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2 Legendary Detectives Take Their Final Cases
New York Times· 4 days agoJacqueline Winspear is retiring Maisie Dobbs, and Susan Elia MacNeal bids farewell to Maggie Hope. This summer, we bid farewell to two long-running mystery series heroines who are making their ...
The Irish lighthouse keeper who gave D-Day the go-ahead
BBC via AOL· 11 hours agoLaunch the invasion in bad weather and risk failure, or delay and increase the chance of the...
Portsmouth chosen to mark D-Day because of its key role in preparing invasion
Press Association News via AOL· 7 hours agoThe decision to launch D-Day was delayed by 24 hours because of awful weather before Eisenhower...
11 Royal Code Names
Mentalfloss· 4 hours agoThe late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, famously used to call Queen Elizabeth II “Cabbage.” Princess Diana gave Prince William the nickname Wombat...
Biden is America’s Neville Chamberlain, appeasing an enemy instead of denouncing terrorism
The Washington Times· 5 days agoMost everybody over the age of 50 should vividly know the name of Winston Churchill, the prime...
What do Mother Teresa, Al Capone, Elvis and Jesus have in common? Trump has compared himself to all...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWeisselberg is currently serving his second stint in Rikers Island prison, most recently for...
Take a look inside Franklin D. Roosevelt's 21,000-square-foot mansion where he entertained royals...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe room also featured a portrait of Roosevelt painted by Ellen Emmet Rand. The Library at...
D-Day education centre will ensure sacrifices of Normandy won't be forgotten
Daily Express· 2 days agoOn Thursday, exactly 80 years after D-Day, the last surviving warriors of the fabled 1944 campaign...
Frustration boils as Gov. Greg Abbott, AG Ken Paxton target GOP incumbents
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 9 hours agoState Rep. Glenn Rogers is mad as hell, and he’s not being shy about it. The Graford Republican is quoting Winston Churchill, calling out “grandiose lies ...
Today in History: Battle of Midway begins
Chicago Tribune· 7 hours agoThere are 210 days left in the year. On June 4, 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and...
