The Eiffel Tower is named after the very man who designed and built it: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. He is considered one of France’s design, engineering and architectural geniuses. He attained the distinction of Legion d’Honneur in France for his work. Born on the 15th of December 1832 in Côte d’Or,...
Technically, you can be both an immigrant or an emigrant which makes the terms immigrant and emigrant quite confusing and influences the way we often use them incorrectly. The best way to remember the differences and explain the meanings is to think in terms of the direction of travel. Someone...
In 1976, the first Take Back the Night occurred in Belgium. At that time, it was called the Reclaim the Night March. Women marched all across Belgium at night carrying candles as a sign of protest and anger against the rising violence against women including rape. By marching at night, the event...
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August, 1908, in Texas. He became the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America following the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. In 1964, the electorate officially elected him as president based on the positive social changes he had...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy served from 1961 to 1963 as the 35th President of the United States of America. As his motorcade drove through Dallas, Texas, on the 22nd of November 1963, he was assassinated. His legacy remains that of being one of the most popular American Presidents, the youngest President...
Born in 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was the first female leader of a Muslim state in 1988. At 16, Benazir Bhutto attended Harvard University where she attained a degree in Comparative Government. At 20 she moved to Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford where she studied Philosophy,...
On Wednesday, Andreas Mueller, the Swiss federal Magistrate, recommended the prosecution of three Swiss engineers, supposedly linked to the CIA, upon allegations of nuclear weapons technology smuggling. Urs Tinner, his brother, Marco, and his father, Friedrich, appeared before Mueller following...
In light of the recent release of 250,000 U.S. cables by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, the CIA has created a Wikileaks Task Force, dubbed W.T.F., to track the impact of the cables. The Washington Post was first to report that "Officially, the panel is called the Wikileaks Task Force. But...
Department of Homeland Security Officials reported to CBS News details of a terrorist plan to poison food. The plan included means of carrying out attacks at various hotels and restaurants throughout the U.S. over one single weekend. The Food and Drug Administration as well as the Department...
US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke candidly with ABC News regarding the "potentially bad news" and the very real threat of "homegrown terrorists." Holder offered to ABC: "[Homegrown Terrorism] is one of the things that keeps me up at night. You didn't worry about this even two years ago -...
