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The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… Sayigh Bergman, R. (2018).  Rise and kill first: The secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations . Random House. … (1973). Black September: militant palestinianism.  Current History ,  64 (377), 5-8, 37. Bohr, F. (2012, August). …

Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… of war crimes in official government statements and history textbooks. It is also manifest in the ongoing territorial … exhibited at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History (left) . President Park Chung Hee signs the treaty …
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.

The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey

… two orphans as they traverse France, learn about its history, regions and populations, uniting all of France … Tour de France has become both a celebration of France, its history, and landscapes and a means by which the race unites …
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Between Black and White

The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
… Miscegenation, or racial interbreeding, has had a long history in Brazil, dating back to the colonial period when … political arena where Afro-Brazilians could speak out. The history of the Second Republic (1945-1964) and the military … elections, judged to be among the freest in Brazil's history, ushered in a new political phase: civil liberties, …
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Environment: Today and Yesterday

… Holy River Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the … The humiliating Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca (1774) gave the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, along with passage rights … Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Hale, William. Turkish Foreign Policy, …
Patrice Lumumba, right, and Joseph Okito, left

Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle

In the Year of Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo negotiated independence from Belgium to the rhythm of the country’s greatest export: Congolese rumba.
… Gondola, Didier. The History of Congo . Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 2002. Kazadi, …
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War

Barely three years after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war.
… Biafran War, became one of the most divisive wars in the history of post-independence Africa. Its traumatic effects, …
FLN soldiers next to an Algerian Flag, by Zdravki Pecar, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

On Sunday, 18 March 1962, the Algerian War for Independence came to an end.
… known for its bottled water than its role in diplomatic history: Evian-les-Bains. Written by Andrew H. Bellisari. …
a plane flying over a group of West Berlin citizens

The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift began on June 26, 1948, only two days after the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin.
2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador

The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey

In 1919, Eugene Christophe was awarded the first yellow jersey, but he did not win the Tour de France that year.
… did not win the Tour de France that year. Learn about the history of the yellow jersey and why it was adopted as a …