Hardly anyone living outside the former Soviet Union would have ever heard of a region called Nagorno Karabakh, located deep inside the Southern flank of the Caucasus Mountains. Yet, during the early 1990s, it was the scene for a bloody battle which killed 35,000 people. Like many other post-Soviet military conflicts, this one also remained […]
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Namibia and it’s German legacy
In Colonial terms, the Germans ruled Namibia for a very short period of time. Their rule lasted from 1884 until 1915. Along with all other German colonies in Africa, Namibia was also taken from Germany after the World War 1. But compared to other former German colonies, we can find a lot of German influence […]
Get A Workout Even When Asleep!
Who says sleep means signing out from biological activities? The sleep orchestrates an overall special workout program for the body. It is important for the normal functioning of physiological and neurological systems. The best thing about this is that it comes absolutely free! Stabilizing Appetite Sleep regulates the normal functioning of the digestive tract. Production […]
The life story of Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness is the first female serial killer of the 20th century. When you read stories about Belle Gunness you’d learn that she had killed her children, husbands, suitors and others who may interfere with her plans. She did this because of money. Belle Gunness was from Norway and she lived in poverty. She was […]
What the future holds for Ethiopian Christians?
Ethiopia and Nigeria have a lot in common. They are among the most populous nations in the continent of Africa. And both suffer from sharp Muslim vs Christian polarization. Nigeria is almost evenly divided between the Christians and Muslims, while Christians constitute a majority in Ethiopia. According to the latest census in 2007, Christians in Ethiopia accounted for 62.8% of the total population, […]
Volga Germans – an endangered species in the Former Soviet Union
At the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, ethnic Germans numbered around 2,040,000, making them one of the largest ethnic minorities there. Russia was home to more than 840,000 of them, while in Kazakhstan, there were a total of 960,000 Germans. Germans constituted around 6% of the total population of Kaazakhstan. […]