Over the course of the next 48 hours, we will be systematically destroying the game world by setting fire to every major city, and by dropping excessively high level bulletproof tigers (that we've created for this purpose only) into the rural regions. You are welcome to stay alive for as long as you like, though this will get exponentially harder as time passes. We here at Omnipresence Ltd. advise that if you would like to extend the beta test for as long as you...

Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the most evil man of the 20th Century. From his violent and manipulative rise to authoritarian power in post World War I Germany, to the instigation of World War II, to his "Final Solution" and ultimate suicide as his plans fell apart around him, Hitler is the very model of the evil dictator who can rally the multitudes to follow his madness.

I'm not sure whether to call it surprising or not that Hitler has therefore become so widely referenced,...

There is no such thing as an ex-KGB man.

~ Vladimir Putin

Chekism is the dominant political ideology in Russia today.

It derives its name from the Cheka, which was the first incarnation of what was later known as the KGB. The Cheka were formed immediately after Russia's Communist revolution in 1917 to act as the "sword and the shield" of the Communist state. The Cheka were a secret police organization whose role was...

It's 1976, a full year before Saturday Night Fever would tell you where to go when the record was over, a full year before Studio 54 began to fill up with the celebrities of the era. The Trammps, one of the original disco bands, down in Philadelphia, were about to release their defining single, the one song for which they would be most remembered. Not their first single, no - there was 1972's Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart and 1973's Love Epidemic. But ...