The Union force in the Battle of the Wilderness was the Army of the Potomac and a separate IX Corps. The Army of the Potomac was commanded by Major General George G. Meade, and Major General Ambrose E. Burnside was commander of the IX Corps. The Battle of the Wilderness…
On October 11, 1975, Saturday Night Live (SNL), a topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John BelushiJohn BelushiJohn Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known for being one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch…
Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay, rotting, and death. The gnostics believe that the evil creator…
The current owner is Stan Kroenke. Born and raised in Missouri, he went into the real estate business. In his early thirties, he married Ann Walton, daughter of Walmart co-founder James Walton, brother of Sam Walton. Not coincidentally, that’s when his real estate business took off. Who owned the Rams?…
Gnostics claimed that their teachings came directly from Jesus. In those scenes in the gospels when Jesus takes the disciples aside to better inform them, he also taught secret things that were passed down to them. The Gnostics saw Jesus as a messenger bringing the special knowledge of salvation to…
1- Samuel Brannan. Samuel Brannan (1819-1889) was a Mormon elder who came to San Francisco in 1846 in hopes of building a new Mormon settlement there. … 2- Leland Stanford. … 3- Levi Strauss. … 4- John Sutter. … 5- Mark Twain. Most were Americans, though a number of settlers…
1- Elves. … 2- Huldra. … 3- Fenrir. … 4- The Kraken. … 5- The Mare. … 6- Jormungandr. … 7- Audumbla. … 8- Nidhoggr. Wessex strikes. Given everything they’d learned in previous campaigns – when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms took weeks to assemble their forces – Halfdan and Bagsecg could…
The rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers-turned farmers who opposed state economic policies causing poverty and property foreclosures. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a farmer and former soldier who fought at Bunker Hill and was one of several leaders of the insurrection. The fight took place mostly in…
Biblical scholars use the term Hebrews to designate the descendants of the patriarchs of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)—i.e., Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (also called Israel [Genesis 33:28])—from that period until their conquest of Canaan (Palestine) in the late 2nd millennium bce. Ancient Jewish History: Who Were the Hebrews? According…
The Renaissance Man, also known as a polymath, is named after Leonardo daVinciLeonardo daVinciLeonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian man who lived in the time of the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings, but he was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor,…