and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying shogunate with the Empire of Japan – a constitutional nation state that modernised and industrialised at a remarkable rate. CPC Collection/Alamy ...
Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school ...
The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...
Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...
As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2. A strategy of unpredictability and generalised threat? Symptoms of the ...
Bangkok is a city of the world, but is it a world city?The answer is an enthusiastic though qualified yes, judging from the results of a spirited discussion between long-term foreign residents, ...