In 1929, the Busch Circus toured France with a special programme featuring 31-year-old Russian lion-tamer and dancer Maria Rasputin as “daughter of…

As the world was celebrating Christmas in 1991, the Soviet flag was being lowered from the Kremlin – one last time – and replaced with the flag of…

On 3 December, Shin Bet director, Ronen Bar, was quoted saying: “The cabinet set a goal for us to take out Hamas. And we are determined to do it;…

“The opening of a complicated negotiation is like the beginning of an arranged marriage,” wrote Henry Kissinger in his memoirs. “The partners know…

The year 1943 kicked off with an avalanche of congratulatory telegrams pouring into President Alfred Naccache’s office on the New Year.Little did he…

Five months before his inauguration as president, Massachusetts Senator John F Kennedy addressed a Jewish convention at the Statler Hilton Hotel in…

On 23 October 1956, a university student riot in Budapest snowballed into a popular revolt against the Hungarian People’s Republic, a Soviet…

On 21 November 1935, large crowds of Palestinians in Haifa came out to pay their respects to the Syrian cleric Izz al-Din al-Qassam, who had been…

“He just looked at me...and smiled.”This is how Lance Corporal Eddie DeFranco, who was on guard duty at the Multinational Forces Headquarters in…

On 18 October 1925, colonial France bombed the ancient city of Damascus. This was in response to a revolt against it from the nearby Druze Mountain…