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Joe Biden Visiting The Western Wall
On July 14, 2022, President-elect Joe Biden visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, before officially taking office. He participated in a brief public visit and...
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Salome Zourabichvili Visiting The Western Wall
On June 17, 2020, President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Her visit was part of the World Holocaust Forum events commemorating...
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Zeljko Komsic Visiting The Western Wall
On June 17, 2020, President Željko Komšić of Bosnia and Herzegovina visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit took place during the World Holocaust Forum commem...
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Guðni Th Johannesson Visiting The Western Wall
On June 17, 2020, President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit took place during an international gathering of heads of ...
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King Abdullah II Visiting The Western Wall
King Abdullah II of Jordan visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during an official diplomatic visit. He followed local protocols, including wearing a skullcap and tou...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Visiting The Western Wall
On January 23, 2020, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, and joined a prayer for peace. The visit occurred during a...
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Ron DeSantis Visiting The Western Wall
On May 30, 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, during a business development and diplomatic mission with a Florida deleg...
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Jair Bolsonaro Visiting The Western Wall
On April 1, 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the visit, Bolso...
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Emmanuel Macron Visiting The Western Wall
On May 24, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during an official state visit to Israel. Macron placed his hands on the stones...
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Donald Trump Visiting The Western Wall
On May 22, 2017, President Donald Trump visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, during his first foreign trip as president. He placed a written note into the cr...
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Barack Obama Visiting The Western Wall
On March 21, 2013, President Barack Obama visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, during an official trip. He placed his hands on the stones in a gesture of res...
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The Whale At The Wall
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited Israel’s Western Wall in February 2011 during his first official overseas trip as governor. He was given a personal tour of ...
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Pope Benedict XVI Visiting The Western Wall
On May 11, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a papal trip to the Holy Land. He touched the stones of the wall and offered prayers, f...
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Bishop Richard Williamson controversy
Richard Williamson was a British traditionalist Catholic bishop who became widely known for his involvement in controversies related to the Catholic Church and his pub...
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Angela Merkel Visiting The Western Wall
On March 31, 2008, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Jerusalem, Israel, during an official diplomatic trip. She went to the Western Wall, a significant religious...
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Bill Clinton Kissing The Western Wall
On July 23, 1994, President Bill Clinton visited Jerusalem, Israel, during an official presidential trip. As part of his visit, he went to the Western Wall, also known...
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George H W Bush Kissing The Western Wall
On July 27, 1986, Vice President George H. W. Bush visited Jerusalem, Israel, during an official trip to the Middle East. During the visit, Bush went to the Western Wa...
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United Nations Passes Resolution 3379 Equating Zionism With Racism
UN Resolution 3379 On Zionism And Racism On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted **Resolution 3379**, titled "Elimination of All F...
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Susan Sontag. Critique of Western civilization and whiteness
Susan Sontag. Critique of Western civilization and whiteness Susan Sontag Quote “The White race is the cancer of human history; i...
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The Lavon Affair
What it was The Lavon Affair, also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt in 1954, carried out by Israeli military i...
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Israel Zangwill Coined The Term “Melting Pot” To Describe American Society
In 1908, British-born Jewish writer and playwright **Israel Zangwill** published his play **“The Melting Pot”**, which popularized the phrase as a metaphor for America...
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration transformed Japan by centralizing power under the emperor, modernizing the economy and military, and adopting Western political and industrial pr...
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Overview of the Vendée Massacres
The Vendée Massacres occurred during the War in the Vendée, a counter-revolutionary uprising in western France from 1793 to 1796. The conflict was marked by violent cl...
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Albania Joins NATO
1 April 2009 — Albania becomes a full member of NATO. Membership marks a major milestone in the country's post-communist integration with Western political and securit...
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The Suez Crisis
26 July–7 November 1956 — Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal Company after Western governments withdraw support for the Aswan High Dam. Britain, France and Israel secr...
