See Article History. Salon des Refusés, (French: Salon of the Refused), art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the official Salon. In 1863 the Salon jury refused two thirds of the paintings presented,…
In 1923, Senator George Norris of Nebraska authored the initial resolution that provided the basis for the Twentieth Amendment. Nearly a decade later, Congress approved the amendment and the states swiftly ratified it. The Twentieth Amendment ( Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of…
The oldest football song in the world that is still in use today may be “On the Ball, City”, a song believed to have been composed in the 1890s by Albert T Smith, who became a director of Norwich City in 1905. The song was adopted by fans of the…
Milosevic was a leader who deliberately created conflict between Serbians, Croatians and Muslim Bosniaks (the three main ethnic groups in the region). Milosevic, also called “The Butcher of the Balkans” took advantage of the ethnic tensions that would be the cause of the Bosnian War. Top 10 Croatian War Facts:…
1415. Principal among these were the Medici, who dominated Florence from 1434, when the first pro-Medici government was elected, until 1492, when Lorenzo de Medici died. During their ascendancy the Medici subsidized virtually the entire range of humanistic and artistic activities associated with the Renaissance. Art was a major part…
India cements Ltd was founded in the year 1946 by two men, Shri S N N Sankaralinga Iyer and Sri T S Narayanaswami. They had the vision to inspire dreams for an industrial India, the ability to translate those dreams into reality and the ability to build enduring relationships and…
SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi Freedom Summer. What was the SNCC and what did they do? The…
It was the second of the Indochina WarsIndochina WarsThe Indochina Wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars fought in Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1991, between communist Indochinese forces (mainly Democratic Republic of Vietnam) against mainly French, State of Vietnam, American, Cambodian, Laotian Royal and Chinese…
Mindless Behavior was an American boy band who were best known for the singles “My Girl” and “Mrs. Right”, produced by Walter Millsap. The band was put together in Los Angeles in 2008, by Keisha Gamble, Vincent Herbert and Walter Millsap. Mindless Behavior (or simply known as “MB”) was a…
The Svalbard vault was opened in 2008, effectively as a backup storage unit for all those hundreds of thousands of varieties. The idea was conceived in the 1980s by Cary Fowler, a former executive director of the Crop Trust, but only started to become reality after an International Seed Treaty…