Tag: History

On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from the top of Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate. Now, as the PRC celebrates its 75th ...

You’ve heard of woolly mammoths, but have you heard of woolly rhinos? Well, they existed, and they existed at the same time as the woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths just have ...

The Israeli military launched what it described as a “limited, localized” ground offensive into Lebanon on Monday in a bid to dislodge Hezbollah from the country’s south. The operations marked ...

Today, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, will celebrate his 100th birthday. He is the only U.S. president to reach that milestone, and his centenary is an ...

A man in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, discovered a skeleton in his cellar while pursuing a renovation project. But that was just the beginning. ‘Tis the spooky season, I guess. By the ...

Researchers found cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of two individuals who were buried in a 17th-century crypt in Milan, Italy, suggesting that Europe had much earlier experience with cocaine ...

During the first half of the 1980s, in the early days of the HIV pandemic, one ethnic group in the United States faced particularly inhumane and biased treatment. Haitian immigrants, ...

The Sept. 1 elections in the two eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia have hit Germany like a cyclone, delivering the strongest-ever turnout for an extreme right-wing party in ...

In the recent German state elections, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received the largest share of the vote in Thuringia and ran a close second in Saxony. The ...

Based on the last visit to the sunken vessel, the Titanic ship only has so much longer before it truly becomes a shell of itself. The Titanic sank on April ...