In October 1918, Alvin York was part of a group of seventeen soldiers sent to attack a post of German machine guns. Six of the men were killed and three more wounded after they captured a group of German soldiers, leaving York as the highest ranking officer of the remaining eight men. The seven soldiers beneath […]
In October 1918, in the Argonne Forest of France, the U.S. 77th division attacked the German line under the belief they had support on both their left and right flanks. In reality both their sides were left exposed after the German forces stopped the progress of these support units. Nine companies of the 77th, approximately 554 […]
The Process Communication Model (PCM) was developed by the psychologist Dr. Taibi Kahler in 1972. The model states that each and every person has six types of personality: Thinker, Persister, Harmoniser, Rebel, Imaginer, and Promoter. The key to this model is that people possess each of these traits in varying amounts, the combination of which […]
Xenophon was born in 430 BC in Athens, Greece, and is known for leading a two thousand mile retreat, roughly the distance from Los Angeles to Chicago. As a member of the Ten Thousand, a mercenary force, Xenophon joined the Persian prince Cyrus in a campaign to take the Persian throne from Cyrus’s older brother. […]
The House on the Rock was designed as a tourist attraction by Alex Jordan and was first opened to the public in 1959. Built atop a column of rock close to the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate, rumor has it that Alex Jordan began to build the House on the Rock after Wright said […]
The incident occurred after the Orsi family killed Caterina Sforza’s husband and took her family as prisoners in the Italian city of Forlí, of which her husband was Count and Caterina was Countess. One of the city’s fortresses refused to submit to the attackers and Sforza left her children with the captors and entered the […]
In 1918 doctors believed Milton Erickson would die at the age of 17 after he was so severely paralyzed from polio that he couldn’t move. Once it became clear he would survive it fell upon the shoulders of his family to nurse him back to health while he was bedridden and unable to speak. During […]
Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer who’s known for exploring Antarctica. His third expedition began in 1914 and was intended to be the first time a group of men crossed the Antarctic continent, through the south pole, on foot. Their plans included two ships, one called the Endurancewhich carried Shackleton and the explorers who were […]
The Peloponnesian War began when Sparta made demands which Athens had no intentions of executing, fearing initial concessions would lead to further demands. In response, Athens made its own demands, which Sparta rejected. The nature of demands isn’t important, what is important is the two sides chose to go to war. Pericles, one of the […]
Traditional Catholic Mass includes the rite of communion, a practice when worshippers consume the metaphorical body and blood of Jesus Christ. The priest blesses bread and wine which, according to the ritual, turns the bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood. All masses were conducted in Latin before Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation […]
