On May 2nd Metallica Inc. took unprecedented legal action against more than 300,000 alleged fans, under a bad piece of federal legislation called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Background. On April 13, 2000, Metallica filed a lawsuit against the file sharing company Napster. Metallica alleged that Napster was guilty of…
Meursaultis both the protagonist(main character) and the narratorof The Strangerby Albert Camus. Camus was a French author who was known for Absurdism: a literary concept that highlights the idea that searching for meaning or rationality in the universe is ridiculous (or absurd), because there is no meaning. Meursault is found…
Mexico was a neutral country in World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Did Mexico support Germany in the war? Mexico’s loud communist community first supported Germany while Germany and Russia had a pact, then supported the Allied cause once the Germans invaded Russia in 1941. There was…
The sale of expropriated church property brought very little relief. As a result, newly elected President Juárez suspended payment of all foreign debt for two years, a move that prompted an immediate backlash from Spain, France and Great Britain. Three months later, Mexico agreed to pay France 600,000 pesos in…
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. Should We Give…
Michael C. Hall said he didn’t think he had to tell anyone about his cancer. In an interview with The Guardian, the actor said that he got his Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in the midst of shooting season four of Dexter. He didn’t let anyone know what was going on and…
He was the first to produce an electric current from a magnetic field, invented the first electric motor and dynamo, demonstrated the relation between electricity and chemical bonding, discovered the effect of magnetism on light, and discovered and named diamagnetism, the peculiar behaviour of certain substances in … In 1820…
But according to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, there was no sexual relationship between them even though he wrote in his book Call Me Miss Ross that Jackson was heartbroken when Ross got married to Arne Naess. Jackson did not attend the wedding and told Taraborrelli, “I was jealous because I’ve…
On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson, one of the most commercially successful entertainers in history, dies at the age of 50 at his home in Los Angeles, California, after suffering from cardiac arrest caused by a fatal combination of drugs given to him by his personal doctor. Big turn off…
In 1971 she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, with a degree in drama and costume design. After working in summer stock theatre, Streep studied drama at Yale University, where she earned a master of fine arts degree in 1975. In 1971 she graduated from Vassar College in…