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1997 News of the World: Africa

1997 News of the World Africa has been experiencing one of its most violent periods since the Colonial era, with fighting taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congo Republic…

Women's Suffrage

Saudi women vote for the first time Source: AP When and where did women earn the right to vote? Learn the year in which women's suffrage was granted, organized by year. New Zealand was the…

2008 News of the World - South Africa

2008 news of the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe Thabo Mbeki Related Links 2008 Year in Review 2008 News of the Nation 2008 People in the News 2008…

1992 Olympics

BarcelonaTop 10 StandingsLeading Medal WinnersTrack & FieldBoxingGymnasticsSwimmingTennisTeam SportsArcheryBadmintonCanoeingCanoe SlalomCyclingEquestrianFencingJudoModern PentathlonShootingTable…

1940 – 1949 World History

Winston Churchill (1874–1965)National Archives and Records Admin.Yalta ConferenceU.S. Army PhotosAnne Frank(1929–1945)Archive PhotosHarry S. Truman (1884–1972)The Library of Congress Picture…

The Megacities of Africa

Africa's urban landscape A melting pot of religions, languages, wildlife, and history make up the expansive continent of Africa. It indeed has small villages, and poverty does exist there as it does…

Black Books

Required reading in African-American literature by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco   Many of the earliest published Black writers were slaves and abolitionists. Phillis Wheatley spoke no…

Coetzee, J. M.

(Encyclopedia) Coetzee, J. M. (John Maxwell Coetzee)Coetzee, J. M.köˈtsē [key], 1940–, South African novelist, b. John Michael Coetzee. Educated at the Univ. of Cape Town (M.A. 1963) and the Univ. of…