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During World War Two, a pair of physicists went to great lengths to keep their Nobel Prize medals out of the hands of the Nazis. Here’s the absolutely wild story.

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It’s always fascinating to see who the cultural sector has decided to anoint as the paragon – or martyr – of the moment.

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On Jan. 14, 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other leaders in ...

As the Ukraine war drags, Moscow is transforming the economy of the occupied Donbas region, residents and analysts say.

Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode BBC/PBS documentary series on the role of Joseph Stalin and ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

The secretary of state’s failure to include South Korea within the U.S. defensive perimeter in Asia in a January 1950 speech ...