History

For years, students at a high school just steps from the Colosseum in Rome have spun tales of mysterious rooms hidden underneath the gymnasium floor. Now, it turns out those rumors have more than a grain of truth to them.

PARIS (AP) — Wilting in the summer sun, a line of tourists waits to climb Notre Dame cathedral and meet its gargoyles.

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The Nazis denounced jazz music as “degenerate art,” despite its widespread popularity in Germany. Amid crackdowns on freedom of expression, groups of jazz-loving teenagers formed the Swing Youth in rebellion.

Bacon’s idea was a mirror. A long, narrow, shallow plane of water aligned exactly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument so that, depending on where you stood, the marble Lincoln dissolved into the sky and the obelisk multiplied into two. Roughly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches in the middle. The whole point of those measurements was that they should vanish.

One of the first examples of Rhode Island having conflict with Britain was over the Sugar Act of 1764. This act allowed for tighter trade regulations and increased duty on molasses. Rhode Island became increasingly frustrated with Britain over perceived unfair taxation on the colony’s trade economy.

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Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.

Tel Aviv attacked. Bahrain bombed. Dhahran struck. You might think this refers to a modern conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran but it doesn’t. These same places were targets in a very different war: World War II.

In 1940, as the Wehrmacht marched through Paris, France was humiliated. But Charles de Gaulle’s “Free France” held a trump card—hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the colonies. The “Senegalese Tirailleurs” (Tirailleurs Sénégalais)—hailing from Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso—became the fist that helped the French reclaim their homeland.

On August 15, 1945, the world celebrated victory. World War II had ended, and across the globe, transport echelons began their long journeys: hundreds of thousands of American, British, and Soviet soldiers were returning home from the camps. Families waited for miracles, and those miracles often came true.

He was born on November 23, 1882, in Hamburg. He spent nearly 30 years of his life in China, working for the Siemens company. In 1934, like many German citizens of that time, he joined the NSDAP. A typical expat, a successful businessman, a loyal citizen of the Third Reich. It would seem his story could have been lost in the archives as just another biography of an ordinary party functionary.

He was born on September 26, 1895, in Würzburg into the family of a commercial agent. He served in the First World War as a machine-gun officer, receiving the Iron Cross of both classes and sustaining several wounds. After the war, he became involved with the Freikorps, suppressing communist uprisings, then joined the NSDAP, graduated from university, and earned a doctorate in political science. Seemingly, a typical Nazi careerist.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thrasivoulos Marakis grew up hearing stories about the grandfather he was named after but who he never met — about how the tall man was executed during Nazi reprisals in Greece during World War II.