From Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, New Amsterdam to New York: The politics behind name changes
Geographical name changes can be a result of a shift in regimes, indigenous movements, decolonisation, or political factors.
How will mines dropped by drones change warfare?
America developed scatterable mines in the 1960s, during the Vietnam war. These weigh only one-fifth as much as traditional ...
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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...
Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on ...
Baltic nations cut ties to Russian power grid, prepare to link with EU
The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on Saturday, the region's operators ...
The New Yorker5d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
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Unmade 1990s The Hobbit Adaptation Could Have Surpassed Every Animated The Lord Of The Rings Movie
The Lord of the Rings has been portrayed by animation a few times, but one little-known 1991 pilot could have ended up ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world ...
American Rifleman15d
Snipers Below Freezing: An Assessment Of Finnish & Soviet Sniping In The Winter War
NRA Membership For Women NRA Online Training Adaptive Shooting ...
The New York Times15d
A Secret Cable and a Clue to Where U.S.-Russia Relations Went Wrong
that such “shock therapy” would only worsen the devastating dislocation Russians were already suffering with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian people, they warned, would end up ...