Rizal was admired for being a good leader. He gained the respect of his colleagues in the Propaganda Movement like Marcelo H. del Pilar who was once his tough rival for the leadership of the organization. As a leader, Rizal was transformational, charismatic, visionary, and most importantly, incorruptible. Why is…
As the Germans were marching towards Paris, Camus fled. He was laid off from Paris-Soir and ended up in Lyon, where he married pianist and mathematician Francine Faure on 3 December 1940. Did Camus ever marry? He also had a brief, early and disastrous marriage in 1934 to a drug…
A few years later, he wrote to David: ’I should like to write a violin concerto for you next winter’. David was essential to the composition of the concerto, regularly giving Mendelssohn advice, particularly as the composer wasn’t a violinist himself! Mendelssohn played and composed for organ from the age…
In general, the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy was incredibly successful and achieved what it set out to. The Allied armies were able to force Axis naval, air and land divisions out of the area and allowed Allied merchant ships into the Mediterranean for the first time since 1941.In…
Jamie, a paralyzed former basketball player, gets recruited by friends Zack and Cody to play in a charity game with a wheelchair basketball team that’s visiting The Tipton. Who plays Randall in Suite Life of Zack and Cody? Nathan Kress As Jamie, “Back In The Game” Jamie, a paralyzed former…
Not only did Prohibition fail, over the long-run, to decrease the overall consumption of liquor, it also failed to decrease taxpayer burden, the prison population, and public corruption. As a matter of course, all of these things increased under the scope of the Eighteenth Amendmentthe Eighteenth AmendmentThe Eighteenth Amendment declared…
Fossils discovered in South Africa are the ’missing link’ in human evolution, study finds. A 9-year-old boy who tripped over a rock in South Africa led researchers to discover a “missing link” in human evolution, according to a new study. Does the missing link exist? missing link, hypothetical extinct creature…
During the period from Kublai Khan to the third Yuan emperor, the Yuan Dynasty was prosperous. During the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) of China, many scientific and technological advancements were made in areas such as mathematics, medicine, printing technology, and gunpowder warfare. From the late 1340s onward, people in the…
He became an Independent Puritan after undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of the time; an intensely religious man, Cromwell fervently believed in God guiding him to victory. Cromwell was a Puritan. Puritans were Protestants who wanted to purify…
Sinatra did not sing opera so the operatic categories of tenor, baritone, and bass (which happened to be more well defined parameters) cannot be applied. He was simply a baritone. According to music critic Henry Pleasants “The voice itself was a typical Italian light baritone with a two octave range…