December 30 has witnessed a remarkable range of events throughout history, shaping the course of human civilization in ...
Nov. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1927, the Holland Tunnel was opened under the Hudson River, linking New York City and New Jersey. In 1933, the first recorded "sit-down" strike in the ...
St. Petersburg is set to host the second Russia-Africa summit on July 27-28, 2023 and an economic forum that will run alongside the summit. The events were first held on October 22-24, 2019 in Sochi.
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. You can’t blame your crimes on your twin, after all. This is because ...
It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ocean ...
Picture a long table covered end to end in crystal bowls filled with cured fish, pickled foods, and salads with an alarming amount of mayonnaise. There’s vodka and black bread on the table too. A man ...