Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the "Society Islands" of French Polynesia, and a major international tourist destination in the South Pacific famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. The island, located about 140 miles northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier r...

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a trip to Auschwitz, Poland on January 27, 2023. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop ...

50 years ago, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission changed our world and ideas of what is possible by successfully landing humans on the surface of the moon⁠—and bringing them home safely⁠—for the first time in history. Today’s video Doodle celebrates this moment of human achievement by taking us through the jo

This installment of the World AIDS Museum (WAM) Chronology Exhibit delves into the "Denialism" movement in both, the scientific and political worlds of the AIDS epidemic. A group of scientists explain their theories and skepticism of the HIV/AIDS research findings and definitions, while complot th...

A short trailer for the new documentary; The Story of Gad Beck, the last known gay holocaust survivor who died before turning 89 in Berlin, June 2012. Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform ...

A unique video depicting Israel in 1969, when a group of high school kid from Mexico City spend a summer in Israel. We visited a kibbutz and stayed with the Israeli army; "Vaad Leman Hajayal. This video is also a tribute to our dear friend Vivian who recently passed away.

Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War with heavy intervention by the United States on ...

krainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a rousing address to his nation on Wednesday to commemorate Ukraine's Independence Day and mark six months since the start of the Russian invasion. Speaking from Kyiv's Independence Square in front of destroyed Russian tanks and mobile artillery, Zelenskiy...

The Pulse massacre took place in the early hours of June 12, 2016. Lone gunman Omar Mateen, 29, entered the LGBTQ club on one of its regular Latin nights in the early hours of the morning and embarked on a deadly rampage. He killed 49 and left 53 others injured. He was shot dead by police at the sce...

On This Day In Supremes History: (February 8, 1965) Motown Records released "Stop! In the Name of Love" which would be Diana, Mary and Florence's fourth Number #1 pop single in a row. Stop! In the Name of Love was nominated for the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Rock & Roll Group Vocal Perf...