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Allies Refine Combined-Arms Warfare
July–November 1918 — Allied forces increasingly coordinate artillery, infantry, tanks, aircraft, communications and logistics. Strategic coordination also improves und...
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Germany Transfers Forces From East to West
Late 1917–March 1918 — The collapse of Russian resistance allows Germany to move divisions from the Eastern Front toward France and Belgium. German commanders understa...
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First Battle of the Marne
6 September 1914 — French and British forces begin the counteroffensive known as the First Battle of the Marne. The German advance toward Paris is halted and German ar...
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The Western Front Hardens Into Trenches
September–November 1914 — After the Marne, both sides repeatedly attempt to turn the other's flank. The maneuvering eventually reaches the North Sea and creates a larg...
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Germany Executes Its Western War Plan
August–September 1914 — Germany concentrates major forces against France and advances through Belgium. The operational scheme derives from years of German planning ass...
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Britain Fears German Domination of Western Europe
1904–1914 — Britain has no automatic obligation to enter every Franco-German conflict, but strategic cooperation with France has grown while German naval expansion gen...
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Albanians Enter Medieval Written Records
1079–1080 CE — Byzantine historian Michael Attaleiates uses terms generally interpreted as references to Albanians in the western Balkans. These medieval references ar...
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Slavic Migrations Transform the Balkans
c. 550–650 CE — Slavic-speaking groups settle widely across the Balkans during a period of weakened Byzantine frontier control. Settlement patterns, languages and poli...
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Roman Empire Divides
395 CE — After the death of Theodosius I, administration of the Roman Empire is divided between eastern and western courts. The territories of modern Albania remain pr...
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Ptolemy Mentions the Albanoi
c. 150 CE — The geographer Claudius Ptolemy records a people called Albanoi and a settlement named Albanopolis in the western Balkans. The similarity to later Albanian...
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Battle of Actium
2 September 31 BCE — The fleet of Octavian defeats the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra near Actium in western Greece. Antony and Cleopatra retreat to Egypt. Their ...
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Via Egnatia Crosses the Balkans
c. 146–120 BCE — Roman engineers develop the Via Egnatia from the Adriatic coast through Macedonia toward Byzantium. Dyrrachium becomes one of the principal western ga...
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Rome Defeats Gentius
168 BCE — Roman forces defeat King Gentius near Scodra after a short campaign. His capture effectively ends the last major independent Illyrian monarchy in the region....
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Alexander's Conquests
334–323 BCE — Alexander destroys the Persian Empire and campaigns as far as northwestern India.
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Powerful Illyrian Kingdoms Emerge
4th–3rd centuries BCE — Several Illyrian dynasties consolidate larger kingdoms across the western Balkans. Their rulers compete with Macedonia, Epirus and Greek coasta...
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Illyrian Communities of the Western Balkans
c. 1000–500 BCE — Iron Age communities later identified by Greek and Roman writers as Illyrian become visible across much of the western Balkans. Illyrians were not on...
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The Hyksos Rule the Delta
c. 1650–1550 BCE — A dynasty of rulers of largely western Asian origin controls much of northern Egypt from Avaris in the Nile Delta. Egyptian sources later portray th...
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Bronze Age Communities
c. 3000–1100 BCE — Fortified settlements, metallurgy, regional trade and tumulus burial traditions develop across the western Balkans. Social differences become increa...
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Armistice Ends the Fighting
11 November 1918 — German representatives sign the armistice at Compiègne. Fighting ends on the Western Front at 11:00 a.m. Germany accepts evacuation requirements and...
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Britain and France Declare War
3 September 1939 — Britain and France declare war on Germany after Hitler refuses demands to withdraw from Poland. Governments that spent much of the 1930s attempting ...
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Britain Enters the War
4 August 1914 — Britain declares war on Germany after German forces invade neutral Belgium and Berlin fails to meet the British demand for Belgian neutrality to be res...
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D-Day
6 June 1944 — Allied forces land on the Normandy coast in Operation Overlord. American, British, Canadian and other Allied formations assault five principal beaches wh...
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