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French Open winners: Men's and women's singles champions
ESPN· 2 days agoIga Swiatek just won her third consecutive French Open title. Check out the all-time men's and...
What you need to know about gonorrhoea as cases hit record high
Yahoo Life UK· 6 hours agoThe number of gonorrhoea diagnoses in 2023 was the largest annual number reported since records...
Iceland country profile
BBC via AOL· 6 days ago1918 - Iceland achieves full self-government under the Danish crown. Denmark retains control over foreign affairs only. 1940 - German forces occupy...
The World Got Lucky With the Previous Flu Pandemic
The Atlantic· 3 days agoOf the known flu pandemics, 2009’s took the fewest lives; during the H1N1 pandemic that preceded it, which began in 1918, a flu virus infected an...
A Victory/Peace Dollar, Part One: Stuck in Committee
Coinweek· 5 hours agoCanon echoes still rumbled over Europe when the American Numismatic Association’s journal (The Numismatist) of November 1918 presented a short article about differences between ...
Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoThe Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19....
Joe Biden honors World War I soldiers, visits cemetery in France that Donald Trump skipped
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe cemetery, which sits at the foot of Belleau Wood, is the burial ground of more than 2,000 American soldiers killed during the war. Most of them fought in the area and in the Marne valley ...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Reveal Event - When It's Happening, How To Watch, What To Expect
GameSpot· 5 days agoFollowing Summer Game Fest comes the big Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 reveal event on June 9. The event...
This Date in Baseball - Trevor Hoffman becomes the first major leaguer with 500 career saves
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days ago1918 — Casey Stengel, after being traded by Brooklyn in the offseason, made his return to Ebbets Field a memorable one. In his first at-bat, Stengel called time, stepped out ...
Birth by fire: Photo series examines how Shuster's World War I service inspired Zozobra
Santa Fe New Mexican· 17 hours agoJacob Romero can envision Will Shuster, clad in his U.S. Army uniform, scanning the battered and bloodied landscape known as No Man's Land in the Meuse–Argonne offensive of 1918< ...
