What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the…
’Thomas of Aquino’; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis. Thomas Aquinas (1225…
The Statue of Liberty is made of an iron frame with a sheet of pure copper hung over it. The torch flame is so bright because it is coated in gold leaf instead of copper. However, it wasn’t always that way—the flame, too, was originally coated in copper. What color…
Most of us know a lot of left-handers in sport, but Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are/were also left-handed. And 7 of the last 15 US Presidents, including Obama, Clinton & Reagan. Was Steve Jobs a leftie? Steve Jobs was left-handed. He was an American entrepreneur, investor, and…
The reform was only a moderate success. By the end of 1916 no more than 20 percent of the peasant households had title to their land, although fewer (some 10 percent) had received consolidated plots. How was Stolypin successful? Agrarian reforms Stolypin believed the key to success was to increase…
Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile CrescentFertile CrescentThe Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Northern Egypt, together with the northern region of Kuwait, southeastern region of Turkey and the western…
On October 11, 2017, Survivor’s Remorse was cancelled, so there won’t be a fifth season. Why was survivor remorse Cancelled? We gave the show a real shot to kind of break out in the way you want a show to break out after the fourth season.” So low ratings basically.…
At the time of the Spanish Conquest in 1521, the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan was among the largest cities in the world, with perhaps as many as 200,000 inhabitants. It was five times the size of the London of Henry VIII. In a letter to the Spanish king, Cortés…
Theodore Roosevelt: Throughout his life, Roosevelt suffered from epilepsy and was prone to epileptic seizures, but that did not hold him from his convictions. Upon the end of the Spanish-American war, he was elected governor of New York in 1898. What famous person has seizures? Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz has…
The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1756 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as…