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March 15, 44 BC How Diarrhea Changed the World On this day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by a cadre of Senators who called themselves “the Liberators.” During Caesar’s reign the Roman Empire achieved an unprecedented amount of power and land area, stretching from Britain to Africa to the Middle East. Caesar conquered Gaul and led the first Roman invasion of Britain. The Roman Civil War of 50 BC divided …Read more 
October 21
“The was no way to predict or prepare for Rwanda.” Not exactly true. In 1993, a year prior to the Rwanda genocide, a nearly identical scenario occurred in Burundi. After years of Tutsi rule, Hutu political parties united in their support to elect Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, as President of Burundi. The Hutu parties succeeded, ousting the incumbent President Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, in the country’s first democratic election. Ndadaye was 40 years …Read more 
August 21 “The greatest president we never had” Twenty-seven years ago today a shot rang out in a Manila airport. Returning to the Philippines after three years in exile, Benigno Aquino, leader of the Liberal Party and the most vocal opponent of President Ferdinand Marcos, was struck dead by an assassin’s bullet. Twelve years to the day prior to his death, Aquino had escaped another attack. He was not present at a Liberal Party rally where two fragmentation …Read more 
August 17 …never had I entertained any ambition other than to merit the hatred of the ungrateful and the esteem of the virtuous. -José de San Martín, July 22, 1820 San Martín did both. One of the greatest heroes of Pan-American history, San Martín was an exceptionally rare kind in that, after achieving what he had set out to accomplish–namely the liberation of most of South America–he held true to his word. He relinquished all …Read more 
April 4, 1968 Early Morning – April 4 A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride – Pride (In the Name of Love), U2 40 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. looked off the balcony of his room on the second story of the Lorraine Hotel. King had given what would be his last address the day before. The Mountaintop speech. …Read more |
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