Category: History
Tajik alphabet is stranger than it sounds.
The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: the original Persian alphabet, a briefly used Roman-based orthography, and—more recently—a Cyrillic-based alphabet…
Astro Wars is stranger than it sounds.
Astro Wars is an electronic table top game made in Great Britain in 1981 by Grandstand under licence from Epoch Co., who sold the game in Japan as…
Why 1976 Pittsburgh Panthers football team still gets people talking.
The 1976 Pittsburgh Panthers football team finished undefeated, won the Sugar Bowl, and earned national champion honors led by Heisman winner Tony Dorsett.
The simple version of Kurt Gerron.
Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director.
Death of Brandon Crisp is not quite what it seems.
Brandon Emmett Crisp was a Canadian teenage boy who disappeared on October 13, 2008, when he ran away from his home in Barrie, Ontario, after his parents took…
Philippine Declaration of Independence deserves a closer look.
The Philippine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by Filipino revolutionary forces general Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, in Cavite el Viejo, Philippines.
The simple version of Gabriela Silang.
Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño Silang was a Filipino military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain.
What people get wrong about First Philippine Republic.
The Philippine Republic, retroactively known as the First Philippine Republic or the Malolos Republic, was a state established in Malolos, Bulacan, during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish…
Philippine–American War still raises strange questions.
The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Filipino–American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Tagalog Insurgency, emerged in early 1899 following the United States' annexation of the former Spanish colony...
Commonwealth of the Philippines deserves a closer look.
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth (dependency) of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946.