History Speaks

08/12/2021

Tesla is the future❤🚀

04/08/2020

The 7 Oldest Presidents in History
The Founding Fathers only set an age minimum for U.S. presidents—not a maximum.

19/07/2020

Coronavirus stimulus: President Trump calls for payroll tax cut in next round of relief.
Mary Trump shrugs off Donald's criticism: I'm in good company.
Portland Protesters Set a Police Building on Fire

13/07/2020

29/06/2020

The Biggest ‘Lies’ We’re Taught in U.S. History classes



https://mondespeaks.com/2020/06/29/the-biggest-lies-were-taught-in-u-s-history-classes/

Americans as a nation are grappling with the effects of a long time of fundamental prejudice. Many are turning to assets from scholastics, specialists and activists to teach themselves on implicit predisposition — and significant events in history they never found out about. How could this happen?...

19/06/2020

https://mondespeaks.com/2020/06/19/us-china-relations-a-complex-history/

US China relations also refers as  Sino-American relations, since the eighteenth century. The connection between the two nations has been mind-boggling, and shift from positive to exceptionally negative. After 1980 the economic ties developed quickly. The relationship is of economic partnership, do...

14/06/2020

https://mondespeaks.com/2020/06/14/know-them-how-many-black-people-butchered-by-the-us-police-so-far/

According to some reports, US Police is killing almost 1000 people of different ethnicities every year. Even though the police kill more whites than black but minority killing generates more outrage. we have collected some data so far, The number of black people killed by US police . Below are very....

12/06/2020

https://mondespeaks.com/2020/06/12/is-democracy-dying-in-america/

In the nineteen-thirties, The last time vote based system(Democracy) almost DIED on everywhere throughout the world and practically at the same time, Americans contended about it, and afterward, they attempted to fix it. “The eventual fate of Democracy is point number one in the vivified conversat...

09/06/2020

Spanish prisoners at noon-day meal, Manila, Philippines, 1899-1901

04/06/2020

AD 1 (I), 1 AD or 1 CE is the epoch year for the Anno Domini calendar era. It was the first year of the Common Era (CE), of the 1st millennium and of the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday,a common year starting on Saturday by the proleptic Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday by the proleptic Gregorian calendar. In its time, year 1 was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Paullus, named after Roman consuls Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, and less frequently, as year 754 AUC (ab urbe condita) within the Roman Empire. The denomination "AD 1" for this year has been in consistent use since the mid-medieval period when the anno Domini (AD) calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. It was the beginning of the Christian/Common era. The preceding year is 1 BC; there is no year 0 in this numbering scheme. The Anno Domini dating system was devised in AD 525 by Dionysius Exiguus.

02/06/2020

HISTORY OF AFRICANS ON AMERICAN SOIL:

The history of slavery has always been a major research topic for white scholars, but until the 1950s they generally focused on the political and constitutional themes as debated by white politicians; they did not study the lives of the black slaves.
During Reconstruction and the late 19th century, blacks became major actors in the South. The Dunning School of white scholars generally cast the blacks as pawns of white Carpetbaggers during this period, but W. E. B. Du Bois, a black historian, and Ulrich B. Phillips, a white historian, studied the African-American experience in depth.
Africans first arrived in 1619, when a Dutch ship sold 19 blacks to Englishmen at Point Comfort (today's Fort Monroe), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. In all, about 10–12 million Africans were transported to the Western Hemisphere.
The vast majority of these people came from that stretch of the West African coast extending from present-day Senegal to Angola; a small percentage came from Madagascar and East Africa.
Only 5% (about 500,000) went to the American colonies. The vast majority went to the West Indies and Brazil, where they died quickly. Demographic conditions were highly favorable in the American colonies, with less disease, more food, some medical care, and lighter work loads than prevailed in the sugar By 1700 there were 25,000 black slaves in the North American mainland colonies, about 10% of the population.
Some had been shipped directly from Africa (most of them were from 1518 to the 1850s), but initially, very often they had been shipped via the West Indies in small cargoes after spending time working on the island.

