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In my experience as a historian of this topic, whenever a German town sent a letter to its sovereign during the Thirty Years War, it was not to welcome a garrison but along this line 'that this town has no opportunity to take in any garrison'.
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
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Writing two centuries of Tottenville history has been a journey of discovery—finding documents others overlooked, connecting local events to national movements, making the past accessible.
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#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers.
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💎 Visions in Blue. A spectacular split-flight staircase at the heart of an abandoned and decaying Soviet-era sanatorium.
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On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a photo of our planet from approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away.
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