On Wednesday, President Barack Obama delivered a memorial speech regarding the Tuscon, Arizona shooting targeting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which wounded 13 people, killed six, and rattled the nation. Obama implored U.S. citizens to support each other with renewed civility, as well as...
James Madison, Jr. was the fourth President of the United States, an American politician, and political philosopher who contributed as a Founding Father during the late 1700s. Madison was born to Colonel James Madison, Sr. and Eleanor Rose Conway on March 16, 1751 in Orange County, Virginia. As...
The City of Boulder accidentally posted a map on its official website at bouldercolorado.gov, revealing the locations of over 60 warehouses and buildings where medical marijuana is grown, stored, or sold. Officials from the city stated an "oversight" due to an agenda briefing led to the pot post...
Jared Lee Loughner, shot congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (Dem.) and 11 others at a Tuscon, Arizona, supermarket on Saturday. The suspect opened fire on a crowd of constituents who had gathered before the store for a "Congress on Your Corner" event. Six people were killed, including a federal...
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of America. Jefferson was born to an affluent family in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia and was educated at local schools led by ministers and pastors as a child. At the age of nine,...
On Thursday, January 6, 2010, a pair of incendiary devices blew up at Maryland's Department of Transportation's headquarters in Hanover and at the Jeffrey Public Safety Building, a state government building in Annapolis. The first explosion occurred at the Jeffrey Public Safety Building at 12:30...
Attila the Hun was the King and Commander of the Huns from 434 – 453 AD taking over from his uncle King Rua. When he began his rule, he co-reigned with his brother Bleda until his death in 445. The Huns are believed to have been of Mongolian descent; they were nomadic and fiercely ready in war....
Born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December 37 AD in Antium, Nero was Roman emperor from 54 to 68 AD. He was the first Christian persecutor his indecision caused confusion during the Great Fire of Rome of 64. Nero has come to be associated with tyranny and decadence but his reign increased...
Born on 28 July 1954, Hugo Chavez is the 53rd president of Venezuela. He is a controversial world figure, best known for his often malicious and crass lecture style speeches against certain nations and his democratic socialist politics. Hugo Chavez began his career in the military where he...
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on 26 October 1947. She is the wife of former United States of America Bill Clinton and one of the most prominent women in American politics. She grew up in Illinois as the eldest and only daughter of middle class, conservative Methodist parents with two younger...
