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Monument on National Mall will honor all 41 million U.S. military veterans
1+ day, 3+ min ago (292+ words) The temporary monument will be open to the public from July 28 through August 23. As the United States continues to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a new monument is set to honor all past American veterans on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial....
Hitler's Austrian birthplace transformed into police station
36+ min ago (636+ words) VIENNA - Austria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler's former house on Wednesday, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace. In a ceremony to mark the opening, Johannes…...
Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (581+ words) BRAUNAU AM INN Austria — The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near the Austrian border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government hopes will prevent it serving as a place…...
Austria Has Converted Hitler's Birthplace Into a Police Station
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (387+ words) A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in Braunau am Inn near the German border with the inscription, “For freedom, democracy and liberty. Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us.” Hitler was born in the…...
From site of neo-Nazi pilgrimage to police station, Hitler’s birthplace begins new life
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (580+ words) The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near the Austrian border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria’s government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis....
Digital Exhibit Exploring the Civil War Raid on the USS Underwriter now available from N.C. Office of Archives and History
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (346+ words) Carolina Coast Online The Confederate naval raid on the USS Underwriter occurred on Feb. 2, 1864. RALEIGH â A new digital exhibit from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' Office of Archives and History is now available online. The…...
Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as a police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (389+ words) A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in Braunau am Inn near the German border with the inscription, “For freedom, democracy and liberty. Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us.” Hitler was born in the…...
Hitler's birthplace reopens as police station to deter neo-Nazi pilgrimage
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (732+ words) The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near Austria's border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday. Austria's government hopes the conversion will prevent it from becoming a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. After…...
‘Back to the 1930s’: Outrage over online ‘mapping’ of Jewish, Israeli tourism in Italy - EJP
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (450+ words) An online campaign calling on people to surveil and report the whereabouts of Jewish and Israeli tourists, or anyone suspected of having ties to “Zionists,” has sparked anger among Israeli diplomats, local Jewish leaders and Italian politicians. The anonymous campaign,…...
Ike and JFK Were Right … and It Matters Tremendously Today – The Future of Freedom Foundation
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (650+ words) In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Dwight Eisenhower issued a remarkable warning to the American people. He stated: Ike was making two critically important points: First, the military-industrial complex — or what is known today as the national-security state — was a relatively…...