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Significant past events, influential figures, and cultural moments that shaped society. Ancient civilizations, wars, social revolutions, historical landmarks, and biographies.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.

On this day: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in northern Iraq

MEL BROOKS speaks at an awards ceremony in 2015.

This week in Jewish history: Happy birthday to Mel Brooks, Franz Kafka

By Steven Drucker
 A WOMAN stands next to a poster of Persian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and the pre-revolution flag of Iran bearing the lion and the sun, during a protest in Munich.

From Chanel to exile: the rise and fall of Iran’s last empress

By Walla!
 A flag with the logo of Wagner private mercenary group is attached to a car during an automobile rally at a patriotic festival marking Russia's National Flag Day in the Moscow region, Russia, August 23, 2023.

On this Day: Wagner Group’s Forces Shake Putin’s Russia

BYSTANDERS WATCH as the ‘Altalena’ burns after being shelled near Tel Aviv on June 22, 1948

This week in Jewish history: Altalena, sin of the spies, Jews expelled from France

By Steven Drucker
 THE WAZE app came out in 2013 (hence, the older-model smartphone pictured)

This week in Jewish history: Haganah formed in Israel, Google acquires Waze

By Steven Drucker
 Tuam, Ireland.

Ireland begins excavation at Catholic mother-and-baby home to uncover remains of 796 children

 Hidden coin hoard stashed in numismatist's walls sells for $3.8 million.

Hidden coin hoard stashed in numismatist's walls sells for $3.8 million

 Lawrence Rubin (left) shakes hands with W. Stewart Woodfill, owner of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, on the Mackinac Bridge around the time of its completion in the 1950s.

A Jewish bridge builder’s burial, 15 years late: The strange afterlife of Lawrence Rubin

By ANDREW LAPIN
 Anne Frank diary in Madame Tussauds museum on April 25, 2017 in Amsterdam Netherlands.

This week in Jewish history: Anne Frank’s first diary entry, Israel bombs Iraqi nuke reactor

By Steven Drucker
 Handwritten 15th-century psalter by Brigittine nuns set for auction.

Handwritten 15th-century psalter by Brigittine nuns set for auction

DAVID RUBINGER’S iconic photo of the IDF paratroopers at the Kotel during the Six Day War in 1967.

This week in Jewish history: Shavuot, and the Six Day War

By Steven Drucker
 Underwater drones uncover secrets of sunken USS F-1 in deep-sea expedition.

Underwater drones uncover secrets of sunken USS F-1 in deep-sea expedition

 NEW OLIM rescued from Ethiopia step out of an IAF Hercules at a base in Israel, during Operation Solomon, May 1991.

On This Day: Operation Solomon’s record-breaking flight and humanitarian triumph

 Napoleon Bonaparte's saber sold for 4.66 million euros at Paris auction.

Napoleon's saber sells for 4.66 million euros at auction

Reproduction of an Israeli stamp being issued to honour the Mossad intelligence agency spy Eli Cohen who was hanged in Damascus

This week in Jewish History: Eli Cohen hanged in Syria, Bob Dylan's birthday

By Steven Drucker
 Lincoln's blood-stained gloves sell for $1.52 million at auction to pay off foundation's debt.

Lincoln's blood-stained gloves sell for $1.52 million at auction to pay off foundation's debt

 Auxerre.

40 years later: New digs aim to find missing victims of French serial killer

 New study: China's 'Star Manual of Master Shi' is the world's oldest star map.

New study: China's 'Star Manual of Master Shi' is the world's oldest star map

 Xiao Yi Obtaining the Lanting Manuscript from the Monk Biancai

Smithsonian returns 2,300-year-old Zidanku Silk Manuscripts to China

 The family of Private Arthur Gassner.

IDF identifies burial site of soldier missing since 1949

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