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On their radar: How Allies captured Hitler’s technology

Mail Guardian South Africa 09 Sep 2024
In the Second World War it taught us a new way to wage war so effectively that the rest of the world had to unite to stop it ... All in all, this book is an entertaining account of a thrilling episode in Second World War history.
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Farm family and German air crew remembered at special service

York Press 09 Sep 2024
Military personnel and civilians remembered three Britons and four Germans who died in the same Second World War crash during an act of rededication near York ... .
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Hiring slows as businesses fret over prospects for economy

The Times/The Sunday Times 09 Sep 2024
The prime minister’s insistence that Labour had inherited the worst set of economic circumstances from the Conservatives since the Second World War was cited as a key factor in causing companies to rein in recruitment last month ... KARL BLACK/ALAMY ... .
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German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80

AOL 09 Sep 2024
Born in 1944, a year before the end of the second world war, Horn studied in Hamburg and London before making herself a name as an artist in New York and Paris.
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Low Culture Podcast: Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City

The Quietus 09 Sep 2024
Made of archive footage and an rich soundtrack, this is a subjective portrait of the city that Davies grew up in in the years following the Second World War, capturing the energy of the port against ...
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Data points

Dawn 09 Sep 2024
Bank of American analysts estimate gold has now surpassed the euro to become the world’s largest reserve asset, second only to the US dollar. Geopolitical risks such as the Israel-Hamas war and ...
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ByGone Muncie: Origins of Muncie’s YMCA

Star Press 09 Sep 2024
YMCAs spread globally and became popular in the United States after the Civil War ... Black Munsonians opened a branch in the 1920s, and, after the Second World War, a Y facility on South Madison in Industry.
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Jason Dozzell: ‘At 16 I’d walked into a drinking culture – the biggest playground in the world’

The Observer 09 Sep 2024
the goalkeeper with two degrees and a second world war thesis ... He had a shyness that lent itself to vulnerability, largely due to experiencing little of the wider world beyond that path between home, park and field of dreams.
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Codebreaking Second World War veterans smile as they reunite at Bletchley Park

The Daily Mail 08 Sep 2024
Codebreaking Second World War veterans smiled as they reunited at the scene of their wartime service in Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes ... forces to send messages securely during the Second World War.
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Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says

AOL 08 Sep 2024
Cooper claimed in the interview that the Nazis did not mean to murder so many people when they carried out the Holocaust and killed 6 million Jews during the second world war.
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‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry

The Observer 08 Sep 2024
It is the streets that no longer exist.” The words of James Fenton’s 1981 poem A German Requiem, about selective memory in the second world war, came to me when I could no longer find my own.
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Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

The Observer 08 Sep 2024
She felt that Miller brought a particular sensitivity when she reported on the battle of Saint-Malo in the second world war, field hospitals in Normandy and the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
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‘There are trees falling into the sea’: How coastal erosion is changing beach made famous in Saving Private Ryan

The Irish Times 08 Sep 2024
Instead, he settled on the pristine location of Curracloe, which stretches for 11km and was shallow enough to allow for second World War-era landing craft to come ashore.
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Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 2) – podcast

The Guardian 08 Sep 2024
It was the worst residential fire in the UK since the second world war ... phase 1 on 30 October 2019; and the second, and final, report last Wednesday ... This is the second part in a two-part series, if ...

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