This is a stab at seeing how good or maybe not,… 🙂 , we here at the WNF can predict anything about the world in the coming decades. In your comment, list your top five predictions of overall interest in… Read More ›
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The Moon
From Wikipedia: The Moon (Latin: Luna) is Earth‘s only natural satellite. Although not the largest natural satellite in the Solar System, it is, among the satellites of major planets, the largest relative to the size of the object it orbits… Read More ›
Secular vs Church Tenet
U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization – ProPublica A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations. The Vatican has an absolute prohibition on sterilization for the purposes of birth control. The U.S. Catholic bishops… Read More ›
Aleppo, Syria – A Long History
ALEPPO THE ENCHANTED CITY Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC.[10] Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of… Read More ›
Predictions for Syria in 2015 by Joshua Landis
Here is a year end wrap up and predictions for 2015 for Syria and no solution in sight. It is very sobering article from a US Syrian expert. Oil is more important than bombs in that area, and the rich… Read More ›
The Invasion of Russia-German Axis Allies
The Invasion of Russia was not fought solely by Germans. Without the additional regiments/battalions of Eastern European countries, Hitler may have reconsidered invading Russia. There were the Finns (who stopped at their previous WWI borders), the Hungarian Second Army, the Romanians,… Read More ›
Syria death toll now exceeds 200,000
Syria’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. “We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March… Read More ›
Some Russian History
THE MONGOL INVASION OF ANCIENT RUS’ A History of Russia (Tsars and Revolutions) HISTORY OF GERMAN AND RUSSIAN AGGRESSION: 1200AD-1945AD
Syrian rebels prepare to defend ruined Aleppo as troops and militias close in
By Martin Chulov in Aleppo in The Guardian The last road into rebel-held east Aleppo carves though a mile-wide paddock between an abandoned village and a looming ridgeline. Behind each of them Syrian troops advance slowly, hidden from view. Trucks,… Read More ›
Funerals Begin for 141 Slain in Taliban Attack on Pakistan School
Ayaz Gul and Hameedullah Khan contributed reporting from Pakistan for Voice of America The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of… Read More ›
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