A Brief History Today, on July 13th, 2014, the 20th FIFA World Cup soccer championship game will be taking place between Germany and Argentina. Digging Deeper This international tournament for soccer, known as football to most of the world, takes place once every four years and is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) who also chooses the host. The current host is Brazil. Although soccer is relatively unpopular in the United States, in Europe and South America the World Cup is the equivalent of American football’s Super Bowl, baseball’s World Series and basketball’s NBA Championship finals combined.…
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A Brief History On April 30, 1993, Hungarian (by ancestry) tennis star, Monica Seles, was stabbed in the back by a fan obsessed with Steffi Graf, another well known female tennis star. Seles was number one in the world for the previous 2 years, but unfortunately was absent from pro tennis for 2 years after the stabbing. She had already won 8 Grand Slam titles had become the youngest ever French Open winner at age 16. She was only 20 years old at the time of the attack and never regained her championship form, playing her last professional match in…
A Brief History On April 25, 2014, The Quiet Ones will be released in American theaters. The film purports to be inspired by actual events, but to what extent does the movie recreate these so-called “actual events”? Digging Deeper In the 1970s, real-life Dr. Alan Robert George Owen created the Toronto Society for Psychical Research. According to journalists Ryan and Louise Hung, this group consisted of eight adult men and women who invented a fictional aristocrat named Philip Aylesford. This fake man lived centuries ago and achieved infamy for cheating on his wife with a Gypsy. The angry wife then…
A Brief History On March 7, 1274, Saint Thomas Aquinas died having not completed his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiæ, in which he defines evil as the absence or privation of good. Tragically, numerous men and women have walked our Earth demonstrating few if any “good” qualities. This article lists these most evil examples of humans in chronological order by their dates of birth. A few quick things to keep in mind before reading this list: First, this article is a work in progress in that it only links to people featured in greater detail in existing articles on History and…
A Brief History On February 15, 2013, Russians were stunned by a meteor exploding 76,000 feet above Chelyabinsk Oblast! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find the largest object to enter Earth’s atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, coincidentally also in Russia. The 2013 event literally came out of the blue and with no warning, streaming across south central Russia from the southeast at a speed of Mach 60 (that is over 40,000 miles per hour)! Giving off brilliant lights that were brighter the light from the sun, the fiery trajectory was captured on many personal recording devices, including dash cams mounted on private automobiles.…