Author: Barbara Quarshie

Jane Seymour Fonda is an actress, activist, and former fashion model from the United States. Fonda has received numerous honours, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Jane Fonda has been arrested six times in total. Jane’s first arrest occurred in 1970, while…

Santa Clara County prosecutors revealed Thursday, May 12 that a San Jose police officer was detained and charged with indecent exposure for reportedly masturbating in a residence where he responded to a complaint of a domestic disturbance last month. Officer Matthew Dominguez, 32, a four-year veteran of the agency, is scheduled to be arraigned on…

Étouffée and gumbo are two traditional New Orleans rice dishes with a few important differences. The most noticeable difference between étouffée and gumbo is the consistency of the finished dish. While both recipes employ broth as a basis, such as shrimp stock, crawfish tailstock, or chicken broth, étouffée has a thicker, gravy-like consistency due to…

Kwanzaa is a festival that is largely observed in the United States. It is a seven-day festival that takes place every year between December 26 and January 1. The seven candles, known as Mishumaa Saba, represent the Seven Principles. These are the African community’s, family’s, culture’s, and values’ principles. The candle holder for Kwanzaa is…

The term was first applied to an arms dealer named Basil Zaharoff. Basil was a Greek arms dealer and industrialist. One of the richest men in the world during his lifetime However, the term “merchant of death” has been given to mercenary arms traffickers in recent times, most notably the Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout, who…

Merchants of death was a term coined in the 1930s in the United States to describe corporations and banks that supplied and supported World War I. “Zaharoff, Merchant of Death” was the title of a 1932 story about an arms dealer named Basil Zaharoff. It was then used as the title of H. C. Engelbrecht…

Kwanzaa is a seven-day celebration of African-American culture founded in 1966 by Black nationalist Maulana Karenga during the civil rights movement. Kwanzaa is derived from the Swahili term matunda ya kwanza, which means “first fruits,” according to Karenga. Karenga stated in the early years of Kwanzaa that it was intended to provide an alternative to…

Kwanzaa is an annual African-American cultural event that runs from December 26 to January 1 and culminates with a communal feast called Karamu on the sixth day. Kwanzaa was founded by American Maulana Karenga in 1966 as a uniquely African-American holiday in the aftermath of the Watts riots. Karenga stated that his purpose was to…

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author, abolitionist, and one of the most powerful women of the nineteenth century. Despite writing hundreds of novels, essays, and articles during her lifetime, she is most remembered for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly, which shed new light on the situation of enslaved people…

Will Kopelman works as an art consultant and a businessman with clients in the entertainment business. A-list celebrities such as actor Robert Pattinson, actress Zooey Deschanel, and singer Lake Bell are among his clients. He met several celebrities while working as an art advisor and kept good relationships with them. He eventually received an offer…