Having the names of both of the spouses on the title is common. In those cases, there will be equal rights to the home. One of the spouses, or both, could stay in the home during the divorce. However, there may be cases where only one of the spouse’s names…
A reliever can also pick up the win if the starting pitcher pitches fewer than five innings in what would have been the starter’s win, and the official scorer deems that reliever to have been the “most effective” in preserving the win. No save is awarded. Show activity on this…
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. 1614 – Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the island now named for him. 1708 – First census taken; population 7,181.…
Iron Lord is an adventure video game developed by Orou Mama and Ivan Jacot for the Atari ST and published by Ubi Soft in 1989. It was ported to the Amiga, Acorn Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS. The Iron Lords is the third scenario of the…
Thirty families arrived on what is now known as Governor’s Island in New York Harbor in 1624 to set up the New Netherland colony and the Dutch established New Amsterdam on the lower tip of Manhattan the next year. Fewer are familiar with the Dutch colony of New Netherland. Henry…
In 1631, 11 years after the landing of the English pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first white settlement was made on Delaware soil. A group of Dutchmen formed a trading company headed by Captain David Pietersen de Vries for the purpose of enriching themselves from the New World. The colony…
Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by a group of Mormon pioneers. (Mormons are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) The pioneers, led by Brigham Young, were the first non-Indians to settle permanently in the Salt Lake Valley. The History of Utah is…
Today our hearts are deeply saddened to learn about the sudden death of Dr. Brandon Rogers in a car accident. Well, according to the fourth member of Boyz II Men, he left the group due to complications with multiple sclerosis, a condition he had hidden from his band members for…
Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948, President TrumanPresident TrumanAddressing a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a policy, aptly characterized as…
Vincent D’Onofrio holds the record for the most weight gained by an actor for a movie role, after he gained 70lbs to play Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket. Plenty of actors have undergone extreme workouts and diets to pack on the pounds and muscle for their roles…