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For the last 100 years, women’s rights have been undergoing a struggle, resulting in women clawing their way up the equality scale with men. While the West still has a ways to go, Western women can look to the developing world to see just how bad things were. Yet not all of these regions are [...]

One of the sad truths about our little human race is that, far too often, we just don’t like each other.  This goes for the little guy and heads of state equally.  Of course when the latter don’t like each other, war is often the result. We all know the famous battles glorified by history [...]

Some actors are so good in their roles, that the viewing public forgets they’re watching a fictional movie.  The performance draws them into the character and film until they think it’s real.  This creates awkward situations for the actor who can be, at best, typecast into a particular role.  At worst, they become universally despised [...]

Enlisting in the United States Marines Corps is not an afternoon of miniature golf and dinner at Cracker Barrel.  Enlisting in the USMC is heavy.  When one walks into the recruiting office, you already know that this is going to be drastically life changing, and you are about to enter a completely new world.  In [...]

Don’t worry, we’re not talking about some diamond-encrusted Barbie or a mini-Lamborghini.  No, these toys are somewhere in a closet and, quite possibly, you might have played with them in your childhood.  They are hard-to-find toys and collectibles that, for whatever reason, are holy grails in the collecting world.  Right now they could be sitting in your [...]

While Spielberg guaranteed that the world would remember Oskar Schindler, there were others who also saw the plight of the European Jews and went the extra mile to save as many as possible.  While TopTenz has already mentioned Raoul Wallenberg and Chiune Sugihara there were others who rose to the challenge, taking incredible risks and [...]

Some countries like Germany, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Iran just have a bad reputation.  There are, of course, others I won’t get into (I’m looking at you North Korea).  But other countries like Holland, Canada and most of Scandinavia are looked at as the good side of our small, orbiting pile of rock.  Yet these nations aren’t [...]