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22 hours ago · Foster's last film of the 1990s was the period drama Anna and the King (1999), in which she starred opposite Chow Yun-Fat. It was based on a fictionalized biography of British teacher Anna Leonowens, who taught the children of King Mongkut of Siam, and whose story became well known as the musical The King and I. Foster was paid $15 million to ...
22 hours ago · The king's casus belli for this invasion was the king of Shupria's refusal to hand over political refugees from Assyria (possibly some of the conspirators behind Sennacherib's death) and though the Shuprian king had agreed to give up the refugees after a long series of letters, Esarhaddon considered it took him too long to relent. The Assyrians ...
2 hours ago · OXON HILL, Md. — (AP) — A four-letter word sent Shradha Rachamreddy to a third-place finish in last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. As the remaining spellers dwindled, Shradha was given ...
22 hours ago · American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, leader of the civil rights movement, and close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, co-created and was an executive board member of SCLC; led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well ...
22 hours ago · One of his approaches was to send, and publish, congratulatory and lionizing letters to princes who, though in a position of strength, negotiated peace with neighbours: such as to King Sigismund I the Old of Poland in 1527.: 75 Inter-Christian religious toleration Portrait of Erasmus, after Quinten Massijs (1517)
22 hours ago · The open letter being spoken about was printed in The Times and was signed by many senior figures, including chef Tom Kerridge and former CEOs of Heathrow, JP Morgan and Aston Martin.
22 hours ago · Rome eventually took control of the entire Maghreb north of the Atlas Mountains. Rome was greatly helped by the defection of Massinissa (later King of Numidia, r. 202 – 148 BC) and of Carthage's eastern Numidian Massylii client-allies. Some of the most mountainous regions, such as the Moroccan Rif, remained outside Roman control. Furthermore ...
