History Short: Aircraft Carriers Join the Jet Age By Major DanFebruary 1, 2025 A Brief History On February 1, 1950, the first successful night landing of jet aircraft onto an aircraft carrier occurred when the US Navy landed an octet of Grumman F9F Panthers onto the deck of the USS Valley...
On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonize...
from the National Academy of Athens presented by the national scientific committee, which was assigned to study the Nea Kameni islet during the 1925–1950 eruptions. This section deals with recounting the salient aspects of the 20th century eruptions as derived from information of...
For those who witnessed the hearings and remember the prevailing dismissive public opinion, this documentary is a chance to relive hearings with the sober clarity of a post-Weinstein mindset and to learn just how pivotal and galvanizing this moment was in our history. How to watch: Anita is ...
History on Televisiondoi:10.1080/01439685.2014.943970Nick BaronHistorical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Now 40 years old,McAvoy has spent the last 10 years rebuilding his life from one of crime to one with purpose. It was on this day, while running the ultramarathon, that he realized how impactful conquering (征服) this mountain run ...
On the eve of the First World War and the Revolution, Ukrainians were a people who had not yet developed a crystallised national consciousness and whose emergence to the stature of nationhood seemed like a distant goal. Indicative of their predicament un
Groundhog Day meets Some Kind of Wonderful in this delightful romantic comedy from director Ari Sandel. Adam Devine and Alexandra Daddario star as Noah and Avery, friends who could've worked as a couple but didn't get the timing right. So when the pining Noah discovers a magical photo booth...
Welcome to Chechnya does both with heartbreaking heroism, urging western audiences to at the very least acknowledge the genocide that continues to this day.— A.F. How to watch: Welcome to Chechnya is now streaming on Max. 15. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...
There is no doubt that the drought characteristics in a given region can be assessed using long-term data. This type of analysis provides an understanding of long-term climate change, the interaction between several factors, as well as the climatic environment in historical periods [1]. The ...