Archive for the ‘Culture, Society, Politics’ Category

McMansion

McMansion is a pejorative neologism, coined by NY environmentalist Jay Westervelt, (Westerveld)[1] to describe a particular type of housing that is constructed in an assembly line fashion reminiscent of food production at McDonald’s fast food restaurants. The term is one of many McWords. A McMansion...
October 20th, 2008 | Culture, Society, Politics, Information | Read More

The Donna Yaklich Story

December 1985 — Dennis Yaklich was gunned down in front of his Avondale home by brothers Charles, 16, and Edward, 25, Greenwell. They testified Donna Yaklich hired them to kill her husband — a Pueblo police narcotics officer — in exchange for $45,000 in insurance money. There was never much doubt...
August 10th, 2008 | Culture, Society, Politics, Society | Read More

Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion was an insurgence by associates of the Chinese Society of Right and Harmonious Fists adjoin adopted access in areas such as trade, politics, adoration and technology. The campaigns took abode from November 1899 to 7 September 1901, during the final years of Manchu aphorism in China...
August 9th, 2008 | Culture, Society, Politics, Information | Read More