Winston Churchill knew all about special relationships between Britain and America – he wouldn’t have been born without one. His mother, the renowned society beaury Jennie Jerome, was American, while his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the very British second son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. for more click here
Re: “The sickness in Europe’s memory banks.” The controversy over Bishop Richard Williamson proves that Europe is still at war with its own history, and that its actual history is losing the battle. for more click here
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett ventured into the Amazon, vowing to make one of the most important archeological discoveries in history. He was searching for an ancient civilization, which he had named, simply, the City of Z. for more click here
One hundred and forty two years on, Confederation is not so fragile, one would hope, that it can’t withstand a little controversy at the Plains of Abraham, no matter what sovereigntists and the National Battlefields Commission may think. for more click here
France’s top judicial body on Monday recognised the French government’s responsibility for the deportation of Jews during World War II, the clearest such recognition of the state’s role in the Holocaust. for more click here
n his 89 years, Sol Berger has gone by many names.
He started life in Poland as Salomon Berger, then became Jan Jerzowski. Then he was Ivan Marianowicz Jerzowski, then Shlomo Harari, then Sol. for more click here
This must be the most God-forsaken place on Earth. I’m standing on a dusty desert road in a desolate country on the south-west coast of Africa.
In front of me is an unspoken border. Summoning the courage, I prepare to step across. for more click here
The shipwrecked predecessor to Lord Nelson’s HMS Victory, which is thought to contain millions of pounds’ worth of gold, is thought to have been found at the bottom of the English Channel. for more click here
n August 1951, with a little more than a year left to Harry S. Truman’s presidency, historian Henry Steele Commager published an essay in Look magazine with this prediction: “By all normal standards, [Truman's] Administration has been one of almost . . . unparalleled success . . . the verdict of history will not be the same as the verdict of contemporary critics.” for more click here
The Association between Naziism and Arab Antisemitism. for more click here