On February 1st, 1968, South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Chief of the National Police, shot Vietcong officer, Nguyen Van Lem in the head. After taking the shot, he walked over to the reporters and told them: “These guys kill a lot
The Falling Soldier has been famous for numerous reasons at numerous times. However, it’s most famous for what it captures, the photographer captured the precise moment a bullet fatally struck a Spanish Loyalist militiaman. While it’s debatable whether it was real as
Ambrose Everett Burnside was born on May 23, 1824, in Liberty, Indiana. His father was a court clerk and farmer. He spent his youthful days as a tailor before he secured an appointment to the United States military academy West Point in
On the 19th of September in 1962, George Aird was captured while he was in the lightning performing a display flight off the South coast. The photograph was then published in newspapers all around the world at the time leaving many people
In the village of Derge, close to the city of Goris in southern Armenia, armed confrontations occurred in nearby Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenia also asserts ownership over Azerbaijani territory. Here a 106-year-old Armenian woman sits in front of her house guarding it with
The 1914 Christmas Eve is highly remembered and recorded as one of the strangest events to happen during a war. During the First World War, the French and British allied forces came together to bring an end to the ongoing war they
The First Battle Of The Somme, lasted between July 1 to November 13, 1916. It was known as the Somme offensive, fought during the First World War, the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic went up against the
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts from Charlotte, North Carolina, was all set for school and had prepared extensively for this day. It was her first day in school and an all-white school. Dorothy had been admitted to Harry Harding High
Kevin Carter, a photojournalist South African photojournalist, had travelled down to Sudan on an endeavour in March 1993 when he came across a young girl who had stopped to rest on the way to a United Nations feeding centre where a vulture
After the stock market had come crumbling in October 1929, the already scared Wall Street had lost millions of investors, and The Great Depression was to follow after this economic crash. The Great Depression was the worst economic fall that occurred during
Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc in June 1963 set himself ablaze in the busy street of Saigon. He set himself ablaze in a bid to complain against the unjust laws against the Buddhists. The Buddhists had been banned from flying the
For a very long time, warships were built with heavy wood and propelled by human efforts and wind. However, the discovery of gunpowder engineered the first opportunity for machine-made materials as well as chemical energy. This led to the development of ironclads
Global Finance has released its report on The 20 best cities in the world to live in, in 2022 based on the criteria of these metrics: economic strength; Covid-19 deaths per thousand for the country; annual population growth rate; research and development;
These are the ten most heavily guarded places in the world. Most of them are surprising, like Area 51. While we may never have detailed information on what goes on in these places, this article sheds light on them. 1. HavenCo Limited:
In 1861, after decades of tension over diverse ideologies on slavery, states rights, and secession of the south from the union, the civil war broke out in the United States. Here we highlight some of the causes of the civil war. 1.
After the Canadian Pacific Railroad was completed in 1886, the lumber trade began in British Columbia; it made the utilization of the interior forest possible. It ushered in trade with the Prairie market, which lasted until 1913 and brought sufficient capital to