1900s. Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, along with several Inuits, were the first people to finally reach the North Pole. They arrived on April 6, 1909, by traversing across the sea ice on dog sleds. These are a few of history’s most famous Arctic explorers. Sir James Clark isn’t…
1- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 –1948) 2- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –1962) 3- César Chávez (1927–1993) 4- Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 5- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 –1968) 6- Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) 7- Oscar Arias Sánchez (b. 1940) 8- Muhammad Yunus (b. 1940) Marina Ginesta. This 1936 photograph of Marina Ginesta,a…
However, sheriffs are considered to be a higher authority than the police. Sheriffs are responsible for an entire county, whereas a police officer has control over a designated area or part of a town in a county or state. Both, Sheriff and Police, are government officers who maintain the law…
Presided over by judges including Hathorne, Samuel Sewall and William Stoughton, the court handed down its first conviction, against Bridget Bishop, on June 2; she was hanged eight days later on what would become known as Gallows Hill in Salem Town. What were the causes and effects of the Salem…
The Cyrillic alphabet was created by St. Cyril and his brother St. Methodius, who were Byzantine missionaries and were sent to convert the Slavs to Christianity. The original alphabet was known as Glagolitic from which modern day Cyrillic evolved. As a response to Patriarch John the Faster, Pope St. Gregory…
The people who perform the other four management functions are designated as the General Staff. The General Staff is made up of four sections: Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration. ICS employs private investigators across the United States and internationally, and many of our investigators have previously served as: military intelligence.…
Former Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson has won eleven NBA championships, the most in NBA history. By winning the 2019-2020 NBA Championship, the Los Angeles Lakers joined the Boston Celtics as the only two teams with 17 titles. It was the 32nd trip to the…
China is now the largest non-traditional contributor of aid to sub-Saharan African countries. In the 1960s Africa provided China with an opportunity to increase its political and diplomatic reach. In 2012, the United States provided nearly $12 billion in official development assistance (“ODA”) to African nations. The ODA is allocated…
Article 1, § 8, clause 4, of the United States Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to establish a “uniform Rule of Naturalization.” By expressly allocating this power to Congress, the Constitution prevents the confusion that would result if individual states could bestow citizenship. Congress’s power over naturalization is an…
Crosby finished the season with 39 goals and 63 assists for 102 points in 81 games. He reached the 100-point mark on Monday night at the age of 18 years, 253 days, eclipsing the previous mark set by another Hall of Famer, Dale Hawerwhuck. The player with the most 100…