The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony, has been behind one of the longest and most brutal conflicts in Uganda and its neighboring countries. This conflict has displaced nearly two million people and killed thousands. The LRA started its rebellion
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
The death of Queen Elizabeth II a few weeks ago on the 8th of September 2022, may have gathered global attention but in the process, also brought about the reopening of some old wounds, one of which was the colonialism in Africa
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:
Few people are familiar with Biafra, a little country in western Africa that broke away from Southern Nigeria in 1967 before being retaken in less than three years. Images of the widespread famine and disease that may have killed millions of people
Today In History: 1. 1941 Bombing At Babi Yar: On this day, the Nazis began a two-day murder at Kiev’s Babi Yar ravine, ending with around 33,000 Soviet Jews being massacred. 2. Haitian Coup In 1991: In a military takeover, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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
During the early 1930s, a group of fun-seeking stunt drivers usually performed cheering stunts in front of an ever-ready audience. Part of the stunt performance included driving through a firewall, i.e., burning cars arranged in a straight line, wrecking cars, and descent
Famous Dutch painter and photographer George Hendrik Breitner was born on the 12th of September, 1857. He is renowned for painting street scenes and harbours in a realistic style, horse trams on the Dam, and demolition and construction jobs; he also recorded
