grew up in and around the court of Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England. She was educated, likely more so than the average woman of her time, and at around the age of 16 or 17, she married Hugh Swynford, a knight and landowner who was doing fairly well for himself. This probably ...
Who We Are Ronald Ahrens, born in 1955, was the first grandchild of Reginald and Margaret Tillotson. During his boyhood, Ronald spent many happy times in the home that Reginald built of slip-formed concrete atop a knoll in the Ponca Hills, north of Omaha. Although he knew generally of T...
As someone who grew up watching television in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was hard to watch “Who’s Seymour?” without rolling my eyes a little at how corny it is. I’ve used the word harmless several times before to describe sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s. It certainly fitsKar...
In 1946, France tried to regain control of Vietnam starting an 8 year long battle between the French and Viet Minh. The Viet Minh defeated the French in 1954 and the country was divided into the communist-ruled North and a republic in the South. Ho Chi Minh became President of the ...
“These were the girls that the boys who fought in World War II and the Korean War came back to marry,” Meisel says. “It was about getting a little house in Levittown and bringing up their two or three kids. Both male and female pinup artists painted for that.” So Mozert, Ballan...
the shift occurred in the context of the collapse of the previous regime and the desire on the part of the constitution builders to trammel the power of the presidency, which was seen as one of the main obstacles to democratic consolidation under the previous regime. This suggests that any po...
Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ...
After religious disputes with John Knox and political intrigue, she was imprisoned and forced to abdicate in 1567 in favour of her son JamesVI, then executed for treason.DrWilliam McEwan (1827 - 1913): Brewer and philanthropist. Born in Alloa, McEwan set up his Fountain Brewery in Edinbur...
Shrimp was tested as theBravoshot ofOperation Castle,conducted at Bikini Atoll in the spring of 1954. Like theMikedevice, Shrimp was installed in a metal shot cab on Namu island and surrounded by an array of scientific instruments, including dozens of high-speed cameras and a 2.3 kilometre-lo...
It was going to be a father-son story from the perspective of a father, because the first movie had been a father-son story from the perspective of the sons. In the script, T’Challa was a dad who’d had this forced five-year absence from his son’s life… (6) A STOP-MOTION ...