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21 hours ago · William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
21 hours ago · Signature. Oscar-Claude Monet ( UK: / ˈmɒneɪ /, US: / moʊˈneɪ, məˈ -/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. [1] During his long career, he was the ...
21 hours ago · James Buchanan (1859) by George Healy as seen in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Buchanan was often considered by anti-slavery northerners a "doughface", a northerner with pro-southern principles. Buchanan's sympathies for the Southern states went beyond political expediency for his path to the White House.
21 hours ago · An Antiques Roadshow guest recounted a spine-tingling story about her family's "haunted" painting. Expert Ken Farmer was shown a stately portrait of Aaron Delano, the fifth great-grand uncle of the elderly guest. The woman shared that the painting had been in her family for generations, handed down from her grandmother to her parents, and then ...
May 28, 2024 · Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas was a “ gran cuentista ,” a master storyteller with all the powers of an African griot. His rhythmically pronounced Spanish is embellished poetically, filled with emotion and morality tales. His voice rises and falls with his moving arms and spirited direct gaze.
21 hours ago · Early life Baden-Powell was a son of Baden Powell, Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford and Church of England priest, and his third wife, Henrietta Grace Smyth, eldest daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth. After Baden Powell died in 1860, his widow, to identify her children with her late husband's fame, and to set her children apart from their half-siblings and cousins ...
6 hours ago · My friends would say that I'm the loudest person in the group, I'm the one who's always up for doing a dare, the life and soul of the party. My family would say that I'm bossy and that it's always ...
