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Feb 13, 2018 · The following excerpt from Andrew Morton's new book, Wallis in Love, details just what happened to Simpson after her partner gave up the throne on December 10, 1936. (She and the Duke of Windsor ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, author who was born into slavery. After escaping to freedom in 1826, Truth traveled the ...
Oct 3, 2023 · Four years later in 1908, Clementine and Winston met again at a party. This may well have been a coup de foudre. After a few months of courtship, they married that same year. One year later in 1909, Clementine literally saved her husband's life from the whip of a militant suffragette. The attack was totally unexpected.
Wonder Woman is a superheroine created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), [2] and artist Harry G. Peter in 1941 for DC Comics. Marston's wife, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byrne, [3] are credited as being his inspiration for the character's appearance.
Oct 19, 2023 · Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, a doctor, had high hopes that his son would earn a medical degree at Edinburgh University in Scotland, where he enrolled at the age of sixteen. It turned out that Darwin was more interested in natural history than medicine—it was said that the sight of blood made him sick to ...
Lady Randolph Churchill Facts. 1. She Was An Heiress. Lady Randolph Churchill might have married into wealth and power, but she didn’t start out too shabby herself. Born Jennie Jerome in 1854, her father was an influential financier, and her mother came from landowning stock, a big deal those days.
Nov 30, 2011 · Churchill was appointed to the coveted post on Wednesday, 25 October 1911, and, like most things he did, he took it up with great gusto. Churchill adored Navy life aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress. After taking up office, he set out to visit every capital ship and every Royal Navy base in the British Isles.
