Benito Mussolini’s death on April 28, 1945, marked the end of a dark chapter in Italian history. After seizing power in 1922, the dictator ruled his country with an iron fist. Although he was deposed ...
“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...
The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with ...
In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum — and everyone within them — in ash. But more than 1,000 years before that, when Bronze Age villages ...
San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 1960s was something of a mecca for young martial artists looking to be at the forefront of the fighting culture. The burgeoning martial arts community served as ...
On a spring day in 2003, Rachel Corrie set out with a mission in mind. Clutching a bullhorn and wearing an orange jacket, she joined several other activists in the Gaza Strip to protest the Israeli ...