was the separation in ranks of the IRA. From the middle of 1920 to the summer of 1921, both IRA insurgency and British repression, in what is also known as the War of Independence, fashioned about 2,000 deaths in Ireland. The aftermath resulted in an election held in August 1923, which...
Before the beetle’s accidental introduction to the United States in the early 1900s, the Japanese beetle was found only on the islands of Japan, isolated by water and kept in check by its natural predators. In 1912, a law was passed that made it illegal to import plants rooted in soil....
Hetty Green was the only woman who was invited to attend that meeting during the height of the panic. Why? Her status on Wall Street certainly helped, but she also predicted the whole thing. Hetty’s predictive power An issue of The Literary Digest in 1916 det...
On 16 October 1846, dentist William Thomas Green Morton first publicly demonstrated the use of ether anaesthesia during the painless removal of tumour from the neck of Edward Gilbert Abbott in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The term anaesthesia is derived from the Greek word, which means...
A Message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1,500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter. The long lost message was discovered by Clint Buffington of Utah while he was vacationing. Buffington says he found a soda bottle...
and After Earth ten years ago? (Yeah, we did, and it was called Gigli.)We've decided to take a look at how this summer stacks up to a bygone era. Was 2003 a better year for movies? Or did we actually have it pretty good here in 2013 with Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and ...
The average waiting time in Status 1 for the 79 heart transplant recipients in 2022 was 1769 days [15]. In Japan, where the waiting period for heart transplantation is long, LVADs are particularly important as a bridge to transplantation. Recently, the use of LVADs as the main treatment ...
Baseball has been the most widely played sport since its entrance to North America over 175 years ago. It is also a sport that has almost been around for over 175 years. Baseball was desegregated in 1947, when a man named Jackie Robinson was announced as the starting first baseman for the...
He was my North, my South, my East and Westis more powerful than a simile, which only likens one thing to another. In its literal interpretation, the metaphor is false, but it establishes a new concept of which its subject is an instance—he was a person who bounded another’s life....
And yet, 100 years ago the Christmas pop recording, as we know it, didn’t really exist. The introduction of acoustic recording technology at the end of the 19th century was a major turning point in both the consumption and preservation of music, changing forever the way it was hea...