On November 8, millions of Australians experienced a failure of their telecommunication services for about 14 hours. Optus, one of the service providers blamed the outage on a “network event” that triggered a “cascading failure”.  While some were frustrated they could… Read More

Pedro Alvares Cabral was a key figure in the history of Portugal and Brazil. His voyages to India and beyond helped establish the Portuguese Empire as a global power during an important moment in global history when European countries were… Read More

A statue of a dog is found near the entrance of Shibuya station, one of the main train stations in Tokyo. It is the dog who waited for its owner every day, even when the owner died – Hachiko.   Hachikō’s… Read More

The Battles of Rzhev were a series of battles fought during WW2 between the Soviet Union and Fascist Germany centered around the region of Rzhev, Russia, from 1942 to 1943. It is known in Soviet history as one of the… Read More

Nowadays the media is full of stories saying cash is dead now everyone is going wireless or digital. That digital wallets on your phone, tap & go credit card kiosks or NFC-enabled shopping carts or that cryptocurrency like Bitcoin will… Read More