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July 4, 2023 · Politics
(Image by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0) The Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, lasted from 1947 to 1991. This era was marked by political hostility, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition. However, the end of the Cold […]
July 1, 2023 · Politics
The American Civil War, a landmark event in United States history, was a four-year-long struggle (1861-1865) that started with the attack on Fort Sumter and pitted the Northern States, known as the Union Army, against the Southern states, known as the Confederate Army. The big issue of slavery mainly fueled the Civil War. The North […]
April 1, 2023 · People
Tracing the Connection Between France’s Revolutionary Past and Current Protests for Workers’ Rights. France has a long history of social and political protest, dating back to the French Revolution of 1789. The revolution was driven by a desire for individual rights and freedoms and a rejection of the oppressive policies of the Bourbon monarchy. This led […]
September 10, 2022 · Crime
Over 215 children were found buried in a Canadian residential school in British Columbia. This recent event reminded the whole country of the most shameful chapter in its history. These children were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School founded in 1890 by the Roman Catholic Church and closed in 1978. Rosanne Casimir, who is […]
September 8, 2022 · Politics
I don’t think I have to tell you that there’s something going on in the world. In 2020 a terrible pandemic broke out around the world. Millions of people were forced to sit at home, being scared and at risk of losing their jobs. Not only in the United States, but also in the rest […]
July 10, 2022 · War
In the 16–17th century, the Netherlands, or the low countries called at that time was under the rule of the Spanish King Philip II, he was the king of the Spanish empire which at this time included large parts of Europe. Philip was very religious, and Catholic and required his people to be so. Other […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He became known worldwide with his work The Gulag Archipelago, in which he wrote, among other things, about the labor camps in the Soviet Union. When the secret service in his country finds out in 1945 that he has spoken negatively about […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
The communist Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was ruled by the Communist party as a one-party state. Although the Soviet Union was officially a union of fifteen subnational Soviet socialist republics, the government and economy were highly centralized. Until its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union didn’t treat its civilians very well. It […]
June 28, 2022 · Ancient World
Women’s right has been an important issue for a couple of decades, and it still is, but what if I tell you there was an ancient civilization where women had more rights than in some modern countries? The Ancient Egyptians were quite tolerant regarding women, many of their gods were female, and the divine femininity […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
One of the most unusual things about Russia is that you probably don’t know much about it. Russia has a very long and diverse history that most people don’t know about as the biggest country on the planet. With Russian Tsars ruling Siberia and communist regimes taking over, there is so much to discover. Here […]
