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Danger and delight: Edmonton cyclists riding high on penny-farthings
Doug Mitchell's first ride on a penny-farthing nearly ended in disaster. The power outage that ended a tie game in the 1988 Stanley Cup final
It was Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final and a power outage meant the game had to be shelved. New Study Evaluates Major Drivers of Palestinian TerrorismHistory | 207465 hits | 11:41 AM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Gedhun Choekyi Niyima: Tibetan Buddhism's 'reincarnated' leader who disappeared aged six
Twenty-five years after the Panchen Lama disappeared, Tibetans abroad urge China to reveal his fate.
Twenty-five years after the Panchen Lama disappeared, Tibetans abroad urge China to reveal his fate. 500,000 red tulips bloom in B.C. marking 75 years since Canadian-led liberation of Netherlands
The "timing has been impeccable" as tulips bloomed just before the Netherlands marks Liberation Day, says the son of a survivor. What You'll Need to Know In 2020 That You Don't Know Now
You know things, you child of the 21st century. You may not stop to think about it, but you know stuff to get along in the year 2000 that your hallowed progenitors could never have dreamed of. You know how to delete. You can pull down a menu.How Nazis courted the Islamic world during WWII
Tens of thousands of Muslims fought for the Nazis in World War Two. DW spoke with historian David Motadel about whether pragmatism or anti-Semitism drove Adolf Hitler's overtures and why some Muslim leaders backed him.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims fought for the Nazis in World War Two. DW spoke with historian David Motadel about whether pragmatism or anti-Semitism drove Adolf Hitler's overtures and why some Muslim leaders backed him.Val d'Isere: The doctor who hid a Jewish girl - and the resort that wants to forget
A Jewish teenager avoided death in occupied France thanks to the kindness and bravery of a doctor in a small Alpine resort. But it's a story local people seem reluctant to remember, Rosie Whitehouse discovers.
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A Jewish teenager avoided death in occupied France thanks to the kindness and bravery of a doctor in a small Alpine resort. But it's a story local people seem reluctant to remember, Rosie Whitehouse discovers. Here's the backstory on this Inuvialuit parka left at an Edmonton thrift shop
Margaret Kanayok squinted her eyes scanning an image of a sealskin parka on Facebook.
If she could just touch it, and examine the stitch work, Kanayok said she could tell exactly who made it.Russia-Poland row over start of WW2 escalates
Russia condemns the US ambassador to Poland for saying the Nazi-Soviet pact triggered World War Two.
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Russia condemns the US ambassador to Poland for saying the Nazi-Soviet pact triggered World War Two. The life and tragic death of the Canadian who built The BombHistory | 207918 hits | 7:38 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Dr. Louis Slotin was one of a handful of Canadian scientists recruited by the Manhattan Project PQ leader invokes Louis Riel in call for Manitoba to mind its own business on Bill 21History | 207343 hits | 3:03 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
On Thursday, ads appeared in Quebec media listing 21 reasons to move to Manitoba, alongside images of people wearing religious symbols WWII: Germany grapples with honoring Graf Spee captainHistory | 207562 hits | 7:59 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Captain Hans Langsdorff rescued his crew of more than 1,000 men by scuttling his ship, the Graf Spee, rather than fight a hopeless battle in 1939. His daughter says it’s time to honor his moral courage. Cold War memo predicted fallout of Soviet attack on CanadaHistory | 207397 hits | 12:16 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
In a declassified 1982 Cold War memo, the Privy Council Office predicted that all-out nuclear attacks from Soviet Russia would annihilate much of the major populaces in Canada, sparing only Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. 'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released
First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, neatly stowed storage lockers -- even a propeller sitting solidly in place as if ready for a head of steam. 'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released | CTV News
First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, neatly stowed storage lockers -- even a propeller sitting solidly in place as if ready for a head of steam.Archeologists uncover possible Viking drinking hall on Scottish island
What is believed to be an early drinking hall where influential Vikings may have raised a flagon of ale has been unearthed on a Scottish island.
What is believed to be an early drinking hall where influential Vikings may have raised a flagon of ale has been unearthed on a Scottish island.Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run by spies
An idyllic holiday resort on the banks of the Red Sea was a base for Israeli spies with a secret mission.
History | 207315 hits | 10:12 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
An idyllic holiday resort on the banks of the Red Sea was a base for Israeli spies with a secret mission.Stasi pervasive footprint across two Berlins revealed
In the former prison where the East German secret police locked up dissidents, a museum has painstakingly mapped the vast web of locations through which the Stasi carried out social control — and planned coups.
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In the former prison where the East German secret police locked up dissidents, a museum has painstakingly mapped the vast web of locations through which the Stasi carried out social control — and planned coups.Memorial to Royal Navy's only enlisted dog is desecrated by scrap metal thieves | Daily Mail Online
A Great Dane called Just Nuisance who served during World War II has had his bronze memorial statue in Simon's Town, South Africa desecrated by thieves believed to have taken it for scrap metal.
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A Great Dane called Just Nuisance who served during World War II has had his bronze memorial statue in Simon's Town, South Africa desecrated by thieves believed to have taken it for scrap metal.Egypt tomb: Mummified mice found in 'beautiful' ancient chamber
The highly decorated chamber, in the desert near the Nile, is thought to be more than 2,000 years old.
History | 207337 hits | 3:58 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The highly decorated chamber, in the desert near the Nile, is thought to be more than 2,000 years old. Toronto police investigating racist, anti-immigrant Twitter account that appears to belong to officerHistory | 207624 hits | 10:58 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Toronto police confirm their professional standards unit is examining the now-deleted Twitter account, which appears to have belonged to a parking enforcement officer. 
