With his duplicity discovered, Slick assaulted Cody and pushed his way through the other clones who had confronted him, fleeing from the barracks while Cody and Rex pursued him. Slick fled onto the grounds of the Republic base, where he left his utility belt near a gunship. “Slick” was the…
Giant ground sloths preferred forests along rivers or lakes, but they also lived during the Pleistocene period, also known as the Great Ice Age. At its peak, as much as 30 percent of the Earth’s surface was covered by glaciers and parts of the northern oceans were frozen, according to…
During World War II, Slovakia was a client state of Nazi Germany and a member of the Axis powers. It participated in the war against the Soviet Union and deported most of its Jewish population. The desire for autonomy was one of the great causes for Slovaks in Czechoslovakia. It…
The very famous line ” ’Tis better to have loved and lost, / Than never to have loved at all” is from a Tennyson poem called “In Memoriam A.H.H.” and is commonly mistaken as a line of Shakespeare’s. — Aristotle The very famous line ” ‘Tis better to have loved…
Two great English writers are often associated with the phrase ’what the dickens’. No surprise that one of them is Charles Dickens – the other is William Shakespeare. As it turns out, the phrase has nothing to do with either of them. Dickens is a euphemism for the word devil,…
These are Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, and (rarely, The Two Noble Kinsmen). These plays, at times, seem more like tragedies than comedies, but they have the standard ’happy ending’. Did William Shakespeare Say He Was Always Happy Because He Didn’t ‘Expect Anything From Anyone?’ A popular…
His plays made him famous and so did his poetry. His Sonnets circulated in manuscript before they were published in 1609. This was the second scandal of Shakespeare’s life, because the Sonnets were love poems and were not written for his wife. There has always been a mystery about to…
Shakira is a Colombian musician who achieved success in both Spanish- and English-speaking markets. By the early 2000s she had become one of the most successful Latin American recording artists in the world. Her full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. Childhood & Early Life Shakira was born Shakira Isabel…
The pair moved to California to be closer to more audition, training and casting opportunities. As Selena auditioned and trained with dance and acting classes for kids in Los Angeles, she met and got to know other child actors. Answer: American actress and singer Selena Gomez did not go to…
Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal led the Miami Heat to their first NBA title in 2006. He went on to form the formidable duo of Shaquille O’Neal and Dwyane Wade which led the Miami Heat to the NBA championship in 2006. A perfect mix of youth and experience struck gold…