Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas are waging their most intense conflict in years. Here is a timeline of…
Israel steps up Gaza offensive – AGAIN…
Israel on Wednesday pressed ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 senior…
“Giant of Castelnau”
“Giant of Castelnau” refers to three bone fragments (a humerus, tibia, and femoral mid-shaft) discovered by Georges Vacher de Lapouge in 1890 in the…
The Holodomor – ‘to kill by starvation’
The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized: Holodomór, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmor]; derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, ‘to kill by starvation’), also known as the Terror-Famine and sometimes referred to as the Great Famine, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932…
Netanyahu misses deadline
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday failed to meet a midnight deadline to put together a new governing coalition,…
The Fed’s Cold War Bunker
The Culpeper Switch is a sprawling bunker built by the Federal Reserve to keep the banks running after nuclear apocalypse. But…
Kuwait: Murder spurs demands for greater safety
“We told you he’d kill her and he killed my sister!.. Where is the government?” Dana Akbar yells in grief…
Continuity of government (COG)
Continuity of government (COG) is the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a government to continue its essential operations in case of…
Raven Rock Mountain – Underground Pentagon
The Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), also known as Site R, is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, at Raven…
Carthage was an ancient civilization in Tunisia
Carthage was an ancient Phoenician city-state and civilization located in present-day Tunisia. Founded around 814 BC as a colony of Tyre, it was one of the richest and most…
Baal Cycle – Northwest Semitic form of Adad
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. “Owner”, “Lord”), a storm god associated with fertility. It is one of the Ugarit texts. The text identifies…
India Covid: Delhi builds makeshift funeral pyres
Crematoriums in the Indian capital Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres, as the city runs out of…
Crispus Attucks – the first American killed
Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston…
Dromahair – “ridge of the two air demons”
Dromahair (Irish: Droim Dhá Thiar, meaning “ridge of (the) two demons”) is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland. Dromahair is 10 km (6 mi) from Manorhamilton and 17 km (10 mi)…
the man who invited the English into Ireland
Dermot MacMurrough was the King of Leinster during the twelfth century and is most remembered as the man who invited…
Tighearnán Mór Ua Ruairc
Tighearnán Mór Ua Ruairc (older spelling: Tigernán Mór Ua Ruairc), anglicised as Tiernan O’Rourke (fl. 1124–1172) ruled the kingdom of Breifne as the 19th king in its…
SpaceX Wins Contract For Next Lunar Lander
NASA will pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the surface…
Alexei Navalny ‘Could Die At Any Moment’
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is three weeks into a hunger strike, protesting the lack of medical attention he…
Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with…
1829: Gdańsk dike break flood kills 1,200
April 9, 1829: The Polish city of Gdańsk is flooded when the dike breaks, killing 1,200 people. Gdańsk, also known as Danzig, is…
