Progressives sought better pay, safer working conditions, shorter hours, and increased benefits for workers. Believing that only education would allow people to lead successful lives, Progressives opposed child labor, wanting children to attend school rather than working in mines and factories. Purification to eliminate waste and corruption was a powerful…
The destruction of Warsaw was Nazi Germany’s substantially effected razing of the city in late 1944, after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising of the Polish resistance. The city was gradually destroyed throughout World War II. By September 1939, ten percent of its buildings had already been destroyed. The devastation continued in…
Oct. 16, 2004 — Messi plays first official match for Barcelona at age 17. May 17, 2006 — Messi wins first Champions League title even tough he misses the final against Arsenal due to injury. During the 2005-06 season he has earned a spot in Barcelona’s attack alongside Ronaldinho and…
Green. Of course, both Ryan Reynolds’ new movie and the 1985 film are adapted from the Clue board game, which was first manufactured in 1949. The popular game involves players searching a mansion to deduce the specifics of a murder by process of elimination. Clue is a 1985 American black…
Over the course of ’69 & ’70, Jimi Hendrix appeared at his most noted live appearances — Live at Woodstock, Live at Berkeley, and Live at the Fillmore East — using a mysterious red Fuzz Face Distortion with white knobs. For achieving his super-gnarly fuzz sound, Hendrix’s initial weapon of…
Have they ever had a television show? Unfortunately, they have. The Disney Channel series “Jonas” premiered in 2009 and featured the brothers playing dramatized versions of themselves — tellingly, the most memorable thing about this show is they lived in a firehouse. Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Jonas Brothers…
However, it took six weeks for a copy of the treaty to arrive in the United States, where the U.S. Senate ratified it on February 16, 1815. President James Madison signed the treaty the next day, officially ending the war. The Americans peace commissioners were John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,…
The cheaters weren’t rattled. In their first Dodger Stadium encounter since the cheaters were caught, Dodger fans poured out their pain Tuesday on a Houston Astros team that stole from them the 2017 World Series championship. The bloodthirsty night went bonkers. The cheaters won again. MLB investigated the allegations and…
Edward Woodward. British, 55 years old, with graying hair (hairpiece, actually), a modest paunch, a granitelike jaw and a stare that could melt glass. Edward Woodward, the versatile actor who starred in The Wicker Man and television dramas Callan and The Equalizer, has died at the age of 79. He…
The exchange of Missouri as a slave stateslave stateIn the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were not.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Slave_states_and_free_statesSlave states and free states – Wikipedia…