The 1970s were an interesting and sometimes thrilling time to be alive in America. Referred to as "The 'Me' Decade" by author Tom Wolfe, it heralded the movement away from '60s-style communitarianism toward individualism. Political scandal rocked this decade like no other and distrust of gover...
A speakeasy can be defined as a place where people went, particularly in the 1920s in the United States, to drink illegally. The term speakeasy came from how people needed to enter a bar. They needed to "speak easy" (or speak easily) which would mean to whisper, as people were not ...
with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries...
These plays were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of his songs have remained popular as ever. Over the years they have been sung and played in every possible way—from jazz to country. In the 1920s there was a debate in the United States about jazz music....
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New models of tanks had, however, been ordered, as the Nazi Germans discovered that Soviet tanks were superior to their own. Hitler's changing strategic vision was a reaction to the increasing collaboration between the two Anglo-Saxon powers. Though U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt was ...
Native conjurers were present in 1585 when the men of Sir Walter Raleigh arrived in North Carolina. Visiting the town of Secotan on the Pamlico River, the artist John White painted a dancing native he named “the flyer,”“the magician,” or “the sourcerer.” A 2008 article by George ...
As the Electoral College battleground shrinks, the calculus that optimizes for 270 electoral votes changes. Attention is increasingly focused on seven key states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. All seven were decided by less than 3 percent in th...
Gilligan's Island September 26, 1964 The show Gilligan's Island about seven castaways debuts on CBS.Although the pilot was filmed in 1963, because of cast changes, it wasn't aired until 1992. The pilot's cast differed from the series with Kit Smythe as Ginger, John Gabriel as the high ...
oil lamps, it wasn't until 1901 that the firstcommercial wellcapable of mass production was drilled at a site known as Spindletop in southeastern Texas. This site produced more than 100,000 barrels of oil in one day, more than all the other oil-producing wells in the United States ...