37+ min ago   (1491+ words) From ‘Empress of China’ to Strategic Rival According to Xu Guoqi, David H.Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the importance of China to the origins of the United States is often overlooked....

3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (339+ words) "I could immediately tell that a large section of wall in the gloom ahead was totally different." Beneath a courthouse in northwest England, archaeologists made an unexpected find in a shadowy passageway: using nothing more than a smartphone flashlight, they…...

6+ hour, 22+ min ago   (221+ words) Croatia is in a part of Europe that has been shaken by several bloody wars since the beginning of the 20th century. A walk through Mostrar, a Bosnian city watered with the blood of Spanish soldiers The armored train of Split,…...

9+ hour, 45+ min ago   (759+ words) PORT ST. LUCIE — Santo Miceli, who turns 100 this month, was in the U.S. Army in 1945, and remembers when Japanese forces surrendered several months after the Germans. Miceli, a Port St. Lucie resident since 2009, recalled being in California when the news…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (214+ words) flyingpenguin.com Time magazine had the story in November 1946, describing a cake made to celebrate the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. The July 25 bomb was the second one, called Helen of Bikini, detonated 90 feet underwater. Radioactive sea spray caused…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (55+ words) PAYING TRIBUTE: Fallen WWII soldier to be laid to rest in Virginia Fox News PAYING TRIBUTE: Fallen WWII soldier to be laid to rest in Virginia U.S. Army Private First Class Claude Dewberry, an American soldier who died in 1945 near the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (265+ words) Indonesia is home to hundreds of ethnic groups, each with unique languages, traditions, and cultural heritage. However, not all cultures are equally represented in the digital world. Karo culture, one of the indigenous cultures of North Sumatra, remains underrepresented across…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1823+ words) For nearly a century and a half, people entered the gates of Joliet Correctional Center because the state sent them there. On the last day of April this year, people paid their way in to watch a baseball game. For…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago   (571+ words) The National Herald This Week in History: July 25th to 31st On this day in 2011, Michael Cacoyannis, the Greek film director, passed away at the age of 90. Born in Limassol, Cyprus, Cacoyannis had several careers before settling as a film director. He…...

21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (483+ words) Today is Saturday, July 25, the 204th day of 2026 with 159 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Venus. In 1909, French pioneer aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to…...