His young grandson Philippe comte de Paris was chosen to take over as king but did not reach the throne and Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was elected President of the Second Republic later that year. Meanwhile Philippe fled to England with his wife Marie-Amélie and they lived there until his death…
Written By: Knights of Labor (KOL), the first important national labour organization in the United States, founded in 1869. Named the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor by its first leader, Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations. Named…
“Powerman 5000 vocalist talks new album, ’Builders of the Future’ “. AXS. Retrieved July 12, 2015. ^ Smyers, Darryl (April 18, 2014). “Spider One from Powerman 5000 on Being Rob Zombie’s Brother and Appearing on Beverly Hills, 90210 | Dallas Observer”. Blogs.dallasobserver.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015. ^ Greg Prato (August…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been leaning for over 800 years and, despite earthquakes, storms and wars, it is still standing. However, a Team of engineers is constantly monitoring its inclination and people in Pisa are ready to take action to save the Tower should its inclination become critical.…
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary WarAmerican Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War was a war fought between Great Britain and the original Thirteen Colonies in North America from 1775 to 1787. Most of the fighting was in North America and other…
No uncontroversial evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas has ever been found. Regardless of whether any of the Malian ships ever reached the Americas, they apparently never returned to Africa and there were not any long-term economic consequences of the voyage. From the 13th to 17th century,…
Some sources have claimed that many Irish did eat grass during the famine, dying with green stains around their mouths that indicated their desperation; some historians have even claimed that this reliance on grass during the famine explains the current practice of eating green foods on Saint Patrick’s Day. “People…
The Market Revolution truly transformed the economy of the North. By contrast, its impact on the South was less pervasive. It is said to have brought about the boom in cotton, but it did not fundamentally change the way the economy worked. The Market Revolution increased the need for labor…
“After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North American Campaigns, 1676–1760”. The William and Mary Quarterly. 64 (1): 39–76. JSTOR 4491596. Parmenter, Jon (2010). After the defeat of the British, they ceded most of the Iroquois territory to the United States, without bringing their allies to the…
Implementation of the Marshall Plan has been cited as the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and its European allies and the Soviet Union, which had effectively taken control of much of central and eastern Europe and established its satellite republics as communist nations. The Soviet Union’s…