Through the rhetorical fog in Philadelphia, one could glimpse a tantalizing possibility, a precondition for coping with the coming turbulence. The restoration of normal politics will require two ...

Hours before Tuesday’s debate, the Congressional Budget Office released a report that, were the CBO not scrupulously nonpolitical, would have seemed impertinent. It presented, in the bland language of ...

Before August 28th, 1883, few people had ever heard of Krakatoa. It was a tiny, nondescript volcanic island in the middle of the Sunda Straits, between Java and Sumatra, in what were then the ...

1883: Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with the force of 200 megatons of TNT and kills approximately 40,000 people. 1942: Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in ...

There are 126 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 ...

1847: Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic. 1883: The volcano Krakatoa erupts on the island Krakatau, near Indonesia, creating tsunami waves that killed more than 36,000 people.

It also houses Krakatoa, a colourful homage to the volcano of the same name that erupted 141 years ago - on August 27, 1883 - in Indonesia. The event caused widespread devastation, with the eruption ...

Advertisement In 1883, the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred on Krakatoa, a small, uninhabited island west of Sumatra in Indonesia. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact ...

Former Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri has invited Russia’s St. Petersburg University (SPBU) to conduct joint ...