he first thought of his system of gravitation which he hit upon by observing an apple fall from a tree , The incident occurring in the late summer of 1666. In other accounts it is stated that Newton was sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in Lincolnshire…
About 1,400 years ago, Late Woodland people started using a new weapon, the bow and arrow. Archaeologists do not yet know where or exactly when the bow and arrow were invented. However, the advantages of the bow and arrow over the spear and atl atl suggest why it was invented.…
He attended secondary school at Coláiste Mhuire (Mary’s College), also in Mullingar. As a teenager he performed at the Mullingar Arts Centre (in a fund-raiser for the local football team, the Shamrocks) and at The Academy in Dublin. In 2010, when he was 16 years old, Horan auditioned for the…
Native Americans often turned to Britain and Spain for help in preventing Americans from settling in the West. Why did President Adams send negotiators to France? The French had begun capturing American ships. Native Americans often turned to Britain and Spain for help in preventing Americans from settling in the…
Fans of One Direction will know that Niall Horan was the group’s “resident musician,” as Bustle puts it. “He’s played the guitar during some of their concerts and was even featured on some tracks on the group’s album Midnight Memories .” However, did you know that he taught himself to…
NATO during the Cold War. From its founding, NATO’s primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Fear of nuclear annihilation was very real during the Cold War, when the…
Rivera did not become a series regular on Glee until the second season, and this Amy Winehouse cover was her first big solo. The track became something of a signature for Rivera while on the show, and she performed “Valerie” at various Glee concerts and other events. Did Glee do…
Early Neanderthals and humans had very robust little toes that bent and gripped surfaces. “[But] shoes reduce the mechanical stress of the lesser toes,” says Trinkaus, so the four little toes do not have to do much work. And he observed less substantial little-toe bones in the later skeleton samples.…
His character dies near the end of Season 5. The first episode to air after Ellis’ death, the season 6 premiere, ended with the screen “In Memory of Our Friend Nelsan Ellis”. His final acting role was in True to the Game, which was released posthumously. True Blood Star Nelsan…
Nero himself blamed the fire on an obscure new Jewish religious sect called the Christians, whom he indiscriminately and mercilessly crucified. During gladiator matches he would feed Christians to lions, and he often lit his garden parties with the burning carcasses of Christian human torches. Did Nero blame Paul for…