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Nato maps out plan to block Russian invasion
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNato is developing multiple “land corridors” to rush US troops and armour to the front lines in the event of a major European ground war with Russia.
D-Day in 9 maps
Newsweek· 17 hours agoShortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched. Its aim was to liberate...
What did the papers say about D-Day?
BBC via AOL· 5 hours agoCommunique No. 1 set the world agog. On 6 June 1944, hours after the Normandy landings had begun, a late edition of the Belfast Telegraph declared it was...
How a World War II Escape Map Found a Second Use as a Ladies Garment
Smithsonian Magazine· 19 hours agoWhen Ted Maxwell was a young boy in the 1950s, he remembers his mother, Bernice Allen Maxwell, wearing a distinctive blouse. Made from richly printed silk, the blouse resembled a map ...
In the Coast Guard's wargames, climate change is now a key adversary
NPR· 7 hours agoIt won the war in Ukraine and is still at odds with the West. And so much polar ice has melted that the Arctic is open. Ziegler says that means a new shipping route from China to Europe ...
As Joe Biden marks D-Day anniversary, he faces a world again embroiled in conflict
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoPARIS − The war that engulfed Europe had already been raging for three years when Joe Biden was born...
Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day
Associated Press· 6 days agoThe maps “showed railways, roads, churches, castles, every possible feature that could be visible to an incoming invader and from every angle,” Lamb, now 103, told The Associated Press. Lamb ...
The best hidden gems to visit in summer tourist hot spots, from someone who's been to every European...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEven so, some of Abbamonte's favorite spots in Italy...other Italian lakes close to the Dolomite...
Heat waves can be deadly for older adults: An aging global population and rising temperatures mean...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoHundreds of people died from the heat. Most of the planet has suffered the dire effects of extreme...
Opinion | How the Trans-Caspian Middle Corridor can help revive Asia-Europe trade
South China Morning Post· 16 hours agoThis shows the importance of overland routes through Central Asia for China’s trade with Europe. For...
