So I don’t know. I’m glad that we’ve evolved, but that we’ve also stayed in a world that was working from the beginning.” In season four, Annie finally got together with her handler and friend, Auggie (Christopher Gorham). Spoiler alert: The Covert Affairs season 5 finale, “Gold Soundz,” brought about…
One Greek story that is attached to Canopus has to do with the Trojan War hero Menelaus, who visited Egypt and “discovered” the bright star, which he then named after the ship’s navigator Canopus. The story feels as though it might have a kernel of history in it. The Chinese…
Part of the draw of Twilight was the divide between Team Edward and Team Jacob. The love triangle spawned intense debates among passionate fans. While a lot of fans favored Edward, who Bella inevitably chose in the end, Jacob had his fair share of supporters as well. After a brief…
Isaac Newton Kneller Painting. Far more than just discovering the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion, and contributing to calculus. Who really discovered the law of gravity? They say the apple doesn’t…
1984: Big Brother | SparkNotes Big Brother is the supreme ruler of Oceania, the leader of the Party, an accomplished war hero, a master inventor and philosopher, and the original instigator of the revolution that brought the Party to power. The Party uses the image of Big Brother to instill…
The discovery of the Missouri River by white men is thought to have been in June 1673, when French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques MarquetteFather Jacques MarquetteJacques Marquette S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary…
Cassius hates Caesar because he is jealous of Caesar’s power and he believes that Caesar is a weak man and, therefore, undeserving of the power and admiration he has been given by the Roman citizens. Cassius is the instigator of the conspiracy against Caesar. Cassius served beside Caesar in many…
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in 1906. Who Discovered The Northwest Passage? 1 The Earliest Explorers. John Cabot led the 1497 discovery of the coast of North America. … 2 Henry Hudson. The third explorer to search for the Northwest Passage was…
Corporate income tax is imposed at the federal level on all entities treated as corporations (see Entity classification below), and by 47 states and the District of Columbia. Certain localities also impose corporate income tax. Most jurisdictions tax corporations on their income, like the United Kingdom or the United States.…
The term “Palaeolithic” was coined by archaeologist John Lubbock in 1865. It derives from Greek: παλαιός, palaios, “old”; and λίθος, lithos, “stone”, meaning “old age of the stone” or “Old Stone Age”. Paleolithic Period, ancient cultural stage of human development characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools that…