As the Navy began to expand in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor, more black men were permitted to join, but the only new opportunity afforded to them was unloading ships as stevedores. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against…
The Battle of Issus, in which Alexander the Great secured a decisive victory over Darius III of Persia. Then, after Arses died and Darius sat on the Persian throne, Alexander (now a king of Macedon) failed to make an effort to restore the old friendship and invaded the Persian soil…
Interestingly, this prohibition era murder of several members of George “Bugs” Moran’s gang was never officially linked to Al Capone. However, the stories say that Al Capone’s men used Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. Al Capone, the most iconic and ruthless gangster or the 1920s and early 1930s loved…
More importantly, Alexander’s conquests spread Greek culture, also known as Hellenism, across his empire. In fact, Alexander’s reign marked the beginning of a new era known as the Hellenistic Age because of the powerful influence that Greek culture had on other people. By Michael Drwiega. Following Alexander’s illustrious conquests, Greek…
What Was Al Capone’s Net Worth? Al Capone was an American gangster who had an inflation-adjusted net worth of $100 million at the time of his death. Capone’s rise to riches began when he became the boss of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s. Known as The Outfit, this…
Alexander the Great served as king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 B.C. During his time of leadership, he united Greece, reestablished the Corinthian League and conquered the Persian Empire. What did Alexander the Great do for Greece? Alexander the Great’s legacy is both far reaching and profound. First, his…
After filming of the Lady in the Van wrapped, there simply seemed no reason to keep No 23 any longer. “At the conclusion of the film of The Lady in the Van, a blue plaque is unveiled to Miss Mary Shepherd who lived in the drive for 15 years,” Bennett…
Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel never explained why he created the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will, but he may have been inspired by reading an unflattering obituary—his own. On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament at Paris’ Swedish-Norwegian Club. Why Alfred Nobel is called the…
According to one view, Abraham remarried after the death of Sarah and had a total of three wives: Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah. Another tradition identifies Keturah with Hagar, and thus Abraham married only twice. Each of these views finds Scriptural support for its position: the three-wife opinion relies on Gen.…
As early as 1943 Turing’s machines were cracking a staggering total of 84,000 Enigma messages each month – two messages every minute. Turing personally broke the form of Enigma that was used by the U-boats preying on the North Atlantic merchant convoys. It was a crucial contribution. Whereas cryptographers write…