From Chinese communists beginning their Long March that sparked the emergence of Mao Zedong and resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base to the Cod Wars resulting in the series of confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic, 15 October has witnessed a plethora of historic events taking place. On this day, while the exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed in 1917 by a French firing squad for espionage, in 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie waged a Holy War to recapture the sacred city of Aksum from the Italians. Let’s take a...