The Famous Aral Sea Disaster Is Only at Half Time
This is Part 1 of a two-part series looking at the Aral Sea recovery projects and the future of…
Tag: History
Karakalpaks and Being the Winner of Geopolitical Musical Chairs
The men who built the pyramids: a culture that had survived for 3,000 years—they’re all gone. ‘Egyptians’ today are…
Silk Road Romance and How a Great History Was Lost to a Warlord
Among the most romantic notions perhaps ever produced by the human race has to be the experiment in distributed…
3,500 Years of Climate History Show Arid Periods Linked to Periods of Turmoil and Depopulation
A recent study analyzing tree ring data has produced a 3,500-year-long record of precipitation rates on the Tibetan Plateau,…
Ultimate Irony Comes as Taliban Asks Russia’s Help to Evade US Sanctions, Closing 50-year Loop of Violence
It was said at the time that Operation Cyclone was the most successful covert operation in CIA history. It…
Traversing the Battle Lines Between Islam and Christianity–also Rock Climbing
In my last dispatch, I teased I was visiting the Spanish region of Aragon, and that I would perhaps…
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Enters the Modern Age with Stories of Hope and Problems Solved
For an entire generation of Americans, the ones for whom The Tonight Show starred Johnny Carson, and who were…
Kursk is Where Soviet Russia Stopped the German Blitzkrieg, Will They Do the Same to the Ukrainians?
History demands of Russia the complete and total withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from their recent offensive in Kursk Oblast.…
Ukrainian, Western Officials Talk Apocalyptically of 10 Years of War and Retaking Crimea
Reasoning that negotiations with Moscow are “politically toxic” to use one reporter’s words, some Ukrainian lawmakers and Western diplomats…
Congress Invokes ‘Disinformation’ to Try and Resurrect Long-Lost Secret Influence in Tibet
Of all of America’s covert actions against communist states throughout the Cold War, one of the least well-known is…
UNESCO Heritage Sites Class of 2023: Central Asia Winning Out
The 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee took place in Riyadh from the 10th to the 25th of…
Two More Members of Pentagon Brass Discuss War with China Openly
Big spenders among the Air Force brass are keen to buy and build their way to a war against…
4,200-Year-Old Ceramic Storm Drains in Ancient Chinese Town Are the Oldest of Their Kind
Story at a glance… The world’s oldest ceramic drain pipe system has been identified and described in China. The…
Military Hardware from D-Day Litters the French Normandy Coast Road all the Way to Omaha
If you decide this June to take off along the 514 departmental road from the ferry port at Ouistreham,…
US and South Korea Agree to Co-Design Nuclear Weapons Policy 5 Years After Panmunjom Declaration
Story at a glance… The US has announced it will make its South Korean nuclear deterrent more “visible” with…
4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets
When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo…
‘Princely’ Tomb of a Hunnic Warrior and his Horse Unearthed in Romania
Workers building a new highway in Romania were forced to call archaeologists when it became clear they were digging…
Le Mans Hosts a Hundred Years of Endurance Motor Racing After a Thousand Years of History.
The 1971 movie Le Mans, featuring Steve McQueen, had no scripted dialogue for the first forty minutes as it…
Damascus Museum Opens New Exhibition of 35,000 Artifacts Recovered After Decade of War
Around 35,000 stolen Syrian artifacts have been retrieved by the authorities since the beginning of the 11-year war in…
The New Cycle Route From Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel is Fueling Dreams of Escape
There has been something of an exodus from Paris following the pandemic in France. A migration. Not that the…