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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...
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...
Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19....
This Date in Baseball - Trevor Hoffman becomes the first major leaguer with 500 career saves
Associated Press· 5 days ago1918 — Casey Stengel, after being traded by Brooklyn in the offseason, made his return to Ebbets...
Birth by fire: Photo series examines how Shuster's World War I service inspired Zozobra
Santa Fe New Mexican· 11 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< ...
Nostalgic Photos of Beach Days from Back in the Day
Cheapism via AOL· 3 days agoPuck, deriving from the term "puckish" meaning "childishly mischievous," was published from 1871 to 1918. Wikimedia Commons Washington Bathing Beach 1919...
This week in history: June 10-16
World Socialist Web Site· 1 hour agoOn June 10, 1999, NATO halted its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia after its president, Slobodan Milošević, acceded to Washington’s terms paving the way...
Joe Biden honors World War I soldiers, visits cemetery in France that Donald Trump skipped
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 17 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 ...
Biden visits U.S. military cemetery in France that Trump infamously avoided
Boston Herald· 11 hours agoMarines killed during WWI, an homage former President Donald Trump reportedly dodged during his own...
3 Dirt Cheap Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in June
Motley Fool via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoIn 2020, the pandemic wreaked havoc on the world, and life insurers struggled with soaring claims payouts. The unfortunate events led to life insurers...