Gillies has stated that she has Irish ancestry, and an Italian grandmother and great-grandmother. She left high school in her freshman year to pursue acting and participated in an online high school program. My parents always nurtured that curiosity and took me to Broadway shows and movies. When I was…
Marshall won a series of court decisions that gradually struck down that doctrine, ultimately leading to Brown v. Board of Education, which he argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, finally overturning “separate but equal” and acknowledging that segregation greatly diminished students’ self-esteem. Having won these cases, and…
During a 2007 match against Mr. Kennedy, Cena went for a typical arm-drag move, something he does all the time. He tossed his opponent over his right shoulder and immediately knew that something was wrong. According to reports, John Cena tore his right pectoral tendon in a flash and was…
In the post, the netizen included a captured photo from a talk show, when Lee Seung Gi revealed that his ideal type of woman was YoonA for three years. After his revelation, Lee Seung Gi and YoonA actually became a couple until breaking up in 2015. The channel also said…
Nope, this is not a new rendition of “Bye-bye, miss American pie” by Don McLean. “The Rabbit Died” used to be a common phrase referring to a positive pregnancy test and originates from the first tests that were developed in the 1920s. To investigate the rabbit’s ovaries, scientists originally had…
Most of the rest of I Am the Night is fiction: Fauna didn’t go searching for her mother in 1965 (she wouldn’t find her mother until the 1970s); she did not encounter George Hodel in Los Angeles; Hodel did not stab and nearly kill Jimmie Lee; Fauna was not the…
Eventually, in 1976, John Lennon would be granted his Green Card and become a U.S. resident and, with it, set a precedent for an immigration law that is still felt today. The 75-year-old multi-millionaire musician is not a U.S. citizen, but has property and business interests in the United States.…
The military led the charge in developing hearing protection, notably with the Mallock-Armstrong earplugs used in WWI and the V-51R earplugs used in WWII. Improvements in comfort were introduced with the development of glass-down plugs in the late 1950s and foam earplugs in the 1970s. Soldiers do wear ear protection…
Volcanic activity of Vesuvius (located in Italy) has propagated more than 10 separate tsunamis events! While the eruption event of 79 AD, which killed thousands and destroyed the cities of Pompei and Herculaneum among others, is the most well-known this was not the worst tsunami-inducing event of Vesuvius. While the…
An infection set in that killed him several weeks later. As priests tried to stuff William into a stone coffin that proved too small for his bulk, they pushed on his abdomen, causing it to burst. Mourners supposedly ran for the door to escape the putrid stench. An infection set…