A Polish court in Warsaw issued a ruling on Tuesday (9/2) ordering two prominent historians to apologize for inaccuracies in a book they wrote about the Holocaust. The court decision comes after a lawsuit was filed against the two historians for defamation, in a case that has sparked a heated deba
Twenty-five years have passed today Saturday since the most massive extermination of people in the history of Europe after the second world war, and the commemorative events in Bosnia-Herzegovina are also peaking. A massacre characterized as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the fo
2020 will be etched in the collective memory and the reasons are many:huge fires, plane crashes, locust invasions, uprisings and - of course - the new coronavirus pandemic. There are many who claim that this year is also the worst that humanity has experienced. But is it so? In 1348 the Black Dea
The series of 32 episodes Red River wrote its grand finale winning the best reviews and the hearts of the viewers. Based on the book of the same name by Haris Tsirkinides, her script had references to historical figures and events connected to the genocide of Pontians and Armenians. One of the hist
The rebetikas of the guitar of Dimitris Mistakidis are coming on Tuesday, July 21 to Technopolis, to give air to this year which has been marked by cancellations of events and concerts, due to the pandemic. In the special circumstances we live in, the joy of being together again gives us strength a
In the early hours of July 20, the sirens sound all over Cyprus and awaken the dark memories of the Turkish invasion of 1974. Each time another year is added to the burden that the island carries on it, with the dark anniversary measuring 46 years today. Years full of unbearable pain, bad memories,
A prehistoric Viking farm, dating to around 400-550 AD, was the result of excavations at Taby, Stockholm, on an area of 8,000 square kilometers. As the work progressed, traces of houses and buildings, probably from different eras, came to the surface. Arrows, millstones, ceramics, rings, amulets
Personality - symbol of an entire generation, ideology, morals and fighting spirit, Giorgos Farsakidis, engraver, painter and writer, fighter of the National EAM Resistance, died today - full of days and struggles - at the age of 94. G. Farsakidis, a symbol of the history of the Left, has a deeper
Andrew Mlageni, a figure in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, a companion on the march and fellow prisoner of Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 95, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced today. In a tweet, Ramaphosa said he was deeply saddened to learn of the death ove
Great leaders are doomed to be judged in life, but also after death. The same is of course true of Winston Churchill. The reason for this text is, on the one hand, the debate that recently opened in Great Britain about whether Churchill was ultimately anti-Semitic, but also the release of the book W
It was released in 1969 and is considered one of the most commercial - if not the most commercial - record of the Greek discography. The unique timeless success of Dromou is due to the fact that Mimis Plessas and Lefteris Papadopoulos managed to catch an entire modern Greek period, while the well-kn
Israeli teenagers volunteering at an archaeological dig have discovered gold coins at least 1,000 years old. Housed in a clay jar, the 425 24 carat coins date back to the 9th century, during the Abbasid Caliphate. This is a not inconsiderable amount for that time, according to Robert Kool, an expe
A 166-million-year-old dinosaur bone has been discovered by a scientist off the coast of a small Scottish island. Dr. Elsa Panciroli was rushing to meet her colleagues from the paleontology research team when she stumbled upon the fossil. In Scotland, dinosaur bones have previously been rediscov
The former chief torturer Duk, commander of the most terrible detention center under Cambodias Khmer Rouge regime and sentenced to life, died today at the age of 77. Kang Gwek Iw, known as Duk, died in hospital, said Nate Phektra, a spokesman for the UN-sponsored Cambodian tribunal trying key Khmer
On this day, September 4, 2005, Nikon Arkudeas died. Nikon Arkoudeas, born on November 26, 1928, was a senior officer of the Greek Police, reaching the rank of Lieutenant General. In the 1980s, he became commander of the MAT and MEA, then Attikarchis, and finally Chief of ELAS between 1986-1988. Ma
A few weeks ago and on the occasion of the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Greek nationalists called via social media for intervention for the conversion of Kemals house in Thessaloniki into a church. Exactly 55 years ago, a falsified news story published in the newspaper Instabul Ekspres
In a speech full of attacks on the left, accusations against his opponents of pursuing a cultural revolution, President Donald Trump yesterday announced a new federal education plan to promote patriotic education, in an effort to combat what he described as a left-wing campaign against American His
Two hundred years after the revolution of 1821 and a short time before the start of the official celebrations, one of the issues that have at least been explored in our country is the role that the Church played in the pre-revolutionary period and also in the establishment of the first independent G
Two pyrotechnicians, one British and one Australian, were killed when World War II-era munitions exploded as they tried to defuse them in the Solomon Islands, authorities said today. The accident unfolded yesterday Sunday in Honiara, the capital of this Pacific Ocean archipelago. The two experts di
The choice of the point of the conflict with the Persians in Salamis was well studied by the ancient Greeks and not accidental, as it was based on the knowledge of the local climatic conditions. This is shown by a new study from the Atmospheric Physics and Climatology Research Center of the Academy
The sexual revolution has already become legendary. Contrary to popular belief, the contraceptive pill was not responsible for everything. The feeling of freedom, willingness to experiment, faith in the power of manifestation and ... naked actors - this is the true picture of those times. From t
Fight or keep distance? Support either side or watch from the side? The fate of millions of people depended on the decisions of these world leaders. Were they able to meet this challenge? How did the History judge them? Two great wars and two great leaders. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roo
One of the theories is that the inspiration for Mary Shelley and the story about Dr. Frankenstein could have been a macabre story that happened in todays Ząbkowice Śląskie in the 17th century. The town was then called Frankenstein and became famous because of the scandal in which the main characters
The madness that engulfed the inhabitants of this small American settlement in the 17th century led to a tragedy. The trial dragged on for months, people were throwing around with accusations. Record of dead people:fourteen women, five men and two dogs. Why did the Salem witches have to die? For