French tanks were not so much technologically superior to german tanks, they were just designed for a different idea of tank combat. The French tanks such as the B1 were designed to work as individual fighting forces and therefore designed to withstand greater amounts of fire. At the start of…
: spending and owing more money than is being earned Apparently the company had been in the red for some time before it went out of business. in the red COMMON If a person or organization is in the red, they owe money to someone or to another organization. Banks…
When his son, Edwin Binney (1866-1934), finished his schooling in 1883, he joined his father’s company. One of Joseph’s nephews, C. Harold Smith (1860-1931) also joined the company around that time. In 1885, Joseph Binney retired. Edwin Binney (1866-1934), born in Shrub Oak, New York, and C. Harold Smith (1860-1931),…
10cc are an English rock band, formed in Stockport, England, in 1972. The group initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together since 1968. The group featured two songwriting teams. Godley and Creme achieved their greatest…
After the 1930s, the movement took on a strong socialist orientation. It culminated in the Indian Independence Act 1947, which ended suzerainty in India and created Pakistan. India remained a Crown Dominion until 26 January 1950, when the Constitution of India established the Republic of India. What was the Indian…
William was related to King Edward the Confessor of England (reigned 1042–1066). Edward’s mother, Emma, was William’s great-aunt, and Edward had lived in exile in Normandy following the death of his father, King Æthelred the Unready (reigned 978–1016). Edward the Confessor’s grandfather, Richard, the Count of Normandy, was also the…
Sylvester Graham hated sex. The puritanical 19th-century minister preached that “carnal desire” caused headaches, epilepsy and even insanity. To stop his followers from getting frisky, he invented a bland, biscuit-like cracker to “cure” masturbation and quell sexual urges in 1829. Well, the unsifted, unbleached flour that Graham proselytized made from…
Elephants were a key part of the Carthaginian forces throughout the Punic Wars. Most of the elephants that were used by Carthage were Loxodana cyclotis, sometimes called African Forest Elephants, and were slightly smaller than African Elephants that inhabit savannahs today. A final charge of Epirot elephants won the day…
The Roman Empire was a primarily polytheistic civilization, which meant that people recognized and worshiped multiple gods and goddesses. Despite the presence of monotheistic religions within the empire, such as Judaism and early Christianity, Romans honored multiple deities. Was Greece and Rome monotheistic or polytheistic? Greek and Roman religion was…
skink, (family Scincidae), any of about 1,275 species of lizards, mostly secretive ground dwellers or burrowers, that are represented throughout most of the world but are especially diverse in Southeast Asia and its associated islands, the deserts of Australia, and the temperate regions of North America. Insects. Skinks love to…