After the final embers were doused (the Black Saturday fires continued to 14 March), the true scale of the fires was revealed. About 400 blazes had burned, most sparked by faulty power lines and lightning, but there were also cases of arson. A total of 173 people died – Australia’s…
Contents. In August 1839, a U.S.U.S.Contents. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.https://www.history.com…
Griffith was born on June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina, the only child of Carl Lee Griffith and his wife, Geneva (née Nunn). How many brothers did Andy Griffith have? Griffith was an only child And they took it out on him. As de Vise noted, “On the…
9. John Lennon (1940-1980) The popular Beatle is thought to have had ADHD due to his disruptive behavior and inability to focus on his lessons growing up. I never thought of John Lennon having ADHD, though it seems possible. It seems clear that John suffered from some sort of mental…
Amitabh won this award recently in 2015. The only major civilian honour that he is yet to win is the Bharat Ratna. This article is about the Bharat Ratna Award, the highest civilian award in India. This topic is an important part of UPSC and other government exams. Bharat Ratna…
The Andy Griffith Show wasn’t the first time the actor displayed his musical talents; they influenced his first major onscreen role in A Face in the Crowd (1957). Griffith, who played his own guitar for the part of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, stunned audiences with his talent for the six strings.…
None of Szpilman’s family members survived the war. Szpilman stayed in the ghetto as a labourer, and helped smuggle in weapons for the coming Jewish resistance uprising. Szpilman’s courage and the tragedy of his family were memorialized in the 2002 film “The Pianist,” directed by Roman Polanski. Does Dobbs v.…
Here, just after the Trojans land permanently in Italy, Aeneas descends to the underworld for his long-anticipated rendezvous with Anchises’s ghost, who reveals Rome’s future to his son. In the guise of two doves, Venus, Aeneas’ mother, guides him. Like Odysseus, Aeneas has a dead companion to bury, but unlike…
Federalists such as Hamilton supported ratification. But Anti-Federalists, who feared that the document gave too much power to the federal government, worked to convince the states to reject it. In order for the Constitution to take effect, nine of the 13 states would have to ratify. Why did Hamilton favor…
King and Ray Jackson were the only two members of the Fab Five that did not leave school early for the draft, staying with Michigan for their entire four years of eligibility. King was selected in the second round (35th overall) in the 1995 NBA draft by the Toronto Raptors.…