Fridays was a late-night live comedy show that aired on ABC on Friday nights from April 11, 1980, to April 23, 1982. Friday Night Videos (later becoming Friday Night and then Late Friday) is an American music video show that was broadcast on NBC from July 29, 1983 to May…
Twister fact check #28: It is possible for tornadoes to throw all sorts of debris, including some great distances as vertical winds can get underneath debris such as vehicles (or a boat such as in the movie). Twister fact check #29: They say that the tornado is back-building. The film…
The medallion (with the name of the recipient inscribed) will be issued to surviving members of the Australian Defence Force who served on the Gallipoli Peninsula, or in direct support of the operations from close off-shore, at any time during the period from the first Anzac Day in April, 1915,…
The Elephant of the Bastille was a monument in Paris which existed between 1813 and 1846. Originally conceived in 1808 by Napoléon INapoléon IBonapartism (French: Bonapartisme) is the political ideology supervening from Napoleon Bonaparte and his followers and successors. The term was used to refer to people who hoped to…
A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a Blood Moon, because of the reddish tinge the Full Moon takes on when fully eclipsed. The term is also frequently used to describe four total lunar eclipses that occur in a row. Earth’s atmosphere filters out blue light. This blood moon occurs…
The disastrous results included the “keynesianisation” of the economy and what is best described as an economic depression lasted throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s. The Shadow of the Great Depression and the Inflation of the 1970s. The inflation of the 1970s was a time when uncertainty about…
Up to half of the continent’s modern surface area may have been submerged by this sea. This is called the Western Interior Seaway. It covered the majority of states like Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Wyoming. The 1972 amendments to the Clean Water Act established…
In early 1944 the Waffen-SS made up less than 5 percent of the Wehrmacht, but it accounted for nearly one-fourth of Germany’s panzer divisions and roughly one-third of the Wehrmacht’s panzer grenadier (mechanized infantry) divisions. What is the difference between the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht? The Waffen SS was more…
In it, Jefferson declared that when the American people adopted the establishment clauseestablishment clauseNeither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law…
The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which standardized communication between servers and clients. The web is based on the WWW protocol.…