Diver Discovers 900-Year-Old Sword from the Crusades off Coast of Israel
A 900-year-old sword, along with a range of other objects from the same period, was discovered by a scuba diver off the shore of Carmel,…
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Charge President with Crimes against Humanity, Says Brazil’s COVID-19 Crisis Report
COVID-19 has killed over 600,000 people in Brazil as of this writing. That is an incredible number of people, so if it helps, think of…
Biden Administration Plans Seven Offshore Wind Farms along Almost Entire US Coast
The United States is about to change its power dynamics, as well as its coastlines, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a plan to build seven…
Turkish Man Reported Missing Drunkenly Joins His Own Search Party
If you need some motivation to cut back on the booze this weekend, consider this: a man in Turkey went missing after a late-night drinking…
Turkey Finally Ratifies the Paris Climate Agreement
Turkey, the last of the G20 nations to do so, has officially ratified the Paris Climate Agreement, five years after signing it. The unanimous acceptance…
Biden Issues First-Ever Presidential Proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today, October 11, President Joe Biden became the first president to issue an official proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples Day. The day will be celebrated “indigenous…
Angela Merkel’s Career Shows Why We Need More Scientists in Politics
Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has led her country through a period of unprecedented uncertainty, from the global financial crisis of 2008 to Brexit, the need…
E-democracy – the use of Information and Technology in Political and Governance
E-democracy is the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in political and governance processes. It is also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy.…
120,000-Year-Old Tools for Leather and Fur among Oldest Evidence of Humans making Clothes
A series of 120,000-year-old bone tools discovered in North Africa maybe some of the world’s oldest concrete evidence of cloth-making, marking a turning point in…
I asked Historians what Find made them go ‘wait, Wut?’ Here’s a Taste of the Hundreds of Replies
When historians go to an archive or do research, we never know what we’ll find. We can get a general idea of what’s in a…
A visit to a historical place/building (Fakr Ad-Din Mosque, Somalia)
The Fakr Ad-Din Mosque (Arabic: مسجد فخر الدين زنكي), also known as Masjid Fakhr Ad-Din, was erected in the thirteenth century by the first Sultan…
A visit to a historical place/building (Zawiya of Sidi Bel Abbes, Morocco)
In 1605, Sa’dian ruler Abu Faris al-Wathiq (reg. 1603-1609) commissioned the Zawiya of Sidi Bel Abbes or Zaouia of Sidi Bel-Abbès (Arabic: زاوية سيدي بلعباس)…
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