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1. Argentina's Economy in a NutshellBy: Dave Brown

Argentina's Economy Contrary to conventional economic wisdom, rich countries tend to stay rich and poor countries tend to stay poor.


2. History of Olmec CivilisationBy: blott

A History of Olmec Civilization.


3. The First Serial Killer - Ed GeinBy: Sam Vaknin

Ed Gein is also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.


4. Another Look at Mahatma GandhiBy: Sam Vaknin

Many myths abound about Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948).


5. Ferdinand Marcos - President of the Philippines, 1917-1989By: Vassil

A trained lawyer, Marcos was convicted of assassinating a political opponent of his father in 1939 and, from his condemned cell, argued his case up to the Philippine Surpreme Court, where he won an acquittal.


6. Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, born 1915By: Vassil

After seizing power in a bloody CIA-backed coup, General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile with a rod of iron for two decades, during which human rights violations became the norm of Chilean life.


7. The USSR That Could Have been - Lenin's New Economic PolicyBy: Sam Vaknin

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ) was not the first to introduce Perestroika - the economic liberalization of the communist system along capitalistic lines.


8. The Uganda SchemeBy: Sam Vaknin

Theodore Herzl, the visionary who founded Zionism, was an assimilated Jew, who did not consider Palestine the optimal choice for a resurgent Jewish nationalism.


9. The Teapot Dome ScandalBy: Sam Vaknin

With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teapot Dome affair during the presidency of Warren G.


10. The Story of the GuillotineBy: Sam Vaknin

The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine.


11. The First September 11By: Sam Vaknin

September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscraper.


12. The Family of Jesus ChristBy: Sam Vaknin

Was Jesus born 2002 years ago? Was he born in year zero? The first year AD was 1 - so, Jesus could not have been born in year zero.


13. The Constitution of the Weimar RepublicBy: Sam Vaknin

The Weimar Republic was established in February 1919 in defeated Germany and lasted until March 1933, when it was replaced with Hitler's Third Reich.


14. The Building of the PentagonBy: Sam Vaknin

The Pentagon was completed in 16 months.


15. The Armenian GenocideBy: Sam Vaknin

The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which some 600,000 Armenians perished.


16. The Abdication Crisis RevisitedBy: Sam Vaknin

The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas.


17. More about the ProhibitionBy: Sam Vaknin

Prohibition - the legal enforcement of abstinence from alcoholic beverages - is not an American invention.


18. Lindbergh, Charles AugustusBy: Sam Vaknin

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight.


19. Human-made MonstersBy: Sam Vaknin

Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature.


20. Facts and Figures about the Presidents of the USABy: Sam Vaknin

The first president of the united States was not George Washington.


21. Another Look at Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians)By: Sam Vaknin

Native Americans are often cast in the role of victims of White aggression and unbridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States.


22. A Moment of Truth about Maxim GorkyBy: Sam Vaknin

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) is widely considered a Bolshevik author, closely allied with the likes of Lenin and Stalin.


23. Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State HospitalBy: Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD

Few chapters in the medical history of Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious or fascinating than that concerning Walter Freeman, M.


24. Myths of the American Civil WarBy: Sam Vaknin

The Civil War (1861-5) has spawned numerous myths and falsities.


25. The Aung San Family in MyanmarBy: Sam Vaknin

Aung San Suu Kyi is a much revered opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) (born 1945).


26. Chavez's Inspiration - Simon BolivarBy: Sam Vaknin

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a successful politician.


27. Terrorists and Freedom FightersBy: Sam Vaknin

"'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought.


28. The American RevolutionBy: Sam Vaknin

The American Revolution was a civil war between Loyalists to the British crown (aka Tories, about one fifth of the population), supported by British expeditionary forces, and Patriots (or Whigs) in the 13 colonies that constituted British North America.


29. Slavery in the USABy: Sam Vaknin

Spanish settlements in the territory of the current-day USA owned slaves as early as 1526.


30. Thousands of Failures, but Thousands of PatentsBy: Sean North

Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he revolutionized the world by inventing and patenting the incandescent light bulb.

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