… the children of the devil, but a scientific study suggests that sinistrals are not as cursed as was once thought. Some studies have indicated that left-handers are more likely to die prematurely than their right-handed counterparts. It was thought…

… about the emergence of black politics and its eventual decline before and after Reconstruction. By the end of 1867 virtually every black voter that could vote was a member in the Union League or some other political organization. Political organizations…

… 1869-1948 and was also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar, in the modern state of Gujarat, on October 2, 1869, into a Hindu family, Both his father and grandfather having been prime ministers of two adjacent and tiny states. After a modest…

… a different person a few years ago. Life a few years ago sure was better. Everything used to run smoother and people were rarely sad, but that was when I had my grandpa, he was a good man and a pastor at that. Everyone loved him; he was always there…

… and the elapse of time, loses its appeal. Shakespeare’s doesn’t. Mainly because Sh. devoted himself to man in all his more inevitable relations and qualities, that is, to you and me in all our more inevitable relations and qualities. He speaks…

… the same way that they are treated today. A couple of decades ago life was completely different for women. They were not allowed to do many of the basic things that women are doing now like voting, driving cars, working etc. Women…

… themselves to be ruled and what would be the best form of government for England. In 1651, Hobbes wrote his most famous work, the Leviathan. In it, he argued that people were naturally evil and could not be trusted to govern. The constant state of war…

… be like without them? Who would you hang out with in the cafeteria during lunch? Who would you tell about the new love in your history class who’s both cute and smart? Who would you have those marathon phone conversations with, you know, the ones…

… associated with modern day policing. In the year of 1829, he formed the first modern metropolitan police department. And the “Peelers,” or “Bobbies,” set precedent for what our police of today model themselves after. Upon Peel’s call for a metropol…

… one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. Some distinctive feature of Cummings's poetry is the abandonment of uppercase letters and his use of grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation. He had his own unique…