Historical Context On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers celebrated the end of their long voyage with a thanksgiving immediately upon landing at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia. The group's London Company charter stated, "that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
The romanticized scene, painted centuries after the event, between 1912-15 by American painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris shows common misconceptions about the event that has been called " Read More...
New York City in 1977 was notoriously tough. With the Son of Sam murders, economic disaster and a July blackout that was the occasion for widespread looting and crime, the city was in bad shape. And nowhere exemplified that situation like the South Bronx did.
Mary Cronin, a TIME Correspondent sent to the South Bronx in the wake of the blackout, noted that, with some 2,000 stores affected by crime during that episode, “store owners gaze angrily at the rubble, the empty shelves and the twisted grilles hanging from their windows. Read More...
Beauty standards differ in every generation. Nobody knows who starts the trend of what is ideal in every generation. We just know that there is an ideal body shape women aspire to every new decade. It started from bum pads, hip pads and extra cushioned brassieres; now, it expanded to breasts and ass enlargement creams and plastic surgery. ADVERTISEMENT
Plastic surgery was made popular by foreign and local celebrities. Read More...
