Angel and Cordelia eventually reconcile in the episode “Epiphany”. As her acting career continues to flounder, Cordelia is sucked into and made princess of a medieval hell dimension called Pylea in the season two episode “Over the Rainbow”. Carpenter returned for one episode of the fifth and final season, which…
While filming, Quentin Tarantino suggested Rodriguez make a third “Meriachi” film and call it Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). Interesting? Antonio Banderas performed all of his own guitar work, including “Cancion Del Mariachi” during the opening credits. Interesting? Antonio Banderas performed all of his own guitar work, including…
In total, since 2010, USAID has provided more than $342 million in disaster relief and recovery aid and strengthened the disaster risk reduction capacity of over 100 cities and municipalities in the Philippines. The United States has had a Peace Corps program in the Philippines for over 50 years. Over…
Animals were an incredibly important part of life in Ancient Egypt. They were hunted for sport and food, reared as livestock on farms, and some species were domesticated and kept as pets. It is thought that cats, dogs, monkeys and gazelles were often kept in Ancient Egyptian homes. The ancient…
There have been a total of THREE stringed musical instruments invented in the United States of America: First, the 5-STRING banjo was invented by Joel Walker Sweeney in the 1800’s. While it is not certain how or when the first musical instrument was invented, most historians point to early flutes…
Ancient Athens had a tax, called a liturgy, that fell largely on the wealthiest 1% of the population. These individuals were expected to pay the entire cost of provisioning, paying the wages for, and fully equipping a trireme warship for an entire year. In ancient Greece, there was moral taxation…
While the American Revolution freed American merchants from British restrictions, it also denied Americans British protection and brought American traders into direct conflict with British trade policies. Before the Revolution 75 percent of American exports went to England, Ireland, and the West Indies. While the American Revolution freed American merchants…
For the ancient Greeks, trousers were worn by Persian barbarians, the people of the modern-day Middle East, and they were considered feminine and often ridiculed. Proper Greek men wore the chiton, a form of tunic, often accompanied with a heavier cloak. The Ancient Greeks never wore pants and equated the…
Aside from sparking an enduring internet urban legend in the early 2000s of an Office of Strategic Services plot to paint the iconic mountain bright red using 30,000 planes and 12 tons of paint, the proposed campaign against Mt. Fuji remains a quaint historical footnote from the closing months of…
First, even the earliest evidence of meat-eating indicates that early humans were consuming not only small animals but also animals many times larger than their own body size, such as elephants, rhinos, buffalo, and giraffes, whereas chimpanzees only hunt animals much smaller than themselves. The earliest clear evidence of humans…