It’s the most famous dam in the world, and it was officially dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt on this day, September 30th, 1935. Originally, it was simply called “the Boulder dam”, after the Boulder Canyon, in which it was built. It was renamed for President Herbert Hoover in 1947. The Dam was built to provide […]
So much history
John Devoy was an Irish nationalist leader and exile.
The ancient Greek philosopher’s probing questions still perturb and inspire us today
In 1066 the course of British history changed forever when William, the Duke of Normandy, landed on the southern coast of England and seized the country from its Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The French had a long history of claims in England, and in 1002 the English king Aethelred the Unready married the sister […]
The data ensures that it will be recorded as a period of mass psychosis.
Now is the time for ICAO to reconnect with Taiwan
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
Nope. All computers only execute algorithms
Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a ‘moral Coventry.’ He described his plight in a letter to The Times: “…people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my house. My farm is public property, I can get no […]
In Ireland, the subject receives no attention
It was one of the great triumphs of 19th century science.