There, she met her future husband, publicist Claude Wolff, to whom she was attracted immediately, and when she was told that he would work with her if she recorded in French, she agreed. They have two daughters and a son. Petula Clark marrying Claude Wolff at their wedding eception in…
A lifelong vegetarian and pacifist, Pi hesitates and then cries when he finally breaks the fish’s neck with his hands. Later, Pi manages to land a three-foot-long dorado, which he kills and feeds to Richard Parker. He has come to terms with the necessity of killing his food to stay…
Inspiration for the poem is often granted to Marie Louise Shew, a woman who had helped care for Poe’s wife Virginia as she lay dying. One day, as Shew was visiting Poe at his cottage in Fordham, New York, Poe needed to write a poem but had no inspiration. The…
Although he supposedly is the next in line to receive power to the throne, Eteocles takes over and banishes Polyneices from Thebes. Polyneices then gathers and army and attacks his brother. He ends up killing his brother, and being killed by his brother in battle. When his father, Oedipus, was…
In another allegory, Cupid’s mother, Venus (Aphrodite), became so jealous of the beautiful mortal Psyche that she told her son to induce Psyche to fall in love with a monster. Instead, Cupid became so enamored with Psyche that he married her—with the condition that she could never see his face.…
Before Pattinson and Stewart secured the roles, Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer wanted Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning and, future Superman himself, Henry Cavill to play Bella and Edward respectively in the movie adaptations of Twilight. Back in 2018, for the 10th anniversary, BuzzFeed resurfaced an old post on Stephenie Meyer’s website…
2005: In a trade that alters two franchises, the Boston Bruins send their captain, center Joe Thornton, to the San Jose Sharks for forwards Marco Sturm and Wayne Primeau, and defenseman Brad Stuart. Let’s take a look at when the Boston Bruins traded their then captain, Joe Thornton, to the…
Tim Jacobus (/dʒəˈkoʊbəs/; born April 21, 1959) is an American artist best known for illustrating the covers for nearly 100 books in R. L. StineR. L. StineEarly life Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Lewis Stine, a shipping clerk, and Anne Feinstein. He…
The French and Indian War was fought to decide if Britain or France would be the strong power in North America. France and its colonists and Indian allies fought against Britain, its colonists and Indian allies. The war began with conflicts about land. on Who Fought in the French and…
In the case of British soldiers, the Declaration of Independence plainly accuses King George III of ’’protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States’’ and keeping ’’large bodies of armed troops among us… The audience might consider…