Relations Between Chiang Kai-Shek and the United Stated During WWII
Chiang Kai-shek led the Kuomintang, otherwise known as the Republican Party of China during World War II. The Kuomintang fought on two ...
Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty
Poor material living conditions were such a persistent and pervasive reality that, for much of human history, it was unimaginable that ...
Ancient Egyptian Ink Turned Out to Be Similar to Renaissance Paint
The Egyptians' advanced technique for drying ink was rediscovered about 17 centuries later during the Renaissance. ...
The Notre-Dame Crypt Reopens for the First Time Since the Fire
To mark the occasion, a new exhibition in the area under the cathedral’s courtyard honors novelist Victor Hugo and architect Eugène ...
How 19th-Century Anti-Black and Anti-Indigenous Racism Reverberates Today
A case study for the nation, Minnesota has witnessed racial violence from its inception as a U.S. territory ...
Are Karl Marx and Satan Taking Over America?
Alarm bells should be ringing across our great nation in the face of one of the gravest existential threats it has ever faced, and one ...
The Warsaw Uprising : a day of silence
about 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and about 6,000 badly wounded. In addition, between 150,000 and 200,000 ...
Ebola: History and Outbreaks
Ebola was first discovered more than 40 years ago, though data suggests the virus existed long before it was officially identified. The ...
The Ashmolean : World’s first university museum
On June 6, 1683, The Ashmolean, the world’s first university museum, opens in Oxford, England. ...
The fall of Troy
Its position was crucial in controlling the trade routes towards the Black Sea and, as the Trojan prince Paris mentions to the Spartan ...