Yesterday on this blog we remembered the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide .  One day after that came another ...

They had been ridiculed and spat upon for hundreds of years.  The ultra-nationalists in power launched dehumanizing propaganda against them....

Vladimir Putin may have come from the KGB.  But there arguably exists aspirations which are far away and removed from anything the Soviet Un...

Television station STV in Turkey - an outfit apparently specializing in religious programming - recently produced a movie or series episode...

Let's compare some fiction and fact... - Jabba's Palace was first built by the B'omarr Monks, who continued to live within it an...

A team of Italian archaeologists reported yesterday that the tomb of Philip the Apostle , one of the original Twelve Disciples that followed...

From Turkey comes this awesome footage of a flour factory, built in 1928, being imploded. Or it was supposed to implode anyway. Instead ...

In 1994 a Kurdish shepherd in eastern Turkey discovered something while tending his flock: the tops of a series of buried stones. News of h...

The mayor of Batman, Turkey is suing Warner Brothers and Christopher Nolan over their Batman movie The Dark Knight , claiming that since the...