The Victorians are known for their fascination with death. During the Victorian era (1837-1901) they took death very seriously, no expense was spared when arranging a proper funeral. During this time most American’s lives became restricted to the family. As the emotional focus of people narrowed to the immediate family, the significance of the final act expanded.…
Peter Minuit was the founder of the New York colony which was originally called New Hampshire. He founded the colony in 1626 on the Manhattan island. In 1664 the Dutch surrendered the colony to the English then it was renamed New York, after the Duke of York. Peter Minuit was born 1580 in Wesel Germany. He later became the governor of the new Sweden colony in 1638.…
Darryl Hunt worked at a local news department in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. On April 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was found killed and raped. Deborah Sykes was a co worker of Darryl Hunt’s, he claimed they had never talked really while he had worked there. The man who found her dead, called 911 and introduced himself as Sammy Mitchell, although the man was actually John Gray( Innocent Project). The police questioned John Gray and had him do a line up, to find the man he saw with Deborah Sykes. At first John identified a man who was in jail at the time, which police knew the man could not of done it for he was behind bars.( Innocent Project).…
Phil was born in Vivian, Louisiana on 24 Apr 1946. He is an entrepreneur who started the company Duck Commander where his sons and friends hand make duck calls and has a net worth of $15 Million to this day. His wife is Kay, his brother Si, and his four boys, Jase, Willie, Jep, and Alan. Phil was never quite satisfied with duck calls that were on the market so he began to experiment with making a duck call that sounded exactly like a duck in a small shed.…
Jefferson City, commonly referred to as “Jeff” or “Jeff City” and abbreviated as “JC” and “JCMO”, is the capital of the American state of Missouri. Originally called Lohman’s Landing, it started out as an unassuming settlement of explorers. In 1821, the town was declared state capital and subsequently given the name Missouriopolis, until in 1826 it was ultimately renamed after the third United States president Thomas Jefferson. Throughout its history, Jefferson City became prominent for the Missouri State Penitentiary, a prison that was opened from 1836 to 2004, earning the gruesome epithet of the “bloodiest 47 acres in America.” Today, Jeff City has a population of 43,079 and a wider metropolitan area of 149,807, which makes it the 15th largest…
Police have been around since the early 1800’s since Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett had there go arounds with brawls and shooting each other. Now, police have been around for a long time and have progressed since then and still are but eventually they will end their legacy one day but hopefully created?…
Mike Iaconelli was born in June 17, 1972. In South Philadelphia. And raised in Runnemede,N.J. And devoting his life to fishing. And is one of the best bass professional fisherman. He sponsored by Toyota trucks. And is worldwide known in fishing.…
John Turner was a Canadian prime minister who was born on the 7th of June 1929, in Richmond, England to an English father and a Canadian mother, and still alive to this day at the age of 85. However, his father passed away when he was only three years old, so his mother decided to move to Canada with John. They first lived in Rossland, British Colombia. However, she worked her way up in the civil service until she got promoted, which required moving to Ottawa (CanadaHistory).…
Bill Martin Jr. was born on March 20, 1916 in Kansas. Bill’s full name was William Ivan Martin Jr. after his father William and his mother Iva. He grew up in the small town of Hiawatha. When it came time to learn to read Bill really struggled. Mr. Martin once said he did’nt read his first full book until he entered college.…
Who would have thought that a night on the town could have ended up with an eighty-two year prison sentence for a young, Dustin Turner. Dustin Turner who was wrongly accused for the murder of a Ms. Jennifer Evans, who was vacationing at Virginia Beach Oceanfront at the time. Dustin would have been granted release from prison at the Virginia court of appeals, but was denied by Virginia Supreme court in a split 2-1 decision. Dustin Turner must be freed considering that the Virginia Court system has deprived him of his unalienable right and right to free will.…
Research Article: Sklaroff, S., Miron, M., Fields, H., & Marek, A. C. (2005). HORROR IN RED LAKE. U.S. News & World Report, 138(12), 28-29.…
Joshua Nealy came to be a medical student after exploring a variety of life options. Joshua has had a longstanding talent and interest in the arts and he is an accomplished Pianist having attained a high level of training and proficiency. He has had a broad spectrum of involvement and explored many subjects before taking his first step on his journey as a medical professional. After High School, he carried on to earn an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts and piano, followed by completion of a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Pre-Med Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. During these years he worked as a case manager for the developmentally disabled, owned and operated a painting business and worked 2 years as a medical…
Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a Canadian? What you need to do to even consider yourself to be a part of this country? I believe that Sam Steele could be considered a Canadian. There are many things that he did that made him canadian but the main reason for that is that he was the one who actually fought for Canada.…
I chose Sam Phillips for my producer because I love the blues and “rock and roll” and he played and important role in this area of the music industry. Sam Phillips inspires me to be more creative and to think outside the box when creating music. I think that's what music is all about. Sam not only broke down racial barriers in the music industry but really tested the limits of blues and helped and influenced the creation of “rock and roll”. He was a talent scout during the early stage of his career and I think talent scouts care more about music than even some musicians.…
Richard Allen was born February 14, 1760. During this time period more than one million people, representing a population increase of significant proportions, were living in the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic coast. disease, and infant mortality rates in the colonies were much lower than those in England, and life expectancy was considerably higher. Just under a quarter million blacks lived in the colonies, the slave numbers increased, along with the white population, through a combination of immigration, and natural increase. The colonies were part of an Atlantic trading network that linked them with England, Africa, and the West Indies. The pattern of commerce, called the Triangular Trade, involved the exchange of products from colonial farms, plantations, fisheries, and forests with England for manufactured goods and the West Indies for slaves, molasses, and sugar.#…