George Crum, who was a chef at the Moon’s Lake House in New York, accidentally invented potato chips in 1853. After a guest at the restaurant kept returning potato fries, claiming that they weren’t crisp enough, Crum sliced the potatoes thinly, fried them in hot oil and added salt. Did…
The Renaissance was heavily influenced by Christianity in its art and philosophy, but the political writings of the Renaissance were much more influenced by secularism. Was the Renaissance religious or secular? The Renaissance was all about religion, leading to a high use of sacred themes in their art. But, that’s…
Montgomery Clift, Lee RemickLee RemickEarly life Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia) (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin “Frank” Remick, who owned a department store. She had one older brother, Bruce.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lee_RemickLee Remick – Wikipedia and Jo…
Renaissance Italy was urban, where city-states became centers of political, economic, and social life. What kind of society was the Renaissance? The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the…
Sometime between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, after the last ice age ended, the Sahara Desert transformed. Green vegetation grew atop the sandy dunes and increased rainfall turned arid caverns into lakes. Summary: As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty…
PIRATE Sir Henry Morgan’s flagship the Satisfaction has lain on the seabed for 340 years. Sand and mud have swept through the wreck until just two inches of its hull were visible. But archaeologists found the Welshman’s prize vessel in waters off Panama in the nick of time. Was the…
For more than a decade after its passage, the Sherman Antitrust Act was invoked only rarely against industrial monopolies, and then not successfully. Ironically, its only effective use for a number of years was against labor unions, which were held by the courts to be illegal combinations. Why did the…
v. Sullivan (1964): “Although the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court, the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.” Today, the Sedition Act of 1798 is generally remembered as a violation of fundamental First Amendment principles. Jeffersonian-Republicans countered that the Sedition Act…
The Sherman M4 medium tank proved to be both a “death trap” for American soldiers and a poor defense against German tanks. However, its use by almost all of the Allied Forces was crucial to their ultimate success in WWII. Was the Sherman a reliable tank? The Sherman was renowned…
In series 13 episode 1, the show jokingly unmasked the Stig as seven-time world champion F1 driver Michael Schumacher. In the hiatus following series 15, racing driver Ben Collins was revealed to be the Stig in a court battle over Collins’ impending autobiography, titled The Man in the White Suit.…