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3 days ago · episodes. American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee. [1] The series airs documentaries about significant historical events or figures in United States history. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS ...
5 days ago · Louisa May Alcott (born November 29, 1832, Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women (1868–69). The home of Bronson Alcott and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott, in Concord, Massachusetts, wood ...
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3 days ago · Key Irish writers, from Edmund Burke and Jonathan Swift to Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw, were traditionally considered English (or British) authors. But during the 20th century—particularly after the partition and partial independence of Ireland in 1920–22—scholars reclaimed these writers and ...
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3 days ago · A Survey of London. Reprinted From the Text of 1603. John Stow's survey, reprinted from the 1603 edition. Originally in two volumes, here given as one. It also contains a life of Stow, and other supporting biographical materials. Also included is an account of the variants of the 1603 edition as relating to that of 1598, and extensive notes on ...
4 days ago · Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605.The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators— Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics.
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- What was the Gunpowder Plot?The Gunpowder Plot was the conspiracy of a group of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son o...
- Why did the Gunpowder Plot take place?The Gunpowder Plot was the result of King James I's refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. The leaders of the plot planned to mur...
- What happened to the Gunpowder Plot conspirators?With the Gunpowder Plot thwarted, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, and John Wright fled and were killed in Staffordshire. Other conspirators, includin...
- What happened in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot?After the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, laws against Roman Catholics were immediately increased in severity, a setback that hampered religious tol...
10 hours ago · A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. [279] In 1926, Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women toward gender equality , and indicated that humanity's future would be run by " Queen Bees ".
1 day ago · The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America, via Amazon Kindle, by a collaboration of Fujiko F. Fujio Pro with Voyager Japan and AltJapan Co., Ltd. The anime series was licensed by Disney for an English-language release in North America in 2014, and LUK International in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
