arl Warren, the 16th chief justice of the United States said, in his opinion, that the choice of marrying or not marrying people from other races is personal and that it’s inappropriate for the states to have control over such aspects of humanity. Before this...
ittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Ranieri Eugenio Ferdinando Tomaso of Savoy, the first king of a united Italy, was born in 1820 in Turin. From day one, the child proved to be so fundamentally different from his royal father, King Carlo Alberto, that the rumor he was...
ar within his family, a push for independence, the end of slavery, and some weird incest. Such was the life of Pedro I, also known as “the Liberator”, or “the Soldier King”. A member of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: Bragança), young Pedro was born at the turn of...
he story of Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without Squanto, the “friendly” Indian who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony survive. He taught them how to cultivate crops, which plants they could use and which they should avoid, and how to tap the native maple...
most countries, the capital coincides with the most heavily-populated cities. However, that’s not always the case: look at Washington D.C. (20th most-populous U.S. city) or Brasília (3rd most-populous Brazilian city). Like D.C. and Brasília, Ngerulmud was built from...
