Zionism is a movement that led to the creation of Israel, a nation for Jewish people, but what started this zealous movement for a Jewish...

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In the middle of the 20 th century, Iceland, a small and sparsely populated island nation, bested the United Kingdom, formerly the...

In a 2011 interview, ex-kamikaze pilot Hisao Horiyama recounted, “When we graduated from army training school, the Shōwa emperor visited...

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CW: Discusses torture, sexual and gender based violence. October 5th, 2012 marked a key legal victory for the Kenyan people known as the...