After 61 years of ruthless dictatorship, the Ba'athist Syria regime (officially the Syrian Arab Republic or SAR), came crashing down in early December, when the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fled Damascus after one of the country's main rebel groups, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, (Liberation...
France next turned its attention to decolonialization in Africa; the French protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia had received independence in 1956. French West Africa was partitioned and the new nations were granted independence in 1960. Algeria, after a long civil war, finally became independent in...
There was a time when women drummers were like unicorns, and even if one cropped up here and there they hardly got the attention they deserved. Lenny Kravitz, Hole, L7, Babes In Toyland, Sleater Kinney, Savages, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Donnas (and many more) all made a mark in mu...
At the St John Divine Cathedral in NYC, Satan’s head is cut off in Cancer (June 21-July 22), seen at the “Peace Fountain”; this time of year Jupiter forms the X (X=Chi=Messiah) at the top of the ecliptic; June 24, the Feast of John the Baptist in 2018 may be interesting....
The formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is critical for the evolution of the global climate, but the timing of its onset is not well constrained. Here, we present new seismic evidence of widespread Late Eocene to Oligocene marine diagene