by Matilda Cruz | Dec 12, 2023 | History
John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s donation on December 12, 1946, was historic. He gave six blocks of land in Manhattan to construct the United Nations headquarters. This gift became a symbol of international cooperation and the desire for peace in a world recovering...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 11, 2023 | History
Like an old song says, you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Today, the Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Until 1911, though, it was a reasonably obscure painting that mostly only art experts knew about. The...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 10, 2023 | History
When Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, passed away, he willed his entire fortune to create the Nobel Prize to award outstanding scientific achievements and improve the human condition. The most famous of these is the Nobel Peace Prize, given to the person or...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 9, 2023 | History
Women’s athletics exploded in popularity during the 1970s, thanks in no small part to Congress passing Title IX legislation in 1972. This legislation, which prohibited discrimination based on gender in federally funded sports programs, was a significant...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 8, 2023 | History
At the beginning of 1941, America was resolute in its determination to stay out of the war engulfing much of the world. The German armies had conquered most of Western Europe, and England suffered greatly under a prolonged German bombing campaign. China was fighting...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 7, 2023 | History
On December 7, 1988, the Armenian town of Spitak was abruptly thrust into a catastrophe that almost destroyed it in a matter of minutes. The sudden devastation began at 11:41 in the morning when a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck, with an epicenter just three...