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1 day ago · Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public ...
3 days ago · The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
- 7 August 1942 – 9 February 1943, (6 months and 2 days)
- Allied victory
3 days ago · On Aug. 2, 1571, at Famagusta — the besieged and last remaining Christian outpost on the island of Cyprus — Marcantonio Bragadin and Astorre Baglioni, two Venetian commanders, surrendered to the Ottoman Turk commander, Lala Mustafa Pasha.
5 days ago · 300 is a 2006 American epic historical war action film [4] [5] based on the 1998 comic book series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.
- $456 million
- Tyler Bates
- $65 million
3 days ago · The epic victory has been commemorated in literature: Miguel de Cervantes, a Spanish soldier wounded in the battle, recovered to become a novelist, poet and playwright; and he was so inspired by this battle that he incorporated elements of it in his own acclaimed novel, Don Quixote.
2 days ago · That title was originally the name of the feast St. Pius V declared after the victory at Lepanto and which was soon changed to the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary — the title with which Mary identified herself at Fatima.
3 days ago · Hepburn looks especially striking in front of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Musée du Louvre; the two figures mirror each other, with their flowing gowns and outstretched wings. “Bonjour...
