The Netflix show distorts history and misrepresents the conflict
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Month: October 2015
The 1965 Blackout: Hear The Eerie Broadcast When New York Went Dark
Before we hear his broadcast, we need to set the scene. West Island Weather has more: Over 30 million people were affected including some provinces in Canada. Everything went dark. Patients in the middle of surgery, people in subways were trapped in darkness from New York to Canada and most states in between. A plane was getting ready to land when the runway disappeared. 1700 Passengers from a powerless subway train were rescued from a bridge in New York.
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Paris Was Wild, Once
Luc Sante’s new book looks longingly back at a more sinful time.
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Storms, Possible Tornadoes Lash Texas; 2 Still Missing
The second day of turbulent weather in Texas.
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Nazis against Nazis – Germany’s most involuntary charity walk
On November 15th, neo-Nazis walked through the streets of Wunsiedel. We could not stop them – but we could make them walk for something meaningful: and that is how for the first time a right-wing memorial march became a charity walk – without knowing of the participants. For every meter they walked, €10 went to EXIT-Deutschland – a Nazi opt-out programme. The result: €10.000 and lots of surprised right-wing extremists.
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31st October 1984 – The prime minister of India is assassinated
Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is assassinated in New Delhi by two of her own bodyguards. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, both Sikhs, emptied their guns into Gandhi as she walked to her office from an adjoining bungalow.
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Surveillance video shows Waco biker shooting
Surveillance video from Waco, Texas, shows the shootout between police and biker clubs that ended with nine dead and 177 arrested in May.
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Public Faces: Photography as Social Media in the 19th Century
Many of the traits we associate with our selfies were also present in the most popular photographic format of the 1860s, the carte de visite….
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The Fin-de-Siècle Paris Theater Whose Performances Were Literally Torturous
A knife in the eye. A splash of acid in the face. Murder. Comedy. Ah, the theater! By Eric Grundhauser.
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Sci-Fi’s Hugo Awards and the Battle for Pop Culture’s Soul
A battle over diversity is raging in the world of science fiction. And it's a battle for the soul of all popular culture. By Amy Wallace.
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