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Kim Phuc was 9 years old when she and fellow villager were napalmed accidentally by a South Vietnamese plane. In the famous picture, Kim Phuc and a group of children are running, fleeing their village. Phuc is naked, screaming because napalm is burning her body. Upon realizing how hurt ...
because the play’s premise is intriguing. As Robert K. Massie related in his book “Nicholas and Alexandra,” Jim Hercules served as an attendant to the imperial family in the years before the
This Roman policy was adopted in 19 AD, nine years before Jesus’ visit to Nain. The distinguished Roman Senator Tacitus [56-117 AD] echoes the prevailing Roman sentiment of his day when he calls the deaths of four thousand Jewish men “a cheap sacrifice.” In the same way, he judges t...
Alexander the Great was born in Macedonia, in 356B.C.E. His father was King Philip, when his father was assassinated he took over the throne at 20 years old. There has been a debate on whether Alexander was still great or not. Alexander was not great for these reasons, his ruthlessnes...
on Faces' final album from 1973 and sung by Ronnie Wood, the song was co-written by Wood and Ronnie Lane, who died while Stewart was preppingWhen We Were the New Boys. Stewart's '90s were more inspired than his '80s; his last album of the decade was opening doors for more ...
, how old were they when they came here? Did they ever get to see their parents again? I kept a notebook of answers to these questions, now long since lost, but it remains indelibly inscribed on my heart. This was right around the time that the internet was really experiencing ...
The purpose of the falsifiers–and of Alexander too, their instigator–was to magnifyin the army’smindsAlexander’ssuccessfulcrossing of the mountainrange, by con-veying the impression that Alexander superseded even Hercules, giventhat hereached beyond the places visited by thegod.⁴³To ...
the hidden passageway was the ideal location for some good old cloak-and-dagger intrigue: it’s thought that this dimly lit corridor (or an adjacent one) was where the mad emperor Caligula met his sticky end, his doomed attempt to flee his assassins terminating in a hail of dagger blows ...
these comics were just supposed to be about the old Cap and Bucky, but when Captain America rejoined the Marvel Universe for good inThe Avengers#4,these stories no longer made sense in continuity. (Since Cap was supposedly frozen in ice since the 1940s, he couldn’t have been off having...