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Morality Is the Enemy of Peace
Foreign Policy Magazine· 1 day agoFrench Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838) was an accomplished political survivor who managed to serve the French revolutionary...
Hajj disasters: stampedes, infernos and a bloody siege
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt is Islam's holiest pilgrimage, but the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has in recent decades been...
7 Classic Biopics About Historical Figures From Abraham Lincoln to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Deadline via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLives of historical figures often get cinematic treatment to tell sweeping tales of real life...
Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the beach volleyball competition
ABC News· 5 days agoA roadmap to follow for the beach volleyball competition at the Paris Games
Whisper it, but Labour is about to inherit a rallying economy
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoWhat Labour is about to benefit from is a vote against the incompetence and drift of the last eight...
‘Nobody wins’: B.C. D-Day vet honoured in France shares his thoughts on war
Houston Today· 7 days agoJoseph Vogelgesang was a 19-year-old infantryman when he landed on Juno Beach in Normandy, France....
115 Relatable Quotes About Overthinking to Inspire Peacefulness and Letting Go
Parade via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe real problem is that we don’t trust.” - L.J. Vanier “Take time to deliberate, but when the time...
The 10 Best Hotels in Lake Como, from Over-the-top Villas to Chic Resorts
Travel + Leisure· 4 days agoReferred to as “that happy sunny place” by Greta Garbo in the 1932 film “Grand Hotel,” the iconic...
Today in History: June 22, Hitler and the Nazis invade the Soviet Union
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoToday in History
Military Book Review Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Strategy Page· 10 hours 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 ...