Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. Interestingly enough, just as their characters Penny and Leonard started to develop feelings for one another, so did Kaley and Johnny. Turns out, the two actually dated in real life early on while filming…
In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. The belief that the Pilgrims came to America in search of religious freedom is inspiring, but it’s…
Chemical hair color was considered unsafe, and the practice itself had an image problem: as in the modest Victorian era, it was seen as something vain women, not respectable housewives, would do. In the 1940s, even as the beauty trend became more popular, salons offered back entrances for clients who…
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. Acts 15:29 ESV / 469 helpful votes The Flood had made eating meat a necessity. With the temporary destruction…
Blindspot season 5 episode 9 reveal: Is Patterson dead or alive? Is Patterson alive? Entering Blindspot season 5 episode 9 on NBC tonight, we know that this was the primary question. When you think in terms of what happened to her on this past episode, it was pretty easy to…
Patton actually recited the widely revered speech four to six times between late May and early June 1944, without consulting any notes, writes Terry Brighton in his book “ Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War .” The content of each of those speeches from one to the next was substantially,…
Many believe that the song “Atlantis” features the background vocals of Paul McCartney. The theme is common for the 1960s: fanciful mythology as a symbol of the counterculture movement, with the hope that true love will be found if Atlantis can be rediscovered. Paul McCartney was rumored to have sung…
Morphy is chiefly remembered as a leading exponent of the Romantic school of chess, which focused on 1. e4 openings and dashing tactical and offensive play where opponents were often checkmated in under 30 moves. Morphy did not fight for the South during the Civil War and stayed out of…
Paul Revere didn’t ride through the streets of Concord hollering a warning. He didn’t even make it to Concord at all. Paul Revere, an activist in the Patriot movement, rode that night with two other men, Samuel Prescott and William Dawes. Only one of them succeeded in reaching Concord to…
One of the most infamous days of Ozzy Osbourne’s career came on March 27, 1981, when he bit the heads off of two white doves during a business meeting with his record label. What animals did Ozzy Osbourne eat? Okay, it’s time to set the record straight on Ozzy Osbourne…