History stories from Noozify's own reporting.
The General Assembly opened in January 1946 in a Methodist hall still scarred by the Blitz, with 51 delegations and the UN emblem hung back to front. Eighty years and 142 members later, it is meeting this week in a building the organization can barely afford to run.
A living president on a dollar coin violates a rule everyone knows, except that the rule people cite is about banknotes, was written in 1866 because a Treasury bureaucrat put himself on the five-cent note, and never covered coins at all. Coolidge, two senators, and a governor got there first.
More than 160 countries honor workers on May 1st, commemorating a strike, a bombing, and a trial in Chicago in 1886. The country where it all happened marks Labor Day in September instead, and the distance between the two dates was the point.
On August 24, 1991, Ukraine's parliament declared a state while the Soviet Union still technically existed. Two revolutions and one long war later, the harder work has been proving it meant it.
A century and a decade after Jutland, the largest sea fight of the First World War still poses a stubborn question: how does a fleet lose more ships, more men, and more glory — and still come out ahead?
On the hidden origins, borrowed symbols, and enduring mystery of the holiday that refuses to stay still.
Who decided we should rearrange time itself—and why have we never stopped? The answer is a story of satirists, entomologists, wartime desperation, and a policy whose original justification has largely evaporated.
Folklore and faith intertwine in the story of Ireland's patron saint. From Roman Britain to the emerald hills, the legend of Saint Patrick endures as a cornerstone of national identity.