World Events


Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Kite Runner
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
What Is the What
Address Unknown
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
All the Light We Cannot See
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Melanie Gideon
The Oreo cookie invented, the Titanic sinks, Spanish flu, Prohibition, women granted the right to vote, Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic, penicillin invented, stock market crashes, the Depression, Amelia Earhart, the atom is split, Prohibition ends, Golden Gate Bridge is built, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Korean War, Disneyland, Rosa Parks, Laika the dog is shot into space, hula hoops, birth control pill invented, Bay of Pigs, Marilyn Monroe dies, JFK killed, MLK has a dream, Vietnam War, S ...more
Melanie Gideon, Valley of the Moon

Hank Bracker
For us on the East Coast of the United States the systematic change in the calendar begins on December 31, 2017. It starts in the South Pacific nation of Samoa, which is always the first country to welcome in the New Year. Just 101 miles to the east is American Samoa, which will have to wait for an entire day to pass, before they can celebrate the New Year in…. Around the globe there are 39 different local time zones, which cause this phenomenon to take place over a period of 26 hours, before e ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."

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Watchmen On the Walls For Christians who watch world events and line it up with Bible Prophecy, especially as it perta…more
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