Venezuela has the world’s greatest oil reserves of any country. In 1998, Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela by…
The Russian and Chinese Holocausts of WW2
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, which was about 3%…
Law Promoting New EXXON Gas Pipeline
In a bitterly divided Congress, lawmakers still managed to come together to help Exxon Mobil pass major legislation that could…
The Fifth Column
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group…
The Century of the Common Man
Madam Chairman, and you who have spoken so eloquently tonight, and you who represent 33 different nations on this particular…
Tibetan Policy Act of 2002
I. Executive Summary The United States is encouraged that the People’s Republic of China invited the Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy…
H.R. 4331: Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2019
A pro-Tibet bill championed by Congressman Jim McGovern to put pressure on China heads to the U.S. Senate after passing…
Wall Street Sales Tax – “You Broke It, You Fix It”
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York…
The Eridu Genesis
The Eridu Genesis is written on a Sumerian cuneiform tablet of which about two thirds are now lost. The missing…
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Jinn are supernatural creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology. Like humans, they are created with fitra, neither born as believers nor as unbelievers,…
the ‘Triune Brain’ model
Neuroscience has offered many important insights into both the structure and function of the human brain. One of the most…
The Bhagavad Gita – “the Song of God”
The Bhagavad Gita (“The Song of God”), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Sanskrit scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of Bhishma…
The Seraphim are six-winged “fiery” angels
The prophet Isaiah tells us that the seraphim are six-winged “fiery” angels who surround God as He sits upon His…
Tunguska event flattened 80 million trees
The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (NS). The explosion…
“The Mountain of Death”
Rising up from the wilderness of Queensland, Australia, is an eerie sight that stands in stark contrast to the brush…
walking around Antarctica in a T-shirt
You could be walking around Antarctica in a T-shirt. A record-breaking temperature reading taken at an Argentinian research station on…
Bernard Sanders is not a Communist
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. The U.S. Representative for the state’s at-large…
Manifest destiny – American imperialism
Manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. There are…
The British Syrian Society
The British Syrian Society is an association set up to promote relations between the government of Syria and the United Kingdom. It was established in…
pomegranate buds, lulavs, etrogs
The Judean provisional government was a short-lived de facto governing entity of Judea, which was established in the year 66 by Judean rebel…
