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This is about the settlement history of the West Bank and Gaza strip and zionism in this area. It is not about the Palestine from Roman times on. Any links you find on the net or voices might be ...

In Chaucer's Summoner's Tale, a friar must divide the alms he's collected among his convent, a group of twelve. Unfortunately the only alms he collected that day was a single fart. So his companions ...

That's counterintuitive to me, but that's the message of this and other sources. Because the alternatives seem to benefit the Soviet Union more directly. In November 1942, the Anglo Americans landed ...

I just learned about how the Panther 21 trial was lost by the government due to the presence and specific placement of undercover agents / officers in the organization, a.k.a basically an entrapment ...

I came across this statista.com graph about tank production during WWII: There are many things to find interesting on this graph. My question is about just this upper corner: This says that the ...

“All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die” This quotation is widely attributed online to the ancient Greek physician Galen. I have seen it ...

Was there any geopolitical benefits that could have accrued from selecting Mecca as the holy city. E.g. was it the birthplace of a khalif or an area of historical control by one of the factions in ...

Churchill said that night he “went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved.” pearlharbor.org That quote was Churchill's reaction on Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, because it meant that the United ...

It has been said online that Fascists have never been successfully voted out of office in all of recorded history (brief facebook meme) and in longer form Fascism Cannot Be Voted Away at the Ballot ...

A serious accident occurred on 25 July 1979 when a nuclear device became stuck halfway down an 800-meter shaft. Since army engineers were unable to move the device, they exploded it where it was, ...

I’ve come across1 a modern interpretation suggesting that both the Norse blót (sacrificial rituals) and the thing (assembly system) were influenced by or even originated from traditions in the Middle ...

At the time of Jesus there were three major Jewish sects in Palestine: Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees. During the Hasmonean dynasty 100 years earlier the Sadducees were dominant because they ...

Which was the first big gun to be loaded and moved1: SEE BELOW: important definition mechanically2 (i.e. by something other than just lots of men and brute force). The 100 ton Armstrong gun at Fort ...

Several media sources are describing Charles III praying with Leo XIV as the first time a British (or in the last example English) monarch has prayed with a pope since the 16th century. Of course, ...

Towards the end of La Peau de Chagrin a reference is made that I believe is pertinent to this forum, and that I am not able to locate. The scene takes place in a club of sorts in which the protagonist ...