In 2004, the United States waged one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. For many the city was a symbol of resistance to the US war and occupation; since the battle it has become a symbol of the worst...
Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest mountain and the world’s tallest freestanding mountain. It is a geological wonder formed, sculpted, and molded by the natural forces of volcanic fire and glacial ice. At 19,340 feet (5,895 meters)...
At 5:21 in the afternoon on 9/11 — almost seven hours after both the Twin Towers had collapsed — Building 7 of the World Trade Center also came down, even though it had not been struck by an airplane and had fires on only a few floors....
American foreign policy in recent years has been based, in part, on the assumption that Osama bin Laden is still alive. George W. Bush promised as president that he would get Osama bin Laden ‘dead or alive’ and has been widely criticized for failing...
George Bernard Shaw wrote that on the last day of Creation, ‘God desired to crown His work,’ and so fashioned the Croatian coastline ‘out of tears, stars, and breath.’ Anyone who has glimpsed that long, mountainous, island-...
A definitive concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings right up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century that Portugal became a country in its own right, having been a Roman colony and then...
