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Ceuta before Iberian colonialism, a Moroccan city and no terra nullius
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (547+ words) Spanish commentators and intellectuals have recently repeated that when Portugal seized Ceuta in 1415, “Morocco did not exist.” The claim collapses under the simplest historical scrutiny. Between 788 and 1415, the city known as Sebta was administered by successive Moroccan dynasties for more…...
Faith, Hope and Charity: Malta's Gladiators
2+ week, 3+ day ago (509+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 7, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 11 June 1940, the people of Malta looked up at a sky suddenly full of Italian bombers and saw, rising to meet them, a handful of fabric-and-wire biplanes that looked like relics…...
What Made the American Revolution Unique?
8+ hour, 9+ min ago (1018+ words) The Declaration of Independence—as a bold act of secession—can be understood as one of the earliest major challenges to modern centralized sovereign authority within the emerging nation-state system. Understanding the Hobbesian nation-state is crucial to fully appreciating the…...
Ireland's population is now over 5.5m
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (580+ words) The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show increasing numbers of older people living in Ireland and falling numbers of children. They also reveal a drop in the number of immigrants coming to Ireland over the past year,…...
How did one Oklahoma family help 250 Vietnamese refugees to start over after the fall of Saigon?
16+ hour, 35+ min ago (197+ words) In 1975, as Saigon fell and tens of thousands of Vietnamese fled, a family in the small western Oklahoma town of Clinton opened their doors - and their community - to help resettle around 250 refugees.In this episode of How Curious, Rachel Hopkin…...
Republic’s population to surpass Scotland, new figures reveal
18+ hour, 9+ min ago (459+ words) The Republic’s estimated population is set to surpass that of Scotland, potentially within months, latest figures reveal. For the first time, the population of the 26 counties has topped 5.5 million, with a net increase year on year of approximately 67,000. It is…...
Catalonia's oldest woman turns 112: 'When I was little, there was only one man with a car in Olot"
1+ day, 14+ min ago (493+ words) Latest update: August 24, 2026 06:54 PM The oldest woman in Catalonia, Carme Noguera, celebrated her 112th birthday over the weekend. She was born on August 22, 1914, in Olot, during the earliest stages of the First World War. More than a century later, she still…...
When Donegal gained the attention of Nazi Germany
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (817+ words) In Ireland, and perhaps particularly in the north west, we tend to think of World War II as somewhat remote, something that didn’t affect us too much. But we did have rationing, and blackouts, and we did need to take…...
???Every??? step of conquistadors??? history
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (677+ words) Arizona’s chapter of that story, he said opens not with a Spaniard but with an enslaved African named Esteban de Dorantes. “The first post-Columbian explorer, again and again in the Southwest, was this black Muslim man. Not how we picture…...
Trump’s Border Wall Construction Threatens Rock Art As Old As The Pyramids
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1403+ words) OUTSIDE COMSTOCK, Texas — On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up toward a series of towering murals painted on a rock wall. Three…...