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On This Day, July 1: 1st U.S. zoo opens in Philadelphia
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 1 week agoOn July 1, 1874, the Philadelphia Zoological Society, pictured in 2010, opened to the public. It was...
Battle of the Somme: new research shows detonating a massive mine under German lines too early led...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThanks to modern geological exploration technology we can piece together the events of July 1 1916...
The extraordinary untold story of Lanoe Hawker VC, Britain's first ace fighter pilot
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn 25 July 1915, Captain Lanoe Hawker, a young pilot of the Royal Flying Corps, took off on patrol...
When Bruce Springsteen United Liberals and Conservatives
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoThe below is an excerpt from There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the...
Sergei Loznitsa, Radu Jude, Maria Choustova and More European Artists Pen Letter Supporting Israeli...
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoLeading European artists, including Maria Choustova (“Donbass”), Sergei Loznitsa (“Donbass”), Pawel...
David Mylchreest: Normandy veteran and one of the first Allied soldiers to cross the Seine in 1944
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoHaving landed in Normandy on 12 June 1944 (D-Day plus six, in military parlance), 20-year-old 2nd...
Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales' most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThe names Passchendaele, the Somme and Mametz Wood stand as grim sentinels, forever bound to the...