A serendipitous meeting between a professor and a colleague led to a treasure trove of historical maps that indicated kelp bed locations off British Columbia's coast, helping experts understand the changes in what are known as the "rainforests of the ocea Apollo 8's famous 'Earthrise' photo taken 50 years ago today
The famous NASA “Earthrise” photo was taken on Dec. 24, 1968, meaning this Christmas Eve is its 50th anniversary. On Dec. 24, 1968, the crew of William Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first humans to orbit theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising: Last surviving fighter, Simcha Rotem, dies at 94
Simcha Rotem rose up against Nazi deportations in 1943 and was one of the few to escape.
History | 207845 hits | 3:59 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Simcha Rotem rose up against Nazi deportations in 1943 and was one of the few to escape.Scientists scour WWI shipwreck to solve military mystery
The U.S. navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City.
The U.S. navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City.Kyiv Archivist Discovers Ersatz Bread Samples From Ukraine's 1932-33 Famine
Ersatz bread from Ukraine's 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal "evidence" against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the "terrible hunger."
History | 207634 hits | 2:34 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Ersatz bread from Ukraine's 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal "evidence" against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the "terrible hunger." Corbella: Double killer gets his privacy while the public is endangered
Just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all with regard to Canada’s justice system, along comes another policy that simply takes your breath away — in the negative sense of the term. Historian maps Canadian Korean War casualties
Canadian historian Andrew Burtch has completed a one-of-a-kind piece of scholarship - a map tracking where, and how, Canadian soldiers died in the Korean War. Montreal's Black Watch regiment treasures WW I Victoria Cross
Locked away in a vault in Place Ville Marie is Lance-Cpl. Fred Fisher's Victoria Cross, the first ever awarded to a Canadian soldier serving in a Canadian unit. CBC Montreal got exclusive access.Archaeologists find 'vampire burial' site of a child feared capable of rising from the dead
Archaeologists believe a stone was deliberately inserted into the child’s mouth – an ancient practice to keep the dead from rising
Archaeologists believe a stone was deliberately inserted into the child’s mouth – an ancient practice to keep the dead from rising Calgary scientists find whaling ship remains sticking out of sand after 116 years
Two Calgary researchers have uncovered the remains of a Scottish whaling ship that crashed on a reef on the east coast of Baffin Island 116 years ago. Researchers use drone, sonar to find shipwrecked Nova Zembla near Baffin Island. Archeologists aim to uncover secrets of Franklin expedition in ship's cabins
'There are thousands upon thousands of artifacts down there'. A Parks Canada archaeology team is boating towards the graves of the Franklin expedition ships, more than 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, hoping to uncover more secrets from the ill- Trudeau to apologize Nov. 7 for 1939 decision to turn away Jewish refugees fleeing Nazis
On November 7 the Liberal government will officially apologize for the 1939 decision to turn away the MS St. Louis carrying 907 German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20m items is believed to have been destroyed. Research suggests lead poisoning wasn't major cause of Franklin expedition deaths
A Lakehead University associate professor has helped shed new light on what, exactly, happened to the members of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition to the Arctic. Saskatoon's synchrotron helps debunk Franklin Expedition lead-poisoning theory
In short, the work in Saskatoon debunks the theory that lead killed the crew. 'End of an era': First Dieppe remembrance service in Hamilton without a Dieppe veteran
Sunday marked the 76th anniversary of the Dieppe raid in France during the Second World War. It also marked the first time there wasn't a Dieppe veteran present in Hamilton. Halifax ceremony marks final Great War push known as Canada's Hundred Days
One hundred years ago today, the 100,000-strong Canadian Corps began what would be the last great offensive of the First World War. The final push through Belgium and France that became known as Canada's Hundred Days was commemorated Wednesday, a century John A. Macdonald statue 'painful reminder' of colonialism: Victoria, B.C. mayor
A statue of former prime minister John A. Macdonald will be removed from the front entrance of Victoria City Hall as a gesture of reconciliation with First Nations, says the city's Mayor Lisa Helps. WW1 centenary: William and PM mark Battle of Amiens
A ceremony is held in France to commemorate the centenary of a key World War One battle. Ship used by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen returns to Norway after 100 years
While successful at the South Pole, the ship was not able to make it to the North Pole and wound up as a floating warehouse in Nunavut where it sank in 1930 When a metric mix-up led to the 'Gimli Glider' emergency
It's a white-knuckle air passenger's greatest fear: being aboard an aircraft whose engines suddenly lose power.
On July 23, 1983, those fears became all too real for the 61 Edmonton-bound passengers of Air Canada Flight 143. Remarkably, the plane made Canada's slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement
Why is it common knowledge that we saved runaway slaves from the United States, but few know that Africans and Indigenous peoples were bought, sold and exploited, right here? Contributor Kyle G. Brown asks how slavery was allowed to continue for some 200 Nunavut project to collect Inuit elder testimony on Franklin shipwreck sites
Parks Canada is launching a new initiative in Nunavut to collect and share the testimony of Inuit elders who have knowledge of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. How Canada lost a potential 11th province and got a university insteadHistory | 208873 hits | 12:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Dalhousie, now seen as one of the top universities on the East Coast, was born of a series of struggles: Raids by American privateers, an invasion of the United States, tales of war booty and, incredibly, the loss of what could have been Canada's 11th proPutin marks Stalingrad surrender as tribute to Russian grit
President Vladimir Putin attended commemorations Friday marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended the battle of Stalingrad, lauding the Red Army's victory as a shining example of Russia's perseverance amid adversity.
President Vladimir Putin attended commemorations Friday marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended the battle of Stalingrad, lauding the Red Army's victory as a shining example of Russia's perseverance amid adversity.Back to Canada News
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