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1 day ago · Oh captain, my captain. McDavid led the way in Game 4, recording a goal and three assists in a massive 8-1 win for the Oilers. He was even better in Game 5, flying all over the ice. It seemed like ...
1 day ago · Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence ...
1 day ago · Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and ...
1 day ago · William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched-earth policies that he ...
1 day ago · Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed the " Say Hey Kid ", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1951 to 1973. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career in the Negro leagues ...
1 day ago · James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [39] James Blair ( c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [40] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.
1 day ago · The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas [1] with a U.S. Department of Defense mandate to be "on-call to fight any time, anywhere" at "the knife's edge of technology and readiness." [2] Primarily based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina ...
