A Brief History On January 19, 2020, our cable news stations are abuzz with the latest news and speculation about the impeachment of President Donald Trump. At the heart of the impeachment, is a scandal in which Trump is accused of holding back hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from the Ukrainian government unless that same government announced an investigation into former US Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter. (All alleged, of course.) Between the ongoing war with Russia, which stole (they “annexed” or “reclaimed”) the region known as the Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and…
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A Brief History On October 31, 2008, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” was posted to a cryptography mailing list. Today, Bitcoin is autonomous of customary banking and, as indicated by some top online merchants, is viewed as the most mainstream computerized cash that depends on PC systems to illuminate complex math. Issues, for verification and to record the subtleties of each exchange performed. The Bitcoin conversion scale is not subject to the national bank and is not the main power that administers the conveyance of digital currency. Be that…
A Brief History On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger was walking with her 3 year old daughter near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California at about 10 in the morning when they came upon the naked, dead body of a young woman. The body had been cut in half and mutilated, and soon became famous as “The Black Dahlia.” Betty at first thought the object on the ground was a discarded mannequin, but quickly realized it was instead a human being! Betty did the right thing, which is to immediately run to the nearest house to use the telephone to…
A Brief History Nowadays, it seems that the Internet is constantly expanding and evolving. We are used to Google, which sees five million searches daily, and WhatsApp, with fifty million active users each day, but the Internet infiltrates our lives much further than that. It is unrecognisable from the early days of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, and even the social networking platforms of the early 2000s. The statistics show just how vital the Internet is to our lives, and how much of our lives we end up living through it. As well as the likes of Google…
A Brief History On January 14, 2020, while the world continues to digest the fallout of the US drone strike that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani on January 3, 2020 and the subsequent missile attack from Iran against an American base in Iraq, as well as the tragedy of the Iranian military accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner mistakenly thought to be an incoming American attack on Iran, we prefer to look at the more positive side of American-Iranian relations. Specifically, we want to introduce our readers to some of the notable Iranian Americans that help make the United…