James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, 79 days later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months…
Janis Joplin never married and left no children. Her heroin addiction led to her eventual death in 1970 at the age of 27. Who was Janis Joplin romantically involved with? In a new memoir, “I Ran Into Some Trouble,” Janis Joplin’s lover Peggy Caserta recounts her experiences hanging out on…
The Bear Scene of Revenant (2015 film) is a heart-wrenching scene that features Hugh Glass (Tom Hardy) being brutally attacked by a grizzly bear. The attack happens while Glass is on a hunting expedition with his son, John Fitzgerald (Michael Fassbender). Meet Glenn Ennis, a.k.a. the bear from ‘The Revenant’.…
Upon learning that Armistead remained enslaved, Lafayette wrote a letter to Congress on his behalf. Armistead received his manumission in 1787. Living off his annual pension fee, Armistead moved to his own 40-acre farm in Virginia, where he married, raised a family, and lived out the rest of his life…
Joplin’s many biographers have noted that the singer was not stoned on pot or tripping on LSD like many in the crowd at the festival. Instead, she was shooting heroin and drinking heavily during the 10-hour wait before she took the stage. She died of an overdose about a year…
Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep? Now that the bird is left, the speaker’s not sure if he ever entered its world at all. He thinks that maybe the experience was just a “waking dream” and not really true. an…
See also James Bond film locations which lists the settings of the films, rather than the actual shooting locations. Pinewood Studios, – Almost all the films except for Licence to Kill. “Goldfinger” (1964) The classic 007 film starring Sean Connery as James Bond is set mainly in England and Switzerland,…
They told Samson: “Just as their vineyards are planted with kilayim, their daughters, too, are the result of intermingling,” thinking that in this manner they would convince him not to marry a Philistine woman. In Judges 14:4 it says, in effect, that God somehow brought about Samson’s marriage to the…
Had James Brown really been born dead? Yes. According to the autobiography James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, the Get On Up true story confirms that James Brown was stillborn or at least appeared stillborn. His Aunt Minnie breathed into his lungs to help give him oxygen until he began…
(Library of Congress) JAMESTOWN, Va. — The powerful American Indian chief, known as Powhatan, had refused the English settlers’ demands to return stolen guns and swords at Jamestown, Va., so the English retaliated. They killed 15 of the Indian men, burned their houses and stole their corn. Those first group…