HAVING just returned from France, which is shit, Grace Wood-Morris can state definitively that it does not count as a proper holiday abroad. She explains: …
Imam Khomeini dedicated most of his life to resistance against the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty, which finally led to its downfall in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. …
Though the first Europeans to arrive in the region had been Dutch, the western part of Australia had been claimed for Britain on May 2nd…
Italy became a nation on March 17th 1861, when most of the states of the region and the two Sicilies were united under King Victor Emmanuel II,…
THE government is to take the issuing of sick notes from GPs and hand it to a panel of specially selected sadistic bastards. The panel…
Brunei had been a British protectorate since 1888, and as such, was reliant on the British armed forces for protection and defense. On 31 May 1961,…
A FATHER has been caught up in a nightmarish telephone conversation with his daughter lasting almost five minutes. Unsuspecting dad Martin, not his real name,…
A PAIR of men in their 40s fear they may inexorably move from being comfortable acquaintances to full-blown friendship. Over the past few years, Martin…
Ratu Sukuna Day is a national public holiday commemorated annually to celebrate the life and service of Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Sir Josefa Lalabalavu Vana'ali'ali Sukuna (22 April 1888…
Historically part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire until its collapse at the end of World War I, Croatia was one of the six republics that formed…
A WOMAN is ready to crack under the weight of work-related stress entirely of her own making, it has emerged. Project manager Hannah, not her…
The Azores is a region of Portugal composed of nine islands. The archipelago discovered by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century, became an Autonomous Region…
From the 15th century, Armenia had been part of the Ottoman Empire. By the 19th century, most of modern-day Armenia had come under the control…
This holiday marks the anniversary of the 1967 Australian Referendum. It also marks the start of National Reconciliation Week. Called by the Holt Government, the…
Georgia had been part of the Russian Empire since 1800. Following the Russian revolution and the defeats in the First World War, movements within Georgia…
DRINKING sessions are a great way to connect with friends when your inhibitions are down. And also ruin your life by sharing these overly personal…
ATTEMPTING to convince yourself physical decline, burdensome responsibilities and heightened stress are a good thing? Here’s why you’re so glad to be in your thirties: …
After the end of the first world war, the emirate of Transjordan was officially formed from the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922 and was…
ONE moment you’re laughing at the idiotic things your parents say, the next the same phrases are coming out of your own stupid, ageing mouth.…
In the first decades of the 19th century, Spain was reeling after the French had invaded during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon had installed his brother…