Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has ...
Friday marks the 47 th anniversary of the deadly 1979 tornado that struck Wichita Falls. The twister on April 10, 1979, was part of what the National Weather Service calls the “Red River Valley ...
It sure feels like 1979 again. Iran is fighting the West. The price of gas has been rising for weeks. Moscow is aiming to take advantage of a distracted White House. The party in control of Washington ...
A man closely watching the conflict in Iran from his Maryland home escaped the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran by hiding with Canadians. Former diplomat Robert Anders of Silver Spring and five others ...
When the 1970s finished, no one knew exactly what the next decade would look like. But the 1980s were quite a different experience than the era prior. Perhaps more than any other change, the ...
In seven decades of boldness and risk-taking, my mother’s single greatest regret is marching for the 1979 revolution in Iran. She was a 23-year-old medical student, newly married and pregnant for the ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
The similarities between now and events preceding the shah’s exile are striking. The radical clerics benefited then, but who would prevail this time? A critical moment looms for Iran, and so for the ...
The recent unrest in Iran, with the third mass protests in the past six years, has left the theocratic regime wounded but not out. Iran is no stranger to such unrest. In 1979, similar circumstances ...
On January 16, 1979, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi boarded a plane and left Iran. Officially, it was a “temporary” departure; in reality, it marked the end of a monarchy already hollowed out by mass protests, ...
Protesters on the streets of Tehran in 1979. The scenes that have unfolded in Iran in recent weeks are incredible yet unnervingly familiar © Alain Mingam/Gamma-Rapho ...