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A panoramic exploration of World History and the civilizations, events, cultures, and figures that collectively shaped our world.
In 1999, bombings spread terror across Russia and led to the Second Chechen War. Here’s what happened and why so many questions remain unanswered.
Yōkai are a key part of Japanese folklore. This article explores how religious practices, mythology, and natural phenomena led to their development.
In the 1990s, Russia and the United States worked together on the Shuttle-Mir program. Here’s how it paved the way for space exploration today.
For eight years, the Middle East watched as two giants battled in the largest industrialized war since World War II. How did the Iran-Iraq War affect the economy?
Many wonder why such strong sociopolitical tensions exist in the Middle East. One major factor is the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, the largest industrialized war since WWII.
Trofim Lysenko was one of the most influential figures in Soviet science. Here’s how he rose to prominence and transformed Soviet agriculture.
The Battle of Red Cliffs is one of the most famous battles in Chinese history, but most accounts tend to mix fact and fiction.
A sexualized figure from late medieval Italy, was Lucrezia Borgia a salacious femme fatale or an innocent pawn in her family’s insidious machinations?