The entertainment industry features many talented actresses whose complex backgrounds reflect a globalized world. Fans are often surprised to learn about the various ethnicities and cultural roots ...

History might not have been your favorite subject in school, but that doesn’t mean you can’t like historical movies. These films serve many purposes while being massively entertaining. For history ...

We were somewhere between the second cocktail and the third when she said it. I'd asked, almost reflexively – the way you do when you're in Phnom Penh, and the conversation turns to history – whether ...

2006: Visiting one of the busiest crossing sectors between the United States and Mexico, President George W Bush says in Yuma, Arizona, that it makes sense to put up fencing along parts of the border ...

“The British are coming,” trumpeted Chariots Of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, ...

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Vietnamese identity has been forged in opposition to imperialism. But the country has long been the conqueror as well as the conquered. Most readers outside Vietnam will still chiefly associate this ...

A Dutch soldier lassos a land mine before removing it from a road during a training exercise in Germany in 2015. Photo by Justin De Hoyos/Wikimedia Commons. “Breaching under fire is one of the most ...

The author, Michael Fairbanks, is a best selling author. He did his graduate work in African politics at Columbia University, and is a Bioethics Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He has worked in ...

A love of all things bookish is powering travel, with literary travel shaping up as a noteworthy travel trend of 2026. According to Skyscanner, 66 percent of travelers said they’d consider a trip ...

In February 2026, Australia and Indonesia signed a landmark bilateral Common Security Treaty. The deal enables Indonesia and Australia to consult each other in the event of unfavourable challenges to ...

3 ). Historical and contemporary examples – such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian genocide, the Bosnian genocide (e.g., Srebrenica), and the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer ...