Later life and legacy. He moved to England in 1847 after the death of his wife Mary Haley, with whom he had four sons and a daughter. In 1850 he was appointed a Military Knight of Windsor. James FitzGibbon (16 November 1780 – 10 December 1863) was an British soldier…
Terra is the most tragic out of all the Teen Titans villains. She initially starts off as a hero with powers that she struggles to control. But after a series of events, she is manipulated by Slade into becoming his apprentice, and she suddenly hates the Titans. This character nuance…
“A Million Little Pieces,” published in 2003, was James Frey’s first book. In it, he describes in graphic detail his harrowing experiences with addictions to drugs and alcohol, and his time at a treatment center when he was in his early 20s. What happened to the guy who wrote A…
Laius and Jocasta are told that their son Oedipus will grow up to murder his father and marry his mother. Hoping to prevent such horrible things from occurring, they give the baby to a shepherd, who they demand to kill the child out of sight. However, baby Oedipus is spared……
Gandolfini was born James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. on Sept. 18, 1961 in Westwood, New Jersey, to Italian American parents. His mother, Santa, was born in the United States but grew up in Naples; upon returning to the States, she was employed as a food service worker in a high school.…
A cappella (Italian for From the chapel/choir) music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style. A cappella music refers to vocal music, either solo or…
James Madison. In 1792, Madison and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) founded the Democratic-Republican Party, which has been called America’s first opposition political party. When Jefferson became the third U.S. president, Madison served as his secretary of state. In this role, he oversaw the Louisiana Purchase from the French in 1803. Madison…
ITT Technical Institute (often shortened to ITT Tech) was a for-profit technical institute. Founded in 1969 and with approximately 130 campuses in 38 states of the United States, ITT Tech was one of the largest for-profit educators in the US before it closed in 2016. While some students have received…
On March 16, 1751, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the Federalist Papers and fourth president of the United States, is born on a plantation in Virginia. Was James Madison the main author of the Constitution? James Madison is known as the Father…
He had started as a reasonable ruler, but his escalating paranoia and the deterioration of his mental health from 1558 onwards turned him into a monstrous tyrant who left death, destruction and economic ruin in his wake. Yes, Ivan the Terrible truly was as terrible as his nickname suggests. Ivan…