She was Mary of MagdalaMary of MagdalaMary Magdalene, sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine, was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki ›…
Attracted by its opposition to aristocratic society and espousal of the Enlightenment’s values of ’liberty, equality, and fraternity’, Wollstonecraft became an immediate and passionate friend of the French Revolution, seeing in it “a glorious chance to obtain more virtue and happiness than hitherto blessed our globe”. What influenced Mary Wollstonecraft’s…
Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors of Rome. His reign (161–180 CE) marked the end of a period of internal tranquility and good government. After his death the empire quickly descended into civil war. He has symbolized the Golden Age of the Roman Empire for many…
Even after executing the king for treason, Revolutionaries still managed to blame his wife for all the ills of the kingdom. Marie-Antoinette was nothing short of pure evil, they claimed. She was a ’woman in fury’, a murderous plotter who dreamed of ’Swimming in the blood of the French’. At…
Magnus MaximusMagnus MaximusMaximus was born c. 335 in Gallaecia, on the estates of Count Theodosius (the Elder), to whom he claimed to be related. Maximus was the son of the general Flavius Julius Eucherius and the brother of Marcellinus. Near contemporaries described his dignity as offended when lesser men were…
But the worst of all was McClellan, the so-called “Young Napoleon” from whom Lincoln and the Union expected great things. McClellan was a superb organizer, a West Point-trained engineer who did much to build the Union army almost from scratch. But he was overly cautious by nature. George McClellan was…
On January 24, 1961, Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, and about 1,500 other characters, was involved in a near-fatal car accident. Hit head-on, Blanc suffered a triple skull fracture that left him in a coma for two weeks.…
In juxtaposition to radical Anabaptists, Simons took on the role of advocating pacifism. This changed the way in which Anabaptists were perceived because many other groups of Anabaptists engaged in rebellions and murder. What did Menno Simons believe? Menno Simons based his rejection of infant baptism on the concept of…
Yet despite the emergency room doctor pronouncing Jackson dead on arrival at UCLA hospital, according to Murray, “he was not dead. He was alive”. What was Michael Jackson’s real last words? He reveals that Jackson’s last words were: “Let me have some milk” before adding: “He was pleading, and begging…
On March 21, 2019, Adweek reported that GSN would revive Catch 21, producing new episodes for the first time in nearly a decade. Ribeiro was chosen to return as host; Padilla, however, would not return and would be replaced with dancer Witney Carson. Mikki Padilla (born May 27, 1974) is…