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3 days ago · He is currently writing a comprehensive biography of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass and his generic family, whose coverage will run from 1634 into the twentieth century. To join virtually visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Facebook or Youtube page. ASL interpretation will be available for attendees.
4 days ago · 4. Mikimoto Store . When Rutland arrived in New York, he was stopped by customs agents for importing unlicensed goods and pearls but was released after paying the required taxes on them.
4 days ago · Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This excerpt is from an address on West India Emancipation, delivered August 4, 1857. Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms.
6 days ago · Queen Mary and King Frederick of Denmark began their first visit abroad as monarchs on Monday. The couple, who were proclaimed in January, are ...
6 days ago · Beyond the influence of the Imperial Hotel, the Bogk House is significant for its synthesis of a number of ideas from Wright’s most important projects to date. Echoes of Midway Gardens (1913) appear in his strategic use of sculpture, as well as of Unity Temple (1904) in its formal, monolithic façade. As with most of Wright’s designs, the ...
5 days ago · Frederick VI 1768–1839 King of Denmark r. 1808–1839: Louise Auguste of Denmark 1771–1843: Frederick Christian II Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg 1765–1814: Christian IX 1818–1906 King of Denmark r. 1863–1906: Louise of Hesse-Kassel 1817–1898: Ferdinand 1792–1863 Hereditary Prince of Denmark: Caroline of ...
2 days ago · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
