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 Lenin returns by The Ovi Team
16 April 2022
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. Lenin became the virtual dictator of the world's first Marxist state. His government (Add a comment) |  The hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 by The Ovi Team
16 April 2022
April 16th 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid. LSD has had a fairly short, but wild history in the United States. (Add a comment) |  Sacco and Vanzetti: That Agony is Our Triumph by Rene Wadlow
15 April 2022
Sacco and Vanzetti, along with a third member of the Italian anarchist group involved in the robbery were electricuted at midnight on 23 August 1927, after seven years of legal procedings and an organized social campaign to... (Add a comment) |  Doors by Nikos Laios
15 April 2022
Blue doors,
Red doors,
Yellow doors,
They all lead
To enlightenment (Add a comment) |  A Nine-Year Obscenity: The Australia-NZ Resettlement Deal by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
15 April 2022
Obscenities occupy the annals of State behaviour, revolting reminders about what governments can do. One of Australia's most pronounced and undeniable obscenities is its continuing effort to gut... (Add a comment) |  A fistful of cactus #022 by Thanos Kalamidas
15 April 2022
When a cactus becomes the sheriff then a whole lot of spines shoot around! (Add a comment) |  Liberate Bergen-Belsen by The Ovi Team
15 April 2022
April 15th 1945 British troops have entered the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Inside the camp the horrified soldiers found piles of dead and rotting corpses and thousands of sick and starving prisoners kept... (2 comments) |  Bessie Smith by The Ovi Team
15 April 2022
April 15th 1894; despite the immense influence her records had on the shape and course of American popular music in the 20th century, the recorded legacy of Bessie Smith only captures part of her historical significance. (1 comment) |  To sanction or ...what? by Thanos Kalamidas
14 April 2022
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is right when he says again and again that the sanctions don't work. I have my doubts if he really understands why but truth said, the sanctions DON'T work. (Add a comment) |  Turnip in the Still by Michael Lee Johnson
14 April 2022
In shadow wooden structures
stalled highway up staircases
to the top, the redwood scares me looking down. (Add a comment) |  Arnold Toynbee: A World Citizens view of challenge and response by Rene Wadlow
14 April 2022
Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) was a historian, a philosopher of history and an advisor on the wider Middle East to the British Government. (Add a comment) |  Insert Brain Here 2.0 #011 by Paul Woods
14 April 2022
Paul Woods strikes back with a 2nd series of "Insert Brain Here" (Add a comment) |  Titanic hits iceberg by The Ovi Team
14 April 2022
April 14th 1912; just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic fails to divert its course from an iceberg, ruptures its hull, and begins to sink. Because of a shortage of lifeboats and the lack of satisfactory emergency procedures... (Add a comment) |  Loretta Lynn by The Ovi Team
14 April 2022
April 14th 1935; Ted and his wife, Ramey, raised eight children in their small wooden house in Johnson County, including the most famous coal miner's daughter in the world, who was born on this day in 1935. (Add a comment) | | newer 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 older |
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