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May 2 Goya's "Dos de Mayo, 1808" “The population of Madrid, led astray, has given itself to revolt and murder. French blood has flowed. It demands vengeance…” – Joaquim Murat, 1808 Guerrilla warfare. To any kid who’s failed a spelling bee because of one of the most misspelled words in the English language, you’re in good company. Before learning the proper spelling, I too assumed it was war that took place deep in the African …Read more 
April 24
“If a man is killed in Paris, it is a murder; fifty thousand throats are cut in the East and it is a question.” –Victor Hugo Hugo died 30 years before the Armenian Genocide of 1915, but his quote could be applied to it—just multiply by thirty. The Armenian Genocide has been called the first genocide of the twentieth century. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World …Read more |
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