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When referring to various parts of the world, people use terms like "third world countries" or "first world powers". This language has generally fallen out of favour; ranking different countries based on their wealth or prosperity strikes many people as outdated, even colonial. But what is the basis for this classification in the first place?…
Militia fighters engage an unknown enemy during the Civil War, by Catherine Leroy. (Pinterest) On this day in 1976, forces from the Christian Lebanese Front militia and Phalangists overran a Muslim slum in East Beirut and began the Karantina Massacre. 1,500 civilians - Muslims from Syria, Kurdistan and Palestine - were killed in a stunning…
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