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Koki Hirota listens to death sentence read by Sir William Webb (Australia) (not shown), President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Hirota, age 70, was Prime Minister from March 1936, to February 1937 and Foreign Minister under…

This is a picture from an Italian alphabet book. The page we chose shows the letter L which stands for legionary.

This is a picture from an Italian alphabet book. The page we chose shows the letter L which stands for legionary.

This is a picture from an Italian alphabet book. The page we chose shows the letter L which stands for legionary.

Any attempt to comprehend the problem of contemporary Punjab should begin by first accepting the reality that a new minority consciousness has emerged. In which case neither the ethnicised history of a community, such as the Sikhs, nor the mere…

Mathematics textbook, 17th edition, published in Philadelphia, 1773

An excerpt from the 1976 Senate Judiciary Committee report on revolutionary activities within the American Indian Movement. A profile of AIM from the federal perspective.

After some setbacks and second place finishes to the Soviets, the United States successfully became the first nation to land a man on the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, and astronaut Michael…

Within a month of the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite, Soviets launched a second satellite, Sputnik 2. This satellite had a dog named Laika onboard to test the effects of space on a living organism. At the time, Soviets reported that they…