Cheryl Harris (UCLA)’s essay Whiteness as Property does pretty much what it says on the tin: rather than a social designation, a part of a code by which people are sorted and separated from each other, she proclaims whiteness as a thing that some people get to own and others do not....
Americans are simply in love with England. There are many reasons to love England, but here are the top fifteen, from the accents to the royalty to the literature.
The long-standing explanation of the columns of the Giants Causeway was that the giant Finn MacCool wanted to build a bridge to attack his rival in Scotland and that they destroyed the bridge in their fighting, leaving only the Causeway in Ireland and Fingal’s Cave in Scotland remaining. The...
Reacting to the events of "Bloody Sunday," he and his wife, Linda, churned out this political tune in about a month's time. It was greeted with a blanket broadcast ban in the United Kingdom, where relations with Northern Ireland remained a highly sensitive subject. 1973: 'Living for the...
*The trade status of Northern Ireland was always a thorn in the side of Brexit. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are cheek by jowl, and trade had flowed freely between them. With the departure of the UK from the EU in the “Brexit” move of early 2020, Northern Ireland woul...
The Sangliers, the wild boars, promised to meet the Beliers head-on and in language too tragically familiar in Northern Ireland Jean-Paul Gehler, their leader, warned his opponents that while the Sangliers would not strike first, they would retaliate. The remaining elements of the so-called '...
Why does karst topography only exist in some geographic locations? Why is historical geology important? Why is Mount Kilimanjaro famous? Why is uniformitarianism important to historical geology? Why do mountains receive more rainfall? Why is the taiga biome important?
vocal touch lifted The Cranberries to alt-rock success in the early ‘90s, but with their sophomore set No Need to Argue, the band showed a decidedly heavier side with the lead single “Zombie,” a protest song written about the horrors of war that continued to rage in Northern Ireland. ...
Did you know that Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong initially wrote love song lyrics for what would eventually become "Basket Case"? Luckily for him and us he eventually decided to keep the music but go a different direction with the song....
Green eyes are indeed rare and therefore desired by many. Because of this, it makes sense that a number of myths exist about people with green eyes. What follows are a few of the “biggies”. Green, hazel and amber all in one!