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President Thomas Jefferson – Public Domain

The unpopularity of the Alien and Sedition Acts – a set of laws passed by President John Adams to control, among other problems, slander against the government – helped unite the persecuted Republicans and propel Thomas Jefferson into the executive office. He pardoned all Republicans who had been found guilty under the Acts and promised [...]

U.S. bomber crew in Aleutian Islands

At the beginning of June 1942, the United States was still reeling from the destruction of much of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the loss of the Philippine Islands. The Japanese, emboldened by those and other successes including Burma, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies, were planning assaults on the Hawaiian Islands and [...]

Canada has a long and rich history with the British Empire

The conquest of New France by Britain in 1760 led to social and economic consequences for Quebec and Lower Canada and is an interesting part of the Canadian immigration history. Many scholars and historians have debated the extent of these consequences, including whether or not they impeded economic development of this area. Igartua’s Theory Igartua [...]

Genealogy Book Links is a Must Goto for Family History Books

It is no secret that the Internet Archive or the Brigham Young Family History Collection provide access to online genealogy diaries, histories and books but so does Harvard, Michigan State University and Cornell to name just a few. Genealogy Book Links brings those altogether (Fig. 1) into one site, searchable by surname or keyword or [...]

The Sit-In Movement at the Woolworth Lunch Counter

What was the price of a cup of coffee in the South in 1960? For some African Americans, it was intimidation, violence, and even death. But on a Monday afternoon on February 1, 1960, four black college students attending North Carolina A and T State University defied the segregationist policies at the Greensboro, North Carolina [...]

Christopher Columbus

The voyages in this series of three articles all possess an epic quality. All were great undertakings of their age, all involved considerable time and distance and each is still remembered, talked about and taught today. Moreover, each has left a legacy without which the world we know would be fundamentally altered. These are voyages [...]

The kidnapping

Color is the name, and murder is the game- both of these factors played major roles in Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of The Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe. This epic yet tragic story begins with the atrocious kidnapping and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till [...]

Socialism and Capitalism

In the tumultuous age of the Industrial Revolution in America, some became very rich while others faced terrible poverty. Out of this dilemma came both defenders and critics of the capitalist economic system. Some believed capitalism would usher in a new era of prosperity, while others argued it would be the undoing of society. Out [...]

Therefore dropped the “Pirates” director “BioShock” movie

Originally it was “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski who was directing the movie based on “BioShock.” So it was never. After the filming would start in January 2010, the budget cut, terracotta warriors and finally left Verbinski entire project. In an interview with Gore Verbinski coingsoon.net now why he ultimately turned it down. [...]

- I am not a sadist, that

SAN FRANCISCO (Gamer.no): When you look at the portfolio of Hidetaka Miyazaki, game producer of From Software, you start to really wonder what is and wonder in his subconscious. Over the past 15 years, he has in fact made gloomy and very challenging action role-playing, seemingly unaffected by how other developers in the genre of [...]

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