Alex was devoted to the House on the Rock. It was his life, dream and passion. He only stayed at the House on the Rock 4 nights of his life. Alex lived very modestly in a small apartment in Madison in one of the buildings he had managed for his…
It was 51 years ago today (February 18th, 1969) that Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash first teamed up to record an album of duets in Nashville. Johnston had hoped the two would record an entire album together, and there was a good cause too. Cash and Dylan recorded 15 songs…
Robert Graves became one of the foremost poets of World War OneWorld War OneIn the very early days of World War One, cavalry was a devastating weapon when used against infantry. A British cavalry charge at the Battle of Mons was enough to hold off the advancing Germans. However, with…
Liam Gallagher served as lead singer on the song after Noel had given him a choice between “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, another single from the album, with Noel singing lead vocals on the latter. Other notable Oasis songs for which Noel provided lead vocals include “The Master…
Charles de Batz de Castelmore (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl də bats də kastɛlmɔʁ]), also known as d’Artagnan and later Count d’Artagnan ( c. 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. Of course, the most famous Musketeer of…
Beginning in West Africa and spreading to the Caribbean and America, slaves used drums as a way to communicate for hundreds of years. Communication drums, or talking drums, were specially crafted to create a variety of loud tones that could be heard from several miles away. The drumbeat not only…
While over 800 small boats volunteered to help bring the troops home, the RAF had the duty of protecting the shores and providing shelter over the evacuation. One reason why the myth grew amongst the Army that the RAF was absent from Dunkirk was simply because the deeper patrol lines…
Despite his lack of money and poor living conditions, these were the happiest years of Hemingway’s life, as well as the most artistically productive. Ernest Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago. He was educated in the public schools and began to write in high school, where he was…
Did the Mayans disappear? This question has long piqued our curiosity. The ancient Maya lived in the Mesoamerican region of Central America, and their Mayan language is one of the oldest still spoken in the world today. In addition to their sophisticated understanding of the environment, the Maya were highly…
In October 2010, Ármann Höskuldsson, a scientist at the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences, stated that the eruption was officially over, although the area was still geothermally active and might erupt again. There were no deaths in the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption because scientists were carefully monitoring and…