Badme, a town of 1,500 people in the Horn of Africa, has since 1998 been the focus of a territorial dispute (and the trigger of a two-year border war) between what two countries, which themselves were together as one nation from 1962-1993?
World War I was fought between two groups of countries: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and others, who were known collectively as the Central Powers; and France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., and others, who were known collectively as what?
On January 9, 1991, troops from the Soviet Union stormed this city in attempt to put down the independence movement in Lithuania; while over a dozen were killed and hundreds injured, Lithuanian independence was recognized by the Kremlin later that year.
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Europeans (and Americans) referred to the coastal region of North Africa, land now within the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, by what term, which now evokes images of slave traders and pirates?
