The long past Egyptian civilization is a great one, and you will be hard pressed to find someone to who will think otherwise. Ancient Egypt in modern terminology is situated in Africa, at the northwest area. The Nile River, in most cases just called the ‘Nile’, passed through the center of the civilization. The …
It was on January 1, 1776 that the Continental army was restructured and adjusted according to a Congressional resolution which heralded American forces to the command of George Washington. On that day, the American Continental Army was blockading Boston which had been taken over by the British army. It has been said that the …
The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier’s head from the rest of his body. The device was perfected – though not invented – by Doctor Joseph …
In the 1800s, most women remained in their parents’ households until they married. Young ladies who were single were known as “spinsters”; middle aged and older women who remained unmarried were dubbed “old maids.” Many in the older generation fretted about the existence of too many bachelors, spinsters and old maids. This fretting led …
I’ve learned to be careful when writing that someone or something was the first of its kind. As it turns out, the person credited with being the very first in a book or on a historic marker might not have been the first. But somewhere along the way, a reporter or author who didn’t …