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23 hours ago · 1. 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United ...
23 hours ago · A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.
1 hour ago · Marvel has officially brought X-Men 's "Krakoa Era" to an end, after five years of some of the most re-inventive and divisive X-Men storytelling, following the 2019 "House of X/Powers of X" reboot ...
23 hours ago · The new film is billed as a dark "triptych fable," costarring Willem Dafoe, "Civil War" actor Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, "The Whale" star Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and "Euphoria ...
23 hours ago · Based on all available forms, the hypothetical proto-Celtic word may be reconstructed as *dru-wid-s (pl. *druwides) whose original meaning is traditionally taken to be "oak-knower", based on the association of druids' beliefs with oak trees made by Pliny the Elder, who also suggested the word is borrowed from Greek δρῦς (drỹs) 'oak tree ...
