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On April 28, 1945, the dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by members of the Italian resistance, along with his mistress ...
April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He ...
Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...
For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...
By delivering newspapers, munitions and secret messages to resistance groups, among many other incredible tasks, the brave ...
Italy’s Benito Mussolini, along with his mistress, was killed by the Italian Resistance on April 28, 1945; on April 30, Adolph Hitler and his new wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves in a Berlin ...
Its main interest is Mussolini's unintended but deeply etched portrait of himself. No future historian will need to deflate his character and intellectual pretensions to their true dimensions, so ...
On April 7, 1926, Irish woman Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. How had Violet Gibson’s life gone from the well-heeled upbringing of Merrion ...
The political biopic is recast as a fever dream in this whirlwind Italian drama, which turns the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s into a nightmarish study of craven o ...
A courtier, albeit a minor one, of Benito Mussolini, Malaparte reported on Europe’s darkest days with a cold and serrated style. He was a journalist and a fabulist whose masterpiece, “Kaputt,” is ...
There’s no future with presidents who have the politics of Mussolini and the economics of Herbert Hoover.” A woman carries a sign that reads 'Driverless Government,' showing a flame engulfed ...
Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...