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One of the biggest controversies in the world of sports over the last several decades has been the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances, or PEDs.  It seems as if there hasn’t been a singl...

22 Jan 202516min

Humanity has seen a lot of bad things throughout history. There have been horrific wars, natural disasters, and pandemics that have killed millions of people.  Many of these awful events were awful ov...

21 Jan 202515min

Located in Northern China is not only one of the largest cities in the world but also the capital of the largest country in the world, Beijing.  Like many great cities, Beijing has had its ups and dow...

20 Jan 202515min

Every four years on January 20th, the United States holds a ceremony for the inauguration of the President of the United States. There are traditions for the inauguration, some of which have been pass...

19 Jan 20258min

After the Allied landing in Normandy in World War II, the Allies made progress pushing back the Germans. However, by September, things had slowed down. One allied commander devised a plan that he thou...

18 Jan 202513min

In 1880, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was commissioned to compose a work in honor of the completion of a new cathedral.  What he wrote became one of the best-known, over-the-top, and ...

17 Jan 202513min

In the year 60 BC, a very unlikely alliance was formed between three of Rome’s most powerful men.  Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, and Marcus Licinius Crassus agreed to put aside their di...

16 Jan 202512min

Imagine a device that could supply an unlimited amount of energy. It would solve many of the world’s problems in one fell swoop.  Unfortunately, such a device is impossible to build, but that hasn’t s...

15 Jan 202511min