• HISTORY
    11 November 2024: This day in history

    1620: Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21] 1675: German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function y = f(x) 1745: Bonnie […]

  • WORLD
    Putin offers African countries Russia’s ‘total support’

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered what he called “total support” for Africa, including in the struggle against terrorism and extremism. The speech was read out at a summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to his African counterparts. Several African governments have cut ties with traditional Western […]

  • HISTORY
    10 November 2024: This day in history

    1619: René Descartes has a dream that inspires his “Meditations on First Philosophy” 1674: Dutch formally cede New Netherland (New York) to the English 1885: German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle 1918: Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating that on November […]

  • WORLD
    President Lai sends off Taiwan’s AELM delegation

    President Lai Ching-te spoke at a press conference Nov. 7 in Taipei City to recognize Taiwan’s delegation departing for the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting and express his confidence that the representatives would convey the country’s voice and perspectives to other APEC member economies. Lai praised the delegation leader, Lin Hsin-i, noting his […]

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