Explore the fascinating history of countries that vanished after World War 1. Discover how the global landscape was reshaped ...

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This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

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A message in a bottle found during a beach clean-up in Australia turned out to contain letters from two World War I soldiers authored 109 years earlier.

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The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.

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Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv are accomplices in a project of disintegration. They are igniting civil strife, arming factions, and ...

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...