November

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Among all the speeches delivered in the history of the United States, few could be said to have anywhere near the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a bid to shore up support in its fight against the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, the British government issued a bold statement with long-ranging consequences…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six months after World War II in Europe came to an end, officials from all over the planet gathered in Nuremberg, Germany to put prominent Nazi…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Early in the first Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty of China and Meiji Empire of Japan were both looking for a key strategic victory to give…

Early on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, one of the most famous events in modern history occurred under bright Texas skies: John F. Kennedy, the President of the United…

Politics has almost always been exclusively left to men, nowhere more so than in Africa. In the midst of tremendous turmoil, stable governments haven’t often been the rule on the…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Much like Galileo Galilei before him, the British biologist Charles Darwin upended centuries of thought when he published his theories in On the Origin of Species…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the gorgeous port city of Valparaiso, Chile, a boy that would go on to become one of the most brutal rulers in the history of…

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Long before tales of vampires captured the imagination, the man known as Vlad III Dracula ruled Wallachia with an iron fist. Known for his ruthless treatment…

The specter of terrorism fell on a new continent when members of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine trafficking organization, the Medellin Cartel, planted a bomb on Avianca Flight 203, bringing down the…