Tumbling from the roof, he hit the ground, but was quickly helped up by his uncle, who informed Ezio that the Borgia were responsible for the attack. Did Ezio ever go back to Monteriggioni? Through the letters, the Assassin learned that Pietro was an agent sent by Cesare Borgia. At…
Moses sends her and the children away before the Exodus from Egypt. Later, they reunite, but he may have taken a second wife, a “Cushite” or Ethiopian woman. Several mysteries in this tale leave experts baffled. Miriam and Aaron were jealous because Moses had two wives and because more of…
Medieval music includes solely vocal music, such as Gregorian chant and choral music (music for a group of singers), solely instrumental music, and music that uses both voices and instruments (typically with the instruments accompanying the voices). Gregorian chant was sung by monks during Catholic Mass. Medieval music was composed…
Comedian Mark Curry rose to fame in the early 1990s, on the ABC hit show Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper. On the tenth episode of the show in 1992, he had a contract to play for the Golden State Warriors. However, according to Curry, the Warriors’ tryout was not just for…
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923. Is Nagorno-Karabakh an autonomous region? The name is also used to refer to an autonomous oblast (province) of the former Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.) and to the…
The Munich Agreement was an astonishingly successful strategy for the Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in the months leading up to World War II. Was the Munich Agreement a failure? The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler’s ambitions by believing that enough concessions would secure a lasting peace. Today, the…
“If there is any man among you who would kill his emperor,” Napoleon declared, “Here I stand!” The 5th Infantry Regiment joined Napoleon on the spot. Some accounts differ as to exactly what happened next, but most agree on the fundamentals of the event itself. Exiled to the island of…
The southern part of the New Mexico Territory, which was the Gadsen Purchase, sided with the Confederacy, while the northern section was Union. New Mexico supplied 26 Union military units. The Wikipedia article, New Mexico in the American Civil War, has more information about New Mexico’s activities during the war.…
Akhenaten married the noblewoman Nefertiti about the time he became pharaoh, in 1353 BCE. Nefertiti was a powerful queen who helped Akhenaten transform the Egyptian religious landscape. Together they had at least six daughters. “The consequence of that is that the DNA of the third generation between cousins looks like…
During the civil war between Stephen and Matilda, David 1st of Scotland and his son were granted Cumbria and Northumberland respectively, so that for a period from 1139 to 1157, Newcastle was effectively in Scottish hands. ’ Accents are a reflection of the history of the area, so while the…