“Gabriella Montez” is played by 18 year old Vanessa Hudgens. She was born on december 14 in Salinas,California. Although she has been a cast member for high school musical she also has recorded her very own cd. She is also dating High School Musical co-star Zacquisha Efron who plays Troy…
Absolute monarchy is a variation of the governmental form of monarchy in which all governmental power and responsibility emanates from and is centered in the monarch. In France, Louis XIV was the most famous exemplar of absolute monarchy, with his court central to French political and cultural life during his…
Gallipoli was a costly failure for the Allies: 44,000 Allied soldiers died, including more than 8700 Australians. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders – about a sixth of those who fought on the peninsula. Victory came at a high price for the Ottoman Empire, which lost 87,000 men during…
Explorers had claimed the Mississippi River and its tributaries for France. By the 1750s the French had settlements in Canada, the “Illinois” country (in what is now the mid-west), and Louisiana (New Orleans and land west of the Mississippi River). When did France claim land in North America? As the…
It had 18th century French origin, going through Europe, finally getting to the U.S. 4 In the Old Western days of gambling, it was probably the most common, popular game around. 1 Gamblers referred to the gaming hall as a Faro Bank. But technically that meant the dealer’s stake in…
The Patriot Leaders in South Carolina – Brigadier General Francis Marion. Francis Marion was an American revolutionary warAmerican revolutionary warThe American Revolutionary War was a war fought between Great Britain and the original Thirteen Colonies in North America from 1775 to 1787. Most of the fighting was in North America…
Alle Lebensmittel, die den jüdischen Speisegesetzen („Kaschrut“) entsprechen, werden als „koscher“ (wörtlich: tauglich) bezeichnet. Gläubige Juden dürfen nur koschere Speisen essen. Koscheres Schlachten ist human, weil die Tiere nur den nötigsten Schmerz erdulden müssen. Neben frischem Gemüse und Obst sind viele Lebensmittelprodukte schon seit Jahrzehnten koscher und offiziell zertifiziert wie…
He established a military dictatorship, which he defined as a totalitarian state. Franco proclaimed himself Head of State and Government under the title El Caudillo, a term similar to Il Duce (Italian) for Benito Mussolini and Der Führer (German) for Adolf Hitler. Was Franco a military leader? Within a few…
Carlin was known to insult most of the shows he worked on due to issues on set (such as his time on his own series The George Carlin Show ), but often spoke very fondly of both Shining Time Station and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, even in some…
Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley were two of the most popular American entertainers of the 20th century — and they had some pointed criticisms of each other. When Sinatra accused Presley’s music of corrupting young people in a newspaper article he wrote, Presley responded. There’s a quotation from 1956 that…