On March 6, 1857, the U.S.Supreme Courthanded down its decision in Scott v. Sanford, delivering a resounding victory to southern supporters of slavery and arousing the ire of northern abolitionists. During the 1830s, the owner of an enslaved man named Dred Scott had taken him from the sl...
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writerGeorge Orwellin an article published in 1945 to refer to what he predicted would be anuclearstalemate between “two or three monstrous super-states, each possessed of aweaponby which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds.” It was first used in the United States by ...
continued to become more commonplace events. Also, the mistreatment and subsequent death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, later resulting in convictions for second-degree murder and other charges, stoked increased concerns about police brutality and racism. ...
An Armed Man Kills at Least 10 People, Including 2 Children, in a Shooting Rampage in Montenegro Montenegro’s interior minister says at least 10 people, including two children, were killed in a shooting in the western city of Cetinje
One of the “plumbers,” G. Gordon Liddy, is transferred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), where he obtains approval from Attorney General John Mitchell for a wide-ranging plan of espionage against the Democratic Party. May 28, 1972 Liddy’s team breaks into the Democratic...
Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann in 'George of the Jungle,' 1997.Marsha Blackburn/Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock Fraser had his first major box office success with the 1997 comedy filmGeorge of the Jungle, which costarredLeslie Mannand earned nearly $180 million at the box office. Fraser played a ...
During a team media availability,Kelce alluded to his romance with Swiftsaying, "As all the attention comes...it feels like I was on top of the world after the Super Bowl and right now I'm even more on top of the world." In response to how he's handling all of the new eyes on...
Washington. Meanwhile, the White House arranged for the “disappearance” to another country of Hunt (who never actually left the United States), part of a plan for the burglars to take the fall for the crime as overzealous anticommunist patriots. On June 23, 1972, the president, through ...
including Confederate GeneralsRobert E. Lee,Thomas (“Stonewall”) Jackson,James Longstreet,George Pickett,Albert Sidney Johnston, Lewis Armistead, andP.G.T. Beauregard, as well as Union GeneralsUlysses S. Grant(who later called the Mexican War “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger...