The world’s Most Shortest Wars
Since Biblical times and before, man has been constantly fighting. It seems that never a year goes by without one war or another starting or finishing. Some of these wars take many years and have very high death tolls, but there have also been some extraordinarily short wars. This is a list of the ten [...]
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Pictures that Changed the World
BERLIN—A young man bridges the wall between East and West Berlin, 1989. © Raymond Depardon
Slate magazine has a collection of Magnum photos which changed the world. Mostly doused in black and white gradients, these pictures feature significant historical incidents. Some of them, like the picture of the girl who grew up in a concentration camp [...]
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Nuremberg Trials
When asked to name the “trial of the century,” the post-literate, B-list-celebrity-obsessed, TV-anchor-as-Oracular-voice Generation X-Minus-One will almost invariably come up with the acquittal of O.J. Simpson as the scholarly height of bootylicious jurisprudence.
But for sheer carnage (not to mention actual historical relevance), nothing beats Nuremberg.
After World War II, the Allies found themselves uncomfortably confronted with [...]
