What were the Tudors known for? What is Horace Walpole famous for? What is King George II known for? What battle was Henry IV famous for? What happened to Oliver Cromwell's children? What was Edward England known for? What good things did William the Conqueror do for England?
Suddenly, in early 2013 [..] all the Alawites involved in the militias of the regime, some were my friends […] they started to say that the people of Banyas were planning for something big. I said: “What are they planning for? Come on, the demonstrations have stopped, nothing is h...
What did Aristotle believe was the best form of government? a. Constitutional republic b. Theocracy c. Monarchy d. Oligarchy. What were self views of socrates? Did Socrates develop the laws of associationism? Who is regarded by many as the first philosopher (Russell, 1945)?...
or we would hire people who are out of law school. All those things are true. But we've also had I'm not sure if he's still with us, a world famous rock and roll guitarist, professional athletes, ballet
A criminally overlooked rock opera about a future fascist theocracy in which music is outlawed, told from the perspective of a former rock star. The band made a film of the story, which accompanied their stage show.Crime of the Century (Supertramp). Among my top three favorite thematic ...
we are out of good scenarios and down to trying to find the least/worst one – and hope. Hope that a totalitarian regime with a strong apocalyptic/messianic bent, and that has articulated a desire to “wipe the Zionist regime off the map” is not serious. I think if I were an Israeli...
Soon afterward he joined the staff of The Youth's Companion, the once-famous children's magazine, which printed his Pledge of Allegiance on Sept. 8, 1892. Francis Bellamy said on Flag Day in 1931, a short time before his death, that the pledge was "born out of my own love of the...
Some people actually wondered if the letter from "Luther Lovelace" (son of a famous movie star, perhaps?) was authentic. I didn't think about it as I worked on it, but it really shows how hard it is to lampoon a real-life cartoon. The essence of a joke is stretching reality till ...
An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for California who became trapped by snow in the Sier...
The famous silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning “silver”, was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic. The convoys were general purpose cargo fleets...