UPDATE for season seven: Pageviews suggest many of you may be finding this article wondering why “House” isn’t airing in December 2010. “House” always takes a holiday break this time of year. You can expect the show to return on January 17th, 2011. UPDATE Dec. 7th, 2009: If you found this page wondering why the ...
When a stranger entered Sparta and noted the lack of defensive fortifications surrounding the city, he inquired of Agesilaus, “Where are Sparta’s walls?” Immediately, Agesilaus pointed to the armed citizens and declared, “These are the Spartans’ walls.” In Grecian Sparta, the state was strictly regulated to fashion a sense of duty to the state, communal ...
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters who Ruled Europe Nancy Goldstone Viking, New York 2007 978-0-670-03843-5 336 pages $24.95 Today in the U.S., there are legitimate concerns about having two families alternately control the government for a period of two decades. We Americans get fidgety when power remains in someone’s hands for too long (think presidential ...
Long before he was a vampire hunter, Abraham Lincoln pushed hard for higher education. While the latter subject isn’t a hit movie, there’s some actual evidence for this. But 150 years after Lincoln’s heavy promotion of collegiate learning, how do we feel the role of higher education. Is it a right, or a privilege? A ...
Overall Rating: 3/5 Stars Ultimate Basketball on the NES is a story of unmet potential in the face of sharply honed video game development. It was released in 1990 by American Sammy, and featured seven available teams cleverly modeled after real NBA teams, but without any professional references. One player or two could participate in ...
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. Connecticut was the 5th state admitted into the Union in 1788. Connecticut is known as the “Constitution State”. Connecticut is a beautiful state with beautiful scenery. Connecticut has a very high percentage of Democratic voters and is 2nd state to allow ...
Joshua Chamberlain was perhaps one of the most revered war heroes in this history of America’s military. An educator with virtually no experience in military leadership, Chamberlain took the reigns as a General at the height of the United States Civil War. It was one of his finest moments when he led the Union at ...
The 2004 Presidential Election proves to be a campaign that fails to play by the rules as explained in “The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004”. In Chapter 1, Bush and Mayer explain the consequences in front-loading in relation to the 2000 Presidential Election while in chapter 2, Corrado and Gouvea talk about how presidential ...
At a recent gathering of the senior members of the congregation I attend, the speaker was an amateur expert on the dala horse. According to Wikipedia, the dala horse is the “traditional wooden statuette of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna,” from which the name of the horse is derived. Once a ...
In 1828 Congress passed a new tariff that doubled the rates for certain exports up to 45%, beginning what is known in American history as the Nullification Crisis. This tariff, called the Tariff of Abominations, infuriated southerners in America, who accused Congress of promoting the interests of the industrial North and the expense of southern ...