Juneteenth, also widely known as Emancipation Day, is the American celebration to commemorate June the 19th, 1865, when African American slaves learnt they were officially free in Galveston, Texas.
Juneteenth
18th June 2021
A History of Oil
18th June 2021
Crude oil, otherwise known as unrefined petroleum, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid made up of hydrocarbons found beneath the Earth’s surface. The date at which oil was first discovered is disputed, however, historians agree that oil was first discovered in China.
Rating Late-Night Talk Show Hosts
18th June 2021
Late-night talk shows: the most entertaining way to get your news and the least entertaining way to get your celebrity gossip. Embarrassingly, watching late-night talk shows is my guilty pleasure, so I believe myself fairly qualified to rank some of the most well-known talk show hosts on American TV.
How and why was writing invented?
11th June 2021
Britannica says writing is a “form of human communication by means of a set of visible marks that are related, by convention, to some particular structural level of language.” While this definition may be technically correct, it glosses over the significance of writing in our uniquely human nature.
A review of Inside
11th June 2021
Inside is a Netflix comedy special written, performed, and directed by Bo Burnham, a 30-year-old American comedian/musician. It was written and filmed by Burnham himself over the course of 2020, as the pandemic forces Americans to stay ‘inside’, the premise of the special.