26/05/2020

Jules Verne and the Moon Landing:

As a science fiction author, the concept of space travel wasn’t foreign to Verne. More than 100 years before Neil Armstrong took that giant step onto the surface of the moon, Verne predicted the event in From Earth to the Moon, a novel about two men who journeyed to the moon in a rocket that was launched out of a cannon.
Even weirder is that the site of the launch in his book was in Florida, which eventually became the location of the Kennedy Space Center.

26/05/2020

Morgan Robertson and the Sinking Titanic:

We all know the story of the Titanic—the giant ship was said to be “nearly unsinkable,” only to meet an iceberg that threw that claim out the window, resulting in major loss of life and James Cameron’s epic film.

In 1898, Morgan Robertson wrote a short story titled “Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan,” which was essentially the exact story of how the Titanic sank 14 years later.

26/05/2020

Nikola Tesla and Wi-Fi:

Tesla is very well-known in his own right, but he’s also recognized as Thomas Edison’s employee-turned-rival.

Though Edison thought that Tesla was an incredibly smart man, he also believe that his ideas were “utterly impractical”—maybe Tesla’s prediction of cell phones and wireless internet were two of those very ideas.

Approximately 90 years before the invention of Wi-Fi and 60 years before the world saw its first cellular phone, Tesla said to The New York Times,

26/05/2020

John Brunner and Barack Obama’s Presidency:
In his 1968 fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar, science fiction author John Brunner wrote about a world set in a version of 2010 that he imagined.
Not only did the book end up coming eerily close to the world we live in now, but it was also lead by a President Obomi.

Yes, that’s clearly not an exact match on the spelling of amercan’s 44th president’s, but Obomi and Obama come close enough to give us a few goosebumps.

As if that wasn’t interesting enough, the novel also predicted the creation of the TiVo.

26/05/2020

Predicting the future sounds crazy to some, but you might be surprised to hear how many real-life events and gadgets were actually came true.
some even 200 years before the main event.

There are lots of inventions that we all wish had come into existence sooner than they did wireless internet, smartphones, debit cards etc.
WE ARE STARTING A THREAD ABOUT HISTORICAL PREDICTIONS THAT ACTUALLY CAME TRUE.

23/05/2020

Goliath is described in the biblical Book of Samuel as a Philistine giant defeated by the young David in single combat. The story signified Saul's unfitness to rule, as Saul himself should have fought for Israel.

23/05/2020

RUSSIAN HISTORY EVERY YEAR

22/05/2020

The Mexican–American War:
Mexican-American War, also called Mexican War, Spanish Guerra de 1847 or Guerra de Estados Unidos a Mexico (“War of the United States Against Mexico”), war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845

The main cause of the war was the westward expansion of the United States. All through the 19th century Americans believed it was their right to expand westward. At the time they believed they could conquer the people already living on the land and take it for the United States.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas

21/05/2020

Battle Of Canada:

The Battle of Cañada was part of the Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the United States by Mexicans. It took place on January 24, 1847, during the Mexican-American War.

19/05/2020

Charlie Chaplin raised up by Douglas Fairbanks on Wall Street to help sell war bonds for WW1, 1918.

18/05/2020

MINI ICE AGE COMING VERY SOON?

If Earth’s past climates tell us anything, it’s that ice age really coming very soon. Over the last 2.6 million years, the planet has experienced a series of glacial periods separated by thaws, or interglacials. The next big chill could hit within two millennia—that is, if it weren’t for soaring levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, driven by humans.

Since the Industrial Revolution, however, atmospheric CO2 levels have been trending higher and higher. The estimated carbon dioxide in 2018 was 407.4. So, if business proceeds as usual, with carbon release being driven primarily by fossil-fuel burning, we likely have a long thaw ahead of us.
Modeling work by geophysical scientist David Archer has shown, for instance, that burning all potential fossil carbon on Earth—5,000 gigatons—would be enough to delay the next glaciation by 500,000 years.

