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1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment SovietStories
Today, Magadan is usually imagined as a remote northern city from which people try to move back to the mainland. But a few decades ago, the situation was almost the opposite. People came to Magadan from different parts of the Soviet Union, sometimes...
31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments RomulusNRemus
Roman Law and Reform Roman law was one of the most important parts of the Roman Empire. As Rome grew and conquered more land, it needed rules that could keep people under control and make the empire easier to govern. Roman laws changed over time, bu...
31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories
I remember how ordinary the question "Where do you work?" sounded in the Soviet Union. Nobody needed to explain why they were asking. A person's job was simply part of how people understood one another. That may seem strange now, especially in a worl...
29 Aug 2026 18 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
We are awakened again at what seems like a ridiculously early hour, to begin the next leg of our journey. This is actually not so bad as it turns out, because some unexpected sights await down in the kitchen. Though Tyler is not accompanying us on t...
28 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories
There was a particular kind of person on a Soviet factory floor who didn't need an important title to be taken seriously. He might have spent twenty years working with the same machines. He knew the production line, understood how the equipment behav...
27 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment SovietStories
I remember how unusual it was for a child to write with the left hand in the Soviet school system. Today, a left-handed child usually causes little concern. Schools can make small adjustments, and teachers generally understand that some children simp...
23 Aug 2026 8 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb
The boxing world often measures a fighter's life in rounds, knockouts and records. Prichard Colón's story cannot be measured that way. His professional career lasted only a few years, but the consequences of one night in Virginia followed him for alm...
20 Aug 2026 6 minute read 2 comments CondividiSulWeb
What if the strangest part of a prophecy is not that it comes true, but that we only recognize it after something has happened?That question sits at the center of the Baba Vanga phenomenon.The Bulgarian mystic died in 1996, yet her name keeps returni...
15 Aug 2026 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The first time I ever get to fire a real gun will occur in my freshman year of high school, during this big hunting trip some of us take to Maine. Though my brother and I and a couple of our cousins had accompanied Dad K and an uncle or two on...
11 Aug 2026 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
What The Tech?! has always aimed to cover the most interesting parts of the technological evolution. While plenty of technology has helped to shape the modern world, some stories are more interesting than others, and today certainly meets that brief....
