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 A Roman-era cemetery was discovered in the Gaza Strip, but action on the housing project has continued. 

The Roman burial site is not far from the ruins of the Greek port of Anthedon now the Israeli city of #Ashkelon on the border with the Gaza Strip.

Among the discoveries: a tomb with polychrome paintings depicting crowns, garlands of laurel leaves, and jars intended for funeral libations.

Dec 27, 2022

In 1762 Denmark knows Peter III(Duke of Holstein-Gottorp) will use Russian troops to take back his ancestral lands. The Danes stood little chance of winning that battle. Then Catherine the Great, his wife, completed a coup and the two governments negotiated the transfer of ducal Schleswig-Holstein to the Danish crown in return for Russian control of the County of Oldenburg and adjacent lands.

Dec 30, 2022

About 10% of all German bombs dropped on Wales during WW2 failed to detonate, and local emergency services are called to deal with about 20 bombs a year.

 Wales was a major battleground because of the industrial targets along the Bristol Channel.

Feb 4, 2023

 The detection of a WW2 era bomb in the southern German town of Rastatt on the Karlsruhe-Basel route has disrupted services to the Swiss city of Basel. The bomb is 70 to 80 centimeters and weighs 250 kilograms.

March 6, 2023

What would you do if you saw a man level the gun at the head of a President-elect and get off one shot? On Feb 15, 1933 Lillian Cross grabbed the arm of the gunman, Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian anarchist, and deflected three more shots. FDR was not hurt.  Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, who was in Miami, Fla to ask for FDR's assistance, died a week later.

Zangara was executed on March 20, 1933.

March 28, 2023

A Roman mosaic, probably belonging to the Durobrivan group from the East Midlands, was uncovered during excavations last week at Olney, Buckinghamshire in England. The area is near the site of a Roman fort probably established between the Claudian invasion of 43 AD and the beginning of the reign of Vespasian in 69 AD. 

May 5, 2023

War events last forever. The pastor of the local church in Sopiv, western Ukraine told the German War Graves Commission of the remains of German soldiers buried in its backyard.  A German medical plane crashed near the village in the region of Ivanko-Frankivsk during WW2.

The German War Graves Commission was founded during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to recover and bury the dead German soldiers from WW1.

May 18, 2023

This news is about a year old: 3D photos show that the Titanic ran over an emerged shelf of the iceberg, which was the first scenario proposed back in 1912. However, that story got buried under the idea of this 200 foot gash along the side.

Aug 8, 2023

The tradition of filling in the letters on tombstones at Normandy American Cemetery with Omaha Beach sand began in the 1950s. Perfect way to show gratitude!

Sept 6, 2023

Trinidad, a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881, was found intact. It was carrying a load of coal. Crew survived using a yawl boat.

Dec 9, 2023

 Romania will receive a maritime minesweeper from Great Britain in the next few weeks and will work with Bulgaria and Turkey to search for mines in the Black Sea.

April 29, 2024

An undetonated USA Army bomb from WW2 was discovered recently during renovation work deep within Mainz's soccer stadium in Germany during renovation work and later defused.

 The bomb, which weighed 500 kilograms, was unearthed during construction work for the expansion of a nearby university.

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