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From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October there were videos of Palestinian journalists, who had been targeted for months, taking off their helmets. Children chattered about going back to school ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...
In the first week of November I was sitting with my mother in the tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. It was 9 a.m. on one of the most beautiful mornings I had experienced in a long time. I was used ...
In 1958, the French authorities banned Henri Alleg’s memoir, La Question, shortly after it was published. Alleg had been the editor of the daily Alger républicain, already banned in 1955. His book ...
He was born in 1874 and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, where the Frost family managed on very little, ...
The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...
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