Joan died in 1305, allegedly in childbirth, but the bishop of Troyes, Guichard, was arrested in 1308 and accused of killing her with witchcraft. He was released in 1313. Did Queen Joan of France have an illegitimate child? The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal…
Our History. Between the years of 1837 and 1854, much of the land on which the Queen Victoria Market now stands was the site of Melbourne’s first official cemetery, which housed the remains of an estimated 10,000 early settlers, including those of John Batman. Melbourne founder John Batman was among…
Quincy Jones. Written By: Alternative Titles: Q, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. Quincy Jones, in full Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., byname “Q”, (born March 14, 1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. Early life. Quincy Delight Jones Jr.…
Pompeii is one of the most popular and largest archaeological tourist spots in the entire world. But once, it was a lost city, hidden from the world in a natural time capsule. The once thriving Roman city met its tragic end after Mount Vesuvius ’ erupted in 79 BC. Pompeii,…
Quine, however, famously casts doubt on analytic-synthetic distinction, and rejects the use made of it by the Logical Empiricists and other philosophers from the 1930s on. (Notable among the others is C. I. Lewis, first a teacher and then a colleague of Quine; his influence on Quine has perhaps been…
Although Porgy and Bess was written as an opera, its Broadway version has been equally well-received. Musical theatre adaptations of Porgy and Bess have been on the London stages since the eighties. Both versions of the piece are packed full of recognisable hits like ’Summertime’ and ’It ain’t necessarily so’.…
This tense isused when referrring to something that began in the past and is still happening in the present . It has rained is in the present perfect tense and is used to refer to something that happened at some indefinite point in the past. “It has been raining” emphasizes…
n. 1. pres·ent (prĕz′ənt) Something presented; a gift. 2. pre·sent (prĭ-zĕnt′) The position of a rifle or other weapon when presented. [Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin presentāre, to show, from praesēns, praesent-, present participle of praeesse, to be in front of; see present 1 .] present…
Randall Claude Weaver (January 3, 1948 – May 11, 2022) was an American survivalist, former Iowa factory worker, and Green Beret who was a central participant in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff at his cabin near Naples, Idaho, that resulted in the deaths of his wife and son. Ruby Ridge…
Lou Henry Hoover died of a heart attack in New York City on January 7, 1944. When did Herbert Hoover get married? The son of a Quaker blacksmith in Iowa, Hoover was an orphan at the age of 9. He worked hard to get into Stanford University as a Geology…