Philip was a slave, owned by Nathan Abbott who survived the carnage. We don’t know much about Philip. Except he was there; fighting tooth and nail, that long, frightening day when farmers, merchants, men of wealth and men far poorer, and over three dozen black men, ...
fighting had already begun over a year earlier in Lexington and Concord. After those battles, the Second Continental Congress on June 15, 1775, commission George Washington as a general and Commander-in-Chief of the American armed forces. Militia from Massachusetts and surrounding areas descended on...
The high point of Rasputin's power was in 1915, when Nicholas II left St. Petersburg to oversee Russian armies fighting World War I, increasing both Alexandra and Rasputin's influence. As Russian defeats in the war mounted, however, both Rasputin and Alexandra became increasingly unpopular. In...
Who fought in the Battle of Lexington? Battle of Lexington: When the First Continental Congress met in British North America in 1774, it authorized the colonists of Massachusetts to arm themselves against the British. This was because the British government had decided to make an aggressive respons...
It was the cover story and an in-depth feature about VanDyke, his fighting in the Libyan revolution, working for the Syrian revolution, and his plans for the future. Click on the image below to read it:A must-read article at Vice, The American Filmmaker Who Became a Freedom Fighter in ...
we are relying on a man’s interpretation of women and the divine feminine within our respective traditions. All that aside and to be fair, he was ahead of his times for that era. Back in the day, the notion of making sacred any aspect of being a woman, I am sure, was liberating ...
Some background information on the revolutions President Zelenskyy is referring to in this speech. The Orange Revolution was waged after a run-off vote for president in 2004 that was marred by corruption. The Ukrainians voted for the pro-western/pro-democracy candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who surv...
the Taíno from planting the crops that had fed them for centuries. They began to starve; many thousands fell prey to smallpox, measles and other European diseases for which they had no immunity; some committed suicide to avoid subjugation; hundreds fell in fighting with the Spaniards, while ...
The Doctor has been portrayed by at least seventeen different actors over the course of the TV series, with many others also voicing them in Big Finish's audio dramas. On television, the first Doctor was played by the late William Hartnell, and would be played by the late Richard ...
France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. In the summer of 1941, Germany turned its attention to the East and invaded the Soviet Union. At this point the United States was neutral, but that would change following the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December of 194...