History Short: Coffee, Drink of the Gods! By Major DanSeptember 29, 2024 A Brief History On September 29, 2024, we celebrate another National Coffee Day, reveling in our appreciation for that “Cup of Joe,”“Shot of Caffeine,”“Java,”“Go Juice,” or whatever you want to call it....
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It was interesting to see how this country, which lived much of the 20thcentury under the most vicious communist dictatorship (1944-1990), is now trying to live a normal life. To some extent, Albania is very similar to present-day Russia: decades of the negative natural selection under comm...
Year: 1977 - 1983 Directors: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, and Richard Marquand A princess, a scoundrel, and a farm boy: it’s this simple trio of characters that sparked one of the biggest cultural phenomena of all time. Each of them found their own way to save the day. Sometimes that...
August 28 rolls out the red carpet for some of Hollywood's brightest stars. This list celebrates the celebrities and historical figures both living and ...
How could this much power over any part of global life be good? “The four organizations had worked together in the past, and three of them shared a common history. The largest and most powerful was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world. Then...
in history, deeming it to be useless and consigning it to “its seasonal destiny”. Now, only fragments of it are to be found in the Western deserts. The fable’s conclusion: “Depending on ones [sic] view [,] fragments of time have dimension.” With this introduction, each page of ...
This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes irregularity in spelling and pronunciation. I: English spelling baffles me, too.P: English also has the largest vocabulary. Often there are words for the same thing, one is Anglo-...
Cash is, of course, a far more complicated figure, and his sympathy for the underdogs and the downtrodden mixed with the horrors of the Vietnam War were at that moment in history reaching a boiling point. What happened when Cash walked into the White House that day makes for some truly ...
On this day in history, May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher — who ledthe United Kingdom's Conservative Party and ultimately came to be called the "Iron Lady" for her politics and leadership style — became the first female prime minister of the U.K. An Oxford-educated lawyer...