5.an event in the past, esp one that has been forgotten or reduced in importance:their quarrel was just history. 6.the past, background, previous experiences, etc, of a thing or person:the house had a strange history. 7.(Telecommunications)computinga stored list of the websites that a ...
Dark times need a dark hero! Release date:8 Oct. 2010 Platform:PlayStation®3,Xbox 360 For more details ©Konami Digital Entertainment Developed by Mercury Steam Entertainment PlayStation Store Castlevania Harmony of Despair The first multiplayer co-op action game in Castlevania history! Rele...
the sun had set and the sky was changing from dark blue to black. I was standing on the edge of a pond watching spring peepers hop into the water in search of mates. Many spring peepers were visible around the edge of the pond. As the spring peepers...
Even more impressive were the band of “shotgun messengers” who were employed to stop them, and sometimes, to follow their trail, recover the loot, and bring them to justice. One of the original Deadwood stagecoaches used in the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Shows. Pictured here at the ...
the new king Edward VI’s uncle, Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of England and Baron Seymour of Sudeley. This was said to be a love match and within months Kateryn found herself pregnant for what may have been the first time in her life. In the months before the birth, the queen ...
“new internet technology, like browsers for the web, makes all this easier.” as urgent as the situation seemed to the senators, however, such concerns over pornography and emerging technology were far from new. john tierney, a fellow at columbia university who studied the cultural impact of ...
The notion of the devil does not originate in the Bible, as many may think – In the Old Testament, Satan is just another one of God’s servants. It is in Iran that the religious teacher Zarathustra simplified things, ending up with only two – a God of the Good and a God of Evil...
World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (the worldwide computer network). The Web gives users access to a vast array of content that is connected by means of hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of
Originating in the White man's characterizations of plantation slaves and free blacks during the era of minstrel shows (1830-1890), the caricatures took such a firm hold on the American imagination that audiences expected any person with dark skin, no matter what their background, to conform to...
In England during the 17th and 18th centuries, the word "Gothick" was used to describe art that was "tasteless", "bizarre", or against the rules of academic art. Due to interest in the middle ages, the word lost its derogatory attachments and a stronger appreciation of the gothic styles...