Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era.Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School.. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House.

The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.The mine is the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, which is considered to have produced more copper than any other …

The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.

The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military battle that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq.. Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces Land Component Command elements, led by the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, captured Baghdad.Over 2,000 Iraqi soldiers as well as 34 coalition troops were killed …

Month Date(s) Event July 15–17 E3 2008 in Santa Monica, California, United States.: July 31 – August 3 QuakeCon 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, United States.: October 2–4 Nintendo conference held in San Francisco, United States and Tokyo, Japan.

X-Men 2099 is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics from 1993 to 1996 that chronicled the adventures of an X-Men team in the year 2099. It extends the Marvel 2099 imprint, which features other future versions of popular Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man 2099 and Hulk 2099.The series was written by John Francis Moore and largely pencilled by Ron Lim.

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what …

On July 7, 2009, the Jonas Brothers announced that they had signed Honor Society to the record label they started with Hollywood Records. A month later, "Send It On" was released on Radio Disney.The radio single was performed with Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato for Disney's Friends for Change.On August 9, 2009, the Jonas Brothers hosted and …

Early life. Wormald was born in Boston, the son of Melanie and Edgar K. Wormald, and grew up in Stoughton, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Stoughton High School in 2002. He has two brothers, Lee and Dylan. He moved to Los Angeles right after his high school graduation.. Acting career. In January 2004, Wormald starred as a dancer in the movie You Got Served. In April …

Events January. 1 January 2000 Today, the marathon 28-hour live broadcast to celebrate the dawn of the new millennium, ends at 1:30pm.; Launch of Castaway 2000 on BBC One, a reality television show billed as a bold experiment for the new millennium.Thirty-six men, women and children from the British public, are placed on Taransay for a year. Taransay is a remote …