A Brief History On August 7, 1942, US Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands chain, initiating the first US ground offensive of World War II (a subject we previously covered in our article “First U.S. Offensive of World War II Begins on Guadalcanal”). When those Marines hit the beach, they were equipped with the M1903 Springfield rifle, a classic bolt action rifle that first saw action during World War I. When the US Army soldiers later landed on the island to reinforce the Marines, the soldiers were equipped with the newer M-1 Garand semi-automatic rifle,…
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A Brief History In 1997, Nokia launched the successful mobile game Snake for monochrome phones. Long gone are the days when there was one game that everyone played on their phone. Do you remember the Era of Snake? Come to think of it, is quite surprising how addictive it was when there was not much graphics, not much excitement and just a 2D game with minimal graphics. Even so, the amount of time spent on that one game was incredible. Nowadays there are infinite options when it comes to mobile games. Digging Deeper Installation When mobile phones first surfaced, the games that…
A Brief History On August 6, 2001, a tragedy known as the “Erwadi fire incident” occurred in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. A fire broke out at the Moideen Badusha Mental Home in Erwadi Village, claiming the lives of 28 of the patients/inmates there. A fire and fatalities do not make for a strange tale, except in this case those poor mental patients were chained down! Run by a faith based organization, the mental home sought to “cure” its patients by caning and beating the patients while treating them with water from a holy shrine in the village. …
A Brief History On August 5, 2019, while the nation reels from recent mass shootings in Gilroy, California (3 dead), El Paso, Texas (22 dead), and Dayton, Ohio (9 dead), the calls for “common sense” gun control are ringing loud and strong. Problem is, what is “common sense” when it comes to gun control? Not everyone agrees! (Note: We sincerely want to stem the violence in the United States and decrease the number of murders and crimes by criminals with guns. We also advocate for measures that actually help, and not “feel good” useless laws that do not really address…
A Brief History In early 1940, German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) wrote Theses on the Philosophy of History or On the Concept of History (German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte), an essay composed of twenty numbered paragraphs. To write a history essay is a hard job. Every essay takes a lot of time, but history has its specialties, and we will talk about them a little later. An essay in common is a typical work that you must do almost on every subject. So if you have some experience in it, it will be easier, but if you…