Though she did not attend college, the princess is the first royal bride to ever hold a paying job before her engagement. Like many wealthy young women, Diana attended a finishing school for a brief time in her life. She studied for one term at The Institut Alpin Videmanette in…
Twilight Sleep (Dammerschlaf) was a form of childbirth first used in the early twentieth century in Germany in which drugs caused women in labor to enter a state of sleep prior to giving birth and awake from childbirth with no recollection of the procedure. (In a dig clearly aimed at…
Prinz Eugen saw action during Operation Rheinübung, an attempted breakout into the Atlantic Ocean with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941. The two ships destroyed the British battlecruiser Hood and moderately damaged the battleship Prince of Wales in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. After shakedown in the Baltic Sea,…
With the evidence planted by Michael and Theroux’s testimony, Michael is exonerated and his identity as Michael Scofield is restored. He refuses an offer to join the CIA and returns to a normal life with Sara and Mike. His friends were in awe when they saw how much money he…
Blithe died on 17 December 1967 while on active duty with the 8th Supply Battalion, 8th Infantry Division in West Germany at Wiesbaden Air Force Hospital. A week before his death, Blithe had attended a weekend at Bastogne, Belgium commemorating the Battle of the Bulge, from which he had returned…
Plato did not have children, and it is assumed based on textual evidence that he never married. He did have a number of siblings, however: three brothers, Glaucon, Antiphon, and Adeimantus of Collytus, and one sister, Potone. Did Plato and Socrates have a relationship? From historical sources it is known…
In addition to what was mentioned, meat from rabbit, chicken, bustard and fish was utilized. The Prophet Muhammad liked forelimbs of sheep and prefered this part over others. The Prophet Muhammad pbuh was a Flexitarian he prohibited eating meat every day. It was noted that sometimes smoke would not be…
Blue is listed at 5.03 million copies, while Red is only 4.83 million. Red, Green, and Blue sold 1.04 million units combined in Japan during 1996, and another 3.65 million in 1997. The latter performance made Pokémon, collectively, the country’s best-selling game of the year, surpassing Final Fantasy VII. The…
In 1555 the Protestant bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and John Hooper were condemned as heretics and burned at the stakeburned at the stakeDeath by burning (also known as immolation) is an execution method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of…
Created by Atari, Pong is a game with a rich and surprising history, from how it was made to the influence it had on popular culture. So, let’s take a look at some of the most fascinating facts about this classic arcade video game. Contrary to what most people believe,…