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Holiday on August 26, 2026 — Heroes' Day in Namibia: Honoring Those Who Fought for Freedom
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (463+ words) Heroes’ Day in Namibia falls on August 26 every year. In 2026, it will be a Wednesday. It is an official national holiday when the country honors those who participated in the liberation struggle and those who died for independence. In United…...
Quakers and the Post-Colonialist Fallacy
15+ hour, 40+ min ago (335+ words) The influence of the reparations movement has led to fallacious pronouncements on historic Quaker philanthropy. The only known image of Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831), the Quaker anti-slavery activist, who, in the 1820s, first popularised the idea of ‘immediate emancipation’ for slaves in the…...
Faith, Hope and Charity: Malta's Gladiators
2+ week, 4+ day ago (509+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 7, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 11 June 1940, the people of Malta looked up at a sky suddenly full of Italian bombers and saw, rising to meet them, a handful of fabric-and-wire biplanes that looked like relics…...
Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden, Poland etc: | History Memes
20+ hour, 27+ min ago (60+ words) Zach Sweat • 5 minutes ago K.J. Genualdo • about 17 hours ago Phillip Hamilton • about 23 hours ago Zach Sweat • 3 minutes ago Philipp Kachalin • 3 years ago K.J. Genualdo • about 23 hours ago Uploaded by Reddit Moments Aug 25, 2026 at 11:41AM EDT Resolution: (774px x 769px) File size: 83.6 KB…...
Ireland's population is now over 5.5m
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (580+ words) The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show increasing numbers of older people living in Ireland and falling numbers of children. They also reveal a drop in the number of immigrants coming to Ireland over the past year,…...
WWII's Worst Civilian Aviation Accident
22+ hour, 35+ min ago (491+ words) On 23 August 1944, an American test flight over the village of Freckleton, England, ended in disaster when the B-24 Liberator crashed, claiming the lives of 61 people, including 38 students between the ages of four and six. Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 09:32 AM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment…...
Trump's 'Lake America' threat: More on Lake Ontario's history
22+ hour, 41+ min ago (734+ words) Posted August 25, 2026 9:27 am. Donald Trump’s latest jab at Canada — threatening to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” amid the collapse of U.S.–Canada trade talks — has sparked fresh outrage on both sides of the border. The insult from the…...
Case study | Addressing colonial histories
1+ day, 26+ min ago (951+ words) Ingrid Lewis shares how an international partnership is linking Derbyshire’s cotton mills to the island of Carriacou Back in 2015, University of Nottingham’s Global Cotton Connections research project revealed that for about five years in the late 18th century, the Caribbean island…...
Republic’s population to surpass Scotland, new figures reveal
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (459+ words) The Republic’s estimated population is set to surpass that of Scotland, potentially within months, latest figures reveal. For the first time, the population of the 26 counties has topped 5.5 million, with a net increase year on year of approximately 67,000. It is…...
The 1963 State Department Cable Authorizing the Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (781+ words) The Kennedy administration’s decision to seek the ouster of South Vietnam’s president intensified the country’s political instability and deepened the U.S. involvement in what became the Vietnam War. The “coup cable” set in motion the events that led to…...