It’s no longer a well-hidden fact, nor even an embarrassment, that Australia was founded as the Botany Bay Penal Colony in the late 18th century. But how exactly did an entire continent come to be settled by British convicts? Botany Bay is an inlet on the eastern coast of Australia, just south of Sidney. InContinue reading “Australia began as a British Penal Colony over 230 years ago”
Category Archives: Scandals & Revolutions
The American Legacy of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
“Old Hickory” General Andrew Jackson won the nasty, negative election of 1828 and was elected to the White House.
The Cuban Missile Crisis – the Day Russia Blinked
For 13 nerve-wracking days in October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the earth close to a nuclear WORLD WAR III. It was a direct confrontation between 2 major superpowers, United States and USSR (Soviet Union) during the so called Cold War. It was the worst clash since the construction of the Berlin WallContinue reading “The Cuban Missile Crisis – the Day Russia Blinked”
The Rise and Fall of the Germany’s Infamous Berlin Wall
By 1961, the Cold War between the US and USSR was raging unchecked around the globe.