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Colonel Fitzwilliam is a direct male-line descendant thereof, and it was/is not unusual for women to give a child their maiden name as a personal name of some kind (in the case of Mr. Darcy). If I had to guess, since William III had no known children (legitimate or otherwise), Mr. Darcy is likely not descended from him--BUT perhaps his ancestor ...
2 days ago · On July 2, 1776, the Congress voted to declare independence from British colonial rule. Two days later, on July 4, the group ratified the Declaration of Independence. The document was signed by ...
2 days ago · Box office. $135 million. Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen 's 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne.
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3 days ago · George W.S. Abbey, an influential NASA leader whose career spanned from Apollo to the International Space Station, died Sunday night. He was 91 years old. Abbey was on the team that earned the ...
2 days ago · Grant emerged as a star with Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He starred in further romantic comedies such as Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and its 2004 sequel , About a Boy (2002), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Love Actually ...
2 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
7 hours ago · Australian poet Lucy Van characterises real estate copy as a form of poetry. No other poetry, she observes, . is more familiar to the Australian reading audience, more widely read and better ...