Albert Schweitzer was born January 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany.
The son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, he won acclaim at playing the organ.
He...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force reportedly caught eight Tajikistan nationals with ties to ISIS this week.
After World War I, Germany's economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.
On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal...
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE" is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Korean War started June 25, 1950.
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands.
Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as...