18/05/2020

ISLAM

Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God, and that Muhammad(P.B.U.H) is a messenger of God. Islam means "surrender" and its central idea is a surrendering to the will of God. Its central article of faith is that "There is no god but God and Muhammad(P.B.U.H) is his messenger". Followers of Islam are called Muslims.

The Qur'an is the sacred scripture of Islam, and is believed by Muslims to be God's final revelation to humankind. The Qur'an was revealed in Arabic to Muhammad(P.B.U.H) by the Angel Gabriel over a period of 22 years, beginning in 610 CE and ending in 632 CE.

17/05/2020

THE DRAMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF BERLIN WALL.

On the morning of August 13, 1961, Berliners awoke to find that overnight, soldiers had used barbed wire to completely close the border between the two halves of the city—catching almost everyone by surprise. No warning had been given: trams stopped in their tracks, people headed to shop or visit friends on the other side of the city were turned back, and deadly force was employed to keep people from crossing. Over the next 25 years, the GDR fortified this border by erecting a series of solid walls and barbed-wire barriers, as well as a “death strip” of cleared land with tripwires and mines, all to prevent people from escaping. Over the next four decades, more than 140 people were killed in connection with the Berlin Wall.

16/05/2020

BRIEF HISTORY OF STALIN AND TROTSKY.

In 1924, two years after suffering the first of a series of paralysing strokes, Lenin died. His embalmed remains were put on display in Moscow and a personality cult was built around him – all orchestrated by Stalin.

But Lenin had failed to name a successor and had expressed a low opinion of ‘too rude’ Stalin. The charismatic Trotsky, hero of the civil war and second only to Lenin as an architect of the revolution, wanted collectivisation of agriculture – an extension of War Communism – and worldwide revolution. He attacked Party ‘bureaucrats’ who wished to concentrate on socialism in the Soviet Union.

But even before Lenin’s death, the powers that mattered in the Party and soviets had backed a three-man leadership of Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin, in which Stalin already pulled the strings. As Party general secretary, he controlled all appointments and had installed his supporters wherever it mattered. In 1927 he succeeded in getting Trotsky, his main rival, expelled.

15/05/2020

KARL MARX.

15/05/2020

Nakba Day is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israel's IndependenceThe 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎, al-Nakbah, literally "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs — about half of prewar Palestine's Arab population — fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war
The precise number of refugees, many of whom settled in refugee camps in neighboring states, is a matter of dispute but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (half of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes. About 250,000–300,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled before the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948, a fact which was named as a casus belli for the entry of the Arab League into the country, sparking the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

14/05/2020

In 1962 an Italian magazine did a story about what the world would look like in 2022.

13/05/2020

HISTORY OF CLOCKS.
TIME

Time, a central theme in modern life, has for most of human history been thought of in very imprecise terms.

The day and the week are easily recognized and recorded - though an accurate calendar for the year is hard to achieve. The forenoon is easily distinguishable from the afternoon, provided the sun is shining, and the position of the sun in the landscape can reveal roughly how much of the day has passed. By contrast the smaller parcels of time - hours, minutes and seconds - have until recent centuries been both unmeasurableand unneeded.

Sundial and water clock: from the 2nd millennium BC

The movement of the sun through the sky makes possible a simple estimate of time, from the length and position of a shadow cast by a vertical stick. (It also makes possible more elaborate calculations, as in the attempt of Erathosthenes to measure the world - see Erathosthenes and the camels). If marks are made where the sun's shadow falls, the time of day can be recorded in a consistent manner.

A tower clock in China: 1094

After six years' work, a Buddhist monk by the name of Su Song completes a great tower, some thirty feet high, which is designed to reveal the movement of the stars and the hours of the day. Figures pop out of doors and strike bells to signify the hours.

Clockwork in Europe: 13th - 14th century

Europe at the end of the Middle Ages is busy trying to capture time. The underlying aim is as much astronomical (to reflect the movement of the heavenly bodies) as it is to do with the more mundane task of measuring everybody's day. But the attraction of that achievement is recognized too. A textbook on astronomy, written by 'Robert the Englishman' in 1271, says that 'clockmakers are trying to make a wheel which will make one complete revolution' in each day, but that 'they cannot quite perfect their work'.

