Atrox Factory is located in Leeds, Alabama and has been voted as one of the top 10 haunts in the U.S. Covering approximately 50,000 square feet, it’s also the Southeast’s largest indoor haunted attraction. Since its beginning in 2002, numerous people have driven from near and far to experience this…
The occupying Japanese in 1937 imposed the name Peking (Beijing), then with their surrender in 1945, the Nationalist Government restored “Beiping”. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the government adopted the pinyin transliteration method and used this to write many of the proper names (including…
The Theory of Moral Sentiments of Adam Smith. In 1759 Smith published his first work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Didactic, exhortative, and analytic by turns, it lays the psychological foundation on which The Wealth of Nations was later to be built. The most important contribution of Smith to the…
The first known use of awesome was in 1578. awesome (adj.) 1590s, “profoundly reverential,” from awe (n.) + -some (1). Meaning “inspiring awe or dread” is from 1670s; weakened colloquial sense of “impressive, very good” is recorded by 1961 and was in vogue from after c. 1980. When did this…
Led by Deng XiaopingDeng XiaopingIn the view of Deng, the task faced by the leadership of China was twofold: (i) promoting modernization of the Chinese economy, and (ii) preserving the ideological unity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its control of the difficult reforms required by modernization.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki…
He was the principal owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) for 39 years, from 1972 until his death in 2011. Al Davis first came to the Raiders in January 1963, dedicated to rescuing the faltering Oakland franchise and building the finest organization…
In 1997, Bangladesh became a regular ICC member with the right to play ODIs. It attained the status of a Test playing country on 26 June 2000. Bangladesh hold the record for most consecutive losses in Tests (21 between 1999 and 2002) and ODIs (23 between 2001 and 2004). However,…
Around 336 CE, the date December 25 appears to have become established as the day of Jesus’s birth, and the tradition of gift-giving was tied to the story of the Biblical Magi giving gifts to baby Jesus; together with another story, that of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century Christian bishop and…
Leon Battista Alberti, (born Feb. 14, 1404, Genoa—died April 25, 1472, Rome), Italian humanist, architect, and principal initiator of Renaissance art theory. In his personality, works, and breadth of learning, he is considered the prototype of the Renaissance “universal man.” ### When did Alberti live? Alberti famously wrote the treatise…
On November 2, 2010, the show Barney & Friends was officially cancelled for good and gave a sign that the purple dinosaur was soon going to die. On November 2, 2010, Barney the Dinosaur experienced his final moments on Earth with his final words ever spoken. Barney the Dinosaur (also…