by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 23, 2025 | Articles
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a bloody military uprising by the Nationalists against the Republican government of Spain, backed by conservative elements within the country. The conflict, which lasted almost three years, was far more than an internal war: it...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 20, 2025 | Articles
The deadly influenza pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, “La Grippe” and the “Dancer”, was the most devastating epidemic in world history. The Spanish flu epidemic (January 1918 to December 1920) reached every continent and infected around 500...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 17, 2025 | Articles
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One… I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. – Robert Oppenheimer, in an American television interview two decades after the Trinity Test. A...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 15, 2025 | Articles
To grasp the magnitude of the Srebrenica Massacre it is essential to go back to the turbulent state of the Balkan peninsula in the early 1990s. The former Yugoslavia, a mosaic of ethnicities and religions held together by the firm grip of the communist regime, began...
by Italo Magno Jau | Jul 15, 2025 | Articles
Officer Hiroo Onoda had been sent to Lubang Island in December 1944, where he joined a group of Japanese soldiers who had the mission to resist enemy attacks at any cost. The Beginning of Hiroo Onoda’s Insurgency On February 28, 1945, American troops attacked...
