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Aldie Ruritans Celebrate 100th Birthday of WWII Veteran Franklin Payne
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (190+ words) Members of the Aldie Ruritan Club gather with former village postmaster Franklin Payne to celebrate his 100th birthday. Members of the Aldie Ruritan Club recently joined in celebrating Franklin Payne’s 100th birthday. Franklin has been a member since 1957 and served as Aldie’s…...
How Imperial Japan turned to the sardine to help build a war machine
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (814+ words) Empires have risen and fallen in their pursuit of precious resources such as oil, gold, tea or spices. But in the first half of the 20th century, an increasingly assertive Imperial Japan relied on a fishier form of wealth to build…...
DNA test reunites Holocaust descendant with 50 relatives around the world
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (684+ words) 'I feel like I’ve been born again through this experience,' says Adriana Turk Adriana Turk grew up in New Zealand believing she was the last surviving member of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust. Then, in 2025, a MyHeritage DNA…...
Orange City Program to Explore How Dark War Memories Shaped Dutch Immigrants
19+ hour, 36+ min ago (663+ words) 97, of Rock Valley 71 and 70, of Sioux Center A program Tuesday evening at the Dutch American Heritage Museum in Orange City will examine why hundreds of thousands of people left the Netherlands after World War II—and how memories of Nazi…...
Frenchmen hand over Japanese invasion archives to Yunnan museum
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (268+ words) Three men from France and China added international archival evidence to the study of China's resistance against Japanese aggression on Monday when they handed over copies of historical records documenting Japan's invasion to a museum in Kunming, Yunnan province. The…...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
19+ hour, 7+ min ago (25+ words) Rutland Herald The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen from the Washington Monument, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, in Washington....
'Significant' act as WW2 German airman gets headstone - AOL
18+ hour, 7+ min ago (596+ words) A headstone to remember a German airman killed in World War Two has been hailed as an "immensely significant" act of reconciliation. Wilhelm Reuhl, 20, was buried at Hawkcombe Cemetery in Porlock, Somerset, after his aircraft was shot down in 1940. His…...
The Spanish diplomat who saved hundreds of sephardic jews
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (281+ words) Some passports issued by the Spanish consul to save jews in Greece from Nazi prosecution. It was April 1943. Sebastián de Romero Radigales had just arrived in Athens as consul general of Spain. From the first moment, he decided to make…...
The World War II Memorial still has a lesson for us
19+ hour, 43+ min ago (540+ words) The Greatest Generation was as varied as the country it saved Last Thursday, the National World War II Memorial on the National Mall was vandalized. Its Atlantic pavilion was spray-painted and its fountain filled with soap and foam. It was…...
Abandoned Japanese WWII weapons still pose a threat in China
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (708+ words) HARBIN — The latest leak involving abandoned Japanese chemical weapons in Northeast China's Jilin province, which contaminated two Japanese personnel during disposal operations, has renewed concerns about the lingering dangers of wartime chemical weapons still buried in China. As Saturday marked…...