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2 days ago · Several hundred prisoners escaped; about a hundred were immediately re-captured and killed. Some of the escapees joined partisan units operating in the area. The camp was dismantled by December 1943. The Nazis also targeted Romani (Gypsies) as "asocial" and "criminals".
Jun 12, 2024 · The Sycamore Gap tree is reportedly being stored in a secret location to protect it from souvenir hunters. According to the Sunday Times, police caught several members of the public trying to...
- Emily Cleary
Jun 6, 2024 · Arthur Oborne, 100, recalled being shot in the lung three days after arriving on Gold Beach.
Jun 17, 2024 · For over five decades, futurist Raymond Kurzweil has shown a propensity for understanding how computers can change our world. Now he’s ready to anoint nanorobots as the key to allowing humans...
Jun 17, 2024 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
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2 days ago · The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period .
Jun 6, 2024 · Tom Davidson, 100, has been recalling his time in the RAF during WWII. | sn. One of those to perish during the conflict was Tom’s brother Frank, who was also a flight engineer in the RAF. Tom...
