On the morning of 30 July 1929, a man carrying a small axe entered the upper terrace of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura and struck one of its principal branches several
Once a small but strategic British colony, Heligoland played a crucial role in European geopolitics before being forever altered by one of history’s most powerful explosions. Britain controlled the 1-square-mile island from
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The deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his partner, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, have led to movie clips of “The French Connection” movie being shared across social media. Hackman, who starred in
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In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean
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Professor Parkinson was so right. In the 1950s, a mild-mannered British naval historian named Cyril Northcote Parkinson stuck a devastating blow against bureaucracy. His crucial analysis is even truer today than when The
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The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is still repeated in today’s textbooks. Money is said to have originated as just another
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Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation and specialization of industrial production required written recordkeeping,
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The struggle for justice remains unresolved. A matter that once seemed settled—the fate of war criminal ATM Azhar, whose execution appeared imminent—has been brought into question once again. What was once a
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A controversial new claim by New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe suggests that the United Kingdom played a pivotal role in provoking World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution to further
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Hierarchies are a familiar form of human organization where individuals and groups of high social status are ranked above others and make decisions. Some examples are an oligarchy, a small group of
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A 600-year-old tradition in the Belgian town of Geraardsbergen has been halted after new animal welfare laws banned the practice of drinking live fish in wine, sparking protests from local traditionalists. The
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The sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk on August 12, 2000, remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in modern Russian history—a catastrophe that left 118 submariners stranded and helpless
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In a striking revelation this week, anonymous sources informed major U.S. outlets that the CIA has been operating MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to monitor drug cartels. This move, billed as part
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New archaeological discoveries in Shandong province, eastern China, suggest that parts of the Great Wall of China may be up to 300 years older than previously thought, dramatically reshaping the historical understanding
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is calling on the Trump administration to declassify FBI and CIA files related to the assassination of Malcolm X. This plea comes as the nation marks the
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John G. Trump, the influential scientist and engineer, has often been overshadowed by the larger-than-life presence of his nephew, Donald J. Trump, who, following a controversial and turbulent first term, has now
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