Only five players in history have won all four Grand Slams in the same year, and the last to do it was Steffi Graf in 1988. The only men to achieve the feat are Don Budge (in 1938) and Rod Laver (in 1962 and 1969). Novak Djokovic hasn’t won all…
Jeanna Geise was only 15 years old when she became the world’s first known survivor of Rabies without receiving any vaccination. Her miraculous survival has not only challenged a time-honored scientific fact, but has also brought about a new method of Rabies treatment, known as the Milwaukee Protocol. Four years…
Children available for adoption are boys and girls, from infants to older and special needs children. In 2011, U.S. citizens adopted approximately 100 children … A Family in Bloom Adoption has an active adoption program in Jamaica. Our agency’s main Jamaican case manager is based in the country. Can you adopt…
Accidents. A number of accidents have occurred on the Roller Coaster since its opening. In 1989, a 13-year-old girl was attempting to get air by straightening her legs, allowing her to lift out of her seat when she slipped out from under the restraint and fell 35 feet to her…
Since 1948, the UN has helped end conflicts and foster reconciliation by conducting successful peacekeeping operations in dozens of countries, including Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mozambique, Namibia and Tajikistan. While the UN has successfully led a number of peacekeeping missions and promoting peace and security is integral to its mission,…
phrase. You use nothing short of or little short of to emphasize how great or extreme something is. For example, if you say that something is nothing short of a miracle or nothing short of disastrous, you are emphasizing that it is a miracle or it is disastrous. [emphasis] used…
An official at an athletics event in the German city of Dusseldorf has died after being speared in the throat with a javelin. The 74-year-old man was rushed to hospital after the accident on Sunday but died of his injuries. I was 13 and proud to have been chosen to…
Environmental: 1. Medical/Natural Death: 2. Bryce National Park ranked number 42, with 3 deaths. How many have died in Zion National Park? The most reliable … Bryce National Park ranked number 42, with 3 deaths. Address: Zion National Park Visitor Center, Zion National Park, 1 Zion Park Blvd, … How dangerous is…
Park visitors 16 and up pay the $3.00 entrance fee, visitors 15 and under the entrance fee is waived. On Fee Free Days, periodically throughout the year the $3.00 entrance fee may be waived. Due to security measures at the Gateway Arch, all visitors to the Arch must pass through…
In the late 1800s, U.S. economic and military power enabled it to enforce the Monroe Doctrine. The doctrine’s greatest extension came with Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary, which inverted the original meaning of the doctrine and came to justify unilateral U.S. intervention in Latin America. Monroe Doctrine, (December 2, 1823), cornerstone of…