Extraterritoriality

The death of a British monarch is a very big event. Thousands of people may take part in the funeral and procession, with millions more lining up to pay their respects and billions more watching on te...

27 Sep 202213min

In the summer of 1971, Stanford professor of psychology Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to determine if cruelty amongst people of authority was because of the position or the people.  Twenty-f...

26 Sep 202212min

Every so often, astronomers will publish photos taken with an astronomical telescope and say that the object they captured is so many billions of light years away.  But how could they know the distanc...

25 Sep 202212min

On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to witness one of the most incredible sights that the city had ever seen.  Between the two towers of the New York World Trade Cent...

24 Sep 202210min

In the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most cutting-edge and exciting forms of transportation was the zeppelin.  Germany’s Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company created lighter-than-air airships that transported...

23 Sep 202215min

English is a very strange language. It is a Germanic language where half of the words come from a Romance language. We have a host of words that make absolutely no sense in terms of spelling or pronun...

22 Sep 202211min

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the American military was on the defensive. They had been hit hard, and it would be months before they could regroup and strike back. However, one American g...

21 Sep 202215min

Located between England and France are several islands which have a unique status in the international community.  They aren’t part of any country, nor are they a territory of a country.  They share t...

20 Sep 202213min