Tag: ancient history
Fire and Rescue Service Long Service and Good Conduct Medal deserves a closer look.
The Fire and Rescue Service Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was established in June 1954 as a long service medal awarded to members of fire and rescue…
The surprising truth about Review of Religions.
The Review of Religions is an English-language comparative religious magazine published monthly by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
The facts behind The Case for Latvia.
The Case for Latvia.
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.