Why was the women's movement called suffrage? Why was anarchism popular in the 1920s in Latin America? Why was F. Scott Fitzgerald important in the 1920's? In 1929, the stock market crashed because Why was Chicago important during the Gilded Age? Why is it called the Regency Era? Why ...
We think of “It Girl” as referring to “oh, she’s got ‘It’”— like an unidentified wow factor. And while that was true of Bow, the idea of being the “It Girl” came from a movie she starred in from 1927 called “It," which was written with her in mind. She played a ...
Look again at the beach scene with Joe and Sugar. It was written by two men who were once called Samuel Wilder and Itec Domnici, and acted by a man and a woman who were once called Bernie Schwartz and Norma Jeane Mortenson. Schwartz, who renamed himself Tony Curtis, is playing Joe, w...
24, 1929, when panic selling led to a major stock market crash on what is now known as Black Thursday. By Monday, the market had dropped another 13% and suffered roughly the same losses the next day, known as Black Monday and Black Tuesday. The roaring '20s were over, and across the...
So the question is then, how do you know when is the right time to settle down, given all the people that you can date in your lifetime? Thankfully, there's a rather delicious bit of mathematics that we can use to help us out here, called optimal stopping theory. So let's imagine...
Have you ever wondered why Easter can fall in either March or April, unlike Christmas which is always on December 25th? For example, last year Easter was on April 9th, while this year it falls on March 31st. The reason behind the shifting date of Easter is quite interesting. Easter is ...
Wall Street is foaming at the mouth with all the possible mergers and acquisitions that may now go through with Trump as president BYPaolo Confino November 7, 2024 Finance ‘Roaring 20s’ on Wall Street could extend into the 2030s after likely Republican sweep, market veteran says ...
The Fiat 500, a small vehicle designed as a city car, is one of the cars most closely associated with Italy. The first model was called the Fiat 500 Topolino, meaning little mouse. It didn’t have a lot of power—its two-cylinder engine produced just 13 horsepower and its top speed ...
This competition is the kind that drives stocks down even when business does not look so bad.Snapwas an easy example for Cramer, whocalled Morgan Stanley’s Tuesday downgradeof the stock an “obituary” on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” ...
Gone are the days of having to sit obsessively in front of the oven trying to nail the cooking time. Gone are the obsessive moments where you carve off a piece to check if the inside is raw. Whether it’s in the oven, the fryer, or in the boiling pot, MEATER thermometers can withst...