It’s that time of year again: when a nation gathers to watch a series of high-budget TV advertisements for various oh-so-American products (you know, like beer). Every year, the Super Bowl ads are commercials that tell stories, that make statements, that speak to the zeitgeist of what it means to be alive in the U.S. in this moment — and they’re commercials that often get things, well, not quite right....
Learning to ride a bike comes with a lot of mixed emotions — for both you and your child. You’re excited to see them learn and succeed at trying something new, but possibly a little hesitant when it comes to falling and their safety. One of the best ages to start the training process is around 3-years-old. Instead of hopping right into a bike with pedals, you can start your little one out on a balance bike for 3-year-olds that will teach them the basics of balancing before moving up a level....
Life is rough before you’ve had your caffeinated beverage. You’re usually in a total fog and barely know what day it is. Start your day off on the right foot with a personalized tumbler. Whether you want to start your day with a smile or have a coworker who can’t keep their mitts off your coffee mug, these personalized coffee tumblers will do the trick. They also make fantastic gifts for family, friends and even your boss....
Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: September 20, 1805 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark September 19, 1805September 21, 1805September 20, 1805 Friday September 20th 1805....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete” TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas’d, The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage, The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant, Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute; (What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth’s orbic scheme?...
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > William Blake > William Blake: The Book of Thel, II TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales by WilliamBlakeIIIIII O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me Why thou complainest now when in one hour thou fade away: Then we shall seek thee but not find: ah Thel is like to thee....
Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene VI TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Scene VIRome. Octavius Caesar’s houseEnter Octavius Caesar, Agrippa, and MecaenasOctavius CaesarContemning Rome, he has done all this, and more, In Alexandria: here’s the manner of ’t: I’ the market-place, on a tribunal silver’d, Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat Caesarion, whom they call my father’s son, And all the unlawful issue that their lust Since then hath made between them....
Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Scene VElsinore. A room in the castleEnter Queen Gertrude, Horatio, and a GentlemanQueen GertrudeI will not speak with her....
Home > History > Women’s History > Women in Technology TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Profiles of female trailblazers in technology by Jennie Wood Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer Women in Technology Ada Lovelace Grace Hopper Hedy Lamarr Jean Sammet Roberta Williams Sheryl Sandberg Melissa Mayer Related Links Women in the Civilian Labor Force 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women Mothers Participating in Labor ForceA quick look at the history of technology will reveal that women have been involved from the beginning....
Your kids are home. Y’all have all been home a lot in the last year. Even though there’s hope for things to change in the near future, that doesn’t change that they’re inside now, and as such, you’ve probably missed your regular exercise routine. Since you don’t want to grant them anymore screen time, you might want to consider incorporating your kids into your workout routine. As you already know, kids have a ton of energy, especially for activities they find fun....
Home > U.S. > U.S. Geography > Landmarks > World Heritage Sites in the United States TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified 878 World Heritage sites that it considers of “outstanding universal value....
Home TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales In a year of musical extremes, the top recordings ranged from the Latin pop of hip-shaking sensation Ricky Martin to the slacker rock and hip-hop of the phenomenally successful Kid Rock....
Though we’ve entered a new realm of period positivity in recent years, period sex is a highly divisive topic. Some women swear by it (myself included), while the idea of getting it on during Shark Week dials up the ick-factor for others. I get it. That said, there are so many amazing stats on and benefits to having sex during menstruation. More often than not, I’ve found my partners amenable to having sex during my period....
Fire and blood are coming. Get ready to unlearn all the catchphrases you heard on Game of Thrones. The first one you’ll unlearn is that “every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin.” Because, as you will learn on HBO Max’s House of the Dragon, “madness” hardly runs in the Targaryen family. Related story Excited for House of the Dragon? Here's How To Revisit Game of Thrones If you wish you could unsee the nonsensical final season of what once was the most popular show in the world, you are bound to love its prequel House of the Dragon....
Breathing is one of the few things in life most of us can do without thinking about it. If you’re reading this, you’re probably getting enough oxygen in to keep yourself alive, but you can most likely improve your breathing technique. Yes: There is a right and a wrong way to do it. SheKnows spoke with several health and wellness experts to find out what we’re doing wrong, how we can fix it and what it can do for our health....
Depending on who you ask, something either really scary or really amazing happened on New Years Day. I started bracing myself back in October. It happens every year like clockwork, so I know the timeline and the signs. I have a plan for how I’ll cope. It’s diet season, and here in the U.S., it starts Thanksgiving week. You might be wondering to yourself “who is on a diet during the holidays?...
This is the story I’ve been too nervous to write for 25 years. And this is the story I have to write because it’s the story so many people live but are too afraid to tell: I’m bisexual. I always have been — I remember having crushes on girls as early as age 9 — but I didn’t know that was a thing for a very long time. I didn’t know I could like girls for a very long time....
Jessie J is chronicling the “heartbreaking” pain of a recent miscarriage, which she says, “put life into perspective.” “I posted about losing my baby just hours after I was told,” the singer captioned a black-and-white Instagram video of her singing live. “I reacted in work mode. It’s safe to say I sometimes pour more energy into creating an unhealthy process of my own pain in front of a camera, than I do acknowledging it behind one in real time....
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. At the beginning of their relationship, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were somehow able to maintain their privacy for months. There’s a lot we don’t really know about those first few chapters of the couple’s romance, but thanks to a new royal book, we’re getting a peek into their early days together....
Reese Witherspoon is one of the most versatile actresses ever, handling dramas like Walk The Line and comedies like Legally Blonde with equal grace. But there’s one character that Witherspoon seems especially attracted to: the neurotic, over-prepared, and over-eager woman who leaves most of her peers irritated but seriously gets shit done. Witherspoon has played a number of these roles, from Election‘s Tracy to Big Little Lies‘ Madeline, and her latest role, Elena Richardson in the new Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere, is no different....
