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What was the government of Megara in ancient Greece?

Despite being a tyrant, Theagenes depended heavily on popular support. Early in his rise to power, Theagenes courted this support from the poor of Megara by slaughtering the cattle of the city's wealthiest citizens.\nIn time, Megara fell into the orbit of Sparta, though it remained independent with regard to its internal policies. Megara's secession from the Peloponnesian League was the proximate cause of the first Peloponnesian War, and Athens' attempt to break the city economically was the proximate cause of the second Peloponnesian War. These wars left Megara's governmen..

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How was the bendy straw invented?

Friedman built the bendy straw by putting a screw inside a paper straw and creating indentations in the paper with a string. He then removed the screw and found that the straw successfully bent.

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What laws did George Washington pass?

During the presidency of George Washington between 1789 and 1797, Congress approved several other laws, such as the first internal revenue law and the "Whiskey Act" in 1791. Washington signed several foreign policy treaties as well, including Jay's Treaty in 1794, which established solutions to the commercial and military issues between the United States and Britain. Washington also signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the Treaty of San Lorenzo in 1795.

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Who was Giovanni de Verrazano?

King Francis I of France commissioned Verrazzano to find a water passage to the Pacific and the Orient. On his first voyage, Verrazzano reached Cape Fear, North Carolina, then sailed along the North American coast to Newport, Rhode Island. It was on this voyage that Verrazzano discovered and explored the Chesapeake Bay, the Hudson River and New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay.\nVerrazzano made two more voyages to America. The moderate success of his second voyage led to a third trip that ended tragically. While exploring an island off the coast of the Bahamas and Lesser Ant..

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What were Henry Hudson's parents' names?

Biography.com also states, it is rumored that Hudson was married to a woman named Katherine, with whom he had three sons. He was the commander of a ship named Discovery. Hudson is believed to have died in 1611, when his crew mutinied and left him and those loyal to him (including one of his sons) in a small boat. Several locations are named after Hudson, including the Hudson Bay, the Hudson River, Hudson County, the town of Hudson in New York and the Henry Hudson Bridge.

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What are the features on the West Virginia state flag?

Between the two men sits a rock with the date West Virginia attained statehood: June 20, 1863. Located below the men are two rifles with a red "Liberty Cap" on top. Underneath is another red banner with the words "Montani Semper Liberi," which means "Mountaineers are always free." A rhododendron wreath is around the picture.\nAdopted on March 7, 1929, this flag followed several other flags flown over West Virginia since it joined the Union. A pledge to this state flag was adopted on Feb. 8, 1977.

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What did the Huron tribe eat?

Corn, beans and squash were known as the three sisters to the Wyandot and served as the basis for their diet. While men cleared the fields using slash-and-burn methods to prepare the land for cultivation, women did the actual farming, including planting, cultivating, harvesting and processing of the crops. In addition, the women grew tobacco as an item for trading with the nearby tribes. Each family had its own small plot of land for farming. Wyandot villages typically moved every 10 years as the soil used for farming became less fertile.\nThe Wyandot men hunted game using bows and arrows. The..

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What did cowboys eat?

Cowboy food used a limited number of ingredients, partly because imported foods were expensive and partly because they needed food that kept well on the cattle trail. Coffee was an essential part of breakfast, which was large and high in fats and protein. Lunch was commonly beans, and dinner generally included something sweet like vinegar pie or apple dumplings. Because a large percentage of cowboys were of Mexican origin, spices and flavorings of that cuisine were popular.\nCowboys loved "mountain oysters," sliced and fried calf testicles. These were harvested in the spring when preadolescent..

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What are some inventions of the modern age?

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He came up with the idea in 1874, and patented it in 1876. The light bulb was thought of and developed by many inventors, but Thomas Edison perfected it, inventing an incandescent bulb that could last for 1,500 hours in 1880.\nInventors throughout history have imagined a flying machine, but the Wright brothers were the first to build and fly a powered airplane. Their first flight, on an airplane called "The Flyer," lasted 12 seconds.

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Who invented the Band-Aid?

Earle Dickson and his wife would cut pieces of adhesive tape and put some cotton on them to make bandages. It took so much time to do this that Earle changed the way they made them. Earle decided to place pieces of cotton gauze along a long strip of tape. He then covered it all with crinoline. Whenever Josephine cut or burned herself, she would only have to cut a length of the bandage and put it on her injury.

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