Why are the Secret Service in charge of protecting the president of the USA? They were the only agency capable of doing it at the time. The Secret Service was tasked with protecting the president of the United States in 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley. McKinley had just been elected for his second […]
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Who were Sotheby and Christie? Sotheby was John Sotheby, the nephew of Samuel Baker. Christie was James Christie. If you want to sell anything rare or valuable at auction, the best places you could sell it are Sotheby’s or Christie’s. They are the two largest and most famous auction houses in the world. There is
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Why are Adidas and Puma rivals? Either because the brother’s wives didn’t like each other or because one brother thought the other brother was the reason he was conscripted into the German army. When you think of famous sports brands, you probably think of Nike, Adidas, Puma, Asics, and many Reebok. I’m sure you can
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Why did knights start wearing armor? Technological advances in metallurgy and changes in society made it possible. Soldiers have always used some type of protection, be it a shield or a helmet. Very few people want to go into battle with only a sword and nothing to protect them. The first type of plate armor
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What caused the Great Vowel Shift? It was a very large change in pronunciation that happened in England between 1400 and 1700. Nobody knows exactly what caused it. If you try to read Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, you will be able to string the letters together into words and you can probably understand what quite a
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Why is an Academy Award called an Oscar? There are many theories, but no one knows the actual reason why. The Academy Awards are awarded once a year, usually in February or March. They are the most important and coveted of all the awards for movies. They are watched by millions of people around the
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Why was the Great Wall of China built? It was built to protect the territory of the new Chinese empire, to protect the silk road, because the labor was available, the emperor wanted to be remembered, and as a show of power. The official length of the Great Wall of China is 21,196.18 km long.
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What does it mean to impeach a president? Impeachment is the process by which any federal official can be charged for doing something wrong and then removed from office. When we think of impeachment, we probably think of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump being impeached. Or perhaps we think of Richard Nixon resigning before he
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Were gunslingers real? There were people in the Wild West who were employed to shoot people, or who did it for other reasons, but they weren’t called gunslingers. That term didn’t come into existence until 1920. The image we have of gunslingers is pretty much entirely a myth that we can thank the Spaghetti Westerns
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What happened to the Donner Party? They got stuck on the Sierra Nevada mountain pass while migrating to California and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The events that they are famous for happened in the winter of 1846 to 1847, but they started to migrate in the spring of 1846. The Donner party
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