Search results
Swedish Gift to Turkey in NATO Talks Evokes Centuries of History
Bloomberg via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- The leaders of Sweden and Turkey, engaged in a high-stakes meeting over the expansion...
How Vladimir Putin projects his image as a modern-day Peter the Great
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoAn 82-metre column in the capital of imperial Russia commemorates Peter the Great’s victory in the...
Understanding why burning the Qur’an isn't illegal in Sweden means looking at the country's...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 12 months agoTo people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused ...
Today-History-May24
The Canadian Press - Olympics 2022 via Yahoo Canada Sports· 2 months agoToday in History for May 24: In 1543, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus died in Frombork, Poland. He proposed the heliocentric, or sun-centred, system whereby the planets orbit around the sun.