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OCTOBER 12 In History 539 BCE : The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon .  Within the year, Cyrus would make it possible for the Jews to return to their homeland. 1285: The Jews of Munich ( Germany ) were caught in a claim of blood...

The Victoria Cross is Britain’s highest award for military valor, and only three people have received it twice. One was so incredible, in fact, he earned the respect of a Nazi soldier. Charles Hazlitt Upham was born on September 21, 1908, in Christchurch...

EMERSON T. BROOKING AND P. W. SINGER NOVEMBER 2016 Direct link to the publisher – Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion...

National Post How We Die Now: “Death renders all equal,” wrote Claudian. How each one of us relates to death, however, is individual, and always changing — as we mature; as we contemplate life, and death, around us; and as society...

"I regret to have to report a very disastrous engagement which took place on the 22nd (January) between the Zulus and a portion of No.3 column left to guard a camp about ten miles in front of Rorke's Drift - the former came down in overwhelming numbers...