Lair, which served as Hitler's chief headquarters from 1941-44 when the area was part of Germany. Hidden in deep woods, the compound of about 200 Nazi bunkers and military barracks was the site of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus Stauffenberg on ...
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Three paintings by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens have been permitted to remain at the Courtauld Gallery in London, after the UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel rejected a claim from the Koenigs family. ‘St Gregory the Great with Ss Maurus and Papianus and St. Domitilla with Ss Nereus and Achilleus’, ‘The Conversion of St. Paul’ and ‘The Bounty of James 1 Triumphing Over Avarice’ were all painted by Rubens between 1606 and 1632, the period in which some of his most respected works were created. Barcelona exhibition examines the promises and illusions of US suburbs#WhereIsKate: How th...
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A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea, the Ministry of Defence said on Saturday. The 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) explosive was discovered Tuesday in the backyard of a home in Plymouth, a port city on the southwestern coast of Britain. More than 10,000 residents were evacuated to ensure their safety as a military convoy transported the unexploded bomb through a densely populated residential area to a ferry slipway, from which it was taken out to sea. “I think it is fair to say that the last few days ...
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Until now, UNESCO has refused to classify arenas of war as World Heritage Sites – but the institution has now changed its mind and said it is ready to study a new application. On 6 June, 1944, 150,000 men landed in just a few hours on the beaches of Omaha, Juno or Gold Beach in Normandy, France. They arrived as part of Operation Overlord, which marked the beginning of the liberation of Europe from the Nazi yoke. 10,000 men did not make it. Bolero declared UNESCO intangible cultural heritageOn the eve of the celebrations for the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings, this UNESCO listing i...
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Eighty years to the day after his execution by the Nazis at Mont-Valérien, Armenian resistance fighter Missak Manouchian will be inducted into the Panthéon on Wednesday. His burial signifies the first time a non-French body has been interred at the Pantheon, which holds the remains of many famous French citizens, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Èmile Zola, and Marie Curie. Manouchian's burial is a respectful nod to his position as leader of the "Red Poster" ("L'Affiche Rouge") group. The name derives from a propaganda poster distributed by Vichy France and German author...
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