http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/58 One of the most popular sites on the web is Wikipedia , but it has one drawback: it wants to be balanced and neutral. OviPedia, on the other hand, is our very own encyclopaedia and it is filled with biased, emotional and unbalanced entries about a growing range of topics. We want opinion-based articles in this section that will trigger discussion, debate and argument Wikipedia doesn't like statements and claims that have not yet been fully cited, while OviPedia thrives upon it. The material in this section is true according to the belief and viewpoint of the writer, so don't use it as a research tool - only a tool to fire up discussion. Fri, 10 Feb 12 09:16:08 +0200 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8260 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:55:57 +0200 The Ovi Team February 10th 1962; American spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US. Gary Powers were sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison after his U-2 plane was shot down over Russia http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8259 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:44:30 +0200 The Ovi Team February 9th 1950; United States Senator Joe McCarthy accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being members of the Communist Party. He made the startling allegation in a public speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, saying the State Department http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8258 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:35:35 +0200 The Ovi Team February 8th 1952; Princess Elizabeth formally proclaimed herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. Lords of the Council - numbering 150 - representatives from the Commonwealth, officials from the City of London - including the http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8242 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:09:55 +0200 The Ovi Team February 7th 1974; a little-known group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) said its members are responsible for kidnapping the 19-year-old newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst, in California. The group sent a letter to a radio station in Berke http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8241 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:39:05 +0200 The Ovi Team February 6th 1983; war criminal and former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie arrived in France to stand trial for crimes committed 37 years ago. The 69-year-old, known as the \'Butcher of Lyon\', was behind the deaths of more than 4,000 Jews, many of them c http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8240 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:27:36 +0200 The Ovi Team On February 5, 1988, two federal grand juries in Florida announce indictments of Panama military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. Noriega, the de facto dictator of Panama since 1983 http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8228 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:08:46 +0200 The Ovi Team February 2nd 1943; the last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad turned the tide in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. General Zhuk http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8226 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:11:28 +0200 The Ovi Team On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8217 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:08:08 +0200 The Ovi Team January 30th 1948; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi\'s Vaishnava mother was deeply relig http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8208 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:40:06 +0200 The Ovi Team January 27th 1945; The Red Army liberated the Nazis\' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. According to reports, hundreds of thousands of Polish people, as well as Jews from a number of other European countries, have been held