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Newly uncovered documents dating from the 1948 Nakba that saw the creation of the state of Israel reveal the extent to which Zionist fighters were ordered to "annihilate" civilians and their villages.

It’s one of the saddest hit songs to grace American music: “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).” The 1948 Woody Guthrie composition documented a plane crash that killed all 32 people on board in Los ...

On December 1, 1948, José Figueres Ferrer, President of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic, officially abolished the Costa Rican army by symbolically tearing down a wall of the Bellavista ...

Today’s feast of Christ the Universal King brings the Church’s liturgical year to an end. A week from now, the first Sunday of Advent will mark the beginning of the new liturgical year. When the ...

From Oct. 26-31, 1948, a blanket of smog engulfed Donora, Pennsylvania. According to an article by Jacobs, Burgess, and Abbott in the American Journal of Public Health, activities such as the Donora ...

Neta Shoshani’s two-part documentary series 1948 – Remember, Remember Not, is available now on KAN 11 (kan.org.il) and has been the focus of considerable controversy. Shlomo Karhi, the communications ...

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock's paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract expressionist used a ...

The writer is a distinguished fellow in residence at the Brookings Institution, former chair of the Federal Reserve and former secretary of the Treasury US President Donald Trump’s claim that he has ...

Though still reeling from the aftermath of Word War II, 1948 was brimming with hope and possibility. Kids played stickball in the streets, soldiers enjoyed life at home after years on the frontlines, ...