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No credible evidence shows any of the seven Challenger crew members survived the January 28, 1986 accident; official investigations, NASA reports and multiple fact-checks conclude all seven died as a ...
The English slur now called the “N‑word” originated from Latin niger → Spanish/Portuguese negro and appears in English texts from the 16th–17th centuries as a neutral descriptor; lexicographers date t...
Robert Maxwell was found dead in the Atlantic near the Canary Islands on 5 November 1991; at an inquest later that year coroners recorded death by heart attack combined with accidental drowning while ...
Yes — but only within legal limits: ICE agents have authority to stop, detain, and arrest people when they have reasonable suspicion or an administrative/warrant basis related to federal immigration l...
Claims that Jews were "largely" or predominantly responsible for the European slave trade from the 14th through 17th centuries do not stand up to careful historical scrutiny: evidence shows Jewish par...
War Plan Red was a U.S. interwar contingency plan that mapped a comprehensive campaign to neutralize Canada as a potential British staging ground by seizing ports, rail hubs and industrial regions acr...
A significant number of historically important banks were founded by Jewish families or Jewish immigrants—examples include the Rothschilds, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lazard and...
Robert Maxwell died on 5 November 1991 after falling from his yacht off the Canary Islands; Spanish police at the time said no foul play was suspected and the official immediate finding was drowning ....
Mar-a-Lago was built in the 1920s by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post as an opulent winter residence on a 17–20 acre site in Palm Beach; construction took about four years and opened in 1927 after w...
The slur commonly called the traces linguistically to the niger “black,” passing through / negro into forms by the 16th century, but its social meaning shifted dramatically over centuries from a neutr...
: across history people of European descent have been enslaved in multiple contexts—from ’s social slavery to the ’s capture of Europeans, and forms of coerced labor in colonial —though the scale, leg...
Central American countries function as key transit corridors — both maritime and overland — funneling cocaine and other drugs northward from Andean producers through Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic ro...
Drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea concentrates along maritime corridors connecting South American production zones and Central American transits to consumer markets in North America and Europe, with...
Edgar Cayce’s published “earth changes” forecasts for the modern era include repeated, specific claims about major earthquakes and tsunamis affecting California, Japan, parts of the U.S. Gulf/Atlantic...
Donald Trump’s rhetoric and conduct mark a clear break from many modern presidential norms: scholars and institutions say he routinely violated traditions and used confrontational, populist language, ...
Yes — multiple small-scale and research-focused geoengineering experiments and programs are underway or planned globally in 2024–2026, especially in solar radiation management (SRM), marine cloud brig...
The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of “whiteness” to...
Since 2020 shipping flows have shifted from pandemic-era bottlenecks toward route diversification, regional hub growth and increased transshipment activity in Southeast Asia and Caribbean/Atlantic hub...
The terminal SNP label cannot be cleanly equated to “Germanic” or “Celtic” in the way everyday language treats those terms, because R1b is a deep paternal lineage that split into many subclades long b...
A U.S.-led operation seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker — variously reported as the Bella 1 (renamed Marinera) — after a weeks-long pursuit across the Atlantic that ended in the North Atlantic/UK–Ice...