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Hajj disasters: stampedes, infernos and a bloody siege
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt is Islam's holiest pilgrimage, but the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has in recent decades been...
Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the beach volleyball competition
ABC News· 6 days agoA roadmap to follow for the beach volleyball competition at the Paris Games
Morality Is the Enemy of Peace
Foreign Policy Magazine· 2 days agoFrench Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838) was an accomplished political survivor who managed to serve the French revolutionary...
Whisper it, but Labour is about to inherit a rallying economy
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoWhat Labour is about to benefit from is a vote against the incompetence and drift of the last eight...
The 10 Best Hotels in Lake Como, from Over-the-top Villas to Chic Resorts
Travel + Leisure· 5 days agoReferred to as “that happy sunny place” by Greta Garbo in the 1932 film “Grand Hotel,” the iconic...
115 Relatable Quotes About Overthinking to Inspire Peacefulness and Letting Go
Parade via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe real problem is that we don’t trust.” - L.J. Vanier “Take time to deliberate, but when the time...
Today in History: June 22, Hitler and the Nazis invade the Soviet Union
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Today in History: June 18, Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
Stamford Advocate· 4 days agoToday is Tuesday, June 18, the 170th day of 2024. On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle ...
Military Book Review Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Strategy Page· 1 day agoUntil recently, the most accessible one-volume history of Venice was A History of Venice by the late British aristocrat, John Julius Norwich (Vintage, 1989). The author, Dennis Romano, an emeritus ...