By the 1920s, the price of a single gram of the element reached $100,000 and Curie could not afford to buy enough of the very thing she, herself, had discovered in order to continue her research. Nonetheless, she had no regrets. On 23 January 1911, Marie Sklodowska Curie was rejected…
g.o.d disbanded in 2005 after member Yoon Kye Sang departed the group at the height of their fame to pursue his solo acting career in 2004, pushing the rest of the group to break up a year after. Yoon Kye Sang recently revealed his true reason behind quitting the popular…
According to some estimates, between 1.1 million to 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died at Auschwitz during its years of operation. An estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Poles perished at the camp, along with 19,000 to 20,000 Romas and smaller numbers of Soviet prisoners of war and…
Introduction: The image of a bearded man wearing a mitre and carrying a staff or crozier has become almost synonymous with the patron saint of Ireland, in particular when his vestments are green and adorned with shamrocks and a snake slithers around his feet. St. Patrick, patron of the pro-cathedral,…
No, Goldfinger, You Can’t Kill Someone by Painting a Body With Gold. Though only a brief scene, the 14-karat demise of “Bond Girl” Shirley Eaton remains Goldfinger’s most iconic image. “She died of skin suffocation,” 007 tells M. Ms. Nolan’s character in “Goldfinger” was not to be confused with the…
Wood dated his co-star from The Carrie Diaries, AnnaSophia Robb for a year in 2013 and his co-star from Containment, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence briefly in 2016 before meeting Benoist. AnnaSophia Robb net worth: AnnaSophia Robb is an American film and television actress who has a net worth of $8 million. AnnaSophia…
Triceratops lived in the Late Cretaceous period, around 68 to 65.5 million years ago. T. Rexes lived in the upper Cretaceous Period, around 67 to 65.5 million years ago. The treasure trove of fossils from the end of the Cretaceous Period stretches across parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota…
With DreamWorks’ “Blades of Glory” ready to open, MARTIN GROVE interviews John Jacobs, one of the producers of the comedy that stars Will Ferrell and Jon HederJon HederEarly life When he was about two years old, he and his parents moved to Salem, Oregon. He attended Walker Middle School in…
In 1880, Roosevelt graduated Phi Beta Kappa (22nd of 177) from Harvard with an A.B. magna cum laude. Roosevelt gave up his earlier plan of studying natural science and instead decided to attend Columbia Law School, moving back into his family’s home in New York City. Roosevelt was an able…
The one thing the peasant had to do in Medieval England was to pay out money in taxes or rent. He had to pay rent for his land to his lord; he had to pay a tax to the church called a tithe. This was a tax on all of…