Charles Dickens Born February 7, 1812 Charles John Hoffman Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. He was the son of a naval clerk and his wife and he was the second of eight children not all of whom survived. Dickens’s Father changed his place of employment more than once, though he …
America’s First Hot Air Balloon Flight In the late 1700s, there was a major change in many people’s perception of the world. It was the end of the Age of Enlightenment and the Start of the Industrial Age. Call it The Age Before Pop Culture. People were doing more than just thinking about what was …
The Declaration of Independence When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a …
Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More or Saint Thomas More, is one of the great figures in both political and religious history. To Henry VIII, he was a good friend and confidant as well as an enemy and a betrayer of England. To Catholics, he is a saint and was martyred for his Catholic faith. …
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It refers to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when many Christians begin to fast for the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday. The feast of The Epiphany or The Three Kings closes the Christmas season and opens up a season of carnival. In some countries these carnivals …
