Eren displayed his sheer strength during the fight and bested the Armored Titan with a few hits. As the two begin a struggle, the Armored Titan is knocked off of his adversary by a projectile thrown by the Beast Titan. The Armored Titan is caught in a daze but eventually…
The ancient nobility of Athens was referred to as the Eupatridae (literally ’good-fathered’). In Athens, the Alcmaeonidae were a powerful noble family, and included Megacles (the killer of Cylon) and Cleisthenes (who reformed Athens and turned it into a democracy). Eupatridae /juːˈpætrɪdiː/ (literally “good fathered”, i.e. “offspring of noble fathers”…
Sally Ride and her crewmates rocket into space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger at 7:33 a.m. EDT on June 18, 1983. “The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it,” Ride recalled in an interview for the 25th…
None of the descendants maintain the wealth in the end. Nobody from the Vanderbilt family made it into the wealthiest people in the United States. When 120 members of the Vanderbilt household gathered at Vanderbilt University for their first family reunion in 1973, none of them even had a million…
Samuel Pepys’s description of those four days and nights when the fire raged across the city is unmatched. Others recorded in journals, letters and official reports the key events and aftermath, but Pepys’s diary is uniquely human, honest and heartfelt. Samuel Pepys ascended the Tower of London on Sunday morning…
Williams’ therapies, is that she suffered from iritis, an inflammation of the fine muscles of the eye. For Dickinson, who feared blindness, prolongation of this illness was agonizing in ways beyond the physical. Emily Dickinson faced many obstacles, both in her family and in the world at large, that prevented…
But two months later on December 28, friends of the slain outlaws retaliated, ambushing Virgil. They shot him in the back, hitting him with three shotgun rounds, shattering his left arm and leaving him permanently maimed. On the night of December 28, 1881, City Marshal Virgil Earp was ambushed and…
Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread, cake, and candy. The cannibalistic witch intends to fatten the children before eventually eating them, but Gretel outwits the witch and…
Renée Elise Goldsberry wins the 2016 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. Renée Elise Goldsberry wins for her role in Hamilton. The Hamilton cast is making the most of their shot. The hip hop-infused Broadway musical was recently nominated for an…
Rodgers threw two touchdown passes in the first half and sat out the second half with nothing at stake as the Detroit Lions beat the top-seeded Packers 37-30 Sunday. GREEN BAY – The Packers’ season came to a stunning and disappointing end on Saturday night as the 49ers won the…