China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a … More
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A week of brazen Republican dishonesty
The top Republican in the House of Representatives said he doesn’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election — … More
Hamas and Israel: a history of confrontation
Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas are waging their most intense conflict in years. Here is a timeline of … More
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 … More
“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 … More
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 … More
Netanyahu misses deadline
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday failed to meet a midnight deadline to put together a new governing coalition, … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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) … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
