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The Korean War was the first major conflict that occurred during the Cold War. This conflict between North and South Korea took place between June 1950 and July 27, 1953. The war, known as the forgotten war, claimed millions of lives. All of Korea has terrible destruction and takes decades to recover. Historical Background of the Korean War Korea is a region that is not too large, because it only occupies an area of 85,246 square miles. The Korean region is more an archipelago, with a coastline of 5,400 miles and is strongly influenced by the sea. Before 1945, Korea was a unit. The ancient Korean Empire was united by the Tang Dynasty in 668 AD. This united Korea survived for 1300 years before finally breaking out. Korea broke into two parts after the maneuvers carried out by the Allies towards the end of World War II. During the war, Korea was an area controlled by Japan. However, after Japan's defeat in World War II, Korea was divided into two parts in the 38th parallel. The Sovie...

Philosophy is the view of life of a person or group of people which is a basic concept of life that is aspired. Philosophy is also interpreted as an attitude of someone who is aware and thinking adult in everything in depth and wants to see in terms of a broad and comprehensive with all relationships. The development of philosophy starts from the days of ancient philosophy to modern philosophy. Various new thoughts emerge and together seek the truth to reach a true truth. With the existence of philosophy, figures emerged who made changes with various thoughts. These thoughts make people use their minds to think more deeply and explore knowledge that is very useful today. Various new discoveries have been obtained so that it makes someone wiser in dealing with an existing problem. In this paper, the author will discuss the figure of the Athenian philosopher who has a lot of influence in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy. He is Socrates, in this paper the author will try to describ...

The 12th of the early Rabi'ul has become one of the special days for some Muslims. Today is considered as the birth day of the end-time Prophet, the bearer of the minutes of perfection, the great Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu alaihi wa ‘alaa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Celebration with various events ranging from recitation and congregation dhikr to games and competitions was held to enliven the commemoration of this special day. There are even among the groups of Tariqot who commemorate the Mawlid with dzikir and poems which contain excessive praise to the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alahi wa sallam. They believe that the spirit of the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alahi wa sallam the noble will come at the peak of the maulid event. Therefore, at the peak of the event the tariqot leader gave command to the dzikir participants to stand in order to welcome the arrival of the Prophet's sallalla ‘alahi wa sallam who was only known by the leader of the Tariqot. Really this kind of aqeedah is exactl...

The Human Statue of Liberty. 18000 men were used for this photo! Iowa, 1918. The day on which the photograph was taken was extremely hot and the heat was intensified by the mass formation of men. The dimensions of the platting for the picture seem astonishing. The camera was placed on a high tower. From the position nearest the camera occupied by Colonel Newman and his staff, to the last man at the top of the torch as platted on the ground was 1,235 feet, or approximately a quarter of a mile. The appended figures will give an adequate idea of the distorted proportions of the actual ground measurements for this photograph: Base to shoulder: 150 feet. Right arm: 340 feet. Widest part of arm holding torch: 12-1/2 feet. Right thumb: 35 feet. Thickest part of body: 29 feet. Left hand (length): 30 feet. Tablet in left hand: 27 feet. Face: 60 feet. Nose: 21 feet. Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet. Flame on torch.: 600 feet. Torch and flame combined: 980 feet. Number of men in flame of ...

Aerial photo of Woodstock, 1969

History LGBT Tragedy T he Stonewall Riots begin. Just after 3 a.m., police raided the Stonewall Inn—a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street. The incident turned violent as patrons and local sympathizers begin rioting against the police. Although the police were technically within their legal purview in raiding the club, which was serving liquor without a license, New York’s gay community had grown weary and wary of the police department frequently targeting gay clubs specifically because of their clientele. It is claimed that activist Marsha P Johnson yelled "I got my civil rights," and threw a shot glass at the wall, referred to as "the shot glass heard ‘round the world.” As the two groups faced off against each other, the protest spilled over into the neighboring streets, and order was not restored until the deployment of New York’s riot police. The Stonewall Riots were followed by several days of demonstrations in New York and was ...

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The leadership of the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early “National Socialism” propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers’ rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready. It was referred to as "The Night of the Long Knives." Image Credit:  German Federal Archive.

Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth. News of their achievement broke around the world on June 2, the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and Britons hailed it as a good omen for their country’s future. Mount Everest sits on the crest of the Great Himalayas in Asia, lying on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Called Chomo-Lungma, or “Mother Goddess of the Land,” by the Tibetans, the English named the mountain after Sir George Everest, a 19th-century British surveyor of South Asia. The first recorded attempt to climb Everest was made in 1921 by a British expedition that trekked 400 difficult miles across the Tibetan plateau to the foot of the great mountain. A raging storm forced them to abort their ascent, but the mountaineers, among them George Leigh Mallory, had seen what appeared to be a feasib...

When six U.S. Marines raised a flag over Iwo Jima in February 1945, they were laying claim to the slopes of a mountain, part of a strategically important chain of volcanic islands south of Tokyo. The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, were largely uninhabited. But during World War II, they offered a place where the invasion of Japan could be staged. The islands themselves weren’t empty—they were home to thousands of Japanese people, many of them with British and American ancestry. And, the American victory turned most of them into refugees over the next 23 years of U.S. occupation. In 1962, the United State abruptly gave the islands back to Japan. As the islands once again fell under Japanese control, islanders reconnected with their long-lost friends and family members and refugees returned. Even years after the handover, some Ogasawara residents are ambivalent about the change. “There are people who are very sad about the handover,” Yoko Tahash...

Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger in 1983!

Photo Legend History Los Angeles, 1926 – Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a “lumber truck”.