The oldest age recorded for a cow was 48 years and 9 months for Big Bertha (1944–93), a Dremon owned by Jerome O’Leary of Blackwatersbridge, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland. Big Bertha held two Guinness World Records: she was the oldest cow recorded, dying just three months short of her…
Like the states today, each colony was run by a government headed by a governor and a legislature. The thirteen colonies were under a legislature, the British Parliament, [similar to the present Congress] and a King whose powers were not that different from those granted the American President. In every…
With over 23 years in office, Jyoti Basu of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is India’s second longest-serving chief minister. 3- Prafulla Chandra Ghosh is the shortest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal. 4- Mamta Banerjee is the first and only female Chief Minister of West Bengal. This was the…
Michael Knight is a hero and yet he cannot stop weeping. Ten years ago he used a boat to rescue dozens of people from the flood waters of Katrina; today he is unable to shake off the weight of what he saw and the memory of those he failed to…
The Time Machine, a 2002 remake directed by Simon Wells and an uncredited Gore Verbinski, and starring Guy Pearce in the Taylor role. Time After Time, a 1979 science-fiction film in which H. G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) travels to modern-day San Francisco in his time machine in pursuit…
Crowned as Emperor Charles V, the new Holy Roman emperor sought to unite the many kingdoms under his rule in the hope of creating a vast, universal empire. The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, “Emperor of the Romans”) was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800/962-1806 AD, from…
Specifically the painters of the era with Picasso and Dali leading the way along with Henri Matisse, George Brack, Juan Miro, Franz Marc, and Amedeo Modigliani who are all mentioned and take part in the film. The movie continues as the main character Gil meets Picasso’s mistress Adriana. The Man…
Theseus, the king of Athens. The semi-mythical, semi-historical Theseus was the great hero of ancient Athens. The numerous heroic deeds ascribed to him were seen by the ancient Athenians as the acts that led to the birth of democracy in the Attic city-state, the cradle of Greek democracy. Zeus. Zeus…
Nast, whose cartoons attacking Tammany corruption had appeared occasionally since 1867, intensified his focus on the four principal players in 1870 and especially in 1871. Cartoons Against Corruption is a cartoon-based campaign mounted by the political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to support the anti-corruption movement in India, which is best known…
When Eurytheus died in battle, Atreus became king of Mycenae. Mycenae is perhaps best known in mythology as the city of Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. King Agamemnon led the expedition against Troy during the Trojan War, which Homer accounted in his epic poem the Iliad. The Perseid dynasty ruled…