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Notre Dame celebrates first Mass since devastating April fire
The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15 fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire.
Voices of Vietnam documentary: A Lost Homeland
"A Lost Homeland" is a new documentary about the Vietnamese refugees who fled their country after the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
Minneapolis dedicates Dakota artwork at Bde Maka Ska
The public artwork honors a Dakota village from the 1830s that was next to the lake. Minneapolis city officials said the idea, years in the making, was to acknowledge the first people to call the area home.
'Lest We Forget' documentary on 75th anniversary of D-Day
From the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress, "Lest We Forget" is a documentary that features the voices of World War II veterans talking about their efforts to protect the world from tyranny.
D-Day's 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever
For thousands of Allied military personnel, nothing could have prepared them for what happened on June 6, 1944, on five cold, forbidding beaches in northern France. It was D-Day, one of the most significant 24-hour periods of the 20th century, the horrifying tipping point in World War II that defined the future of Europe.
Duluth renames city park in the Ojibwe language
What used to be known as Lake Place Park is now called Gichi-Ode' Akiing, which means A Grand Heart Place in the Ojibwe language, after a naming ceremony Friday. Backers say the name change will increase the visibility of Native Americans in Duluth
U.K. volunteers still honor U.S. airmen, 75 years after D-Day
75 years after D-Day, Britain remains dotted with memorials to American soldiers of World War II, many built and still tended by local people who honor those who died and remember the thousands of others they drank and danced with, and fought alongside.