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21 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and United States citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
21 hours ago · Palau, [a] officially the Republic of Palau, [b] [6] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific. The republic consists of approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caroline Islands with parts of the Federated States of Micronesia. It has a total area of 466 square kilometers (180 sq ...
21 hours ago · t. e. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI, FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, [1] [2] [3] philosopher, and educationist [4] in nineteenth-century British India. [5] [6] Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is ...
21 hours ago · This article covers worldwide diplomacy and, more generally, the international relations of the great powers from 1814 to 1919. [note 1] This era covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815), to the end of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920).
21 hours ago · The Russo-Japanese War ( Japanese: 日露戦争, romanized : Nichiro sensō, lit. 'Japanese-Russian War'; Russian: русско-японская война, romanized : russko-yaponskaya voyna) was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. [4]
- Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korea, Sea of Japan
- Japanese victoryTreaty of Portsmouth
21 hours ago · History First Spanish designs Discovery La Capitana, the Captain's Ensign of Columbus's Ships The introduction of a flag in Puerto Rico can be traced back to November 19, 1493 when Christopher Columbus landed on the island's shore, and with the flag appointed to him by the Spanish Crown, claimed the island, originally known by its native Taíno people as Borikén, in the name of Spain, calling ...
21 hours ago · e. Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. [b] In the years before his presidency, he served as a mayor and ...
