Jacques Hébert, in full Jacques-René Hébert, pseudonym Père (“Father”) Duchesne, (born November 15, 1757, Alençon, France—died March 24, 1794, Paris), political journalist during the French Revolution who became the chief spokesman for the Parisian sansculottes (extreme radical revolutionaries). The Radical’s Arms, a British depiction of the sans culottes. The hallmark…
Sun King and Versailles. Paris. The French monarchy reached its peak under the 72 year long reign of Louis XIV, known as Sun King. The son of King Louis XIII and Queen Anne of Austria, the 4 years old king succeeded his father on the throne of France in 1643.…
Career. Dennis was known for playing Leo “Craterface” Balmudo, the Scorpions’ gang leader in Grease (1978), and reprised the role in Grease 2Grease 2Grease 2 is a 1982 American musical romantic comedy film and the sequel to the 1978 film Grease, which is based upon the 1971 musical of the…
On an early October morning in 1909, President William Howard Taft became the first President to walk into the Oval Office. The Taft Oval served President William Howard Taft through President Franklin Roosevelt, but suffered a major fire in 1929, and was demolished in 1933. President Franklin Roosevelt built the…
Whitley was a prominent landowner already, having already started a number of towns in the west, and today he has become known as the ‘Father of Hollywood.’ Later on, in 1887, Harvey H. Wilcox officially established the name ‘Hollywood’ when he recorded it on the land’s deed. Hollywood © Shinya…
Plato’s most famous student, Aristotle, was the first to develop a complete theory of rhetoric. In his lecture notes (known to us as the Rhetoric), Aristotle developed principles of argumentation that remain extremely influential today. According to the Sophists, such as Gorgias, a successful rhetorician could speak convincingly on any…
Hot Wheels was born when Mattel co-founder Elliot Handler (shown left, with wife and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler) challenged his design team, which included a General Motors car designer and a rocket scientist to create a toy car that was cooler and performed better than anything on the market. The…
Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch in English) has been identified as the first humanist, since Georg Voigt called Petrarch “the father of Humanism” in 1859 (see Voigt 1960 in Origins of Humanism). It is not to be confused with the broader human-centered philosophy, Humanism. Frontispiece depicting Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio with…
Religious anthropology suggests that every religion is a product of the cultural evolution, more or less coherent, of one race or people; and this cultural product is further enriched by its interaction and cross-fertilization with other peoples and their cultures, in whose vicinity the former originated and evolved. In the…
Perhaps the most notorious female actor of the Restoration was Nell Gwynn, a member of Killigrew’s company, who also became the mistress of Charles II. Barry was a successful comedienne who created a variety of Restoration comedy heroines throughout her career, but her greatest impact on Restoration drama was as…