Using these issues, as well as the power swung his way by his vice president, Aaron Burr, Republican leader Thomas Jefferson won election to the presidency in 1800. This Republican party, which would hold power until 1825, is the direct ancestor of today’s Democratic Party. What is one negative aspect…
Raymond Nonnatus, O. de M. ( Catalan: Sant Ramon Nonat, Spanish: San Ramón Nonato, French: Saint Raymond Nonnat, Maltese: San Rajmondo Nonnato ), (1204 – 31 August 1240) is a saint from Catalonia in Spain. His nickname ( Latin: Nonnatus, “not born”) refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his…
Since 2000, El Niño events have been observed in 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2014–16, and 2018–19. Major ENSO events were recorded in the years 1790–93, 1828, 1876–78, 1891, 1925–26, 1972–73, 1982–83, 1997–98, and 2014–16. El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a recurring climate pattern…
Before Prohibition, as much as 30 percent of federal revenue had come from excise taxes on alcohol. States, too, had relied heavily on excise taxes from liquor sales to fund their budgets. With that money gone, they turned to the income tax. Income Taxes and Prohibition. The income tax enabled…
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called Gulf of Mexico oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana —and its subsequent sinking on…
The thawing of the Cold War started with Destalinization. Destalinization was a political reform in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. It was launched by the new leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. As the Second World War’s uneasy alliances unravelled, a new world…
Plato (428/427–348/347 B.C.E.) studied ethics, virtue, justice, and other ideas relating to human behavior. Following in Socrates’ footsteps, he became a teacher and inspired the work of the next great Greek philosopher, Aristotle. For some 20 years Aristotle was Plato’s student and colleague at the Academy in Athens, an institution…
“We are kind of in the ‘Tornado alley of California,’ which is the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, basically the northern part of San Joaquin Valley all the way up through Redding,” Rausch said. In fact, the Golden State averages 11 tornadoes a year. Two Tornadoes Touch Down In…
Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6 who also answers to his codename, ”007“. He has been portrayed on film by the actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-seven productions. All the films but two were made…
There was a ’Revolution’ in Tudor Government. Discuss this statement with reference to the period 1532 to 1540 This is a contentious historical issue and has been argued about by historians. G R Elton first raised the argument in 1953s and his main arguments for a “revolution in Tudor government…