When the Ayatolla Khomeini came to power to create the first Islamic Republic, he set in motion an Iranian Revolution that is still echoing now.
Islam has long been a religion of compassion and learning but Iran, formerly Persia, does not see eye-to-eye with the West.
Our world is ever changing but there have been a few events, big ideas, that have had a profound effect on the world in which humanity lives.
The need to protect our environment, great scientific breakthroughs and the ever controversial subject of religion have all shaped the world we kive in and the people we have become.
What fate awaits mankind and the planet we know as Earth? Some predict gloom and catastrophe, while others take a more pragmatic view of mother nature.
Environmentalism or a greener approach to the future may be absolutely essential if humans are not to be the species of the next great extinction..
Jesse Jackson the renowned campaigner against racial inequality talks about the abolition of slavery and the long fight for equality
After 246 years of legal slavery and brutal exploitation, the promises were made for full citizenship, the right to marry for the first time, for the right to an education and the right to own land.
Francis Crick and James Watson identified the double-helix structure of DNA which would allow scientists to unravel the secrets of life and gene therapy.
An example of biological cloning is Dolly the Sheep cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the event that brought the whole world, quite literally, to within seconds of total nuclear holocaust.
President Nikita Krushchev warned that any invasion of Cuba would be an act of war. The allied powers placed their forces on red alert.
Jonathon Porritt believes that rampant consumerism is at the heart of the world’s social and environmental problems.
Such is the momentum of consumerism that nothing has been able to slow it’s relentless march!
Capitalism is an idea often accredited to Adam Smith, the Scottish Industrialist who made his fortune in the USA. His book – The Wealth of Nations
The fall of the Berlin Wall indicated the end of the cold war. It soon became clear that the people of the former Soviet Bloc wanted the same opportunity to generate wealth and prosperity that we enjoy in the West.
In the dying days of Soviet communism, the Berlin Wall that had divided Germany for 28 years came down. The fall of the Berlin Wall ended the cold war.
Many of the countries that had lain hidden behind the iron curtain were now free to apply for membership of the European Union. A new era in East/West relations had begun.
The Bell Rock off the Scottish coast had wrecked countless ships before Robert Stevenson built the lighthouse in 1810 which still stands today.
A feat of incredible ingenuity accomplished under very arduous circumstances.
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