slightly less than, slightly earlier than, or a short distance from something. They scored just shy of 100 goals last year. I called him only two minutes shy of midnight. Synonyms and related words. Not enough. shy of (something) (redirected from shy of) shy of (something) Slightly less than some…
Most versions of the Passover story depict Pharaoh as an archetypal villain, an arrogant tyrant who gets his just deserts for challenging God and stubbornly refusing to let the Hebrew people leave Egypt. Indeed, there is no denying that the Pharaoh of the ExodusPharaoh of the Exodus1279–1213 BC): Ramesses II,…
The first answer is simple: hereditary rule. For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they were born in the right family. For every great leader, such as Augustus, there was a tyrant like Caligula. Because it wasn’t…
Just four days later, on January 16, 1865, Sherman issued his Special Field Order 15, which commanded that 400,000 acres of property confiscated from Confederate landowners be redistributed to Black families in 40 acre plots. By June, the land had been allocated to 40,000 of a total of 4 million…
Shortly afterwards Hill (no relation to his rival Graham Hill) began racing in F1 for Ferrari. Betty Hill, Damon’s mother, arranged for young Damon to get away from it all by staying with Phil Hill, who was a family friend. Graham Hill’s family did not therefor benefit from much of…
Another element in the Roman state religion was what is generally referred to as the imperial cult. This cult regarded emperors and members of their families as gods. On his death, Julius Caesar was officially recognised as a god, the Divine (’Divus’) Julius, by the Roman state. Commodus. Commodus was…
White southerners brought black slaves into the California mines as early as the summer of 1849. Slave owners and slaves came primarily from western U.S. states — Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas. Among them were Stephen Spencer Hill and Wood Tucker, who mined near Columbia. What did slaves do in the…
The term carpetbaggercarpetbaggerIn the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.https://en.wikipedia.org…
Mariana of Austria (Spanish: Mariana de Austria) or Maria Anna (24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696) was Queen of Spain as the second wife of her uncle Philip IV of Spain from their marriage in 1649 until Philip died in 1665. On 7 October 1649, the 44-year-old Philip married…
Most of gladiators were slaves or ex-slaves, but some were free men who fought as a job, with a proper contract, led by a proper manager. They were considered in the same way as prostitutes and actors and basically as any kind of outcasts. They were often referred to as…