Whilst lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758, Dinwiddie was the personal owner of enslaved people who were sold on his departure. In 1753 he was said to have played a role in precipitating the French and Indian War though his support of the Ohio Company’s land claims…
Sara’s death is a mystery, and whether she took her own life or was killed by Mrs. Appleyard is left deliberately ambiguous—another of the novel’s mysterious unknowns. Appleyard prescribes. Mrs. Appleyard typically targets Sara because of what she perceives as Sara’s relatively liberal disposition, and the punishments she inflicts upon…
Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a…
Jackson did not have a consistent policy towards internal improvement. He supported some efforts and opposed federal involvement in others. He often used his support as a political tool. President Andrew Jackson was conflicted about his positions on “internal improvement”. Jackson was no deep thinker, but his matured policy positions…
“It’s hard to believe that today marks 25 years since Selena and I decided that the only way to be together…was to run away and get married (at 20 and 22 years old) in secret,” Pérez wrote in the Facebook post. “What a rollercoaster ride THAT day was.” They decide…
The Convention of 1800, signed on 30 September, ended the Quasi-War. It affirmed the rights of Americans as neutrals upon the sea and abrogated the alliance with France of 1778. However, it failed to provide compensation for the $20 million “French Spoliation Claims” of the United States. The Quasi-War officially…
The George Washington Bridge is a marvelous construction that carries over 300,00 cars per day from Fort Lee, New Jersey to Manhattan in New York CityNew York CityThe site of modern New York City was the theater of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early…
The Greek Gods can’t “Die”, but they can be crippled forever, chopped into tiny pieces, or just fade. For example, when Kronos sliced Ouranus (Uranus) to death, Ouranus was never able to have a physical form again. In the 3rd Century BC, people referred to Apollo and Helios and Artemis…
And when making her 2010 world cup song Waka Waka( Time for Africa) she decided to plagiarise it almost note for note, and word for word in some lines. Well she did make it pop, and in the process introduced a much larger audience to afrobeat but the stealing should…
The Knights of Labor sought to create a united front of producers versus the nonproducers. The organization even allowed women and African Americans to join its ranks. Together, the producers sought an eight-hour workday, an end to child labor, better wages, and improved working conditions in general. Most earlier unions…