He was also the MLB’s first official Rookie of the Year, and the first baseball player, black or white, to be on a US postage stamp. Jackie Robinson changed the world for many African American baseball players. Due to him, baseball players of any ethnicity have an equal chance of…
Kekionga was a fort and Miami settlement located in present day Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was also home to a trading post for European settlers in the region. Many Miami villages surrounded Kekionga, and its prime location for the Miami made it a target for frequent attacks from the French…
Kennedy worried that Soviet successes in space might convince the world that communism was better than capitalism. Sputnik-1 was an incredible technological achievement and its successful launch came as a shock to the United States. Americans were stunned that the US had not accomplished this scientific advancement first. Additionally, the…
AT&T has confirmed the upcoming third season of its Kingdom TV show will also be the final installment of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) series. A drama set in Navy St. MMA — a Venice, California family gym — Kingdom stars Nick Jonas, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker, Joanna…
Terms in this set (17) After WWII Korea was divided at the 38th parallel for purposes of military occupation. This line then solidified into a political frontier between American-supported Republic of Korea and the Soviet backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At the end of World War II, Korea was…
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a meticulous experimenter, revolutionized chemistry. He established the law of conservation of mass, determined that combustion and respiration are caused by chemical reactions with what he named “oxygen,” and helped systematize chemical nomenclature, among many other accomplishments. Why is Lavoisier famous? Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist known as…
Study of the classical languages and values moved Renaissance writers to incorporate the classical style into their own works and encouraged a more worldly view than that of Middle Age religious writings, so that writers and scholars began to look beyond the Church’s teachings and to take matters into their…
After the lukewarm response to Power Rangers Megaforce, Super Megaforce had to hit it out of the park. Badly. Megaforce had botched the 20th anniversary. Its episodes were filled not with development for its main cast but endless fights. Super Megaforce was supposed to be the greatest season of Power…
Mesopotamia, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (in modern day Iraq), is often referred to as the cradle of civilization because it is the first place where complex urban centers grew. Of all ancient societies, the Mesopotamian people of Sumer provide a compelling case as the first civilization…
It was also named Pukehaupapa and Pukeonaki by iwi who lived in the region in ancient times. Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont on 11 January 1770 after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, a former First Lord of the Admiralty who had supported the concept of an oceanic search…