He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley. Migration west. Young arrived in…
No – the Hawaiian Islanders who killed Captain Cook were not cannibals. They believed that the power of a man was in his bones, so they cooked part of Cook’s body to enable the bones to be easily removed. It was the cooking of his body which gave rise to…
The Dark Truth about Blackwater. On Sept. 16, 2007, a convoy of Blackwater contractors guarding State Department employees entered a crowded square near the Mansour district in Baghdad, Iraq. Black Water is a 2007 Australian horror film written and directed by Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich. The film, an international…
The Great Depression, also known as ’The Slump’ infiltrated every corner of society, affecting people’s lives between 1929 and 1939 and beyond. In Britain, the impact was enormous and led some to refer to this dire economic time as the ’devil’s decade’. When the Great Depression had started, Britain’s unemployment…
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.” Captain John H. Miller was a thirty four-year-old American serving in the 2nd Rangers Battalion of the United States Army during World War Two, holding the rank of Captain and the protagonist of the film…
Blitzkrieg (“lightning warfare”) is an effective military strategy devised by German forces during World War II. It is a more advanced version of a “rush strategy” in RTS games utilizing consistent mass production of military units to overpower the enemy through strategic placement of forward military buildings. A key difference…
Lesnar wasn’t quite successful on the NFL field the way he was in the wrestling ring. While he had the strength and the build of a football player, he didn’t have the luck required to become a professional player in the league. It’s unknown exactly what happened that became an…
Caravaggio’s works were in the service of the Counter Reformation. In the late 16th and early-17th centuries, the Catholic Church was building a campaign known as the Counter Reformation as a response to the Reformation, which would counter the growing threat of Protestantism. One of his most famous paintings, The…
Uses of Blitzkrieg in World War II German forces employed some tactics associated with blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the invasion of Poland in 1939, including combined air-ground attacks and the use of Panzer tank divisions to quickly crush the poorly equipped Polish troops. The Allies…
In The Will to Power, Buddhism is described as passively nihilistic with the purpose of acting as a temporary salve for those suffering (1968, 18). What did the Buddha say about nihilism? He defined Buddhism as a “true-world theory”, meaning that Buddhism claims there is another, superior form of existence…