Why Do We Love Britain So Much? There seems to be a running trend nowadays among Americans. We are in love with England! It’s the British Invasion! Back in the ‘60s, the British Invasion meant The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but to tell you the truth, the English never left. ...
she would wear it in remembrance of the child she had aborted who would have been in the same class. A little later the woman sent the graduate a letter, telling her what she had done, and why she wanted her to wear the armband. The following is what the letter said: Nineteen years...
For instance Britain dominated India and China in the mid 1880s to the beginning of the 20th century. Imperialism has had both a positive and negative effects on the countries involved. Britain was imperialistic for many reasons, it could dominate because it had the technology and power to do...
The character of the early Christians would probably be most surprising to modern lay Christians. The bulk of the early converts were from the lower classes in the cities. As the great historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) summarized in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788): “the...
in the canal, more or less buying the Egyptians out of the company. The canal was built mostly by Egyptians and opened up, for the first time, in 1869. With the rise of nationalism, the Egyptians, who had achieved self-rule from Great Britain, in 1922, wanted more control of the ...
**One of these beliefs began when the British concluded that the colonists should pay for the protection the British were providing them is the Appalachian Mountains. However, the colonists never consented nor wanted such protection. This fact was disregarded by the British government, so they impo...
Locals have always lovingly referred to our homegrown grocery empire as "Whole Paycheck" for good reason - everything is triple the price of Texas chains like HEB. Sadly, you will find that the SoCo HEB location is decidedly un-hip and slightly dirty, and definitely not up to your high Ca...
If this is your first time in Athens, you may not know that it used to have a reputation as a somewhat gritty (indeed grimy) city – a place to fly into just because you had to if you wanted to visit Greece and the Greek islands. ...