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 Miranda Rights by The Ovi Team
13 June 2020
13th June 1966; Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers The Supreme Court landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, "that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questio (Add a comment) |  Yeltsin wins first Russian elections by The Ovi Team
13 June 2020
June 13th 1991; Yeltsin wins first Russian elections. Boris Yeltsin is celebrating victory as Russia's first popularly-elected president. The 60-year-old reformer and leader of the group Democratic Russia has inflicted a heavy defeat on the Communist Par (Add a comment) |  Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by Rene Wadlow
12 June 2020
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against Child Labour (Add a comment) |  Irrepressible by Saloni Kaul
12 June 2020
Living off impulses might sound risky
But there's much to be said in its favour
As irrepressible laughter (pure as malt whisky) (Add a comment) |  Avoiding the Obvious: Skim Reading, Exams and the Internet by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
12 June 2020
It is the anxiety-inducing nightmare for the studious: A dream where you find yourself in an exam hall, which might, on ordinary days, be a gym or some other facility. It is repurposed for that most cruel of blood sports... (Add a comment) |  Let's end child labour! by The Ovi Team
12 June 2020
June 12th; the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts... (Add a comment) |  Al Capone indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws by The Ovi Team
12 June 2020
June 12th 1931; Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws. In May 1929, following his arrest in Philadelphia on a concealed weapons charge, Capone was sentenced to a year in prison. (Add a comment) |  World Day Against Child Labour by The Ovi Team
12 June 2020
Hundreds of millions of girls and boys throughout the world are engaged in work that deprives them of adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedoms, violating their rights. (1 comment) |  Spargelzeit by Prof. Michael R. Czinkota
11 June 2020
In Germany, there is now an important season highlighting the special value of white asparagus. Anyone who visits Germany between April and June will certainly remember a truly national food specialty... (Add a comment) |  Fatuous Grounds and Barren Thoughts: Misconduct, the University of Queensland and Drew Pavlou by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
11 June 2020
The global student populace have become so passive it is a surprise to hear any stir of protest that issues forth from a campus. Generation Z tends to seek passes and certificates rather than knowledge and the examined life. (Add a comment) |  Speculations on the anatomy of the universe by Joseph Gatt
11 June 2020
We know that the universe we observe tends to observe certain laws. The laws of gravity and motion, and that it's mostly populated of nitrogen and helium stars and rocks, comets and asteroids and the like. (Add a comment) |  Berserk Alert! #131 by Tony Zuvela
11 June 2020
Tony Zuvela and his view of the world around us in a constant berserk alert! (Add a comment) |  John Wayne by The Ovi Team
11 June 2020
June 11th, on this day in 1979, John Wayne, an iconic American film actor famous for starring in countless westerns, dies at age 72 after battling cancer for more than a decade. (Add a comment) |  Le Mans disaster by The Ovi Team
11 June 2020
June 11th 1955; seventy-seven people have been killed and 77 others injured when two cars collided on the race track and crashed into the spectators' stand at Le Mans in north-west France. (1 comment) | | newer 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 older |
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