Olympic games greatly affect the infrastructure of their host cities, and not necessarily always in a positive way. A great deal of expense is involved in building the state-of-the-art stadiums, pools, tracks, and facilities that ...
Russia, then, was the undivided Soviet Union. The state government thought rivers which fed the Aral Sea (actually a lake, derived from prehistoric ‘sea’ cut short by tectonic shifts on earth surface) could be syphoned ...
With 105 stories and a height of 1080 feet, the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang in North Korea is the 63rd tallest edifice ever built as of 2019. At present, it also happens to be the ...
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) holds a special fascination for aviation enthusiasts. Located at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, AMARG stores and maintains various types of aircraft and missiles ...
The people who were in Dhanushkodi on the night of 22 December 1964 would never forget it as long as they live. On this night, a sudden cyclone from the South Andaman Sea, blown in ...
It was the poor villager who got rich off the hen that laid golden eggs, and it was the people of Nauru who got rich off the bird poop. This is the tale of people ...