What happened after Henry VII died? What did Sir John Franklin accomplish? What state did Christopher Columbus find? How did Baron von Steuben die? What did Christopher Columbus do for a living? What did Christopher Columbus do to the Tainos?
Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. It was the first on record in December i
What happened to John Wycliffe and Jan Hus? Who were John Wycliffe and Jan Hus? What was John Wycliffe's religion? What was John Wycliffe an outspoken critic of? What were the heresy charges against John Wycliffe? How was John Wycliffe killed?
Indoor plumbing became popular in the 1800s, and the bidet moved from the bedroom to the newly added indoor bathrooms. The bidet began to spread to slightly lower social classes in France, and to other countries in western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. John Harvey Kell...
"Being John Malkovich" is about an unemployed puppeteer (John Cusack) who finds a portal into the brain of John Malkovich, played by himself. The oddball comedic drama earned former music video director Spike Jonze an Academy Award nomination for his directing; another nomination went to Charlie...
In a city where tornadoes are a way of life, this is pretty significant when you consider the one in question happened some 42 years ago, destroying numerous neighborhoods, schools, and nearly all the old-growth trees in Cherokee Park. There are entire websites dedicated to this tornado and...
Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin spent the decades of the 1750's and 60's in England and traveling abroad to promote the interest of the American Colonies, but returned home unable to reconcile growing tensions between England and the colonies. Franklin served as a delegate to the Second Con...
"We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. This statement foresaw one of the most draconian events in U.S. financial history: the Emergency Banking Act, which forced all Americans to convert their...
Something happened to Clark when he was younger, something that's left him unable to completely control his powers -- they emerge in bursts of varying intensity and at the most inopportune moments. In this AU, Clark has found a very creative way to deal with these sporadic and often danger...
So court cases were pretty much based on testimony and what the medical person said happened to the body. Secondly, we have to understand the politics of the frontier. The OK Coral gunfight happened 15 years after the end of the Civil War. Southerners were still smarting and unwilling to...