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May 14, 2024 · Died: Jan. 17, 1468, Lezhë, Albania (aged 63) Skanderbeg (born 1405, northern Albania—died Jan. 17, 1468, Lezhë, Albania) was the national hero of the Albanians. A son of John (Gjon) Kastrioti, prince of Emathia, George was early given as hostage to the Turkish sultan. Converted to Islām and educated at Edirne, Turkey, he was given the ...
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May 21, 2024 · The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the guide to the meaning, history, pronunciation, and variant spellings of words -- present and past -- from across the English-speaking world. Find meanings of words throughout history and witness changes in language over time. Search through quotations from a wide range of sources and time periods ...
6 days ago · Beyond the prefatory matter, the former slave’s autobiographical narrative generally centers on his or her rite of passage from slavery in the South to freedom in the North. Usually, the antebellum slave narrator portrays slavery as a condition of extreme physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual deprivation, a kind of hell on earth.
May 14, 2024 · The Meaning Behind The Song: History Has Its Eyes on You by Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” History Has Its Eyes on You is a powerful and thought-provoking song from the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton.” Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the song features Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda along with the … The Meaning Behind The Song ...
May 21, 2024 · An extremely quirky, highly curious show called “Musée Imaginaire” opened earlier this month in an equally curious place for an artist’s solo debut: Sag Harbor, Long Island. It’s a museum ...
May 23, 2024 · To George Sand: A Desire. THOU large -brained woman and large-hearted man, Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions. Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance. And answers roar for roar, as spirits can: I would some mild miraculous thunder ran. Above the applauded circus, in appliance. Of thine own nobler nature 's strength and science,
6 days ago · Dorothea Brooke, fictional character, the heroine of Middlemarch (1871–72), George Eliot ’s acknowledged masterpiece. Dorothea’s intelligence and idealism lead her to blindly marry Edward Casaubon, a middle-aged scholar she hopes to assist, who proves both pompous and ineffectual. Her story parallels that of the young doctor Tertius ...
