Since the time of the Duncan brothers’ making of the rumor, people have tried to use it as a weapon but in all cases it has failed. The rumor still stands today and many people still believe but it in fact isn’t more than a child’s toy. It is rumored…
That last bit proves particularly interesting because an early bubble says that Katara and Zuko were originally meant to end up together. The bubble pops up in the episode “The Avatar Returns,” the second episode of the series when Zuko is still firmly an antagonist. Does Katara fall in love…
Were Egyptian tombs booby trapped? Well, no, not in the way we see in movies like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “The Mummy”. There were no giant rolling balls, pits of snakes, or flesh-eating bugs. The ancient Egyptian tomb builders went to great lengths to protect the mummy and…
The Western Front, a 400-plus mile stretch of land weaving through France and Belgium from the Swiss border to the North Sea, was the decisive front during the First World Warthe First World WarAt the outbreak of World War I, Germany’s empire in the southwestern Pacific Ocean consisted of the…
This threat led to the expulsion of the two athletes from the Games. However, contrary to a common misconception, the IOC did not force Smith and Carlos to return their medals. How many Olympic athletes have been stripped of their medals? Russian athletes involved in most doping cases in Olympic…
Their frequent pairing – always playing a couple – and on-screen chemistry, especially in their six popular Thin Man films, where they played husband and wife Nick and Nora Charles, led many fans to believe they were married in real life. However, they were only good friends. Though William Powell…
Indeed, the Thompson became so widely known in that era that it is commonly (but erroneously) believed to be the first submachine gun. The U.S. Army adopted the Thompson submachine gun in 1928. Both the U.S. and British armies used it in World War II, as at various times have…
Colonel William Prescott led the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. His grandson — and Samuel Prescott’s second cousin — was William Hickling Prescott, a historian, scholar, and botanist who named the poinsettia plant. Dr. Samuel Prescott was born August 19, 1751. He lived in colonial Concord, Massachusetts,…
He attended Harvard College on need-based aid; his roommate was future Vice President Al Gore. Who was Tommy Lee Jones roommates with? Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones both attended Harvard in the late ’60s. They got along so well they ended up living together for all four years. (One…
During World War I, trench warfare was a defensive military tactic used extensively by both sides, allowing soldiers some protection from enemy fire but also hindering troops from readily advancing and thus prolonging the war. Trench warfare was the major combat tactic in France and Belgium. By the end of…