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Apr 14, 2024 · Sand -- herself famous for dressing 'like a man' -- thus skirts some of the major questions here. How a person is seen, depending whether they are considered male or female, does crop up in a variety of interesting ways here, but Sand freights her work down and distracts with too many other elements to really allow that question to shine through.
- George Sand
- Gabriel
- Novel
- 1839 (Eng. 2010)
Apr 16, 2024 · What were the effects of the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws limited free speech, freedom of the press and the freedoms of the immigrants. How did the Louisiana Purchase help western settlers. With the purchase, the US now owned the port of New Orleans. Settlers west of the Appalachians could now ship their goods to New Orleans and then on ...
2 days ago · Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms ...
- Visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography
- March 6, 1986 (aged 98), Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, November 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S.
Apr 25, 2024 · Deborah Sampson (born December 17, 1760, Plympton, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died April 29, 1827, Sharon, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American Revolutionary soldier and one of the earliest female lecturers in the country. Deborah Sampson and George Washington. Deborah Sampson, disguised as a male soldier, delivering a letter to George Washington ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 21, 2024 · George Sanders (born July 3, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 25, 1972, Barcelona, Spain) Russian-born British actor who specialized in portraying elegant yet dissolute characters and was most noted for his roles as villains. Sanders spent his childhood in Russia, but his British family moved to Hampshire, England, at the time of the ...
- Pat Bauer
5 days ago · George Sand — ‘I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.’
May 1, 2024 · In addition, A Short History of the French Revolution: explores the Jacobin dictatorship and the Reign of Terror; examines the search for stability under the Directory; features in-depth coverage of Napoleon's Consulate and Empire; and looks at the long-term consequences of the Revolution for France and the world."--BOOK JACKET.
