Then Iraq Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammed Aldouri shared the view that the invasion was a violation of international law and constituted a war of aggression, as did a number of American legal experts, including Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National…
Leif Erikson (also spelled Leif Eriksson, Old Norse Leifr Eiríksson), nicknamed Leif ‘the Lucky’, was a Norse Viking who is best known for arguably being the first European to have set foot on North American soil along with his crew c. 1000 CE. He was a true Viking from the…
Was Leatherface based on a real person? Leatherface was largely based on Gein, right down to the skin mask. Texas Chain Saw Massacre co-writer Kim Henkel, however, explained to Texas Monthly that Gein wasn’t alone in being a lurid muse. Leatherface, Sally Hardesty, and the gist of Texas Chainsaw Massacre…
According to estimates in Freeman’s records, about a third of the lobotomies were considered successful. One of those was performed on Ann Krubsack, who is now in her 70s. “Dr. Freeman helped me when the electric shock treatments, the medicine and the insulin shot treatments didn’t work,” she said. Today…
2. An author who has been for a lifetime engaged in elaborating a constructivist theory of knowledge is John Dewey (1859-1952). The Dewey’s theory states that constructivism can build individual and social knowledge and it is then the result of this study. Dewey emphasizes inquiry and the integration of real…
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Sedition Act in Abrams v. United States (1919), as applied to people urging curtailment of production of essential war material. Jeffersonian-Republicans countered that the Sedition Act violated the First Amendment because it stifled legitimate criticism of the government, shutting down freedom of speech and…
And it wasn’t necessary either. Militarily Japan was finished (as the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that August showed). Further blockade and urban destruction would have produced a surrender in August or September at the latest, without the need for the costly anticipated invasion or the atomic bomb. According to Truman…
John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, April 14, 1865. When deciding whether to kill Lincoln, was John Wilkes Booth a Union or Confederate, history often comes down to one question: Was he a Union or Confederate? There are many reasons that people are torn…
The series was gifted an anime back in April 2008, and the show ended in March 2009. Soul Eater collected a total of 51 episodes, and many fans were left wanting after the finale due to its hasty end. The reason Soul Eater lacks a second season is that there…
McClellan was better at organizing than fighting. He was highly intelligent, but couldn’t wage a successful campaign. He always had an excuse for not engaging the enemy: his men were outnumbered (actually, they were not); he needed more troops; and it wasn’t a good time or place or season for…