When was the colonial era in Brazil? When did Vitus Bering come to California? When was the Philippines discovered by Magellan? When did the Gauls move to Anatolia? When did the Huguenots leave France? When did the Renaissance spread to Northern Europe? When did the Vikings create Vinland?
Benjamin Day was only 22 years old when he developed the idea of a newspaper for the masses and launched his New York Sun in 1833, which would profoundly alter journalism by his new approach. Yet, several conditions had to exist before a mass press could come into existence. It was imposs...
The end of the Gilded Age coincided with the Panic of 1893, a deep depression, which lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896. This productive but divisive era was followed bythe Progressive Era. Was Upton Sinclair a muckraker? Sinclair thought of him...
And they accomplished none of their stated goals. But the Crusades era might have constituted a "holding action," a time when Christendom was pushed toward the abyss and, outweighed and wobbling, pushed back. Of course, this isn't the fashionable view. But it is easy today to characterize ...
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How old was Louis IX when he became king?Louis IX:A Capetian king and a descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine on his mother's side, Louis IX ruled France from 1226 until 1270, participating in both the Seventh and Eighth Crusades.Answer and Explanation: ...
What seems like centuries ago, and was in fact in the last century, after the fall of the USSR, I watched as the wheels came off Science Fiction short stories, in a sort of mini-fit-of-insanity. I kept bouncing between being horrified and being amused, a
Once in a great while Great Projects come about where our skills are applied towards things that benefit and inspire the world. Apollo was such a marshaling of the best of our minds and our industry. It was something most of those who worked on believed in deeply. Apollo was not just ...
By Sunday, the notion of preparing for a discussion was causing me a kind of dread, in part owing to my dread-inclined nature, in part to the reading list: everything from “Art for the Anthropocene Era,” inArt in Americalast winter, to “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene,” ...