Asia (East, South, Southeast, Central)

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (333+ words) by Fortune Leroy | Oct 12, 2026 | Historia y leyendas | 0 comments For a crippled American bomber over southern Germany in 1944, Switzerland was often the nearest safe ground. Between August 1943 and April 1945, 166 US bombers came down there. Their crews were safe from the war,…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1321+ words) Spanish Courses for Seniors Temporary Residency • Permanent Residency • Citizenship 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦Intensive Group Classes in Malaga 🏖️Spanish on the Beach 🚀Crash Course for Busy Travellers 🇪🇸 Spanish Course for Expats 👼Classes for Kids & Families 📘Evening & Weekend Classes Clases de Inglés / English Classes Exam…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1570+ words) The Batanes Bashi Channel has become a flashpoint because Chinese scholars now claim the Philippine islands were historically part of Taiwan. For US readers, the dispute tests whether the 1951 US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty would cover an incident in the northern…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (557+ words) by Connor Kerr | Oct 7, 2026 | Storia e leggende | 0 comments On 10 February 1906, King Edward VII smashed a bottle against the bow of a new battleship at Portsmouth. A year after work on her began, HMS Dreadnought went to sea for trials, and…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (99+ words) During World War Two, the Canadian government stripped more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians of all their possessions, including their homes, and forced them into internment camps for years. Their resilience is now being honoured through a newly unveiled monument in Victoria,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (661+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 8, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments An Afterburner focus series in ten parts, inspired by Richard Rhodes’ masterpiece The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Part 1: Moonshine: The Idea Born at a Traffic Light Röntgen’s shimmering screen, the Curies’ glowing…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (599+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Sep 30, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments At 10:12 on the morning of 28 December 1944, a Japanese A6M Zero dived through anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the Liberty ship SS John Burke in the Mindanao Sea. For a few seconds there was only…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (690+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Sep 26, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments For decades, the Royal Thai Air Force's F-16s flew exercises, air shows and the occasional scramble. On 24 July 2025 they went to war. As a border dispute with Cambodia exploded into open fighting,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (707+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Sep 26, 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comments On the night of 10 March 1968, nineteen American airmen were living on top of a mountain in a country where, officially, there were no American troops at all. Phou Pha Thi…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (913+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 23, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1952 a group of scientists at MIT was asked a straightforward question: how vulnerable are the United States and Canada to aerial bombing? Their answer was that a line of search…...