Search results
Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. [1] Avril was a soldier before starting his career in art; he was awarded with the Legion of Honour for his actions in the Franco-Prussian War. [2]
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as " the '30s " or " the Thirties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties". The decade was defined by a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the ...
Avril Danica Haines (born August 27, 1969) is an American lawyer and senior government official who serves as the director of national intelligence in the Biden administration. [1] She is the first woman to serve in this role.
Personal life. Gwendolen Avril Coleridge-Taylor was born in South Norwood, London, the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his wife Jessie Walmisley, who had met as students at the Royal College of Music. She had an older brother, Hiawatha. [1] On 19 April 1924, Coleridge-Taylor married Harold Dashwood, in the Croydon parish church.
1930 – Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (d. 1989) 1931 – James Dickens, English politician (d. 2013) 1931 – Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence officer; 1931 – Catherine Tizard, New Zealand politician, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 2021)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827) 1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856) 1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865) 1940 – Jack McNeela, Irish Republican died on hunger strike
It was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System 's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi). A Martian solar day ( sol) is 24.5 hours and a Martian solar year is 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days). Mars has two small and irregular natural satellites: Phobos and Deimos.
