More than 50 years ago, a Soviet Party leader, Nikita Khruchev, publicly critiqued Stalin. Many of those who attended the conference remembered “death-like” silence that covered the conference hall. It was February 25, 1956.
That day, delegates of the XX Party Session were unexpectedly called up for a closed meeting. When Khruchev went on a podium [...]

Santa Barbara is sometimes referred to as the American Riviera. Her beautiful beaches, majestic mountains and colorful culture make Santa Barbara a premier resort destination. These pictures prove these words…

Photos by Yulia Bolotina

On September 20, 1946, the doors leading to the President’s oval-shaped office still were closed when 10:30 arrived. Five minutes more passed …10…15…Finally, the doors opened, and the reporters surged in.
Mr. Truman was at his desk, attired in a blue suit, red tie and a red handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket. He showed no [...]

On November 5, 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured American hostages. This moment is well-known, documented and discussed by many, but what is less known or rather forgotten is that 16 days after it, on November 20, 1979, Islamic students stormed the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
What started as [...]

On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Japanese city and headquarters of the 2nd General Army. Sixteen hours later after the attack, U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s report of the event was broadcast to radio listeners:

“The world will know that the first atomic [...]

The Deir Yassin massacre (Deir Yassin is also transliterated from Arabic as Dayr Yasin and frequently (mis)transliterated from Hebrew writings as Dir Yassin) refers to the killing of scores of Arab civilians at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine by Jewish irregular forces between April 9 and 11, [...]

World War One or the Great War began with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand who was heir to the throne of the mighty empire of Austria-Hungary.
In the summer of 1914, he and his wife, Sophie, made a visit to the troubled province of Bosnia, where on June 28, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot [...]

Punctum? Studium? What the hell…do these words mean?
If you have similar questions popping up in your mind than we are on the same page. Or I would rather say we could have been. And the reason for it is a book “Camera Lucida” by Roland [...]

I was confused watching the very first scenes of “The Naked City”. A camera was slowly moving while a third-person narration commented on different aspects of the city life. And I could not figure out what were I watching and why. It seemed that a regular documentary was unfolding on a screen. It felt that [...]

His job is to pour drinks behind a bar. There is nothing special about bartenders, however what sets Mr. Matt Boke from other bartenders is flair. That is, the art of flipping, spinning, throwing, balancing and catching bottles, shakers and many other bar gadgets.
And while we might think of Flair bartending as a hobby, Mr. [...]