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What It Was Like The Day The Berlin Wall Fell
It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.
Bruce Springsteen's European stadium concerts harness rock's 'righteous power' in 'dangerous times'
At gigantic open-air concerts in Berlin, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the 75-year-old rock star from New Jersey has interspersed short but poignant political speeches to describe the dangers ...
Years after learning soccer in their basement, brothers Brenden and Paxten Aaronson both play for US
Brenden and Paxten Aaronson play on better soccer fields these days than the New Jersey basement known as “The Dungeon” where ...
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The Frozen Wall: How Bastogne’s Defenders Crushed Hitler’s Christmas Offensive
On Christmas morning, Hitler’s promised “gift” arrives, an all-out assault by Waffen SS grenadiers and panzers against ...
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Is This The Summer That Russia Breaks Ukraine? (Not Likely)
Ukraine still struggles with manpower. Russia grinds forward relentlessly. The battlefield is saturated with drones and agile ...
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How a Deadly Circus Fire on the ‘Day the Clowns Cried’ Traumatized a Community—and Led to Lasting Safety Reforms
On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...