Enid Mary Blyton was born in 1897 and from a young age loved telling stories to her younger brothers, Hanly and Carey. She qualified as a teacher in 1918, and in 1921 won a writing competition and after her writing was accepted in major children’s magazines. Enid Blyton has been…
Tradition has it that the core of the book was written by Mordechai, its main character and the cousin of Esther, and that the text was later redacted by the Great Assembly (a Jewish council of sages in antiquity). The Book of Esther, also known in Hebrew as the Scroll…
Many of those workers were also Enron shareholders. As stock in the company dropped from more than $80 per share to mere pennies, tens of thousands of people saw their pension and investment accounts depleted or destroyed. All told, Enron employees are out more than $1 billion in pension holdings.…
Euell Theophilus Gibbons (September 8, 1911 – December 29, 1975) was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the 1960s. Gibbons was born in Clarksville, Texas, on September 8, 1911, and spent much of his youth in the hilly terrain of northwestern New Mexico. Gibbons…
The film was commissioned even before the first book made it to print. Colfer recently told Sky News how he wrote Artemis Fowl in his “box room, on the nappy changing table… so when Disney approached me, it meant I could have a little office in the garden; it was…
European explorers first began to search for the Northwest Passage in the fifteenth century, but treacherous conditions and sea ice cover made the route impassible, foiling many expeditions. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in 1906. European explorers first began to search for…
9 ER really did shoot in Chicago. Some of the time, that is. Though the interiors of the show were filmed at the Warner Bros studio in Burbank, California, filming would move to Chicago a couple of times each season. ER (TV series) It was produced by Constant c Productions…
Sadly though in February of 2018, the pair broke up. One month after they split, Eva took to her YouTube channel and addressed the breakup, explaining that she and Adam just weren’t on the same page when it came to knowing what they wanted in order to be happy. Although…
Erasmus argued against the belief that God’s foreknowledge of events caused those events, and he held that the doctrines of repentance, baptism and conversion depended on the existence of free will. He held that all humans possessed free will and that the doctrine of predestination conflicted with the teachings of…
At the end of The 5th Wave, it is clear Evan survives. Rick Yancey says in one of his interviews with Entertainment Weekly that he will address the question of if Evan survived in his sequel, The Infinite Sea. Evan Walker survives as he was saved by Grace and is…