Before we get to the "beware" part, let's start with the basics.
The Ideas of March, or Idus Martiae in Latin, is the day in the Roman calendar that corresponds with March 15.
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I recently started watching the eight-part mini-series Hunting Hitler on the History Channel and I am totally hooked.
The show's premise?
Answering the question: Did Hitler survive WWII?
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The Memory of The World sounds like something out of a movie (when I first heard the term, I pictured never-ending rows of mahogany bookshelves stretching for miles under elaborately painted ceilings) but it is actually very real and absolutely fascinating.
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When This Was A School, Nobody Died: Visiting The Tuol Sleng Museum in Cambodia
In 1975, the Khmer Rouge — one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century — took over Cambodia.
Led by Pol Pot, the regime forced the Cambodian people to work on collective farms and labor projects, as a form of agrarian communism. Sympathetic to the peasants, they killed all who they deemed to be “New People,” or those who lived in the city at the time of their take over.
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