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Jun 1, 2024 · Orleans Territory. It might look like modern-day Louisiana, but this is actually a map of the Orleans territory, which was in existence for only a few short years, from 1804 until 1812. At that point, it was admitted to the Union as Louisiana. As you can see, some areas were in dispute by Spain and Florida.
37 minutes ago · In the early 20th century novel “Wings of the Dove,” the American novelist Henry James describes a really beautiful and intense scene in which a very, very ill woman, terminally ill woman, has ...
22 hours ago · The line, “I’d like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel, and all the kids at P.S. 192” of the title track is a direct reference to their relationship. And that’s pretty much all. Beyond the surface romanticism on a fleeting song, it seems Humphreys was not afforded the pivotal place in cultural history that her impact should have ...
22 hours ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist ...
- John W. Presley, James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, Claus Melchior
- 1922
3 hours ago · It’s the story of a young nobleman who is drawn into a love affair with Queen Elizabeth I. Though deeply funny, the play is also heartfelt and moving as Orlando seeks personal freedom through art, identity, gender, and time, becoming a 20th century woman in the process. Berkshire International Film Festival Thursday, May 30 – Sunday, June 2
22 hours ago · Although there had been an established interest in Asian religious ideas in the U.S. from at least the eighteenth-century, many of these new developments were variants of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sufism, which had been imported to the West from Asia following the U.S. government's decision to rescind the Asian Exclusion Act in 1965.
7 hours ago · The former first lady of the U.S. wore suffragette white for the occasion.The color paid tribute to the early 20th-century suffrage movement, during which women wore white, green and purple as ...
