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History
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1934, 90% of German voters approved a referendum that made Adolf Hitler
“Führer und Reichskanzler” (“leader and chancellor”)....
an assassination attempt was made on Vladimir Lenin.....Could history repeat itself soon?
Moldova got it's independence!...
1883 - Krakatoa started erupting......
1930 Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh.....
https:/ /www.yo utube.c om/watc h?v=942 s-Ezrou 8...
1973 - A botched bank robbery in Stockholm resulted in a hostage situation, and, over the course of a six-day standoff, the captives formed an unlikely bond with their captor, giving rise to the term:...
1814: British forces captured Washington DC and burned down the what was later to become known as the White House....
1305... William Wallace was executed for Treason....
1987 Dirty Dancing was released, yet another great from the greatest decade.
1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, not recovered until 1913 it is said that more people came to look at the empty space than ever looked at the painting!
A man on FB who conducts tours of Belfast cemeteries posted about the mass grave of people who were killed and their remains unidentified after the 1940 bombings. Things were probably very different...
Robert De Niro was born in 1943 - Barsel note the change of avatar.
In 1977 the King died....
Is there a free site for Scotland to find out who lived in a particular house. I'm looking at around 1920/21. Thank you.
I remember back in the early 80's there was a northern seaside town that had a building with a big gorilla's head and arms over the entrance, the gorilla was saying "Come inside". I can't remember...
Can anyone help me please I am trying to find a copy of my grandfathers will I know when probate was he died in 1944. Seem to be running around in circles with gov.com....
title says it all. I am looking for a friend for easy to understand historical websites- somewhere she can read the story of cleopatra, henry the 8th, great fire of london, etc etc, without struggling...
......with the agreement of Spain....Those lucky Gibraltarians....
Looking at the 1911 Census there is a job listed as mole catcher and trusser man. What type of work did a trusser man do?...
...motherand?
Their ancestors had been brought to the West Indies as slaves....