A staple of the horror genre, the story of Blood Countess is a Halloween staple. The truth, though, may show an entirely different monster at work.

It was in 1529 that the Ottomans, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, first reached Vienna.

The reign of King Milan is little known outside the Balkans, nor does the West know much, if anything, about the first royal assassination victims of the group that would evolve into the Black Hand

A look at the first genocide of the Twentieth Century.

In 1956, Twin Crises occurred simultaneously that brought the world sputtering to a near diplomatic halt. Last episode we discussed the Suez Crisis. This episode we will look at the other twin.

1956 brought the world Twin Crises, at the same moment, in Egypt and Hungary, a turning point in the Cold War.

On July 19th 1956, Presidents of Yugoslavia, India and Egypt met on island of Brijuni.

An extremely brief look at the development of the Third World.

The most famous organization in the struggle to end apartheid, the political party of Nelson Mandela, and the head of the South African government since 1994 - the men who founded what is now the African National Congress in 1912 were giants.

Everyone knows the story - a late June morning, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and assassin's bullets starting a chain of events that culminated in World War I.  

But there is so much more behind this abbreviated version of events: secret societies, spies, counter-spies, blackmail, suicide, and the kind of bullying in the Imperial Court that would make even the most hardened online troll blush.