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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...
What you need to know about gonorrhoea as cases hit record high
Yahoo Life UK· 8 hours agoThe number of gonorrhoea diagnoses in 2023 was the largest annual number reported since records...
Killing Floor 3 Trailer Unleashes Army Of Monsters
GameSpot· 9 hours agoThe Zeds are back and deadlier than ever in a new gameplay trailer for Killing Floor 3.
A Victory/Peace Dollar, Part One: Stuck in Committee
Coinweek· 7 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 ...
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...
Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoThe Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19....
Strasbourg for Book Lovers
New York Times· 8 hours agoBibliophiles will find plenty of centuries-old tomes, graphic novels, modern works and more in this French city, which also happens to be this year’s...
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 ...
Joe Biden honors World War I soldiers, visits cemetery in France that Donald Trump skipped
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day 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 ...
