On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union astonished the world by sending its first man into space - 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin. It was also a spectacular victory in the Cold War race between the US and the USSR. On this day at 9:22 American radars in the Aleutian Islands tracked radio signals emitted b
The fall of 1956 in the communist bloc was stormy. Changes at the top of power in Poland, a bloodily suppressed uprising in Hungary. Only the Soviet Union seemed to remain a peaceful island of model socialism. The button is right! The Russians also rioted. The authorities there simply remembered the
Ben Hur is the blockbuster film 1959 winner of as many as 11 Oscars weve all seen, probably more than once. The lead role is played by the great American actor Charlton Heston , while the shooting was carried out in Rome in the studios of Cinecittà. In this episode of Ulysses:the ple
Social Life of Rigvedic Aryans Rigveda gives information about the then society according to which the basis of social structure was kinship. It is evident from the names of many Rigvedic kings that a person was identified by his clan or gotra. People gave utmost importance to the interests of the