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How Armenian Immigrants Built an American Candy Empire

  By Liana Aghajanian   This is a story about how six Armenian immigrants escaping looming atrocities in the Ottoman Empire, came to America and created a candy empire in small town Connecticut, wi...

The Forgotten Armenians of Manchester

After weeks of anticipation, Henrikh Mkhitaryan has become the first Armenia international footballer in the English Premier League, much to the excitement of Armenian communities everywhere acros...

Rock Aid Armenia: How Bonafide Rock Stars helped a Devastated Armenia

  It was December of 1988 in snowy Armenia, but the cold wasn’t the only thing that brutalized the country that winter. At 11:41 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, a devastating earthquake measurin...

Armenians Rule the U.S. Classic Animated Series

The following is a translated article written in response to our The Armenians of Springfield blog post by a website based in Azerbaijan. It was launched by an NGO called "For Human Rights" in 2011...

Carl Gugasian - The Most Prolific Bank Robber in U.S. History

"The FBI were called. It didn’t take long before they realized who was behind this. For almost three decades, someone had been successfully robbing banks with a professionalism that had earned grud...

New Year's Message from Ara the Ratolicos

From The Ratican - For immediate release. New Year’s Message from the Art Deacon Ara the Ratolicos (The Illuminator) 

Kond Portraits - By Ara the Rat

Cut off from the rest of the city, residents still deal with urban issues, including a lack of access to running water, but a walk through Kond means never having to go thirsty - warm invitations f...

Ara the Rat X Kond Gallery Tattoo designs EXPLAINED

Wondering what all the designs on the Ara the Rat x Kond Gallery collab mean? Check out the following guide...

A history of Armenian Players in the NFL

Over 100 years ago, when Armenians fleeing persecution in Ottoman Turkey arrived on U.S shores, many of their descendents ventured into sports. Whilst many Armenians have found success at college f...

Soviet era football: a brief history of FC Ararat Yerevan

By contrast remote Armenia was a republic of little footballing significance and few expected the Soviet Union’s next major club force to emerge from there. Ararat Yerevan was the only Armenian clu...