Polo made no mention of the Great Wall not because he was not there, but because it was not. The Ming Dynasty built the wall that we know mostly in the 16th century, while Polo visited China in the 13th. Yes, there’s still some residual controversy (Frances Wood’s book on…
Character. It is implied in Gone With the Windworks! that Lyra has an interest in Ash. She admires his bravery and wishes Khoury acted more like him. Ash Ketchum was one of her best friends in Johto and Ash Ketchum taught her how to be a powerful pokemon trainer and…
When MacArthur criticized Truman’s decision publicly, Truman declared MacArthur insubordinate and removed him as commanding general. MacArthur returned to the United States, received a hero’s welcome, and told Congress, “Old soldiers never die; they only fade away.” Frustrations between MacArthur and Washington began to mount when General MacArthur went public…
MacArthur’s arrival in Australia was greeted with enthusiasm. He established a close relationship with the Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, and virtually directed the Australian war effort. Australians treated him like a movie star. General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia yesterday to assume supreme command in the Anzac area, a…
In the autumn of 332 bce Alexander the Great invaded Egypt with his mixed army of Macedonians and Greeks and found the Egyptians ready to throw off the oppressive control of the Persians. Alexander was welcomed by the Egyptians as a liberator and took the country without a battle. The…
Machu Picchu Inkari Research Institute discovers Inca mausoleum with large quantities of gold and silver. Machu Picchu Today Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Peru, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a royal estate or sacred religious site for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped…
Madam Walker received very little formal education as a child, except possibly at her family’s small church in Delta, Louisiana where Reverend Curtis Pollard—a black man who had served as a Louisiana state senator during Reconstruction—was the minister. What was Madam C.J. Walker College? In 1908, after two years of…
She is the youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a roofer and carpenter, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher. Her sister, Ada Jemison Bullock, became a child psychiatrist, and her brother, Charles Jemison, is a real estate broker. Early life. Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on…
In the final shot, Maggie is shown with shifty eyes as she sucks her pacifier, implying she shot him intentionally, possibly for all the trouble Burns caused to her family. Marge also adds the shooting must have been an accident, considering Maggie, being an infant, is very unlikely to know…
But presenters Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer are now to launch a series made by the same production company for C4, similarly featuring chat, guests and cookery. However the new programme, Sunday Brunch, will no longer include former chart star Redknapp, one of the mainstays of SFTW. Who presented Sunday…