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A little-known military unit used sound, inflatable equipment, and carefully staged illusions to convince enemy forces that a ...

By early 1944, Germany’s war was turning desperate enough for some of its most fanatical figures to propose a new kind of ...

Looking back at the comedy jazz masterpiece 'The Intro and the Outro' by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, which coined the word ...

Antonio Pappano’s pairing for last night’s Barbican concert intrigued – and, initially, baffled – me. Shostakovich’s Fifth: a clear choice, given the London Symphony Orchestra’s recent stellar ...

Out of the photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the ...

A leftist South African politician who described U.S. President Donald Trump as a modern-day dictator was sentenced to five ...

In “How to Be a Dissident,” Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of ...

Air traffic controller Susie Laurence-Doig spent her career directing Spitfires around Britain’s skies, but never had the ...

Extremists, fanatics, zealots, warmongers, paranoids, racists and others like them — whether on the right or left, northern or southern, wealthy or poor — when allowed to rise to positions of power ...

What neither man has done well is resist the pull of unnecessary personal combat.

In the bustling Aberdeenshire town of Braemar, close to the late Queen’s beloved Balmoral, there’s a rather chi-chi hotel ...