The ship carried U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt on three cruises, including a “Good Neighbor” visit to South America in 1936. The USS Indianapolis delivered components of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just days before it was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. What…
The 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz was filmed primarily in Technicolor, all the Oz scenes being filmed in color. The scenes from home in Kansas were filmed in black and white, with sepia color being added. The rights to the book were obtained in January 1938, filming began…
You’re asking what some bad things are that the Soviet Union did and here are some of them: Confiscating private property and making “Kulaks” After the revolution of 1917 which took down the Tsar and the establishment of Communist rule in 1922, the Soviet Union became this blood-sucking machine which…
Over the decades, there have been far more losses than victories, but the victories the labor movement did achieve made earning a living in the United States a much more equitable, fair, safe, and profitable proposition. These wins show what is possible for the modern labor movement. Labor Movement. The…
In their historical analysis of the Soviet Union, Marxist economists Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick identify state capitalism as the dominant class system throughout the history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is state capitalist. We should reject the position (advanced, for example in Nicolaus’s 1975 book) that…
The eleventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files premiered on January 3, 2018, on Fox. The season consists of ten episodes and concluded on March 21, 2018. It follows newly re-instated Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (…
The Soviet Union is state capitalist. We should reject the position (advanced, for example in Nicolaus’s 1975 book) that the Soviet Union is a monopoly capitalist society “just like” the U.S., and we should not be drawn into futile attempts to prove that it is. The USSR was not a…
Do you like this video? Theokoles is a minor villain from Spartacus: Blood and Sand and is an albino Celt towering above all of his opponents. He was undefeated and had previously defeated as many as 100 men in a single spectacle. During Spartacus’ rebellion, Romans including Mercato often referred…
Among them was none other than legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who more than 26 years ago, became the first ever to be adjudged run out by the third umpire. It debuted in Test cricket in November 1992 at Kingsmead, Durban for the South Africa vs. India series. Karl Liebenberg…
In 1964 (the final year of the Baby Boom), 4 million babies were born in the U.S. and in 1965, there was a significant drop to 3.76 million births. From 1965 on, there was a plunge in the number of births to a low of 3.14 million births in 1973,…