Author: Gloria Irabor

Jessica Berman, a former executive for the NHL and the National Lacrosse League, has been named commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League. Berman replaces Lisa Baird, who resigned last October amid a scandal involving allegations of sexual harassment and coercion brought against one of the league’s most prominent coaches. Berman’s appointment was announced on…

NFL’s first African-American referee, Johnny Grier, who passed away at age 74, has no records of his wife, marriage or relationships on the internet. Grier was an American football official for 23 years in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 2004. Born on April 16, 1947, Grier began his NFL career as a…

NFL’s first African-American referee, Johnny Grier, has passed away at age 74, and his cause of death is currently unknown. Grier was an American football official for 23 years in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 2004. Born on April 16, 1947, Grier began his NFL career as a field judge before becoming…

The Republic of China government received Taiwan in 1945 from Japan, then fled in 1949 to Taiwan with the aim to retake mainland China. Both the ROC and the PRC still officially (constitutionally) claim mainland China and the Taiwan Area as part of their respective territories. Is Taiwan And China One? The “One-China policy” is…

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The current Tsai Ing-wen administration of the Republic of China maintains that Taiwan is already an independent country as the ROC and thus does not have to push for any sort of formal independence. As of 2021, Taiwan was not regarded as…

Endurance (1912 Ship), was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway; three years later, she was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea…

The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton. A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using…

The ship was called ‘Endurance’ because she was designed for polar conditions with a very sturdy construction. Endurance was perhaps the strongest wooden ship ever built. She was designed with great inherent strength in her hull in order to resist collision with ice floes and to break through pack ice by ramming and crushing. Her…