The Last WW2 Japanese Holdouts
As you may know, World War 2 was a pretty massive and chaotic war. So chaotic in fact, that particularly in the Pacific theater in...
What is a kibbutz?
What is a kibbutz? A short answer would be a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based around agriculture. Nowadays they have since expanded...
Maradona Wasn’t Perfect, But He Was A Working Class Hero
No sane person would suggest that Maradona was some kind of angel. His history with substance abuse is well known, at times he flaunted his...
Life Back to Normal “Next Winter” Says Vaccine Creator
November 9th may well down in history as the moment that a vaccine for coronavirus was invented, but a week later and after those heady...
3 Weirdest Abandoned Communist Monuments In Europe
If you’re an avid urban exploration enthusiast, then you’re in for a treat! If you didn’t know, a lot of European countries such as Bulgaria,...
The history of Cambodian Railways
Colonialism is usually seen in the negative light it deserves, but nothing is ever black and white and in certain areas colonialism has left some...
Irish cockneys and American cinema
Introduction Having limited channels on cable, I was thrown into FOX “action movies”. The treat that befell me was one of the many, many poor...
All about Neutral Moresnet
Neutral ...what? What was the only country in the world to have Esperanto as the national language? Neutral Moresnet. Now that the pub trivia is...