Asia – Saudi Arabia
Larry R. Jordan (1946- )
Lieutenant General Larry R. Jordan is a former Army officer, former Senior Vice President of Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd., and current Principal of...
John D. Hopper (1947- )
Retired Lt. General John D. Hopper was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1947. He attended Lyndon McKinley high school in Columbus, Ohio and...
The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was...
Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junking Jammeh (1965- )
Image Ownership: Public Domain Yahya Jammeh is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the second president of...
Operations Moses, Joshua, and Solomon (1984-1991)
In three covert military operations, called Moses, Joshua, and Solomon, over twenty thousand Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel to...
Mohammed Ali “Nicholas” Said (1836-1882)
Mohammed Ali “Nicholas” Said, an enslaved African from Bornu in what is now northeastern Nigeria, traveled through Europe to the...
Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964)
The island of Zanzibar, now a part of Tanzania, was a nineteenth century East African trading empire that fell under...
Jenean Hampton (1958– )
Jenean Hampton, at the age of fifty-eight, became the first Black statewide elected official in Kentucky’s history when she was...
Kenton Wesley Keith (1939- )
On May 26, 1992, career diplomat Kenton Wesley Keith was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to serve as U.S....
