They’re not wizards anymore! Disney Channel viewers said goodbye to the Russo family in January 2012 when Wizards of Waverly Place came to an end after four seasons on the air. Wizards of Waverly Place. Wizards of Waverly Place is an American fantasy teen sitcom which ran from October 12,…
and produced on a $170 million budget (making it one of the most expensive films ever made when adjusting for inflation at the time of its release), Wild Wild West was a commercial failure, grossing only $113.8 million domestically and $108.3 million overseas for a worldwide total of $222.1 million.…
What were Woodrow Wilson’s accomplishments? Woodrow Wilson created the League of Nations after World War I (1914–18). He presided over ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, and laws that prohibited child labour and that mandated an eight-hour workday for railroad workers. Is Woodrow Wilson a…
On Elizabeth’s accession, in 1558, Cecil was appointed her sole secretary. His first major diplomatic achievement was to persuade a reluctant queen to intervene in Scotland and conclude the Treaty of Edinburgh (1560), which removed French forces from Scotland. Who was known as the spymaster? Sir Francis Walsingham ( c.…
World War II Ten Most Important Events. Hitler blitzkrieged Poland and Russia attacked Poland from east. Hitler’s troops invaded from north, south, and west. Poland awaited backup from Britain and France, but recieved very little. This marked the beginning of World War II. As the American public remembers the Second…
William Dawson, international composer and conductor of renown. William Levi Dawson was born on this date in 1899, in Anniston, AL. He was an African American vocalist, composer. At the age of 13, he ran away from home and entered Tuskegee Institute. In 1956, Tuskegee Institute gave him the honorary…
The first and most obvious thing that the Bible says about worry is that it is NOT something God desires His children to do or to suffer. However, the subject is a bit more nuanced than it at first appears. Although God does not want us to worry, that does…
…was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous. William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the…
However, it is now highly believed that the First World War could have been avoided and that the most probable reason for its break out was the rise to power of Germany, which was obviously hard to take by the people of Great Britain, who feared for themselves and for…
Arminianism and Laudianism. Laudianism, the programme of William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to shape the Church of England in terms of liturgy, discipline, and polity, has only with difficulty been equated by historians with the operation of an actual Arminian faction in the Church of England. William…