Despite the early start, the Bay Bridge completed construction five months ahead of the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco’s waterfronts would be bare without its famous bridges. If you are interested in architecture, engineering, or just California history, these can be a great addition to any visitor’s itinerary. What was…
On May 22, 2006, Ubisoft announced that they had licensed the rights from Touchstone Television to create a video game based on Lost planned for release at the end of February 2008. Lost: Via Domus (loosely “The Way Home” in Latin; marketed as Lost: The Video Game in Europe) is…
Over a period of seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, Richmond’s defensive line of batteries and fortifications set up under General Robert E. Lee, a daring ride around the Union Army by Confederate cavalry under General J.E.B. List of American Civil War battles in Northern Virginia. Jump…
It was seen on Sunday evening, 27 September, in the Americas; while in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it was seen in the early hours of Monday morning, 28 September. It was the latter of two total lunar eclipses in 2015, and the final in a tetrad (four total…
The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος], o Emfýlios [Pólemos], “the Civil War”) took place between 1943 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece (supported by the United Kingdom and the United States). When was the civil war in Greece? The Greek Civil War…
M*A*S*H was an award-winning television show based on the bestselling novel and Oscar winning motion picture film of the same title. It portrayed the lives of doctors and nurses assigned to a fictitious medical unit, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, based in Uijeongbu, Korea during the 1950-1953 war. In…
LEGALLY BLONDE. MEAN GIRLS. TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU. Each /any/all of those, and more, coulda’ been a Clueless sequel. Sadly they weren’t; but the deficit can be rectified, albeit twenty years late! CLUELESS is a 90s classic that’s set to get a reboot by Paramount. Here’s everything you…
Suspected Cause or Causes:Continental Drift and subsequent climate change The mass extinction event that happened during the Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era on the Geologic Time Scale is the first known major mass extinction. At this time in the history of life on Earth, really, life was in its…
Espeland detention camp (Norwegian: Espeland fangeleir, German: Polizeihäftlingslager Espeland) was an internment camp opened in 1943 by Nazi Germany in occupied Norway next to the village of Espeland in the borough of Arna, Bergen. Were there concentration camps in Norway? The civilian occupying authorities with the Quisling regime and the…
Well, that would depend on the reason for the draft. Even in countries with conscription all the time, it is more or less justifiable based on the reasons behind it. Whether buying or selling takes place it still involves treating people as property — property of the state or society.…