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 Dreyfus Affair by The Ovi Team
05 January 2022
January 5th 1895. French officer Alfred Dreyfus, condemned for passing military secrets to the Germans, is stripped of his rank in a humiliating public ceremony in the courtyard of Paris' Ecole Militaire. (Add a comment) |  Prague Spring begins by The Ovi Team
05 January 2022
January 5th 1968; Antonin Novotny, the Stalinist ruler of Czechoslovakia, is succeeded as first secretary by Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak who supports liberal reforms. In the first few months of his rule... (Add a comment) |  Malaysia: PBM's 'Great Reset' narrative needs deeper scrutiny by Murray Hunter
04 January 2022
The newly created Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM), or Malaysian National Party launched its policy platform on 21st December. The launch didn't get too much publicity at the time due to the flood crisis and the platform escaped any... (Add a comment) |  Michelangelo's David On Alpha Centaurus IV by Jan Sand
04 January 2022
Discovered several hundred thousand years
After life was found to be extinct
On the third planet from a nearby star,
The strange rock elicited curiosity, some fears. (Add a comment) |  What happened? How they broke my career by Joseph Gatt
04 January 2022
I was a student in France in 2002. Went through my Bachelor's degree, albeit with some difficulty. But around 2004, the South Koreans noticed that I was a brilliant kid who was pretty much going unnoticed by the rest of the world. (Add a comment) |  Screws & Chips #021 by Thanos Kalamidas
04 January 2022
In a galaxy far, far away, intelligence demonstrated by screws and chips, boldly gone where no robot has gone before! (Add a comment) |  Jacob Grimm by The Ovi Team
04 January 2022
January 4th 1785; on this day, the older of the two Grimm brothers, Jacob, is born in Hanau, Germany. His brother Wilhelm is born the following year. (Add a comment) |  Phil Lynott dies by The Ovi Team
04 January 2022
January 4th 1986; Phil Lynott, the former lead singer of the rock band Thin Lizzy, died from heart failure and pneumonia after an 11-day fight for his life. The 36-year-old rock star had been admitted to Salisbury Hospital... (Add a comment) |  2022 or 2020, too ? by Dr. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
03 January 2022
The power of writing is that the dialogue is not only held with the contemporaries. Writing can reach future generations, too. Great poet Mak says: "when nobody listens, write". (Add a comment) |  Year 2021 by Amir Khatib
03 January 2022
The year passed quickly, its days were snatched by the lightness of a terrified wild animal, leaping from dull polar sunrise to sunset hidden behind mountains and forests, and my gift to myself at the beginning was that... (Add a comment) |  What is PTSD? by Joseph Gatt
03 January 2022
Let's put it this way. "Normal" people, that is people with no signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, tend to be easygoing, transparent, clear, and tend to give you a good time. Those "normal" people tend to have had an easy... (Add a comment) |  Sceptic feathers #25 by Thanos Kalamidas
03 January 2022
Cynicism with feathers on thin wires. (Add a comment) |  Lick Observatory by The Ovi Team
03 January 2022
January 3rd 1888; the refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
(Add a comment) |  Leonardo's flying machines by The Ovi Team
03 January 2022
3rd of January 1496, Leonardo da Vinci tried for the first time unsuccessfully unfortunately to fly with one of the flying machines that had become his passion for long time. (1 comment) | | newer 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 older |
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