NewsLetter 23th of February 2020

Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
4 min readFeb 23, 2020

As we enter the last week of this month we want to offer you all the latest articles from our great writers. We hope that they will inspire you, intrigue you and make you contemplate history.

A warm and great Sunday evening from History of Yesterday!

February 17th

The Czech Agent Who Killed Reinhard Heydrich

How a paratrooper assassinated the third-highest man within Germany’s Third Reich/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-czech-agent-who-killed-reinhard-heydrich-708985b902d

A Case of Heresy

The story of Marguerite Porete and how her writing about divine love brought her a terrible faith/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/a-case-of-heresy-528fb54e74d3

February 18th

Benedict IX: The 12 Year Old Pope

Age is just a number / By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/benedict-ix-the-12-year-old-pope-e1f3430015dd

How WWII Liberty Ships Named for African Americans Helped Democracy Win at Home and Abroad

They not only fought for democracy overseas but also helped African Americans fight for democracy at home/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-ww2-liberty-ships-named-for-african-americans-helped-democracy-win-at-home-and-abroad-2e96b31034f6

February 19th

The Role River Nile Played in the Creation of the Egyptian Civilization

Mother nature shaping our civilization/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-role-river-nile-played-in-the-creation-of-the-egyptian-civilization-17e26cdb0ea6

The Man Who Fell From Space

The story of the man who sacrificed himself to save Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet posterchild of the space race/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-man-who-fell-from-space-743e98446770

February 20th

The Strategic Importance of Stalingrad for Germany in WWII

A fountain full of assets/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-strategic-importance-of-stalingrad-for-germany-in-wwii-218f3bc3ff05

Bologna’s Railway Station Terrorist Attack in 1980

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Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/bolognas-railway-station-terrorist-attack-in-1980-ced41a5cb15e

February 21st

King Kroisos: The Wealthiest Man to Have Ever Lived

Have you ever heard the expression “rich as Kroisos”?/ By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/king-kroisos-the-richest-man-to-have-ever-lived-1a5628fd4340

February 22nd

The Tragic Story of Tempel Anneke: A Woman Sentenced to Death for Witchcraft

By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-story-of-a-woman-condemned-as-a-witch-c1bdc192cb32

How the Industrial Revolution Transformed The World

Trains changed how we perceive the world / By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-the-industrial-revolution-and-trains-transformed-the-world-517505ca8496

February 23rd

The First Female Fighter Ace

The making of the greatest woman ace in air warfare history and their untimely and mysterious death / By

Link: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-first-female-fighter-ace-fe7c188fed05

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Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

Avid Writer with invaluable knowledge in Humanity! “You make your own life” atapalaga97@gmail.com