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6 hours ago · The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811 uprising can inspire a new generation to fight racism.
15 hours ago · The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine ...
15 hours ago · Pamela Redmond Satran (born 1953), author [57] Andrew Rosenthal (born 1956), editorial page editor of The New York Times and son of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal [58] Roger Sedarat, poet, scholar and literary translator [59] Florence Guy Woolston Seabury (1881–1951), feminist essayist [60]
15 hours ago · The first Spanish settlement in the Americas was La Isabela in northern Hispaniola. This town was abandoned shortly after in favor of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, founded in 1496, the oldest American city of European foundation. This was the base from which the Spanish monarchy administered its new colonies and their expansion.
15 hours ago · History William Dampier (left) and Charles Swan (right) aboard the latter's ship Cygnet, as illustrated in a work by Jules Verne. Dampier was the first visitor to Christmas Island in 1688. First visits by Europeans, 1643 The first European to sight the island was Richard Rowe of the Thomas in 1615. Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel Royal Mary named the island when he ...
15 hours ago · The 2024 T20 Blast (also known as 2024 Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons) is the 22nd edition of the T20 Blast (currently known as the Vitality Blast ), a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament began on 30 May and is scheduled to finish on 14 September 2024. [1] [2] The domestic T20 competition is ...
15 hours ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] Twain's novels include The Adventures of ...
