By about 200 million years ago, this supercontinent began breaking up. Over millions of years, Pangaea separated into pieces that moved away from one another. These pieces slowly assumed their positions as the continent we recognize today. Yes, all continents were once connected, but on a smaller sphere. So there…
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To this day, the trawler, and its crew, have never been recovered. Updated by Gabriel Kirellos, January 8th, 2022: The Perfect Storm hit Gloucester, MA, when the Andrea Gail vessel was at sea looking for swordfish. The tragic incident was so horrible the crew never made it home. She also…
Cossacks were mainly East Slavs, especially Russian and Ukrainian people. In the 15th century, the term originally described semi-independent Tatar groups which lived on the Dniepr River, which flows through Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Are the Cossacks from Ukraine? Historical sources tell us that the Ukrainian Cossacks came from a…
As part of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy sent an attack group of submarines to surround Oahu and sink ships attempting to flee. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the…
The civil warThe civil warThe American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (states that remained loyal to the federal union, or “the North”) and the Confederacy (states that voted to secede,…
The segments of married couples telling the stories of how they met are real stories that director Rob Reiner collected for the film. Then they hired actors to relay the stories. Over the years, When Harry Met Sally. has become “the quintessential contemporary feel-good relationship movie that somehow still rings…
You may be surprised to find out that submarines were used during the Civil War. These submarines were very different from the modern nuclear powered versions we know about today. They were cramped and dangerous vehicles powered by the brave men inside using hand cranks. You may be surprised to…
The two lanterns were a predetermined signal stating that the British troops planned to row “by sea” across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than march “by land” out Boston Neck. Did the British soldiers come by land or sea? There were two routes that the British soldiers could take:…
The coureurs de bois maintained friendly retaliations with Native Americans and did not interfere with their lands, while other colonists, who farmed, waged war against Native Americans in order to seize their lands. The business of a coureur des bois required close contact with the indigenous peoples. Native peoples were…