The French revolution is thought of as the most influential event of it’s era, leading to the rise of Napoleon, and therefore a unified Germany, and therefore Nazi Germany, and therefore the Cold War. A revolution can change everything, overthrow a stable...
A whistleblower is someone who holds secret information from within an organization or governmental body, who expses that the organization is acting illegally or immorally. It can be any kind of information that reveals these actions. There are even services like...
The rich and powerful spend their time seeking more power, so when knowledge is power what do you do? You set up a secret experiment. Secret science experiments are often secret because they involve things that could be seen as immoral, or because you have enemies, or...
With the Panama Papers being leaked, a new interest has been sparked in the international tax system. There are some wealthy folk who pay a lower percentage of income tax than the government would expect of them. An example would be Warren Buffet, who paid a lower...
Bushrangers were a type of outlaw specific to Australia. The word describes escaped criminals who now roam free in the tough Australian country. This was back when Australia was essentially a prison colony where convicts were kept in small areas, away from legitimate...
The Soviet Union was incredibly secretive through it’s time in existence. What else would you expect from a power rival to the west? As the stakes were high, dozens of high ranking officials defected from the west to the Soviet Union. Defectors were valuable as...
