Throughout America’s history, there have been many intuitive inventors that have manifested various creations. Some inventions never created any waves on the market, while others took the market by storm. One of America’s most prolific inventors was Eli Whitney. Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts. Being the son of a ...
The Mis-Education of the Negro stands as one of the most essential texts of the African American experience. Within its pages are the lessons of a people “mis-educated” to think they are inferior based solely on the color of their skin. The aftermath is one of confusion in which the African American unsuccessfully mimics the ...
If you’re ever in Minnesota, make certain you never try to cross state lines with a duck on top of your head. If you do, you will be breaking a state law. That is just one of quite a few laws in Minnesota that some online call stupid, although the state is not unique. Every ...
Human beings long for freedom: for an escape from everyday life, from the iron grip of society or any other effect of life today. In Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in the late 1800’s, he clearly portrays the mighty Mississippi, the river that the story focuses around, as an escape from ...
The muckrakers were a group of journalists who typically worked separately, but all fit under the auspices of Teddy Roosevelt’s term because they were the kind of people who would dig and dig for a story even when there really wasn’t anything there or not. They did what they did in order to change the ...
This article, the twenty-second in a 50-state series, ranks the best places to live in Colorado based on three criteria: (1) median household income (adjusted for cost of living); (2) educational attainment (% of residents 25 years and over who have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher); and (3) property crime rates per 1,000 residents ...
Background Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on November 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a turbulent childhood with her single mother, Winfrey went to live with her father in Tennessee at the age of 14. Winfrey’s father was a strict disciplinarian and he offered his daughter a stable life rooted in religion, family, education, and ...
Cosmos! Even the name of this flower is exciting, bringing to mind the image of a star’s light flowing out into the universe. That image is appropriate because cosmos have petals that form a ray around a central disk. Cosmos come in a variety of colors and are an easy-to-grow annual that brightens the yard. ...
The story of watercolor dates as far back as when the first man learned to paint and interpret his surroundings. Yet as old as it is, watercolor paintings do not sell as much as oils and acrylics. This is because watercolors are developed only lately. Cezanne used it, Eugène Delacroix, François Marius Granet, Henri-Joseph Harpignies ...
Carpentry is an awesome trade that has plenty of tricks that can bring every carpenter up to the top of their game. On this page I am going to give valuable information and secrets of the carpentry trade that the masters do not want you to know. I care about the new generation of carpenters ...