The Tammany Society emerged as the center for Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city in the early 19th century. After 1854, the Society expanded its political control even further by earning the loyalty of the city's rapidly expanding immigrant community, which functioned as its base of political capital.
Osama bin Laden the infamous leader of the global terrorist organization Al Qaeda was once an important member of the U.S. backed Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.
They thought that the solar system we live in was the whole universe. So when they referred to the universe, they really meant only our solar system. Galileo did not agree that our universe is geocentric, or that everything revolves around Earth.
Trying to discover the fountain of youth, but ended up in florida :)
