Historical

Ping-pong diplomacy
The World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan in 1971 marked a change after a friendly meeting between table tennis players Glen Cowan and Zhuang Zedong of the USA and the People's Republic of China (PRC). After two decades of hostility between the two countries fueled by the Cold War ideology and memories of the Korean War the trip was called "ping pong diplomacy" by the American media and led to the visit of some famous Americans to China. It tells the bizarre and tragic story of how a top-level game in the Chinese government was used to cover the deaths of 3.6 million people by holding the World Tennis Cup during the Great Famine, the heroism of their players convicted and murder during the Cultural Revolution, and the survivors reunited to shake their American counterparts in 1971.
By Diya Kumari4 years ago in FYI
Henery Ford-Life Biography
After Henry Ford's experience, he returns to his home in Dearborn, Michigan, to work part-time at the Westinghouse engine company, and spend his leisure time in a small machine room he owns in the family world. Three years later, Ford encounters an internal fire engine for the first time on his way back to the farm where he works part-time at an engine company and during his spare time in a small engine room he has set up. A month later he was appointed as the chief engineer of a large Detroit Edison Company plant, which oversaw 24-hour power supply.
By Diya Kumari4 years ago in FYI
League of Nations-First worldwide intergovernmental organization
The Class of Countries is a global association situated in Geneva, Switzerland that was set up during The Second Great War to give a discussion to settling worldwide questions. The Association was a global gathering framed during The Second Great War to determine clashes between countries before they emitted in open fighting.
By Diya Kumari4 years ago in FYI
The Auschwitz Massacre
Zsuzsa Diamanstein, a Romanian of Hungarian-Jewish origin, talks about the nightmare at Auschwitz and her meeting with the dreaded Dr. Mengele, nicknamed the 'Angel of Death' for his sadistic experiments on detainees.
By Maria Ostasevici 4 years ago in FYI
Tiny but Mighty: The Choker. Top Story - October 2021.
I grew up in the 90’s and early 2000’s. I scrunched my hair and straightened my bangs. I accessorized with bouncy butterfly clips, white eyeshadow, and flavored lip-gloss. I wore scrunchies on my wrist. I wrapped flannel shirts around my waist and danced in frayed wide leg jeans to Brittney. I begged my mom to let me bedazzle my bellybutton with stick-on rhinestones like Christina. (Looking back, thank God she said no.) It was grungy, it was tacky, and it was wonderful. As the fads of the 90’s and early 2000’s come trickling back into present day trends, the nostalgia washes over me and wraps me into the warm hug of childhood memories. As I happily embrace the comeback of bellbottoms and flannel, there has been one thing that just gets me giddy: the choker. Easily my favorite item from the time, wearing a choker always made me feel like the coolest kid in the room. They made me feel pretty, and there was something about them that felt so mature, like wearing one made me older and edgier than I was. As an adult, wearing a choker evokes the same kind of confidence; I feel sexy, spunky, and there’s something about them that now feels so sophisticated. It’s such a tiny accessory, and yet it stirs up so much emotion and so quickly bumps my self-esteem up a few notches. Looking back through the choker’s history, it turns out that I am not the only one that the piece has this type of effect on. It’s been a look for thousands of years and has held power in many ways over the centuries.
By Chelsea Adler4 years ago in FYI
The 4 Best Books About American History
"History is the biography of the present," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville. The History Of the United States Of America may be unwieldy in size; but then its enormousness is testimony to the plethora of incidents and characters that shaped the American story.
By Borba de Souza4 years ago in FYI
The 4 Best Books About Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest military geniuses in history and a charismatic leader, rose from humble origins to become Emperor of France. He established the Napoleonic Code, which is still the basis of French law today. His campaigns reshaped Europe and sent shockwaves through the rest of the world. Even two centuries after his death, historians and biographers continue to publish books about Napoleon.
By Borba de Souza4 years ago in FYI
Declaration of American Independence
On August 2, 1776, one month after Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, an attractive translation of the Bible was signed at Pennsylvania State House, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where many members of Congress were busy presenting the official document with open, clear hands. The five-member committee drafted the proclamation, which was available from Congress to vote for independence.
By F sapkota4 years ago in FYI
Agenda 21 - an overview
Agenda 21, the United Nations Sustainable Development Plan signed by the leaders of 178 countries in 196 countries in 1992, is not legally binding and has no authority to act. In the hands of a dedicated group of right-wing activists, however, it was portrayed as a key step in a secret plan to undermine property rights, redistribute wealth, and force the United States and other countries to become a one-world dictatorship.
By Shreya Poudel4 years ago in FYI
Deciphering a 250-Year-Old Mysterious Cipher
In the fall of 1998, Dr. Christiane Schaefer, professor at the department of linguistics and philology, was moving from Germany to Uppsala University. During her farewell, one of her colleagues gave her an old green-colored book as a parting gift.
By Kamna Kirti4 years ago in FYI
Do you even know why we celebrate Columbus Day?
The biggest mass lynching in U.S. history was committed against Italian immigrants in New Orleans in retaliation for the murder of an Irish police chief. That’s probably not what comes to mind when you think “lynching,” but it’s a fact. Although the vast majority of lynching victims in American history were black, a small but not-insignificant percentage were not. The glittering surface of America’s “Gilded Age” — roughly 1880 to 1910 — served as cover for the dark underbelly of the era: rising white nationalism, explosive growth of the Ku Klux Klan, racial pseudoscience (genteely described as “eugenics”), and mob terror — certainly against African-Americans, but also anyone deemed not quite white. It was also a time of extreme wealth inequality — the Tech Titans of the era were called “Robber Barons” for a reason. Industrial fat cats and their political allies knew that the best way to keep voters from noticing the real source of their problems was to find a scapegoat — preferably one with dark skin and a foreign language and religion. On the West Coast, Chinese immigrants would have to suffice. Everywhere else, bronze-skinned immigrants, mostly from Italy, made the perfect whipping boys.
By Ashley Herzog4 years ago in FYI
Out with the old and in with the new?
I woke up today from a text from my oldest stating: 'Happy Indigenous People's Day.' So I had to jump on google calendars and look to see what I had missed. Nope- the google calendar still states- Federal Holiday- Columbus Day. However, all the major museums, government buildings, and the Smithsonian are posting articles on Indigenous Peoples Day.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins4 years ago in FYI