One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine.He is a teacherat one of London’s big medical schools.He had finished his teaching for the summer term andwas at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.He had put a few clothes and his lectur...
What makes Idaho stand out, however, are the lengths Ada County’s coroner goes to to give the unclaimed a respectful send-off into the afterlife. Each May, the Ada County coroner and Cloverdale Cemetery in Boise co-host a public Memorial for the Forgotten ceremony. An even that requires m...
What Happened On September 26 Was Punished for Preventing World War III September 26, 1983 After saving the world, he was reprimanded for not correctly documenting the incident. Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at a Soviet early-warning system when the system reported that up to six Minutem...
It was another one of those peculiar and picturesque stories that happened in motorsport in the 1960s and, who really stood out in the 1968/69 Tasman Series. Thereupon, stay tuned, because the real story of this text starts here. But, as expected, without the support and protection of the...
What happened to the Weimar Republic? What happened in the Egyptian Revolution of 1919? What happened in the Holocaust in 1933? What happened to poverty rate after the War on Poverty? What happened during the Second Agricultural Revolution? What happened to the Indigenous natives of Australia? Wh...
All this happened 100 years ago and there is no current pandemic on the horizon. There are steps to be taken to ease one’s mind when thinking about the flu. Some get flu shots, some wear masks, others drink more rum. This is important stuff to be aware of. It was not that long ...
And what happened? Nalini Ambady: Uhm…there was 8 [in their evaluations]. It was amazing! Robert Krulwich: So students who saw the professor for ten seconds gave the exact same ratings as the students who knew him for months! Nalini Ambady: Precisely! That’s exactly what we found. ...
Although this happened in 1933, it was not until the 1980s, in the preliminary days before the fall of the Soviet Union, that the archives were opened and historians were able to review the report of Vasily Velichko, a Soviet propaganda worker who had dared to investigate and had even wri...
East Slavic population over the next couple of centuries. The nameRus’was brought by them from Sweden, while the city of Kyiv had been already there since the 5thcentury. Christianization, as Viking’s typical geopolitical move, happened at the end of the 10thcentury in the Byzantium ...
From 1871 to 1914, the gold standard was at its pinnacle. During this period, near-ideal political conditions existed among most countries—including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and India—that instituted the gold standard. However, this all changed with the outbreak of the Great War in 191...