But there were notable successes as well. Operation Torch marked the largest American campaign to date in the Atlantic theater, and the first major operation carried out jointly and combined by the United States and the United Kingdom during World War II. – Admiral Francois Darlan – General Alphonse Juin…
Such ambiguities are reflected not only in Nietzsche’s life, but also in his terminal illness and death. Following a psychotic breakdown in 1889, at the age of 44 years, he was admitted to the Basel mental asylum and on 18 January 1889 was transferred to the Jena mental asylum. He…
The obituary will say that the deceased is survived by a list of relatives. The obituary will also say that the deceased was ’preceded in death’ by certain people. “Preceded in death” refers to those relatives who died before the deceased. The state referenced (the state of being preceded in…
Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence. British influence in the region began with the prohibition of slave trade to British subjects in 1807. Colonial Nigeria. British influence in the region began with the prohibition of slave trade to…
Therefore “were” is the correct format, and the correct phrase is “a total of … were.” Here are some examples that show the proper use of the phrase “a total of… were” in a sentence. Although this is not a strict rule (it may not apply to all cases), someone…
She spied for Britain during World War II and was eventually caught and killed by the Nazis, but Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Tipu Sultan – an 18th-century Muslim ruler of Mysore state – remained in near anonymity for decades. Her contribution to the war came to light after…
The use of was and were in the 2nd conditional. We have already learned that the second conditional form is used to talk about unreal or imaginary situations. Here we use a simple past tense in the if-clause and would + infinitive in the main clause. In the second conditional,…
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United Statesthe United StatesThe Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North…
tugenensis femur differs from those of apes and Homo and most strongly resembles those of Australopithecus and Paranthropus, indicating that O. tugenensis was bipedal but is not more closely related to Homo than to Australopithecus. Bipedalism in Orrorin tugenensis revealed by its femora La bipédie d’Orrorin tugenensis révélée par le…
Roslyn is where the exteriors were filmed for the quirky 1990s TV series Northern Exposure, set in fictional Cicely, Alaska. The concurrent use of nearby towns North Bend and Snoqualmie by the even-more-quirky series Twin Peaks created a brief Golden Age of television weirdness for municipalities in Washington State (the…