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1 day ago · Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) by Ansel Adams....
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August...
- Zone System
The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining...
- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1 day ago · Steve Bannon. Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker. He served as the White House 's chief strategist for the first seven months of U.S. president Donald Trump 's administration.
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- Stephen Kevin Bannon, November 27, 1953 (age 69), Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
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1 day ago · The Sasanian Empire ( / səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən /) or Sassanid Empire, officially known as Eranshahr ("Kingdom of the Iranians"), [9] [10] was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
2 hours ago · The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar (Tamil: தமிழர், romanized: Tamiḻar, pronounced [t̪amiɻaɾ] in the singular or தமிழர்கள், Tamiḻarkaḷ, [t̪amiɻaɾɡaɭ] in the plural), Tamilians, or simply Tamils (/ ˈ t æ m ɪ l z, ˈ t ɑː-/ TAM-ilz, TAHM-), are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry ...
- 237,890 (2021)
- 1,800,000
- 69,026,881 (2011)
- 3,135,770 (2012)
1 day ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
1 day ago · Air transports for heads of state and government are, in many countries, provided by the air force in specially equipped airliners or business jets. One such aircraft in particular has become part of popular culture: Air Force One, used by the President of the United States and operated by the United States Air Force.
2 hours ago · Etymology Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the Pennsylvania State Senate and ...
