Why was there an AIDS epidemic in the 1980s? Why was the bubonic plague called the Black Death? Why is it called the Spanish flu? Why is it called the Scramble for Africa? Why was the 1918 flu pandemic called the Spanish flu? Why was the Holocaust called the Holocaust? Why did Earle...
The Adam's apple: it's neither an apple nor is it possessed exclusively by people named Adam. We'll talk about why that is, plus another linguistic conundrum: how did 'physician' become a word for 'doctor' while 'physicist' stayed in the realm of matter
Why is the city of Hiroshima well-known in world history? Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis cause so much alarm? Why is it called 'the Ukraine'? Why did the Russians invade Ukraine? Why was Stonehenge abandoned? Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis so dangerous?
Now you know what backlinks to avoid like the plague. But now an important question arises: What’s a Good Number of Backlinks? Examining your competitors is key to knowing how many backlinks you need. This process is called a backlink gap analysis. Here’s how to do it: 1. Identify ...
Everything is Illuminated Fahrenheit 451 Flowers For Algernon For Whom the Bell Tolls Frankenstein Go Tell It on the Mountain Gone with the Wind Great Expectations Gulliver's Travels Hamlet Hard Times Heart of Darkness Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Hedda Gabler I Know...
after the first heavy rain or the first bath after the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that children wearing five-colored threads can ward off snakes and scorpions. Throwing it into the river means that the river ...
The eyes have it. Your peepers perceive color using structures called cones. Your retinas bristle with about 5 million cones each, made up of three types that specialize in seeing different colors [source: Schirber]. Although each kind of cone is most sensitive to certain peak wavelengths, ...
right when a calamitous flood is known to have hit, and was long deserted by the time of Columbus’ arrival. In addition to the flood, researchers have fingered overexploitation of natural resources, political and social unrest, diseases and the so-called Little Ice Age as possible causes for...
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views, and I’ve been meaning to write something about it for ages, probably a year at this point. Surely you’ll have noticed that they don’t tend...
Written records link black cats to the occult as far back as the 13th century when an official church document called“Vox in Rama”was issued by Pope Gregory IX on June 13, 1233. “In it, black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan,” says Layla Morgan Wilde, author ofBlack Cats...