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3 days ago · Edith Wharton (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.
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3 days ago · The term femicide was first introduced in England in 1801 by a writer named John Corry, to signify "the killing of a woman". [5] In 1848, the term was published in Wharton's Law Lexicon. [6] The term stems from the Latin femina, meaning "female" and - cide from the Latin caedere meaning "to kill". The current usage emerged with the 1970s ...
1 day ago · George Piranian. Signature. Theodore John Kaczynski ( / kəˈzɪnski / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( / ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər ), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. [1] [2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a ...
- April 3, 1996
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- 8 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole
1 day ago · Signature. Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) [a] was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union on 1 May 1707, which merged the kingdoms of Scotland and England. Before this, she was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702. Anne was born during the reign of her uncle King Charles II.
- 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
- Anne Hyde
4 days ago · The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917. The awards are made by Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university. The prizes have varied in number and ...
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3 days ago · Jul 16, 1991. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Emmy award-winning game show host Bert. Convy died Monday after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. Convy died at his home in suburban Brentwood, with his wife ...
4 days ago · What did Rosa Parks write? Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement ...
