Social Movements, Rights & Identity

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (372+ words) Columbus Day falls on the second Monday in October, but fewer than one in seven companies treat it as a paid holiday. The post office shuts down, and banks may close depending on where you bank. Let Italians Have Their…...

28+ min ago   (486+ words) Liverpool is complex, it’s colourful, it’s messy – and it’s what I love the most. Sometimes when I am standing in our backyard, my little son tells me he “wants to see the whole world”. This is my cue to hoist…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (587+ words) More than 60 people attended a lecture by historian and author Dr Themistocles Kritikakos at Laconian House in Brunswick, Melbourne, on Sunday, October 4. Organised by the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria “Leonidas”, the presentation was delivered in English and Greek…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (253+ words) Justinian compiled the Roman legal tradition in the Corpus Iuris Civilis. It was constituted by the Codex Justinianus, a compilation of Roman imperial law; the Digest, a collection of jurists’ opinions; the Institutes, a legal textbook for law students; and…...

12+ hour, 2+ min ago   (953+ words) Since December 15, 2025, a Canadian ancestor, any number of generations back, can make you a Canadian citizen by descent if you were born before that date. To confirm it, you apply for proof of Canadian citizenship and show a documented and…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (322+ words) It was a Saturday night in Bali, and Australian holidaymakers were enjoying themselves in the bars and clubs of Kuta when, shortly after 11pm, everything changed. On October 12, 2002, terrorist bombs killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Twenty-four years later, the date remains etched…...

13+ hour, 29+ min ago   (774+ words) The disaster exposes the mounting human cost of irregular migration from the Horn of Africa, where thousands continue to risk dangerous journeys in search of employment. At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 remain missing after a…...

1+ day, 2+ min ago   (297+ words) Évora is a city of more than 50,000 people, about 135 km east of Lisbon. Since 1986 its historic centre has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city itself is often called a museum city. It is the only Portuguese city…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1004+ words) No tengo ni idea de historia. En el instituto creo que llegamos al Paleolítico y después ya no recuerdo gran cosa. De hecho, me cambié a ciencias mixtas para no tener que seguir estudiándola. Por eso me resulta bastante sorprendente…...

18+ hour, 24+ min ago   (133+ words) Narratively The Sunday Epic: The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz From a cold cell in San Francisco Bay, 23-year-old John Trudell became an unlikely voice for Native Americans—and one of the FBI’s most feared activists. The Pirate Radio…...