The Factory is debuting a brand-new flavor: Coconut Cream Pie Cheesecake. “All of our stuff is prepared fresh daily. If it’s a sauce that can’t be altered for the dish, it is still a fresh sauce. Everything (mostly) on our menu is modifiable because we do have a scratch kitchen,”…
Natasha met Tom through the Nuffield scholarship programme. Graduating the year before Tom, high-flying Natasha was invited to give the keynote speech at the 2018 conference. Single, but not long out of a long-term relationship, Natasha started dating Tom. Four months later, they married. With the Tom Archer chapter of…
The Lenni Lenape didn’t wear long headdresses like the Sioux tribe. Usually they wore a beaded headband with a feather or two in it. Sometimes a chief or other important Lenape Indian would wear a high headdress made of many feathers pointing straight up from a headband, similar to this…
The Articles of Confederation created a national government composed of a Congress, which had the power to declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors, and manage relations with Indians. The Congress, called the “Congress of the ConfederationCongress of the ConfederationThe Congress of the Confederation, or…
On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia in the rump Czecho-Slovak state, in flagrant violation of the Munich Pact. Hitler wanted that heavy industrial power for the German Reich, and so his expansionist plans had had Czechoslovakia as their first target…
Emperor Shi Huangdi brought an end to the period of Warring States and created a unified China, both culturally and politically. Though his regime was oppressive, Emperor Shi Huangdi’s reforms created the precedent for a more structured and unified Chinese culture. Though his regime was oppressive, Emperor Shi Huangdi’s reforms…
Sir Stamford Raffles, in full Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, (born July 6, 1781, at sea, off Port Morant, Jam. —died July 5, 1826, London, Eng.), British East Indian administrator and founder of the port city of Singapore (1819), who was largely responsible for the creation of Britain’s Far Eastern empire.…
In 46 BCE Julius Caesar minted the largest quantity of gold coins yet seen in Rome. Gold has always played an important role in the international monetary system. Gold coins were first struck on the order of King Croesus of Lydia (an area that is now part of Turkey), around…
Mark Zuckerberg was accused of stealing the idea for Facebook from ConnectU.com, which involved three classmates and clients who wanted a social website for Harvard students. Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard computer science student when he, along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes invented Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg…
Certainly, Romans knew lead to be dangerous, even if they did not associate it with their lead cooking vessels or the preparation of sapa. Pliny speaks of the “noxious and deadly vapour” (sulfur dioxide) of the lead furnace (XXXIV. He also concluded that the Romans were aware of the harm…