Wikipedia article about Lidice

The long read: When they were first exposed in 1989, Romania’s orphanages shocked the world. But what happened to the children left behind? Vişinel Balan, now 27, tells his story

The name Kitty Hawk, of course, conjures up grainy black-and-white images of the Wright brothers in their bowler hats soaring from the high dunes – if only for a few

Trigger warning: Images of war.The civilian and military deaths of World War II make it, to this day, the most deadly in the history of our world. But I had no idea of the full scope of this until I watched the video below made in 2015. But first, a tiny little personal story..

At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake hit San Francisco, killing 3,000 people and destroying 500 city blocks.