⚠️ M50 southbound ⚠️ There is a collision between J16 (Cherrywood) and the M11, blocking lane 2. Traffic was already heavy in the area. More than 4,100 accidents and incidents logged on the M50 since the beginning of last year – Independent.ie. There is no Junction 8, the junction number…
Karras wasn’t the only player suspended for the 1963 season. Paul Hornung, the 1961 NFL MVP, was also banned from the league for a year after then-commissioner Pete Rozelle revealed Hornung had bet “up to $500” on NFL games, per ESPN. Hornung was reinstated into the NFL along with Karras…
The reign of Louis XIV set the standard for monarchies and aristocracies in Europe for centuries to come. He was the ideal monarch: charismatic, effective both in his management of the aristocracy and in his management of the many different areas that go into the running of a country. Only…
Expansion abroad was good because it improved the United States’ economy. Expansion abroad was justified because the United States was able spread its democratic values overseas. The United States expansion abroad was bad because it was based on the economic exploitation of people and resources from other countries. In seventy…
Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775. The settlement they founded, known as Boonesborough, Kentucky, is Kentucky’s second oldest European-American settlement. Does Boonesborough exist? Boonesborough is an unincorporated community in Madison…
It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Are there any witches in The Crucible?…
He was a character that Michael Landon created for the series for a significant reason. “Albert was the result of a very personal tragedy for Michael and his family,” Melissa Gilbert explained. He was a character that Michael LandonMichael LandonMichael Landon and Lynn Noe eloped in 1963 Soon after their…
Gold existed elsewhere in the Black Hills, but it was not in a state suitable for free-milling. In these conditions, gold was chemically bound to the rock, and very difficult to remove. It was called refractory gold ore. For many years, the Homestake operated as the only major gold mine…
The idea of religious liberty meant different things to different groups of settlers. To the people of Massachusetts Bay, religious liberty included the ability to establish their own religious communities and exclude those who did not share their beliefs. Did the colony of Massachusetts have religious freedom? As a Puritan…
During Reconstruction, former slaves–and many small white farmers–became trapped in a new system of economic exploitation known as sharecropping. Lacking capital and land of their own, former slaves were forced to work for large landowners. How did sharecropping work during reconstruction? By the early 1870s, the system known as sharecropping…