Tagged: History

Israel Makes Terror Group Say "Uncle"

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 37 Comments • 3 months ago

Photo: Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said the group is now open to negotiating a cease-fire with Israel.VIA REUTERS Related: 1. Generally I have mixed feelings about Bill Maher,...

Pilot Believes He Found Amelia Earhart's Long-Lost Plane

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 1 Comments • last year

Rachel Maddow Examines Cause of Alarming Rate of Increase of Targeted Hate Within the U.S.

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 15 Comments • 2 years ago

What came first Israel or Palestine?

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 2 years ago

UK university to offer postgraduate degree in witchcraft and the Occult

Via: michael-c • World News • 9 Comments • 2 years ago

Before Columbus: The Forgotten Expeditions to North America - Owlcation

Via: jbb • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 2 years ago

The Bird Dropping Institute - A Think/Stink Tank for Morons!

By: eat-the-press-do-not-read-it • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 2 years ago

As many of my dear readers, and illiterate friends, know, as CEO & FLOUNDER of the Bird Droppings Institute, located in lovely, but nearly all torn down Mildew, Ohio, where there are no jobs,...

The Untold Biography of Jonathan Livingston Pigeon-Poo, Doctored. Told by an Idiot for Maroons, only!

By: eat-the-press-do-not-read-it • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 3 years ago

When I was a kid studying for the electric chair, I lived in a poor part of town, "Trash-Landia." We were so poor we couldn't afford groceries, we had to rent them. We were so poor that we...

The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything

Via: tig • News & Politics • 64 Comments • 3 years ago

This is a great, informative, perspective-setting discussion.

As America's 250th Birthday Nears, the Shape of Its Origin Story Shifts - The New York Times

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 4 years ago

Opinion | Tom Hanks: The Tulsa Race Massacre Is Every American's History - The New York Times

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 4 years ago

The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice | Mental Floss

Via: john-russell • History & Sociology • 23 Comments • 5 years ago

The Kurdish-Israel Relationship: Former covert Israeli forces 'training Kurds in Iraq' (during Iraq War)

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 6 years ago

Duvdevan learn how to "appear out of thin air" (Photo: Ynet, Gadi Gabalo ) Notes: 1.Since the seeded article did not have any photos, I used this photo from an excellent article in...

Lessons of first WTC bombing (1993)

Via: krishna • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

[I was motivated to seed this article from the past when I saw this recent this seed of this current (8/31/2019) news story: " Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Stabbed In Prison"]....

CrashCourse - A Few Short Videos On Evolution And Intelligent Design

By: dignitatem-societatis • Other • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

From CrashCourse on YouTube Click to view CrashCourse's entire Big History series. Click to view CrashCourse's entire Philosophy series.

Dutch lawmaker cancels Mohammad cartoon contest over safety concerns

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 7 years ago

Illustration showing Mohammed (on the right) preaching his final sermon to his earliest converts, on Mount Arafat near Mecca; taken from a medieval-era manuscript of the astronomical...

A look back: John McCain's "Arab Moment"

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 22 Comments • 7 years ago

A very important moment in American political history! This got a mixed reaction, some folks praising McCain as man of rare character, others bashing him as being a traitor to the Republican...

An important bit of history: Trump Calls the News Media the ‘Enemy of the American People’

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

(Photo: TPM) Feb. 17, 2017 President Trump, in an extraordinary rebuke of the nation’s press organizations, wrote on Twitter on Friday that the nation’s news media “is the enemy of...

CLINTON: U.S. & N Korea reached agreement that will make the US, Korean Peninsula, & the world safer.

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 7 years ago

I am pleased that the United States and North Korea yesterday reached agreement on the text of a framework document on North Korea's nuclear program. This agreement will help to achieve a...

What Was Liberalism?

Via: dignitatem-societatis • History & Sociology • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

This is from one of my favorite YouTube channels, Philosophy Tube. It's produced by Olly, who not so long ago received his Master of Philosophy and decided to share it with the world....

"Must see video": Bill Clinton Touts North Korea Deal in 1994!

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 7 years ago

The Myth of Deep Throat

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

Columnists, talking heads and op-ed writers are holding open auditions for a role that presumably needs to be filled if we are ever going to get to the bottom of what seems fated to be dubbed,...

Who are the Kurds?

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

There have been several diaries lately about the Kurds and the Turkish border, Kirkuk, the debacle in Iraq; some of these diaries well sourced, others, not so much... But, who are the...