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From Waterloo to the Ukraine crisis, fear of violence has influenced interest rates, raised commodity prices, and enriched (and impoverished) individuals.
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The present proponents of US aggression towards Russia would have us think that Russia is a peer of the US and Western Europe.
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Following Russia's all-out invasion early this morning, several of planes are changing their itineraries around Ukraine.
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Biden claims to be 'convinced' that Putin will attack Ukraine.
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A single gunshot fired into the chest of Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist in 1914 immediately and unexpectedly triggered World War I.
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Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular “Forces’ Sweetheart” who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as “We’ll Meet Again,” and “The White Cliffs of Dover.” “The family are deeply saddened to announce …
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Carole Lombard came to Hollywood from the Midwest at the age of 7 and was making Westerns at Fox by age 9. The legendary star of such classics as “My Man Godfrey” and “Twentieth Century” would rise to become a high-paid performer in the middle of the Depression. Lombard was known for her tomboy style, …
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Germany tried paying people for not working after WWI. It didn’t turn out so well. Massive government debt, sky-high unemployment, the economy frozen, idle workers receiving payments from the government. This might sound like COVID-19, but I am actually talking about post-World War I Germany. If your high school history teacher skipped this story, here’s …
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WORLD ON FIRE ON PBS MASTERPIECE Sunday, 9 p.m., PBS A love triangle burns at the heart of the World War II drama “World on Fire.” Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King) leaves behind his British girlfriend, factory worker and aspiring singer Lois Bennett (Julia Brown), to be a translator for the British in Warsaw (Prague was …
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Helen Hunt says Nancy Campbell, the fictional reporter she plays in the war drama “World on Fire,” is based on two different real-life journalists: William Shirer, who chronicled Hitler’s rise to power for CBS Radio, and Claire Hollingworth, the Daily Telegraph reporter whose “scoop of the century” broke the news that Germany invaded Poland — …
From Waterloo to the Ukraine crisis, fear of violence has influenced interest rates, raised commodity prices, and enriched (and impoverished) individuals.
