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From today's featured article Milovan Đilas Negotiations between German commanders and the Yugoslav Partisans commenced on 11 March 1943 during an Axis offensive in World War II. Focused on obtaining a ceasefire and establishing a prisoner exchange, the talks were also used to delay the Axis forces while the Partisans crossed the Neretva river and began attacking their Chetnik rivals, led by Draža Mihailović. The talks were accompanied by an informal ceasefire that lasted about six weeks before being called off by Adolf Hitler. The advantage gained by the Partisans was lost when another Axis offensive was launched in mid-May 1943. Some parts of the negotiations were published from 1949 onwards, but many details were little known by historians until the 1970s, including the identity of the chief Partisan negotiator, Milovan Đilas (pictured). The US diplomat Walter Roberts published a description of the talks in 1973 in a well-received book that was protested by the Yugoslav government of Josip Broz Tito for its depiction of the Partisans. Beginning in the 1980s, accounts of the negotiations were published by Yugoslav historians and the main Yugoslav protagonists. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mangrove swallow Mothers of the Disappeared Bessie Braddock Did you know... Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope ... that Snugburys, a British ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the Lovell Telescope (pictured)? ... that Joe Biden went door-to-door with Stephanie Hansen to help her win a recent special election to the Delaware Senate? ... that the Rhodesian folk song "The U.D.I. Song" was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African? ... that Rafael Brache was declared a traitor to the Dominican Republic for denouncing the "parsley massacre"? ... that the founders of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund are husband and wife? ... that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo, named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees? ... that Archibald Spencer introduced Benjamin Franklin to the study of electricity, and was his mentor? ... that Lincoln City's win over Burnley meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years?

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Today's featured picture Wivenhoe Park is an oil painting on canvas completed by the English Romantic painter John Constable in 1816. It depicts Wivenhoe Park, an English landscape garden on the eastern edge of Colchester. It is now held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Painting: John Constable Recently featured: Micrometer Marie-Suzanne Giroust Ntozake Shange

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