In 1991, hikers in the Italian Alps discovered a body that would change history. The 5,000-year-old mummy was dubbed Otzi the Iceman, and scientists have been studying him ever since to learn more about his life and death. His body is remarkably well preserved, and researchers have been able to…
An object that falls from the sky is defined as a meteor. Meteorologists focus on “hydrometeors” such as rain, hail or snow, because they develop in our atmosphere. Astronomers, like the many who work at NASA, are those who are focused on meteors and all other happenings in the universe…
There were many different reasons that people supported imperialism. I have divided some of them into three categories: economic, ideological, and strategic. Economic: Many (but not all, Andrew Carnegie was anti-imperialist) business leaders demanded that the United States government acquire secure markets for their manufactured goods. The term imperialism was…
Locke said that the most important natural rights are “Life, Liberty, and Property”. There are two types of rights. Natural rights, according to American tradition, are those rights granted to human-kind by their Creator, or as Jefferson put it in the Declaration of Independence —essentially borrowing from John Locke ’s…
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson led partisan political factions or parties into the national elections of 1796. Development in the United States. Edmund Burke philosophically shaped what became the concept behind modern political parties in democratic states. Modern Political Parties. As revolutionary ideas spread in the late 18th and 19th…
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment16th amendmentIt was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on…
On June 8, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a message to the Congress, announced his intention to provide a program for Social Security. Subsequently, the President created by Executive Order the Committee on Economic Security, which was composed of five top cabinet-level officials. Who was the first president to…
Under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral, a Portuguese expedition was the first to bring spices from India to Europe by way of the Cape of Good Hope in 1501. Portugal went on to dominate the naval trading routes through much of the 16th century. There was rivalry. between the…
A group of late 19th-century19th-centuryThe 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 (MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki19th century – Wikipedia French writers, including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, who favored dreams, visions, and…
Blake Shelton has been the only coach for all seasons. Others along the way for the Emmy-winning reality TV show have been Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Cee-Lo Green, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Jonas, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Adam Levine, Shakira, Gwen Stefani, Usher and Pharrell Williams. The…