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In 1964, Marie Callender’s family opened their first pie and coffee shop. Her loyal customers savored the comforting, homemade touches in each and every serving. Her shop expanded into a chain — and into the meals and desserts found in grocery stores today.
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the ...
William Gilbert (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l b ər t /; 24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600).
Mar 31, 2022 · Mary Wollstonecraft Footnote 4 was born in 1759 in Spitalfields, a London suburb. The second child of six, she spent her childhood on a farm in the English countryside, growing up in a difficult, anger-ridden environment, with a father whose character was impetuous and fickle; Footnote 5 he was an alcoholic who was often violent with his wife, so much so that Mary often tried to defend her ...
Jul 26, 2016 · A set of three cardstock images depicting a front view of the Chicken Ranch, Sheriff T.J. “Big Jim” Flournoy at the Fayette County Fairgrounds and five topless women purported to be former ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Michelangelo (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, explained. Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo ...
