Ila Mitra’s fight for equality, justice, and human dignity remains unfinished in today’s Bangladesh, where farmers, workers, ...

THE exigencies of the 1950s necessitated the formation of the nation’s “hard-hitting” force. Six officers and 230 enlisted ...

The story begins in 1948, in post-war Italy, with the Piaggio Ape, a small, three-wheeled vehicle designed to help Italian shopkeepers transport goods in the aftermath of the war. The Piaggio Ape was ...

The significance of these constituent human rights for the Oviedo Convention cannot be overstated. As a whole the Convention is designed to “protect the dignity and identity of all human beings and ...

The Berlin Wall, which divided the city into East and West, was opened for the first time since it was erected on 1989. This marked the beginning of the end for communist regimes in Eastern Europe and ...

Chromosomes – a mixture of protein and DNA – were known to be the molecules of heredity. But most scientists were convinced that proteins, with 20 different building blocks, were the likely candidate ...

For the first time since its inauguration in 1940, the Museo del Genio – a building covering over 4,000 square meters – ...

On this day, November 8 1927, the early pop-country titan of industry known for the "Tennessee Waltz" was born in Oklahoma.

Failure to take your RMD before the deadline results in an excise tax penalty equal to 25% of the amount not withdrawn. Prior ...

In an America so topsy-turvy that the White House is being torn down and turned into a gilded ’70s-era Sheraton, the GOP is ...

In the accompanying profile, art critic Barbara Rose remarked on the fact that Mitchell refused to remove her glasses, “even to be photographed”—adding that the “high degree of discipline in ...

The Film and Television Institute of India’s principal between 1961 and 1971 broadened the horizons of students, creating a ...