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As well, since 1945, the USSR had a spy ring within Yugoslavia[128] and Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito several times. Stalin remarked "I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito".[129] However, these assassinations would fail, and Tito would write back to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[130] Yugoslavia would go on to become one of the main founders and leaders the Non-Aligned Movement.[131]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change#1948%E2%80%931949:_Yugoslavia

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Its unexpected independence resulted from a boundary error in a land sale by Pope Eugene IV to the Republic of Florence. Due to confusion over two streams named "Rio" a strip of land became terra nullius.

Golden Turquoise Earrings from Tillya Tepe Tomb (Afghanistan)
Dating back to the 1st century BCE-1st century CE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillya_Tepe

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Avi-ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil about his new book on R. Binyamin, his take on binationalism, (counter-)zionism and how this relates to current historiographical and political debates within Israel.

Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2025.

I know that the violence today, and the occupation of which it is part, has a history and a politics which are man-made and can thus be unmade.

Watch this video before visiting the European Middle Ages. SUGGESTED READING • Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University...

In your opinion, which world war was worse and why do you believe this?

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A source: https://www.tiktok.com/@rl.magpie/video/7304599726693960992

currently, there are two different kbin magazines (=groups/communities) on history which slightly differ in their scraping habits:

(a) https://kbin.social/m/history/microblog/newest > has a soft spot for anything cinema, hence a little filmi for some reason

(b) https://fedia.io/m/history/microblog/newest > has a penchant for the history of both punk music and classical music (admittedly, i love this combination 😁)

additionally, both kbin magazines share an anticolonial stance

so if you like to delve into history on the fedi, i recommend taking a look at both magazines

disclaimer: i own both magazines

Louis Armstrong and his wife, Egypt 1961

A source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/92z44h/louis_armstrong_plays_for_his_wife_in_front_of/

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A vividly painted tomb dating to the 4th century B.C. has been unearthed in an ancient necropolis in Pontecagnano, near Salerno in the Campania region of southwest Italy.

In 1973, Egyptian soldiers hoisted their flag over Sinai, smashing the myth of Israeli invincibility. Fifty years on, who claims the victory?

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival.

There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with.

A rare 16th century globe has been restored and put on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence. The terrestrial globe was made by Antwerp cartographer Cornelis De Jode in 1594. Most of his surviving oeuvre is a world atlas, the Speculum Orbis Terrae, he published in 1593.