After 14 NFL seasons, former Patriots LB Mike Vrabel retired from the NFL. Here’s a look back at his career in New England, where he won three Super Bowl titles and was a key figure during a championship era. After 14 NFL seasons, former Patriots LB Mike Vrabel retired from…
The diary survived the war, overlooked by the Gestapo that discovered the hiding place, but Anne and nearly all of the others perished in the Nazi death camps. Anne and Margot Frank were spared immediate death in the Auschwitz gas chambers and instead were sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp…
Faraday (1791—1867) was an English scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry and was completely self-taught. Being born the third of four children of a blacksmith just outside of London, England, he had no formal schooling beyond basic reading, writing, and math, and never went to college. He was even involved…
In 1941 it was sold to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for only $7,000, where it remains today. Brown married Marion Raymond in 1904. They had a daughter, Francis R. Brown. Born in rural Carbondale, Kansas in 1873, Brown would spend nearly his entire adult life…
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme CourtU.S. Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, as well as over state court cases that involve a point…
Petrarch was supposed to have seen Laura for the first time in St. Claire Church in Avignon on April 6, 1327. In his poetry she appears to give him little encouragement, but his love for her became a lifelong obsession, even after her death on April 6, 1348. Petrarch saw…
The United States began to support Contra activities against the Sandinista government by December 1981, with the CIA at the forefront of operations. The CIA supplied the funds and the equipment, coordinated training programs, and provided intelligence and target lists. Armed opposition to the Sandinista government eventually divided into two…
As dissidents, they sought religious freedom and economic opportunities in distant lands. They were religious people with a strong piety and a desire to establish a holy commonwealth of people who would carry out God’s will on earth. Both the Pilgrim and the Puritan wanted religious freedom. The Pilgrim Fathers…
Well, Hollywood, for one. Yep, hate to break this to you, but cowboys of the 19th and early 20th centuries weren’t shouting yeehaw as they rode out after the cattle, and they weren’t shouting yeehaw at the square dance, either. exclamation. An expression of enthusiasm or exuberance, typically associated with…
Olivia Attwood FINALLY confirms what happened with Sam Craske after Celebs Go Dating romance – following rumours she ‘faked being single for pay day’ OLIVIA Attwood has confirmed she’s not dating Sam Craske. Speaking about why he and Jade split, Sam revealed: “She broke up with me. Even though I…