What countries were on France's side during the Napoloeonic Wars? What countries were in the War of 1812? Who were the allies in WW2? What European country or countries controlled Vietnam before World War II? What happened in the Allied invasion of Italy?
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 ...
Being a leader in the movement to end apartheid in South Africa was probably the greatest achievement of the man’s life work, and it should come as a surprise to no one that this is the focus of his many obituaries, along with the Nobel he was awarded in 1984. After Martin Luther Ki...
We measured faster giraffe gaits in the wilds of South Africa, as zoo giraffes couldn’t safely do them. And we found they don’t normally go airborne, just using a rotary gallop (not trot, pace or canter); unlike some other mammals. Stay tuned: next we get evolutionary with this ...
It’s not going well in Africa. They are such an old culture, they can’t unbend enough to understand the rest of the world, which they culturally don’t consider human, anyway. So it backfires. Every time.) That is their best hope, and their best offensive. It’s how historically...
If you ask any Louisvillian of a certain age–“Where were you during The Tornado?”–they will tell you without asking which tornado you mean. In a city where tornadoes are a way of life, this is pretty significant when you consider the one in question happened some 42 years ago, dest...
But the truth is so few people are reading him, and of the books he wrote basically (except a Victorianist)Vanity Fair. It’s permissible to doubt his greatness as a writer. For me the question before has been what happened? What went wrong after this? I’ve been reading Catherine Pete...
Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour season 1 (US) The Acolyte two-episode premiere (US) Clipped episodes 1 and 2 (UK) Mae (Amandla Stenberg) in The Acolyte. (Image credit: Lucasfilm) June 5 The Acolyte two-episode premiere (UK) Disney Jr.’s Ariel: Mermaid Tales Shorts season 1 (US...
The decline of the US dollar hegemony is ever so clear today and this article aims to provide the reader with what exactly happened during past periods of reserve currency transitions. Historically, when a reserve currency transitioned over to a new one,it marked a pivotal change ...
andglobally over 3.1 million deathshave been attributed to COVID-19. This happened in the final year of the Trump administration. Two years prior to the pandemic, theTrump administration disbanded the pandemic response team(though some team members were reassigned to other roles). The pandemic re...