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
With World War II ending, the abused Chinese began to experience some display of love and support from the Americans who initially abhorred and scorned them. On migrating to the United States during the Gold Rush, the Chinese went on to build
The bloody Saturday picture was extensively published between September–October 1937 and, in less than a month, had reached an audience of more than 136 million viewers. It displays a crying Chinese baby sitting within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s south railway station.
The 1952 winter was cold enough to freeze the Imjingang river. The river in northern Gyeonggi-do Province flows down and across the middle of the Korean Peninsula, and during this period, the peninsula was still at war, as the war had started
The Korean War began on the 25th of June 1950, after five years of boiling tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The war started after the North Korean army tried to take over South Korea to unify them and put them under the
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) between April 15 and June 4, 1989. These protests were majorly led and
The 20th century marked the start of the rapid growth and transformation of Old Cairo. The change can be seen in these street pictures that show how the City of a Thousand Minarets once looked. While the Fatimid dynasty, in AD 969,
The Sinchon massacre occurred between October and December 1950 in the Sinchon province of North Korea. During this attack period, which lasted for 52 days, approximately 35,000 people were maltreated, abused and killed by the American military forces and their supporters. These
Wait for Me, Daddy. This photo was taken on October 1, 1940, by Claude P. Dettloff of The British Columbia Regiment marching down Eighth Street at the Columbia Street intersection, New Westminster, British Columbia. When Dettloff took the photo, Warren “Whitey” Bernard
Since its creation time in 1954, the Godzilla, otherwise known as Gojira, the Godzilla is a Japanese monster that has passed freight on its viewers. Ishirō Honda first aired it. He shared his idea about what he felt his country was still
On May 28th, in 1934, a set of quintuplets were born outside Callander, Ontario. The province near Corbeil. Émilie, Yvonne, Cécile, Marie, and Annette Dionne were the first set of quintuplets to live up to adulthood. The quintuplets were born prematurely, and
The blast was heard around the world. While it wasn’t uncommon for accidents to happen during the war, this made the headlines worldwide. When the two ships clashed in the harbour of the port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 6th December
Star Wars is a 1977 grand American masterpiece. It was written and directed by George Lucas, the first of its series; Lucasfilm produced it. His affluence as a writer and director with American Graffiti was a significant reason he got the support
The beginning of the lumber trade in British Columbia can be traced to the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in 1886. The utilisation of interior forests aided the lumber market. This provided the lumber trade with the Prairie market. This was
Thirty-three-year-old Major Peter Makowicka, while on a training mission on January 14th,1975, noticed his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG21 had developed an engine failure. While he was closing the military airbase, the plane encountered an open cover hook at the engine compressor segment. This was
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on the 14th of March 1879, to his parents, Harmann Einstein and Pauline Koch. His father was an engineer and salesman. His family moved to Munich; there in Munich, Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie,
This picture was taken at the Wyndham Prison in the early 1900s. Wyndham is the oldest and northernmost town in the Kimberley area of Western Australia in 1886, it was established due to a gold rush at Halls Creek. There are only
