Often considered Mark Twain's masterpiece "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was conceived as a sequel to "The adventures of Tom Sawyer". The author makes use of some of the characters of the other book but soon departs from it in feeling. Tom Sawyer remains favorite among children's...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. Was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Nathaniel later added a...
The Tower of London has been the setting for many great events during its 900-year history as a royal palace and fortress, prison and place of execution, arsenal, mint, menagerie and jewel house. This timeline shows some of the most significant events that took place here. The Tower of...
Most important scientific discovery in chemistry In my opinion the most important scientific discovery in chemistry is discovering oxygen. Everyone needs oxygen to survive, oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe and makes up nearly 21% of the earth's atmosphere....
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Life A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is...
The 2007-2012 global financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by...
To The Lighthouse is a so-called stream-of-consciousness novel, one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot. Plot always refers to action, it indicates the special arrangement of its elements. In the stream-of-consciousness novels, however, there very...
Adeline Virginia Woolf , was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include...
Beijing is a metropolis in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China.Beijing is second largest city,after Shanghai.It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city. It is also the focal point of many...
Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951, a refugee is more narrowly defined (in Article 1A) as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or...
Gorgonzola is a veined Italian blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's and/or goat's milk. It can be buttery or firm, crumbly and quite salty, with a 'bite' from its blue veining. It has been made since the early Middle Ages, but became marbled with greenish-blue mold only in the...
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso) was born on the 25th October, 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez....
No single figure since the second world war has made so profound an impact on world events as Osama bin Laden. Had the world responded to his 9/11 attack on America with moderation he would probably have disappeared, expelled from Afghanistan or killed by his Tajik enemies. Even the...
Germany has several representative personalities, as: Johann Sebastian Bach Albert Einstein Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Adolf Hitler Flexibility and spontaneity are not common traits in German business culture Football, recent holidays, work and beer are good conversation topics...
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400-2480 MHz) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security....