In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

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With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminates its mandate over the Arab nation, making Iraq independent after 17 years of British rule and centuries of Ottoman rule.

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The UK has many church buildings, with some especially reputed for their hauntings. Here are several of those sites — and ...

An estimated 1,600 civilians and prisoners of war, including female slave labourers from Poland, Russia and Ukraine, drowned in the flooding.

The dashing young officer slid easily into American high society. With his easy-going charm, striking good looks and stories of wartime derring do, the former fighter pilot was a big hit around town, ...

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Every second one and half million tons of volcanic debris spewed into the atmosphere... It was certain death in a fraction of a second for every living thing that resided in Pompeii at that time ...

‘In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ The Allies had hoped their decoy plans might buy them two weeks, seven was unthinkable.

Find out how the first coins were created, why paper money was first introduced and all the discoveries and social changes that led to our current monetary system.