After suffering financial difficulties at his software company, AnimaTek, Pokhilko murdered his wife Elena Fedotova (38) and their son Peter (12), by bludgeoning and stabbing them both to death. He then committed suicide by slitting his own throat. Shortly before his death, Pokhilko penned a note. Jump to navigation Jump…
The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of early German-speaking immigrants who arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700s and 1800s to escape religious persecution in Europe. Brief history of the origins of the Pennsylvania Dutch in America. The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of German speaking immigrants who came to Pennsylvania prior to…
peninsulares were spanish and portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to their homeland. The creole elites resented the peninsulares, who dominated latin america and drained the region of its wealth. Why did Creoles resent peninsulares? Who were the peninsulares, and…
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. The Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed all slaves in the rebelling Confederate states; it did not abolish slavery in the Union states in which it…
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal accident in the United States space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the death of all seven crew members aboard; it was the first fatal accident…
Heck Tate lies to protect Boo Radley from all of the negative attention that he would receive from the community if Boo was exposed as Bob’s killer and had to go on trial. Maycomb is a very biased and prejudice place and it would be damaging to a shy recluse…
To create Joker’s face makeup, Heath Ledger took inspiration from The Crow and pro-wrestler Sting. He wanted to paint his face as realistically as possible. This was because he felt that a criminal like Joker would not be sitting around, applying makeup to perfection before his next big crime. Veidt…
English Civil Wars, also called Great Rebellion, (1642–51), fighting that took place in the British Isles between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II) and opposing groups in each of Charles’s kingdoms, including Parliamentarians in England, Covenanters in Scotland, and Confederates in Ireland.…
Dawes Plan. The plan provided for the reorganization of the Reichsbank and for an initial loan of 800,000,000 marks to Germany. The Dawes Plan seemed to work so well that by 1929 it was believed that the stringent controls over Germany could be removed and total reparations fixed. This was…
Legal records show that during the Qin dynasty, which lasted from 221 to 206 B.C., the Chinese gathered hand prints, foot prints and fingerprints as evidence at a crime scene. Over the next several centuries, scientists and other researchers studied fingerprints for purposes of developing a taxonomy of types and…