Though unsuccessful in reverse-engineering the Sidewinder, China negotiated its release to the Soviet Union, which successfully cloned the weapon into the K-13 missile (NATO codename AA-2 Atoll). Starting in the mid-1960s, North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighters began using K-13s to shoot dow...
The Romanovs were taken tothe Ipatiev House, where they would be eventually murdered. When the tsar entered the house, he was told: “Citizen Romanov, you may enter.” The house was surrounded by a wooden fence, with two guard booths and numerous guards in the garden and outside. “The...
My family knows me so, so well. My big birthday present this year was “‘Wildflowers’ & All the Rest,” the long-awaited reissue of Tom Petty’s 1994 masterpiece album that would include additional material intended for the second disc of his original release. The 5-CD, super-deluxe ...
An ambitious man, big plans, big actions and a big appetite to conquer more and more. The most controversial figure in history. Some will say he was a tyrant. An egocentric man, who betrayed the ideals of the revolution and brought back the monarchy to France. The man who took away the...
The idea is to develop different projects that talk our multidisciplinary language in different ways: to be very fluid — liquido,” says Rizzo. “Scaling up can be as challenging as being unsuccessful,” observes Baldaszti. In 2016, he led an investment into ...
Victory and surrender would not come easily for the Allies in the Pacific Theater. Thewar in the Pacifichad started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. After years of battles and unsuccessful attempts at negotiating a treaty, the United States dropped atomic ...
He did not view Arab leaders such as Haj Amin al-Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem, as heroes of National Liberation. That perspective was imposed after the fact, starting in the 1960s, when young leftists adopted a starry-eyed view of anything that smacked of Third World revolution...
competitions, aiming to enter the top-level LEC competition. After two unsuccessful attempts at qualifying, they withdrew from League of Legends for the time being. Critically, PSG learnt an important lesson about establishing themselves in esports that would benefit them for years down the line. ...
How Edgar Snow was well aware of the crisis after the Great Leap Forward, but noted the unusual weather and did not class it as a famine. How Chinese life expectancy increased greatly under Mao, despite the Three Bad Years following the Great Leap Forward. How the Cultural Revolution coincide...
I read Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works because it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustained, high growth and turn into development success stories? And why have so few other countries...