The history of Guam starts with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the CHamorus. The CHamorus then developed a “pre-contact” society, that was colonized by the Spanish in the 17th century. The present American rule of the island began with the 1898 Spanish–American War.…
In the 1920s, Americans flocked to Paris, where the cafes of Montparnasse served as the center of la vie de bohème for famous expats, from Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lesley M.M. Blume, author of the new Hemingway bio Everybody Behaves Badly, charts these legendary haunts. During their time…
Janis Joplin lived just a few doors down at 635 Ashbury Street, in the Haight, Ashbury area of San Francisco. Convicted killer Charles Manson once lived in this Page Street home in the 1960s. Before the darkness set in, the Hell’s Angels called 715 Ashbury St. home, right across the…
Jesus was passing through Jericho. There was a chief tax collector there named Zacchaeus, who was rich. Zacchaeus was a little man, and wanted to see Jesus, so he climbed a sycamore tree. Zacchaeus the Tax Collector 19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there…
Most poppies are found in the Northern Hemisphere, and several species of poppies are cultivated as garden ornamentals. The poppies grow wild across northern regions in rocky soils. Although rare in comparison to other poppies, their hardiness endears them to residents of these arctic zones, where few other plants thrive.…
French political philosopher Montesquieu was best known for The Spirit of Laws (1748), one of the great works in the history of political theory and of jurisprudence. Montesquieu published, in particular: Montesquieu is a founding father of political philosophy. He was able to describe the spirit of reason which characterizes…
Pseudomonas is a type of bacteriatype of bacteriaAntibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow. More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. each year.https://www.cdc.gov…
Section 8 vouchers are “portable”. So, once you receive a voucher, you can take it anywhere in the United States that has a public housing authority which can administer the voucher. You can literally receive a voucher in Mississippi and move to Hawaii with it. The vouchers cover a portion…
As described above, regional metamorphism occurs when rocks are buried deep in the crust. This is commonly associated with convergent plate boundaries and the formation of mountain ranges. Where does metamorphism usually occur? Contact metamorphism occurs typically around intrusive igneous rocks as a result of the temperature increase caused by…
In Central California, Bass Lake, Cherry Lake, Lake Don Pedro, Fallen Leaf Lake, Huntington Lake, Lake Camanche, Lake Tahoe, New Melones Lake, Pine Flat Lake, Pinecrest Lake, Shaver Lake and The Delta are some of the primary lakes with a notable salmon population. No major lakes in Southern California contain…