Arab leaders in the region saw this plan as European colonial theft and, in 1948, invaded to keep Palestine unified.

However, the Israeli forces won & pushed well beyond the UN-designated borders to claim land that was to have been part of Palesti...

North Korea, where most people do not have the kind of freedom that South Korea enjoy, feel the impact of the foreign media the most. The people who have escaped the prison-like regime of North Korea get a culture shock when they realize that life isn’t what the propaganda machines have been dril...

Starting in Hong Kong and spreading throughout China and then into the United States, the Asian flu became widespread in England where, over six months, 14,000 people died. A second wave followed in early 1958, causing an estimated total of about 1.1 million deaths globally, with 116,000 deaths i...