Domestic clocks: 15th century

After the success of the clocks in Europe's cathedrals in the late 14th century, and the introduction of the clock face in places such as Wells, kings and nobles naturally want this impressive technology at home.
Watches: 16th - 17th century

The first watches, made in Nuremberg from about 1500, are spherical metal objects, about three inches in diameter, designed to hang on a ribbon round the neck. They derive from similar metal spheres used as pomanders, to hold aromatic herbs which will protect the wearer against disease or vile odours.

The pendulum clock: 1656-1657

Christiaan Huygens spends Christmas day, in the Hague in 1656, constructing a model of a clock on a new principle. The principle itself has been observed by Galileo, traditionally as a result of watching a lamp swing to and fro in the cathedral when he is a student in Pisa. Galileo later proves experimentally that a swinging suspended object takes the same time to complete each swing regardless of how far it travels.

The pocket watch: 1675

Nineteen years after making his model of the pendulum clock, Huygens invents a device of equal significance in the development of the watch. It is the spiral balance, also known as the hairspring (an invention also claimed, less convincingly, by Robert Hooke). This very fine spring, coiled flat, controls the speed of oscillation of the balance wheel. For the first time it is possible to make a watch which is reasonably accurate - and slim.

A millennium clock: 1746

In 1746 a French clockmaker, Monsieur Passemont (his first name is not known), completes a clock which is almost certainly the first in the world to be able to take account of a new millennium. Its dials can reveal the date of the month in any year up to9999.

12/05/2020

5. Cholera—A Victory for Public Health Research
n the early- to mid-19th century, cholera tore through England, killing tens of thousands. The prevailing scientific theory of the day said that the disease was spread by foul air known as a “miasma.” But a British doctor named John Snow suspected that the mysterious disease, which killed its victims within days of the first symptoms, lurked in London’s drinking waterSnow acted like a scientific Sherlock Holmes, investigating hospital records and morgue reports to track the precise locations of deadly outbreaks. He created a geographic chart of cholera deaths over a 10-day period and found a cluster of 500 fatal infections surrounding the Broad Street pump, a popular city well for drinking water.

“As soon as I became acquainted with the situation and extent of this irruption (sic) of cholera, I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street-pump in Broad Street,” wrote Snow

12/05/2020

4. Smallpox—A European Disease Ravages the New World.
Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. But the death rate in the Old World paled in comparison to the devastation wrought on native populations in the New World when the smallpox virus arrived in the 15th century with the first European explorers.

The indigenous peoples of modern-day Mexico and the United States had zero natural immunity to smallpox and the virus cut them down by the tens of millions“There hasn’t been a kill off in human history to match what happened in the Americas—90 to 95 percent of the indigenous population wiped out over a century,” says Mockaitis. “Mexico goes from 11 million people pre-conquest to one million.”

Centuries later, smallpox became the first virus epidemic to be ended by a vaccine. In the late 18th-century, a British doctor named Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids infected with a milder virus called cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. Jenner famously inoculated his gardener’s 9-year-old son with cowpox and then exposed him to the smallpox virus with no ill effect.

12/05/2020

3. The Great Plague of London—Sealing Up the Sick

By the early 1500s, England imposed the first laws to separate and isolate the sick. Homes stricken by plague were marked with a bale of hay strung to a pole outside. If you had infected family members, you had to carry a white pole when you went out in public. Cats and dogs were believed to carry the disease, so there was a wholesale massacre of hundreds of thousands of animals
The Great Plague of 1665 was the last and one of the worst of the centuries-long outbreaks, killing 100,000 Londoners in just seven months. All public entertainment was banned and victims were forcibly shut into their homes to prevent the spread of the disease. Red crosses were painted on their doors along with a plea for forgiveness: “Lord have mercy upon us.”

