Tag: war

It’s been two years since my last doctor’s appointment. At that visit our discussion was shrouded by social distancing and early motherhood. It was a time when I desperately begged for closeness and the world replied with a stern and final, “No.” My days were held together wi...

I lie face down in the mud of this macabre battlefield where family and friends turn to fight each other, where love turns to hate, where people lose their minds, where people have an instant dislike of strangers for superficial reasoning — the way they look, sound, or perhaps due to having he...

In a battle against the same Pyrrhus the following year, the Romans deployed specially prepared units with hooks and torches against the elephants. However, this tactic proved ineffective; at Asculum, the Greeks, with the help of their war elephants, once again routed the Roman troops. The Romans ca...

In the grand tapestry of history, there are tales so bizarre that even fiction writers might blush. Today, we unravel the curious case of “The War of the Bucket,” where a stolen tub managed to stir up more chaos than a bull in a china shop. “Once upon a time, in the picturesque ...

This week I heard a stat that shocked me, even though it should not have. The stat was actually wrong, because things are far worse than what I heard on the radio. In 2021, 290 people per day died died from a drug overdose. The person on the radio said “This is more than died every day in t...

On March 5, 2024, Lev Facher of STATNews reports on the desolate state of the US response to over 1 million drug overdose deaths in an extensively reported piece “How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic” I recommend readin...

Isn’t it fascinating how once bitter rivals can become the closest of allies? Think about the USA and Russia, from competing in the heated space race to shaking hands in the vacuum of space. This handshake, folks, was more than just a friendly gesture; it was a symbol of a new era. Fast forwar...

On March 23, 2001, at 8:59 a.m. Moscow time, a group of Russian cosmonauts on Southern Fiji’s island gazed up at the sky and waited. And then, there they were: for a few fleeting seconds, a sequence of golden lights streaked across the sky, leaving behind a trail of smoke. ...

Have you ever wondered about the hidden battles fought not on Earth, but with an eye on dominating the moon? Amidst the Cold War’s tension and space race, the U.S. Army’s top-secret document, Project Horizon, aimed to establish a military and scientific moon base. Picture this: a lunar o...