In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth becomes king through the murder of the previous king. His reign causes tragedy that plagues Scotland and destroys it. The person who is ultimately to blame for all of
the first group of colonists returned to England shortly after when Sir Francis Drake offered to take them home on his way from the Caribbean. John White arrived with another group of colonists in 1587intending to settle in the Chesapeake Bay, but the pilot of the ship brought them to Roanok...
Also on This Day in History Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on July 15th 1099 Jerusalem captured in First Crusade During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe capture Jerusalem after seven weeks of siege ...
Before Captain Cook's famous arrival to Australia in 1770, Europeans had already visited. The first documented contact between Europeans and Indigenous people occurred during the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon's voyage down the east coast of the Cape York Peninsula in 1606....
At 4 a.m. the next morning, some8came and dug up the whole garden without finding any guns. The old man was9and wrote another note to his son. He told him what had happened, and10him what to do next. His son’s reply was: “Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad. It’s the...
Teofilo Stevenson was born in 1952 and grew up in a small town in Cuba.He started boxing as a teenager and, when he was 13, went to Havana to train at the national sports complex."I lost 14 of my first 20 fights," said Stevenson."I hated getting hit.What happened was that I dec...
Back in 2001, a colleague on one of my favorite discussion lists asked me about the relevance of my 17th-century studies for busy 21st-century (mostly new media) professionals: “I’m having trouble,” he wrote, “seeing the relevance of anything that happened in the Renaissance to C21.”...
happened in confessions attributed to the conspirators themselves. I can only speak for myself when I say that after reading much hostile criticism of Father Gerard's book and I would especially refer to a most able review of it, so
s first pop superstars in action. Mr WIAA went to bed about half way through, which is a shame I think, because it wasn’t until the second half that the truly memorable bits happened. Lovely stills on the big screen behind him ofGeorge Harrison, and of course there was the duet with...
The Protestant Reformation was a religious revolution that happened in the 16th century, when the Church of England broke away from the Catholic church, creating other Christian branches in the process.[23] The Baptist church was strongly inspired by Calvinism, which was created by John Calvin,...