The French Revolution, lasting from 1789 – 1799, was a struggle to abolish the “Ancient Regime” and create a constitutional monarchy. This revolution was largely caused by Louis XVI who put the French in debt. Hence the outrageous spending, Louis XVI decided to impose taxes on the nobility (2nd estate). On May 5, 1789 in…
In 1849, the drug company, Pfizer, was founded in New York by Charlie Pfizer and Charles Erhart. Pfizer and Erhart’s discovery led to the ability to aid wounded soldiers in the Civil War through the use of necessary drugs. Today, Pfizer is the talk of the media largely due to the fact that the company…
The Tide Pod Challenge began in 2018 and was a viral media challenge. The goal was to ingest tide pods for fun and experiment if they would get sick afterwards. People would record themselves doing the challenge in the hopes of going viral on Youtube, Instagram, Twitter or any other media platform. But did this…
The Severn Sailing Team will be hosting a Bring a Friend to Sailing Day during the week of 10/26. It will be held on Thursday or Friday at the normal practice time of 3-6 pm. Although each sailor is only allowed to bring one person, everyone is welcome from Severn students to faculty. There will…
If you were an attuned watcher of the Vice-Presidential debate on Wednesday night, you would have noticed a fly landed on Mike Pence’s head. Flies have been prevalent in artwork for thousands of years representing “death, rot or decay”. For instance, in 1470, a painting, Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family, illustrated by…
During the 20th century, the Wright Brothers built the first ever flying machine that paved the way for a new form of technology that would transport people or objects around the world. The path of constructing a fast and efficient airplane required substantial energy with many obstacles. The Wright Brothers took a fair amount of…
On Thursday, Governor Larry Hogan and Superintendent Karen Salmon concluded their evaluation on the COVID crisis in respective counties all over the state, deciding that it would be safe for Fall sports to resume on October 7th. Although, the majority if not all the public schools are not open for students to come on schools’ grounds.…
TikTok took the internet by storm in September of 2016. But that was not where its publicity started. The famous app was originally known as Musical.ly, when it launched back in July of 2014. Musical.ly was an app where users could make videos of themselves using different sounds. A few years later, the app was…