12+ hour, 7+ min ago   (280+ words) Developed for Spetsnaz units and the KGB in the mid-1960s, the Soviet PB—also known as the 6P9—took the proven Makarov PM design and incorporated a two-stage, integral suppressor. During World War II, the Soviet NKVD had used suppressed weapons, including M1895 Nagant…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (518+ words) On Friday, Thomas described what the initial discovery was like, how his historical research led him down different rabbit holes and how he brought the piece of history back to life. Before it was Paducah's Southside Walmart, the Paducah Mall…...

3+ day, 26+ min ago   (787+ words) It's 25 years later as I sit writing this column on 9-11 and the events of that day and the ensuing emotions all come flooding back. The tears and the fears most certainly are there. So is the anger, the shock and…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (145+ words) Empire examined Ibn Khaldun’s ideas to establish where and how nations tend to repeat themselves, and where lessons can be learned. He specifically mentioned the Scottish 18th century historian Alexander Fraser Tyler who claimed that democracies follow a predictable cyclical pattern,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (193+ words) A separate volume will be for the first time fully dedicated to the era of the Golden Horde in the upcoming multi-volume academic edition on the history of Kazakhstan, Vice President of Kazakhstan Erlan Karin said, Qazinform News Agency reports....

4+ day, 21+ min ago   (187+ words) 10 September 2026, 09:12 The occupiers have begun illegal archaeological excavations at the “Bakla Cave City” cultural heritage site in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Unique artifacts dating from the 10th to 13th centuries have already been removed from the western part of the complex. This…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (643+ words) I was with Mike Dukakis on the morning of 9/11, 25 years ago tomorrow. We were in his office at Northeastern University where the former three-term Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president was teaching a course on government and public policy....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (70+ words) September 1951 marked a continued shift in the Korean War. Following the communist delegation’s suspension of the Kaesong armistice talks in late August, United Nations Command abandoned expectations of a quick armistice and leveraged joint multinational firepower to seize commanding terrain…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (405+ words) Rare family archives and battlefield stories reveal a forgotten chapter of Ukrainian history—and explain why its memory remains contested today. A documentary film, “A Time to Gather Stones,” created by the state-owned enterprise “Multimedia Platform of Foreign Broadcasting of…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (417+ words) The Crimean Tatars often carried out predatory raids into Polish territory. Sometimes they did this together with the Ottoman army or Zaporozhian Cossacks. The Polish government paid a high annual tribute to the Tatars to prevent their raids. Despite these…...