However, the debt burden that had become too heavy meant that the king handed over his colony to Belgium, a gift that the parliament was hesitant about but did not dare to refuse. Manu Ruys' ...

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A Spanish TV documentary has broadcast claims that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe and not from ...

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American and European leaders use this trope to keep the flames of war burning across the Middle East - and the profits ...