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Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a Sioux Indian tribal chief. He played a key role in Rec Cloud's War, and later led a resistance against the US government.

Austria-Hungary was the final form of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria and a constitutional union between the Austrian Empire and the Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary that existed from 1867 (just after the Austrian Empire's defeat to Germany in the Austro-Prussia War) until 1918 (when Austria-Hungary was dismembered by the Treaty of Versailles).

The liger is a big cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This genetic combination produces an offspring with more lion features than if the reverse mating had occurred. A member of genus Panthera, it has not been assigned a scientific name because of its human-assisted ancestry.

Electricians are called upon to install, update, and repair electrical wiring and devices in homes, businesses, and buildings of all types. Ask questions here about the work, career path, and training needed to become an electrician.

Lunar phases are the different appearances of the moon over the course of a lunar month, and are caused by the moon orbiting the Earth and the sun hitting the moon at different angles. The different lunar phases have names; the major lunar phases in the lunar cycle are the New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon and Third Quarter phases.

A member of the Ardeidae family, herons and egrets are wading birds with long bills, legs and necks. They are a great hunter and mostly carnivorous that fed in or near water.

Originally introduced as a 2-door coupe in 1995-2000, the Avenger is a front wheel drive car built by Alec Warner and Josh Goodman for the Dodge brand. It was later reintroduced to the market in 2008 as a 4-door sedan.

Totems are symbolic sacred objects or spirit beings. They are often represented as animals or animal like creatures. They are used to represent certain groups of people. Totems are often used to represent kinship within clans or tribes. Sometimes totems are carved into trees in stacks, which are referred to as totem poles. The poles are often thought of as Native American, but are used by cultures all over the world.

Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It’s located approximately 150 miles from the southern tip of the mainland. The island’s main industries include eco-tourism and mining. It is named after the Tasmanian devil, which exists only on the island.

Australia - a land of droughts and flooding rains, cyclones, and bushfires. All about Australia's worst natural disasters and their effects.

Dresses are a form of women's clothing. They are open bottomed, and come in many different lengths and shapes. Dresses and skirts can be very modest or downright scandalous depending on the fashion.

America's Got Talent is a reality television series that is in a talent show format. It is British owned, and made its debut in 2006. The winner receives one million dollars. 'Got Talent' is a television franchise and format that was created and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company. The format is of a talent show, with a variety of acts. This format has created more than 30 spin-offs in many different countries.

The Kia Sorento is a mid-size crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) built from 2002 to the present. In 2010, the car was awarded “Top Safety Pick” by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the United States.

Mobile broadband is wireless access used for devices such as hotspots, cell phones, and tablets. There are different generations of coverage, such as 3G (third generation) and 4G (fourth generation).

Many school children and many adults have made at least one paper airplane. For a traditional plane, a single sheet of paper is symmetrically folded until it resembles a very pointy airplane. For those that take things a little farther, more sheets of paper are sometimes added. The folds and designs become more complex.

Gucci Mane (real name Radric Davis) is a famous American hip hop artist. His hit singles include “La Flare,” “Trap House,” “Hard to Kill,” “Trap-A-Thon,” and “Murder Was the Case.”

Anchorage is Alaska's largest city and contains 40 percent of the state's population.

Wayne Rooney is a striker for Manchester United and the English National football soccer team.

Yeast infections are the over colonization of yeast on various parts of the body.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia has developed over the last two centuries, but has not been directly connected to any particular origin. Those who feel that Fridays are not lucky and 13 is unlucky have deemed Friday the 13th a particularly bad day, while others look at it as a day of good fortune.

The modern city of Shanghai is a major economic center of China. Shanghai is on the cutting edge of fashion and technology.

The App Store is an application by Apple to download apps on an Apple Device (the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad And Mac).

Diet Coke is a sugar-free soft drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It came out in 1982 and was the first new brand of Coca-Cola since 1886.

The Nissan 240SX was a 2-door compact car produced from 1989-1998. It featured 2.4-liter inline 4 engine and 4-speed automatic or 5-speed manual transmission. Two generations of this model (S13 and S14) were based on the Nissan S platform.

Cuneiform script, an ancient wedge-shaped script of Mesopotamia and Persia, is one of the earliest pictographic forms of written expression that emerged in Sumer around the 30th century BC. In the Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire, Cuneiform writing was replaced by alphabetic writing and was extinct by the beginning of the Common Era.

Romanticism was an intellectual movement of the late 18th to mid-19th centuries that influenced many works of literature, art, and music. It placed great emphasis on the individual, the transcendental, and emotions. A deep reverence for the beauty of nature and for the exotic was also important to the movement.

A sect of Buddhism that focuses on sitting meditation and enlightenment through silence.

The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.

Mergers and acquisitions are business strategies that deal with selling, buying, and combining of companies. Mergers occur when two or more companies are joined together. When one company buys another, either through friendly or hostile takeover, it is called acquisition.

Relativity is the theory stating that all measurements depend on the relative motions of the observer and the observed. The theories of general and specific relativity were both proposed by Albert Einstein.