PCA is not a real school, but actually a television set. The cast and television crew arrived on Pepperdine’s campus during the second week of May to begin filming a new show for Nickelodeon called “Zoey 101,” said Sally McIlwain, who oversees filming and reservations in the Special Programs office.…
Pepin is remembered as a strong supporter of the Roman church and helped the religion expand in his kingdom through missionary work. He also managed to drive the Iberian Muslims out of France and finally subdue the Aquitanians and the Basques after close to three generations of on and off…
On Odysseus’s return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay the suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus’s elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she…
Contents. The so-called golden age of Athenian culture flourished under the leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.), a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician—”the first citizen” of democratic Athensdemocratic AthensGreek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20…
Jefferson was Randolph’s first cousin once removed. He initially became a member of the Continental Congress when he replaced Randolph in the Second Continental CongressSecond Continental CongressThe Lee Resolution (also known as “The Resolution for Independence”) was the formal assertion passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776…
Filming. Filming began in October 2013 in Beirut, Lebanon. Around 10% of the film was shot in Lebanon in areas including downtown Beirut, the populous area of Khandaq al-Ghameeq, and the mountainous areas of Kfardebian, with the latter two representing Syria. Where was the phantom movie shot? The Phantom was…
While photographs of earlier conflicts do exist, the American Civil War is considered the first major conflict to be extensively photographed. Not only did intrepid photographers venture onto the fields of battle, but those very images were then widely displayed and sold in ever larger quantities nationwide. It allowed families…
After their victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Ottomans had conquered most of the Balkans and had reduced Byzantine influence to the area immediately surrounding Constantinople, which they later besieged. In 1393, the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman lost Nicopolis to the Ottomans. Did Ottomans control Poland? FOR…
Purple Rain centered around The Kid (Prince), a Minneapolis-based musician with his band the Revolution. The Kid’s star is on the rise and he pours his life into his music, escaping a dysfunctional home life and the temptation to repeat what has gone before. Purple rain pertains to the end…
Since QE3 was announced in September 2012, for example, the unemployment rate has fallen from 7.8 percent to 5.9 percent. The pace of monthly job growth has slowly accelerated. And the stock market has soared to new heights. All of those could well be products of easing. In sum, QE…