(Since you almost need a magnifying glass to see the small purple fields in the rainbows of the flags of El Salvador and Nicaragua, I think they barely count.)...
Olympe de Gouges was a very early French feminist who was active during the French Revolution and was killed by Robbespierre during his reign of terror. She was particularly noteworthy because her activism could be regarded as an early form of intersectional feminism, because she fought not only for the rights of women, but also...
A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over 1,000 years before the previous earliest known larger-scale conflict in the region....
During the revolt — known as the Maji Maji Rebellion — between 200,000 and 300,000 Indigenous people were murdered, as German troops systematically wiped out villages and fields, experts say....