By the end of Titanic, Rose explained that Cal killed himself after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and after the death of Jack, she had a fresh start under a different name. Rose did what Jack made her promise she would do and got married,…
Westfield Galleria at Roseville (formerly called Galleria at Roseville) is an upscale shopping mall in Roseville, California, United States. Owned by the Westfield Corporation, it is located at the corner of Galleria Boulevard and Roseville Parkway near the junction of State Route 65 and Interstate 80. The $100 million Galleria…
Rosie the Riveter came to be a symbol of all women working in the war industries during World War II. After the release of the song inspired by Rosalind, the image of Rosie the Riveter became further cemented in the public imagination in large part due to the circulation of…
Chattel slavery was not found in all times and places in antiquity, but it was especially evident in Italy during the central era of Roman history and it is with Roman chattel slavery that I am concerned here. Which empires used chattel slavery? The European empires all used chattel slavery.…
Rousseau, who was also one of the people, said: ’When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.’ TIL the phrase “eat the rich” is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is reported to have once said “When the people have nothing more to eat, they…
The first permanent theater in the city of Rome was the Theater of Pompey, dedicated in 55 B.C. by Julius Caesar’s rival, Pompey the Great. The Romans designed their punishments to discourage potential criminals. How you were punished depended on who you were and your position in Roman society. Whipping…
The Necessity of Freedom. In his work, Rousseau addresses freedom more than any other problem of political philosophy and aims to explain how man in the state of nature is blessed with an enviable total freedom. This freedom is total for two reasons. First, natural man is physically free because…
Ancient Rome, circa 1000 B.C. – 476 A.D. The wealthier citizens of ancient Rome slept on raised beds made of metal, with woven metal supports to hold the feather or straw-stuffed mattress. Less-wealthy people had similar beds made from wood, with wool strings holding up the mattress. They typically slept…
The film’s story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from an animal research laboratory in Great Britain, after years of physical torture and cruel experimentation. Rowf has been drowned and revived many times in the name of science. In the end, Snitter & Rowf got…
Only men could join the Roman army, and during his reign from 27 BC to AD 14, the emperor Augustus forbade rank and file soldiers from marrying, a ban that lasted nearly two centuries. Classical texts on the Roman army have little to say about women. Women are thought to…