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- Nov 28, 2019
- 2 min
EU declares 'Climate emergency' after increasing private jets budget for EU officials by ov
Climate emergency for thee, but not for me. The European parliament has declared a global “climate and environmental emergency” as it...
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- Oct 14, 2019
- 3 min
No, Columbus wasn't the first European to discover America, Leif Erikson was.
Contrary to popular opinion, Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover the New World. This commonly held belief is...
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- Sep 30, 2019
- 3 min
The Munich Agreement - How Europe forced Czechoslovakia to commit suicide.
On September 22, 1938, Hitler demanded the immediate cession of Czechoslovakia's territory, the Sudetenland, to Germany and the...
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- Aug 23, 2019
- 3 min
Ribbentrop-Molotov: the aggression pact that started WW2.
On August 23, 1939, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov - Ribbentrop pact, named after the Soviet foreign minister...
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- Aug 10, 2019
- 3 min
The Treaty of Sèvres and how Atatürk stopped Europe from partitioning Turkey.
At the end of WW1 the Ottoman empire was defeated and in shambles with European armies occupying large parts of it and its capital...
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- Aug 1, 2019
- 4 min
The heroic and tragic story of the Warsaw Uprising.
On 1st of August, 1944, the Polish underground ("Armia Krajowa" or "AK") launched the Warsaw uprising against the German occupation...
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