For your weekend reading here are some historical highlights ranging from Ancient Egypt to World War II.

Let’s start with some articles about D-Day in honour of its 75th anniversary yesterday.

• “The ‘Great Crusade’: D-Day, Operation Overlord and the invasion of occupied north-west Europe” (UK National Archives)
• “When the tide turned: Canadians hold massive D-Day event at Juno Beach” (CBC)
• “The mighty word on D-Day” (Legion Magazine)
• “How McKenzie Lake and Heritage Park became battle scenes for D-Day Heritage Minute” (Calgary Herald)
• “D-day veterans in their 90s parachute into Normandy once more” (The Guardian)

Need an air mattress or a yogurt maker? Here’s a list of 200 random things you can borrow from a public library somewhere in the U.S.

Most of what I know about the Tiananmen Square Massacre I learned from the YA novel Forbidden City, published in 1990 (give it a try if you haven’t read it). Now it’s been thirty years since the tragic event.

One thousand Chinese rare books have been made available online by the Library of Congress.

This look at Anne Frank’s diary is fascinating.

“Brazil’s Museum of Me uses artificial intelligence to interpret the social media personas of its guests, bringing visitors face-to-face with a digital reflection of themselves.”

A bust of Tutankhamen is going up for auction.

Want to learn a little about medieval bestiaries?

Finally, my two favourite article titles this week: “What a Million Dollar Chess Piece can Teach us about the Medieval World” and “Conservator Discovers Secret Hiding on One of Monet’s Last Canvasses.”

Hope you have a lovely weekend!