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The period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
Yes — the Apollo moon landings were real: multiple independent lines of evidence, from physical lunar samples to modern orbital imagery and contemporary foreign tracking, corroborate that humans walke...
In 1946 the Truman administration formally proposed buying Greenland — most often reported as an offer of $100 million in gold — driven by Cold War strategic concerns about Arctic bases and air routes...
The governing, long-standing legal framework that gives broad military basing and access rights in is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and , which allows U.S. forces t...
The “Alice in Wonderland” or “confusion” technique is a documented interrogation method described in CIA manuals that deliberately uses contradiction, nonsense, abrupt topic shifts and sustained disor...
was a clandestine umbrella program begun in the early to research chemical and behavioral techniques for controlling or influencing human behavior; its documented work involved experiments with LSD, e...
The phrase "New World Order" has layered origins: it appears in 19th‑century political writing, was adopted and reframed by early 20th‑century statesmen and thinkers, and was popularized in different ...
military basing in began as an emergency arrangement in 1941 and expanded into a network anchored by Thule (now Pituffik) under a sweeping 1951 defense agreement with ; most facilities were later clos...
The British armed forces of 2025 are smaller in manpower but more equipment-focused and budget-conscious than in the mid-1980s, reflecting decades of post‑Cold War drawdown and a recent political push...
Murders arise from a wide and sometimes bewildering range of motives: the familiar triad of jealousy, money and revenge sits alongside delusions, erotic thrill-seeking, political assassination and mot...
The British armed forces in 1958 were a Cold War, conscription-era mass force being rapidly shrunk from post‑1945 peaks and organised around infantry, cavalry and large tank formations; by 2025 they a...
The “renovation” was effectively a complete gutting and interior rebuild: the Executive Residence was stripped to its exterior walls, fitted with a new steel skeleton and much deeper foundations, and ...
treaty already grants the broad rights to operate military forces and establish “defense areas” in with Danish consent—the Concerning the Defense of Greenland (as amended) explicitly enabled U.S. base...
The term "" names the 1917 seizure of power in by ’s and derives from the party name "Bolsheviks," itself from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning "majority," a label that emerged after an early split in ...
seeking to reconcile the needs of a dominant ethnic group with those of minorities rely on a mix of institutional engineering—power-sharing, autonomy or ethnofederal arrangements—and recognition of gr...
Section 4 of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment is a disability-and-continuity mechanism that temporarily displaces presidential powers when the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet declare the presid...
’s “New World Order” language came in a September 11, 1990 address to about the i invasion of , where he framed a post– opportunity for collective security and cooperation and used the phrase to justi...
The phrase "" is a polyglot term that means different things to different audiences: a descriptive label for shifts in international governance , a byword for an alleged secret global cabal in , and a...
’s and ’s high‑end have been influential but contested: critics argue they rest on selective sources, problematic demographic assumptions, and aggregations that conflate direct executions, excess deat...
Contemporaneous public documentation tying directly to is limited and largely circumstantial: official Israeli participation in his 1991 funeral and public praise by leaders are on the public record ,...