Casting a wide net over the intriguing world of Modern History
In 2006, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela took over from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the nation with the largest oil reserves on the planet. But unlike the other countries atop that list, such as Canada, Kuwait and the U.A.E, present…
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Brian Bilston wrote this durable poem in 2016: “America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea.France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a short, squat olive tree.America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand.Argentina, Maradona’s hand.Germany, an oompah band.America…
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Before we begin, let’s just establish that according to the Nuremberg Principles, what Vladimir Putin has done in Ukraine constitutes a War Crime. The dilemma this creates is that if we drag him before the Hague and charge him with such crimes,…
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Our story begins in the The Kingdom of Benin which, just to be confusing, is located in the southwest of present day Nigeria and not the nation of Benin, which is just a few kilometres west. Today, the old Benin Kingdom is…
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For over 600 years, the Ottoman Empire occupied the gateway between the East and the West. At its zenith in 1522, the Empire lead by Sulieman the Magnificent, controlled a quarter of Europe (south east), in addition to the Anatolian Peninsula, the…
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It was 98 years ago this week, that an unknown group of German fascists first gained international attention, after a failed attempt at a coup d’etat. The large group first gathered at a huge Beer Hall in Munich, called the Burgerbaukeller. This…
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The debacle otherwise known as the ‘War in Afghanistan’ lasted 20 years, making it far and away the longest war the USA has ever been involved in. After two decades of fighting, over 100,000 deaths and at a cost of almost a…
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We often hear nowadays that the West is declining and being overtaken by China. Actually, China is not rising to the top of the ladder, it is returning. For thousands of years the geographically enormous nations of China and India have been…
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The northernmost region of South America, with a coastline along the Caribbean Sea, is known as Guiana – an old indigenous word meaning ‘land of many waters’. For centuries it was home to the Arawok and Carib peoples, who were very similar,…
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There are probably around 130 founding fathers of the USA. Those who speak of the founders as though they were Messengers from God, probably couldn’t name any of them apart from the A-Listers: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John…
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