80 years after D-Day the family of a Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is honored with the ...
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10 Historical Novels NOT Set During World War II
The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to ...
80 years after D-Day, family of Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...
Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...
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Turning to a poet for hope in another time of war [column]
A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...
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Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade and 12 other NATO nations took part in jumps watched by WWII veterans and ...
The great poetry in Van Gogh’s work and a bewitching antihero – what you should watch and do this week
There’s a deeply affecting episode of Dr Who set in late 19th-century rural France that sees the good doctor take Vincent van ...
A century later, Black soldiers get the recognition they never got after World War I
The new World War I Memorial in D.C. has a sculpture wall that honors the contributions of Black soldiers, who rarely were ...
Britten's choir reunites after local newspaper ad
The recording, made in 1963, sold 200,000 copies in just five months (almost unheard of for a classical work) and won Britten ...
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Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his stabbing, ‘Knife,’ is a National Book Award nominee
Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the ...
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A Brief Guide to Your Language My Ear
The first YLME took place in the spring of 2011, when a grant from the Open World Program of CEC ArtsLink ... and translators to monolingual poets. After some months of this virtual labor, a physical ...
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After Ukraine's incursion into Russia, the world gets a glimpse of life behind Vladimir Putin's iron curtain
But after Ukraine's audacious incursion into ... Ukraine launched the biggest foreign attack on sovereign Russian territory since World War II when thousands of troops smashed through the border.