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When Nazi envoy, Goebbels' aide, Hans Schwarz van Berk (Hans Hansen) was greeted by Arab Editors: al-Shanti - 'Al-Difaa', and El Issa - 'Falastin' [فلسطين / الدفاع⁩⁩] Nazi Envoy Greeted By 2 Arab Editors, 17 December, 1937⁩. By Jewish Telegraphic Agency CAIRO —Franz von Berk, aide to Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels, arrived here last week and was met by the editors of two Palestine Arab papers, Falastin and Adifaa. Dr. Goebbels is scheduled to visit Cairo next month.. . . The Quarterly Review. (1938). United Kingdom: John Murray. p. 208THE NAZI INTERNATIONAL THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST In the Near...

Republican Rome was pushed to the brink of collapse on August 2, 216 B.C., when the Carthaginian general Hannibal annihilated at least 50,000 of its legionaries at the Second Punic War’s Battle of Cannae.

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In 1619, a hurricane sank the English merchant ship Warwick in Bermuda's Castle Harbor. The struggling settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, were desperately awaiting the shipload of fresh supplies, and keenly felt the loss. Almost 400 years later, artifacts from the wreck are helping archaeologist Grace Tsai uncover if unrefrigerated food and drink remained edible and nutritious during long sea voyages. Since 2012, Tsai, a doctoral candidate in nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University, has been studying archaeological records of provisions from three different shipwrecks from the 16th and 17th centuries and analyzing shipboard diets based on modern nutritional guidelines. Now,...

<p>The desert winds swept over the sands and out to the sea. Waters churned and the ships, loaded with wine from the ancient city of Tyre, tumbled in the storm.</p> <p>Swamped, the Tanit and Elissa foundered around 800 B.C., coming to rest upright some 1,300 feet under the Mediterranean, too deep for recovery.</p>

The rich heritage of Tunisia, maybe the only place where the Arab Spring stands a chance Modern-day Tunisians, more Westernized than most Arabs, see themselves as descendants of the great Carthaginian general who invaded Italy. The Arab Spring began in Sidi Bouzid, a small Tunisian town, at the end of 2010. In a desperate protest against the corrupt and oppressive government that had made it impossible for him to earn a living, food-cart vendor Mohamed Bouazizi stood before City Hall, doused himself with gasoline, and lit a match. His suicide seeded a revolutionary storm that swept the countryside and eventually...