Daily life in the late 1800s Cities grow and change The industrial city Before the industrial revolution most cities existed to serve as trade, political, military or religious functions. In the industrial age factories required raw materials coming in, goods going out and being sold in the mark...
An article about "Life in the 1500s" was nothing more than an extended joke, someone's idea of an amusing leg-pull which began its Internet life in April 1999. All of the historical and linguistic facts it purported to offer were simply made up and contrary to documented facts: Anne Hat...
The St. John the Baptist Pro-Life League was fortunate to host Mark Fisher for a talk concerning the great tragedy of abortion and the many similarities that St. Joan of Arc’s fight to liberate France in the 15th-century shares with our fight to save the lives of the unborn in the pr...
Key Facts & Information EARLY LIFE Sarah Baartman was born around 1789 in South Africa In the area of Gamtoos River, which is now known as the Eastern Cape. Her African name was unknown, and she was given the name Sarah after being sold into slavery. Baartman and her family were members...
Life Expectancy at Birth in African Countries: The Role of HIV/AIDS The HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) epidemic has, thus far, hit hardest in parts of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which contains approximately 70 percent of the world's populatio...
In the 1800s, the owner of a chocolate factory in England discovered that sugar removed the bitter taste of cacao. It quickly became a cheap and popular drink. Soon afterwards, a factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. Later on, another factory mixed milk and chocolate ...
The present Rapa Nui speech shows evident influence from the Spanish language. As fewer children acquire Rapa Nui language skills in their early years, their proficiency in Spanish impacts their passive understanding of Rapa Nui. SYMBOLIC SCRIPT Rongorongo, a set of symbols found in the 1800s,...
Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine. Mortality reduction was observed initially at an early age and co
Lunch for ten guests at Princess Mathilde’s (1854) When her cousin Louis-Napoleon finally succeeded in his regime-reversing hobby and became Napoleon III, Mathilde found herself in an interesting position. She was now cousin to the Emperor, former fiancée to the same, and a princess in her...
Iran's stance on LGBTQ rights is horrific. Being gay in Iran is not only illegal, but it also carries with it a death sentence. What shocked us the most is this is so enthusiastically enforced by the Iranian government in such a sadistic manner: proudly carrying out death sentences in pub...