As cruel as it was to shut up the sick in their homes and bury the dead in mass graves, it may have been the only way to bring the last great plague outbreak to an end.

12/05/2020

2. Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine
The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon. The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years.

As for how to stop the disease, people still had no scientific understanding of contagion, says Mockaitis, but they knew that it had something to do with proximity. That’s why forward-thinking officials in Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa decided to keep newly arrived sailors in isolation until they could prove they weren’t sick.
At first, sailors were held on their ships for 30 days, which became known in Venetian law as a trentino. As time went on, the Venetians increased the forced isolation to 40 days or a quarantino, the origin of the word quarantine and the start of its practice in the Western world.

“That definitely had an effect,” says Mockaiti

12/05/2020

How 5 of History's Worst Pandemics Finally Ended

While some of the earliest pandemics faded by wiping out parts of the population, medical and public health initiatives were able to halt the spread of other diseases.
1. Plague of Justinian—No One Left to Die
Three of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history were caused by a single bacterium, Yersinia pestis, a fatal infection otherwise known as the plague.

The Plague of Justinian arrived in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 541 CE. It was carried over the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt, a recently conquered land paying tribute to Emperor Justinian in grain. Plague-ridden fleas hitched a ride on the black rats that snacked on the grain
The plague decimated Constantinople and spread like wildfire across Europe, Asia, North Africa and Arabia killing an estimated 30 to 50 million people, perhaps half of the world’s population.

“People had no real understanding of how to fight it other than trying to avoid sick people,” says Thomas Mockaitis, a history professor at DePaul University. “As to how the plague ended, the best guess is that the majority of people in a pandemic somehow survive, and those who survive have immunity

11/05/2020

Hi**er’s Teeth Reveal N**i Dictator’s Cause of Death

A new analysis of Adolf Hi**er's teeth and bones puts to rest questions of how he died.
In a new study, French scientists analyzed fragments of Adolf Hi**er’s teeth to prove that he died in 1945, after taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head. The research, published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine in May 2018,
seeks to end conspiracy theories about Adolf Hi**er’s death through scientific analysis of the dictator’s teeth and skull.

“Our study proves that Hi**er died in 1945,” lead study author Philippe Charlier told AFP. “The teeth are authentic, there is no possible doubt.”

Though it’s widely established that Hi**er died in his bunker in Berlin, rumors of his escape abound. Their research proves that “he did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon,” said Charlier.

In late April 1945, as Soviet forces stormed Berlin, Hi**er made plans for his su***de, including testing SS-supplied cyanide pills on his Alsatian, Blondi, and dictating a final will and testament. Two days earlier, Mussolini had been shot by a firing squad and then publicly hung by his feet in a suburban square in Milan, Italy: A similar fate seemed inevitable.

10/05/2020

When Mask-Wearing Rules in the 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance
Most people complied, but some resisted (or poked holes in their masks to smoke)
The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 was the most deadly flu outbreak in history, killing up to 50 million people worldwide. In the United States, where it ultimately killed around 675,000 people, local governments rolled out initiatives to try to stop its spread. These varied by region, and included closing schools and places of public amusement, enforcing “no-spitting” ordinances, encouraging people to use handkerchiefs or disposable tissues and requiring people to wear masks in public.

Mask-wearing ordinances mainly popped up in the western states, and it appears most people complied with them. The nation was still fighting in World War I, and officials framed anti-flu measures as a way to protect the troops from the deadly outbreak.

09/05/2020

10. NDTV India
NDTV India (Hindi: NDTV इंडिया) is a Hindi news channel in India that is owned by New Delhi Television Limited. Noted journalist Vinod Dua has been associated with this channel.

09/05/2020

9. Geo News
Geo News is a private Pakistani TV news channel, owned and operated by ‘Independent Media Corporation’, the parent company which also owns the Jang Group of Newspapers.

09/05/2020

8. Al Arabiya
Al Arabiya meaning “The Arabic One” or “The Arab One” is a Saudi-owned pan-Arab television news channel broadcast in Modern Standard Arabic.