Sage-Advices

Can an at-will employee be wrongfully terminated? In simple terms, at-will employment means that both the employer and the employee may end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason. Wrongful termination is really a misnomer, as it is not illegal to terminate an at-will employee for a wrongful, unfair or unproven reason. What […]

How many stan countries are there? There are seven countries in Central Asia with the suffix “-stan”: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The suffix comes from the Persian root istan, or “land”—hence the “land of the Uzbeks,” “land of the Kazakhs,” and so forth. What does the stan in Pakistan mean? Land […]

Is Black Hawk Down historically accurate? From its bleak portrayal of third world countries to the gory and terrifying situations that American soldiers often find themselves in, to the almost flawless and historically accurate telling of the Battle of Mogadishu, Black Hawk Down is a very realistic and accurate picture of what American soldiers had […]

What is Jeffersonian agrarianism? Thomas Jefferson envisioned an agrarian society where a farmer who owned land would raise his own subsistence without a need to depend on the caprice of customers. Who proposed Agrarianism? 18th- and 19th-century Europeans and Americans The political philosopher James Harrington influenced the development of explicit agrarian designs for the colonies […]

Where did Niall Horan live as a child? Childhood and School Years. Niall James Horan was born on September 13, 1993, in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. His parents, Bobby and Maura Horan, divorced when he was a child. He and his older brother, Greg, moved back and forth between their parents’ two households before settling […]