A letter written by a World War II soldier to his mother has been finally delivered 76 years later. USPS discovered the note written by the late Johnny Gonsalves, which was then sent to his widow during the holiday season. Johnny, who died in 2015, aged 92, served in the US Army as a 22-year-old […]
Some 73 feet below the traffic and bustle of London’s Piccadilly lies a silent warren of corridors and pitch-black rooms, rarely seen, rarely visited, but which played a vital role in the course of 20th-century history. Now, the opportunity has come round again to slip behind the door of the abandoned Down Street Tube station […]
A prominent European Jewish organization slammed a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s handwritten speech notes, saying Tuesday it “defies logic, decency and humanity” to put them on the market. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the head of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association, said the upcoming sale of the manuscripts is […]
