Knotts served in the U.S. Army from June 21, 1943, to January 6, 1946, in the Army’s 6817th Special Services Battalion. He was discharged at the rank of Technician Grade 5, which was the equivalent then of a corporal. An urban legend claims that Knotts served in the United States…
“Street names like Cass, Hewitt and Schoolcraft come to life in the colorful stories of their antecedents, and it’s both unsettling and oddly comforting to see just how little Detroit politics have changed in the last 170 years. Spoiler alert: Michigan didn’t get Toledo. If it weren’t for one decision,…
Was Poland in The Warsaw Pact? What did it sign up for? This article aims to answer this question and many more. In particular, we’ll examine why the Warsaw Pact was important in World War II. After all, the Soviet Union and the United States were the dominant powers of…
As an empiricist, Aquinas was fundamentally opposed to the Platonic philosophical approach (the approach which begins with a transcendent reality), mainly because of the blatant dualism (separation of the transcendent and the real) of Plato’s philosophy. As an empiricist, Aquinas was fundamentally opposed to the Platonic philosophical approach (the approach…
The four comics were instead released as a graphic novel adaptation in October 2009. Legendary Comics set the second Trick ‘r Treat comic book, titled Trick ‘r Treat: Days of the Dead, for an October 2015 release date, and features Arts of Artist Fiona Staples and Stephen Byrne. The first…
CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE of Socrates our earliest and best sources, Plato and Xenophon, tell a single tale. His wife was Xanthippe, who was the mother of his children, Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. In the ancient Greek world, Socrates was married with children but never got round to writing anything down.…
In January of 1993, André returned to Paris to attend his father’s funeral. He later died of heart failure in a hotel room. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered at his ranch in Ellerbe, North Carolina. His ashes weighed 17 pounds and were spread by Andre’s friend,…
The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O’Brien. The production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s. Rocky Horror is a performance, a subculture,…
The spoils system opened government positions to many of Jackson’s supporters, but the practice was neither as new nor as democratic as it appeared. Andrew Jackson introduced the spoils system after winning the 1828 presidential election. In the spoils system, the president appoints civil servants to government jobs specifically because…
Writers have published long accounts of Morgan Boone’s fabled father, Daniel Boone (1734-1820), and of Morgan’s younger brother, Nathan (1781-1856). Sometime after the war, he purchased a farm between Winchester and Battletown. By 1774, he was so prosperous that he owned ten slaves. That year, he served in Dunmore’s War,…