Nonfiction series #1 - # 60

After African continent throughout colonial power, thousands of engineers, technicians from all over the world, and the Peace Corp volunteers from the United States, went to work in Africa to help them to build their countries independence. During that time there were a lot of excitement and dreams were in the air. The author, a young an

The conversation between an eagle and a snake based on Ancient Greek mythology. When Greeks, to teach people common sense, logic, wisdom, new skills, and creativity have used conversations between Gods, or between animals.

Life is full of surprises, both big and small unexpected stressful events. They are occurring many times a day and every day. These events challenge people’s knowledge, creativity, and skills and test their endurance, resilience, and ability to survive. Experiencing a problem? Having difficulties? Overwhelmed or stressed out from l

A story on how and where a young child, teenager, young adult, or middle age person could and should channel his or her energy to became sophisticated and knowledgeable. These skills and knowledge one need to survive and succeed in this difficult and unstable world. Why children, young adults, or middle aged people, when b

The author, in this short story, describes her real life innovation. That is: how she created her greatest innovation – from conception to completion. This innovation sparked entirely new industry. Thousands of new jobs were created and brought billions of dollars in new revenues every year to many companies. To create new innovati

This story is applicable to everyone. It teaches how to became sophisticated and intelligent from a historic example. Alexander the Great was a prince and a king. But, regardless of his status he worked much harder than his commoners did. He studied seriously, developed great desire for knowledge, was avid reader, loved philosophy, science, art,

It is a common knowledge that everything, including people, have a life span. Except the nature and the earth, they have eternity, or endless life. That is: people have a life expectancy, man-made things around us have a life span. Than why this law does not applies to a real estate housing industry? Please find this answer in this story. &

Why do Africans have less heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? And no depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, or asthma? This observation the author made soon she arrived in Rwanda, Central Africa. To find the answer she asked her then husband, a physician. But he did not know either. Later, she moved to the USA and for many years this question was

A theory is our mind is a tape recorder. It records everything that it hears, sees, and reads into brain. It stored indiscriminately all information into everyone’s brain database. The bigger storage of real knowledge and information a person has in brain database—the better he or she is equipped to solve everyday big and sma

When growing up in the former Soviet Union (now Russia) the Author was exposed to natural medicine. That time the Russians pharmacies’ glass shelves and cabinets were full of such natural potions. Russian physicians, instead of drugs, very often prescribed “herbal compound” to patients. These were old good times. Today, physici

This short story describes a real life example of an innovation. Here the author on her real life example guides readers on how to design innovations—starting from the idea—to the prototype and then—to  implementation of the final product/service. What are innovations? A simple definition is, that innovations are j

Many people sometimes are asking me: “Why do you speak with accent?” Indeed, why do I ? My children, who come with me, do not speak with accent. No one ever thought that they are not Americans. Why even British, who lived in the USA for a long time, still speak with their British accent? Why they could not change their British accent

Adolf Hitler’s raise to power in Germany in 1930s was a threat to the 20th century civilization. In 1930s, to pull Germany from a deep depression and mass unemployment, Hitler started drumming up his doctrine. That the Germans are an exceptional Arian nation and are in problems all because of Jews. The Hitler’s power

On Sunday, a country boy, in his earlier 30s, arrived into a new town and started having difficulties to solve his small problems in unfamiliar environment. His difficulties were: he does not have enough information in his brain storage to solve his big and small problem. To solve every problem, whether big, small, personal, business, na

After the Russian Revolution of November 6-7, 1917—the Equal Employment Opportunity Decree was issued and the Russian women and all minorities (Russia had 70-100 million minorities) became equal.  This historic event had impact on Afghanistan. In the 1920s veils and polygamy were abolished and the education of Afghan’s g

Try to answer this question: who are you? You probably have one, or several answers. None is correct. The correct answer you can find only in this story. Once you gain a knowledge of the correct answer and started taking it seriously, then … many of you would and could change your attitudes and directions in many aspects of your life and

What an experience it was!  When an author went from renting an apartment to buying a house and living in it for 20 years. All money that was saved when renting, soon went in smock, engulfed by a house. Many factors are involved when considering buying. Beside money, one should consider some other factors that make people happy or unhappy w

When the author was a student, she and her friends loved the Maslow’s theory that they learned in one of their economics classes.  The theory has 5 steps of the “Hierarchy of Needs.” or “A Theory of Human Motivation.” The 1st step, or the lowest is—the most fundamental, basic physical needs: food,

How American women, after the passage of the Civil Act of 1964, took a risk and an opportunity —to fail or succeed on their own terms? Millions entered the labor force to compete with men in hostile working environment. How and why such victory wonder happened for the women?  How American women in such short time overcame all

It is astonishing to see how 2-year old children are intelligent. They even designed specially their natty behavior to test grandparents’ patience. How much they could push grandparents and get away with it. What a blessing to be a grandparent, provided one has access to grandchildren. Grandchildren have introduced grandparents int

The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA.  It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964—Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, was

The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917. The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism. Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees reverberated across the world an

On October 4, 1957, history was made. The Soviet Union Lunched Sputnik. Sputnik’s impact on the world and the USA was colossal, impressive, and unprecedented. And the space programs and arms races between the Soviet Union and the United States began. Find in this story how space programs and arms races produced the greatest inventi

Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some  cowards even defected to their country’s enemy? This story is described and examined this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union who defected to the United States. These defectors lived  privileged lives in the Soviet Union (th

It is a common knowledge that computers improved the quality of peoples life. Computers are one type of technology that contributed to total technological progress in the 2nd part of the 20th century. Technological progress even increased the peoples life expectancy. At the beginning of the 20th century, for example in the USA, the life

The author received a devastated news. After 4th semester she was expelled from her civil engineering university. The reason was: she did not passed a calculus exam. When the truth  was: the math professors had a crush on her, on a timid and a shy teenager. His crush was so obvious that a class of 400 students noticed it and constantly were

That was beginning of the 1970s when the author started her engineering career. Surprisingly, she was hired, but she was the 1st woman structural engineer in a company. Men engineers revolted, they thought that now their engineering career is going down—a woman is going to design a bridge.  The first 3-4 days the author was re

Sometimes I hear some disappointments, especially from younger people, that they have very few achievements, if any, in their lives. Often, they blame it on themselves, thinking that they are not smart enough, or took this particular job, or choose this profession, instead of a different one.  I always reason with them – other

There are several example in this story when the author was faced with huge job problems and must find solutions and then solve it—otherwise her career would be over.         One such problem was: how to design 3.5 miles “a spiral” for the Baltimore Subway, in Baltimore, Maryland.  A c

Everything is changing constantly. Only one thing in life is constant—change.  What was true and applicable just recently is could be absolute today. The history has witnessed the rise, fall, and disappearance of many civilizations. Recent examples: suddenly, without any warnings or predictions, the British Empire disintegrate