Phillip K. Dick science fiction writer and author explains in this interview about the differences in literary expression in both France and America. Dick was the author of Man in The High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , which would later on be adapted to television and films. Dick criticizes American desire for […]
Read more "Phillip K. Dick Interview in France (1977)"Before Title IX and the modern Olympics women participated in sports. Women being athletes is not a recent phenomenon; there is a history dating back as far as ancient civilization. There were times in which women were prohibited from competition and in response formed games of their own. Normally, the historiography of sport focused on […]
Read more "A General Introduction to The History of Women in Sports"These are postcards produced in the German Empire during World War I. They depict the emperors of the Central Powers who were in conflict with the Allies which included the British Empire, France, and the Russian Empire. Kaiser Wilhelm was the German emperor who allied with Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Ottoman empire […]
Read more "World War I Postcards Depicting the Emperors of the Central Powers (1914-1918)"The photograph above shows Francis Clalin, but like some women during the Civil War she disguised herself as a man to fight on the front. America was in lethal conflict with the north and south torn between the Union as well as a rebellious Confederacy. Francis enlisted in 1861 under the name Jack Williams. She […]
Read more "Francis Clalin: Female Combat Soldier During the American Civil War"The United States was responsible for the increase of radical political Islamism in Afghanistan. Starting during the Carter administration, the US began funding extremists groups. The Ronald Reagan administration continued this policy as a way to harm the Soviet Union. Destabilizing Afghanistan would lead the country into a war that was not able to be […]
Read more "Ronald Reagan Press Conference with The Mujahideen (1985)"This video from 1988 shows Aung San Suu Kyi giving her first public speech. Since 1962 the Burmese lived under the oppressive military rule of Ne Win. There were uprisings that occurred in 1988, for which the Burmese public wanted a change in government. Aung San Suu Kyi became a major figure in the […]
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