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 La Marseillaise by The Ovi Team
14 July 2021
14th July 1795; "La Marseillaise" - "The song of Marseille" becomes the national anthem of France. It was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and adopted in 1795 as the nation's first anthem. (Add a comment) |  French revolutionaries storm Bastille by The Ovi Team
14 July 2021
July 14th 1789; Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade (Add a comment) |  Singapore's Controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) - National Security or Political Persecution? by Murray Hunter
13 July 2021
Singapore's ISA has led to round ups of opponents and critics of the Singapore PAP government. The world's longest serving political prisoner Dr Chia Thye Poh, was incarcerated under the ISA, and restriction orders for 32 years... (Add a comment) |  Jewels on deep blue seas by Bohdan Yuri
13 July 2021
strings of pearls on deep blue seas
that do appear in daylight dreams,
reveal wild islands basking in the sun,
moving mysteries into forevermore. (Add a comment) |  Tech neo-Marxism by Joseph Gatt
13 July 2021
When tech companies dominate the economic landscape, and that you marry that with economic ideology, you get "tech neo-liberalism" and "tech neo-Marxism." (Add a comment) |  A fistful of cactus 21#01 by Thanos Kalamidas
13 July 2021
When a cactus becomes the sheriff then a whole lot of spines shoot around! (Add a comment) |  Live Aid Concert by The Ovi Team
13 July 2021
13th July 1985; The Live Aid Concert was a series of rock concerts held to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia around the world in cites including London, Philadelphia, Sydney and Moscow. The concerts attracted close to 200,000 people and using sate (Add a comment) |  Buckminster Fuller: A World View on Doing More With Less by Rene Wadlow
12 July 2021
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr (1895 - 1983) Bucky to his friends, whose birth anniversary we mark on 12 July was born into one of New England's elite but freethinking families. (Add a comment) |  In the fields by Amir Khatib
12 July 2021
Here, in the fields,
I try to smell the lilies,
it's so many,
And until I'm done with it,
The freshest ones wither. (Add a comment) |  Four types of parenting by Joseph Gatt
12 July 2021
Putting things simply, there are four types of parenting: friendly parenting, passive parenting, passive-aggressive parenting and aggressive parenting. Let me break those down for you.
(Add a comment) |  Fika bonding! 21#09 by Thanos Kalamidas
12 July 2021
Fika is a state of mind and an important part of Swedish culture. It means making time for friends and colleagues to share a cup of coffee and a little something to eat. (Add a comment) |  Pablo Neruda by The Ovi Team
12 July 2021
Pablo Neruda born July 12, 1904 (d. September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. With his works translated... (Add a comment) |  Panama Canal opens by The Ovi Team
12 July 2021
On July 12th, 1920, the Panama Canal was officially opened by Woodrow Wilson even though it had been in use since 1914. The canal was begun in 1881 and probably would not have... (1 comment) |  Linger by Abigail George
11 July 2021
My dad is one of the lucky ones. His voice merges alongside mine like beautiful scraps of material. This is a story about a man but not about any man. It is a story about my father. (Add a comment) | | newer 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 older |
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