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Nov 25, 2023

Over half of the emigration before the 1870s was from the British Isles, with much of the remainder from northwestern Europe. As migration increased along with new transportation technologies in the 1880s, regions of intensive emigration spread south and east as far as Portugal, Russia, and Syria.

Migration to...


Nov 11, 2023

Resolution 242 passed by the UN Security Council on 22 November 1967 embodied the principle that has guided most of the subsequent peace plans aound the Israel-Palestine conflict - the exchange of land for peace.

From the Camp David Accords of 1978 to the Oslo Agreement of 1993, several peace accords were signed by the...