Settlers were to receive a 10-year tax exemption, after which they would pay 5 percent duty on imports and exports to be used for local government. The early chartered colonies. The settlers who migrated to and/or resettled in the colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut…
Cindy seems to be single as of now, but her ex-husband, Kevin, got married to Bridget Rooney, and together the couple shared a son, Liam Timothy Costner. After getting divorced from Bridget, Kevin again married handbag designer Christine Baumgartner. Cindy Costner is an occassional actress who gained popularity for being…
One, Poseidon’s wife Amphitrite was jealous of the nymph and poisoned the pool in which she bathed. Two, Glaucus, a sea god, fell in love with her and asked the sorceress Circe for a love potion. But Circe, who was in love with Glaucus herself, gave him a drink that…
Circe is relieved because she has ended her role in contributing to the world’s violence. By killing Scylla, she also shows how she has grown away from her family, whose wickedness she despises. Now that she feels at peace with her place in the world, she tells Telemachus her past.…
Houston still sings behind Franklin and another old friend, Luther Vandross. Her long-running success story is no mystery to her, for she is ever the pragmatist. ’’I don`t try to burn it at both ends,’’ says the singer. ’’When I come to work, I come to work. In 1990, Vandross…
They live in Studio City, Calif., and have four children. Cissy King (1946-) is a singer and dancer best known for her work on the “Lawrence Welk” program. An accomplished dancer as a child, King won a national ballroom-dance competition at age 14. Over the next few years, she continued…
His son and next chief, Alexander MacDougall did not take part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. However, his brother and some of the clansmen did indeed fight as Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The fighting force of the clan at this time is given as 200…
Claudius visited Britain during the invasion and remained for 16 days before returning to a hero’s welcome in Rome. He was later honored with a triumphal arch on the Via Flaminia that hailed him as the man who “brought barbarian peoples beyond Ocean for the first time under Rome’s sway.”…
Actor Clayton Moore who played the Lone Ranger on television during the 1950’s, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 85 years old. Copy Link URL Copied! Clayton Moore, whose hearty “Hi-yo, Silver” resounded on television throughout the 1950s and who personally identified so strongly with the…
Once the stones were dragged across the desert, it’s believed that one of a series of ramp options were erected to drag the stones to the top as they built upwards. With sand, workers created either a straight ramp up one side, a spiralling ramp that wrapped around the pyramid…