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  • Chavez's Inspiration - Simon Bolivar  By : Sam Vaknin
    Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a successful politician.
  • The Aung San Family in Myanmar  By : Sam Vaknin
    Aung San Suu Kyi is a much revered opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) (born 1945). She has bravely resisted - and still does - the murderous military regime in her homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Myths of the American Civil War  By : Sam Vaknin
    The Civil War (1861-5) has spawned numerous myths and falsities.
  • Another Look at Mahatma Gandhi  By : Sam Vaknin
    Many myths abound about Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948).
  • The First Serial Killer - Ed Gein  By : Sam Vaknin
    Ed Gein is also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.
  • Thousands of Failures, but Thousands of Patents  By : Sean North
    Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he revolutionized the world by inventing and patenting the incandescent light bulb. Because of his desire to create the incandescent light, he was one of the most persistent people in history. The invention in which Edison had the most failures, the incandescent light, was one of his most famous inventions. His persistence also led to many other great inventions. He had patents on items such as electricity, batteries, cement, motion pictures, phonographs, mining, telegraphs and telephones.
  • Slavery in the USA  By : Sam Vaknin
    The slaves were transported across the ocean in especially fitted ships. They were kept lying on narrow ledges, chained, but were brought above deck in good weather. Women and children were not shackled. Even these harsh conditions did not prevent the would-be slaves from frequently attempting to rebel, though, usually, unsuccessfully.
  • The American Revolution  By : Sam Vaknin
    The American Revolution was a civil war between Loyalists to the British crown (aka Tories, about one fifth of the population), supported by British expeditionary forces, and Patriots (or Whigs) in the 13 colonies that constituted British North America.
  • Terrorists and Freedom Fighters  By : Sam Vaknin
    People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be just causes are alternately known as "terrorists" or "freedom fighters".
  • Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital  By : Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD
    Frontal lobotomy psychosurgery was performed more than 200 times at this asylum without benefit of general anesthesia or an operating room.
  • A Moment of Truth about Maxim Gorky  By : Sam Vaknin
    Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) is widely considered a Bolshevik author, closely allied with the likes of Lenin and Stalin. But this is far from the truth.
  • Another Look at Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians)  By : Sam Vaknin
    Native Americans are often cast in the role of victims of White aggression and unbridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States. But the first massacre was perpetrated by Indians in the British colony Jamestown, in Virginia in 1622. They slaughtered 347 white men, women and children on that occasion.
  • Facts and Figures about the Presidents of the USA  By : Sam Vaknin
    The first president of the united States was not George Washington.
  • Human-made Monsters  By : Sam Vaknin
    Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature.
  • Lindbergh, Charles Augustus  By : Sam Vaknin
    Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight. This made him an instant celebrity. When, in 1932, his 19-months old son was kidnapped and murdered, the nation was appalled.
  • More about the Prohibition  By : Sam Vaknin
    Prohibition - the legal enforcement of abstinence from alcoholic beverages - is not an American invention.
  • The Abdication Crisis Revisited  By : Sam Vaknin
    The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas.
  • The Armenian Genocide  By : Sam Vaknin
    The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which some 600,000 Armenians perished.
  • The Building of the Pentagon  By : Sam Vaknin
    The Pentagon was completed in 16 months. It was built on a swamp and on the area of the old Washington airport. Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building's foundation rests on 41,492 concrete piles.
  • The Constitution of the Weimar Republic  By : Sam Vaknin
    The Weimar Republic was established in February 1919 in defeated Germany and lasted until March 1933, when it was replaced with Hitler's Third Reich.
  • The Family of Jesus Christ  By : Sam Vaknin
    Was Jesus born 2002 years ago? Was he born in year zero?
  • The First September 11  By : Sam Vaknin
    September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscraper. Actually, such tragedies are more common than is thought.
  • The Story of the Guillotine  By : Sam Vaknin
    The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier's head from the rest of his body.
  • The Teapot Dome Scandal  By : Sam Vaknin
    With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teapot Dome affair during the presidency of Warren G. Harding.
  • The Uganda Scheme  By : Sam Vaknin
    Theodore Herzl, the visionary who founded Zionism, was an assimilated Jew, who did not consider Palestine the optimal choice for a resurgent Jewish nationalism.
  • The USSR That Could Have been - Lenin's New Economic Policy  By : Sam Vaknin
    Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ) was not the first to introduce Perestroika - the economic liberalization of the communist system along capitalistic lines.
  • The REAL Thanksgiving  By : Gary R. Hess
    Read about what really happened on the first Thanksgiving and the years leading to it and beyond.
  • The First Thanksgiving  By : Gary R. Hess
    This is the story of the first Thanksgiving, the one the public schools tell you.
  • Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, born 1915  By : Vassil
    After seizing power in a bloody CIA-backed coup, General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile with a rod of iron for two decades, during which human rights violations became the norm of Chilean life.
  • Ferdinand Marcos - President of the Philippines, 1917-1989  By : Vassil
    A trained lawyer, Marcos was convicted of assassinating a political opponent of his father in 1939 and, from his condemned cell, argued his case up to the Philippine Surpreme Court, where he won an acquittal.

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