In short, kind of yes and kind of no. The good news is that there wasn’t a violent serial killer called the Limehouse Golem. However, some of the characters in the film are based on real people. Karl Marx features as a suspect in the film as does the very…
Longstreet and his defenders were not only traitors to the South, willing to accept loss and move on, they had been right about Gettysburg. And Lee, the great symbol of southern nobility, had been wrong. Longstreet didn’t think the Confederate army should have been so far north at all. He…
Lincoln returned to New Salem after the three-month session and continued the study of law while working as a postmaster and surveyor. He was reelected to the state legislature in 1836 and served a central Illinois district that had seven state representatives and two state senators. Did Lincoln serve in…
On the day Yankee Stadium opened — April 18, 1923 — Gehrig was pitching for Columbia University against Williams College and struck out 17 batters to set a school record that stood for nearly half a century. Was Lou Gehrig better than Babe Ruth? Ruth’s career line (. 342/. 474/.…
With his skillful Prime Minister Richelieu, who vowed “to make the royal power supreme in France and France supreme in Europe.” (source: Cardinal Richelieu’s Political Testament), Louis XIII established Absolute Monarchy in France during his reign. Cardinal Richelieu played a major role in Louis XIII’s reign from 1624, determining France’s…
By 1642, however, substantial victories had been won in the war against the Spaniards, and Louis XIII was subsequently respected as one of the most powerful rulers in Europe. As a result of Richelieu’s work, Louis XIII became one of the first examples of an absolute monarch. Louis XIV’s reign…
Louis believed that he was the only one responsible for governing France when he ruled from 1643 to 1715. Louis serves as an excellent example of the absolute monarch who commanded complete loyalty and imposed his vision on his country without consideration of the consequences. Louis XIV is probably regarded…
Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles. Luke was 84 years old when the wicked idolaters tortured him for the sake of Christ and hanged him from an olive tree in the town of Thebes, in Boethia. He was the patron of the medical profession. Why was St Luke hung?…
It was announced via Twitter from Executive Producer Holly Sorensen that the series is cancelled. The series finale aired on May 14, 2012. A total of 48 episodes of Make It or Break It have been produced and aired over three seasons, between June 22, 2009 and May 14, 2012.…
What’s often overlooked is that the film was also that year’s Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects. To bring “Mary Poppins” to life, Disney hired the engineer and inventor, Petro Vlahos. His innovation eventually became the basis of the modern green screen. Was Mary Poppins filmed in color? Yellow Screen…