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3 days ago · John Locke ( / lɒk /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ". [11] [12] [13] Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is ...
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
3 days ago · Owen Willans Richardson, Physics, 1928. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Physics, 1927. Austen Chamberlain, Peace, 1925. George Bernard Shaw, born in Ireland (Then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), Literature, 1925.
1 day ago · The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in 1961. The invasion was a major setback for the United States and a boost for the Cuban Revolution. Learn more about the causes, events and consequences of this historical episode on Wikipedia.
2 days ago · The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2022 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
3 days ago · List of sovereign states. The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty . The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, [1] 2 UN General Assembly non ...
2 days ago · The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9]