On June 7, 1494, two rival powers sat down to sign a treaty that would shape North and South America for the centuries that followed. Following the reports of Christopher Columbus’s discoveries in the Americas, Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella went to the Vatican to help back Spanish…
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In a remote cemetery outside São Paulo, Brazilian officials exhumed a grave on June 6, 1985, bearing the name “Wolfgang Gerhard.” For years, it had been largely unremarkable—until intelligence from West German investigators indicated it might conceal one of the last great fugitives of…
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