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Gozo, the second largest of the Maltese islands, is held to be Ogy’gia, where, in Greek legend, the sea nymph Calypso entertained Odysseus for seven years.

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In 1954 the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings—which became a sociocultural phenomenon and was later adapted into a series of blockbuster films—was published.

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Revisit the Normandy Invasion through the spoken recollections of veterans who fought it, newsreels that brought the news home, and written words of historians. Learn More

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