Fulgencio Batista. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (/bəˈtiːstə/; Spanish: [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβaɾ]; born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1945, and the U.S.-backed authoritarian ruler from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. Cuban Revolution,…
The failures played a role in the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 and exposed the pitfalls of the League of Nations. Whereas earlier failings had little impact on Europe as a whole, its failures in the run up to war threatened the safety of the world. Britain and…
Though the League of Nations was a political failure it established a groundwork for the current United Nations and it’s strong commitment to Human Rights. The League failed to stop a bloody war in Turkey (see League failures) but it did respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by this war.…
The Liberator (1831-1865) was the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil Warthe Civil WarThe American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (states that remained…
But the government did not create the Internet, L. Gordon Crovitz wrote in a recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. The government envisioned a World Wide Web as early as the 1940s and went on to develop the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). When Obama said the…
The original draft of The Hateful Eight, the one that leaked online before production, didn’t include the Lincoln Letter reveal. The Lincoln Letter was real in that version. But in the years since that leak, in the years that Tarantino worked on the script and the movie, the situation in…
THE INTERSTATE WE KNOW Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating federal funds for interstate highway construction. As the IHS developed so did its ability to support national defense. For example, throughout the system, mile-long stretches of concrete pavement double as emergency landing strips for military aircraft. Alaska,…
The conclusion of most is that Lindow man was not only a voluntary sacrifice, but likely a prince or priest of the highest orders of ancient Celtic social status. Lindow man went to his brutal death to propitiate three ancient gods of the Celts. Many experts believe the wounds to…
Perhaps the most effective combination of a preemptive strike was the opening gambit for a preventive war came in 1967 with the Six-Day War. Outnumbered, at least on paper by the massive Arab armies deploying on their frontiers and with the rhetoric in the Arab capitals indicating an intention to…
The Liverpool Institute. The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in Liverpool. The school had its origins in 1825 but occupied different premises while the money was found to build a dedicated building on Mount Street. The Institute was first known as the Liverpool Mechanics’…