Breaking out of his Irish tough-guy image to display an astonishing versatility, Cagney captured Cohan’s inimitable flair and strutting style, especially in “Harrigan,” “Grand Old Flag,” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Cagney’s dance routines were taught to him by the Irish-American vaudevillian Johnny Boyle– respected … Career & Later Life. In…
Good Times (1974–1976) His character James Evans died in a car accident in the first episode of the fourth season, and the series continued for three more seasons without him. Norman Lear said Amos had become a disruption and Amos agrees, saying he wasn’t very diplomatic about the direction of…
The only reference to asbestos in James Hardie’s New Zealand company history is that: “Fibre cement building materials were developed by James Hardie in the early 1980s, when we pioneered the use of alternative reinforcing materials to create asbestos-free cement-based building products.” At the same time, James Hardie’s asbestos-cement pipes…
No, James Joyce never won a Nobel Prize. Despite being one of the most influential and critically successful authors of the 20th century, Joyce never… James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic. He contributed to…
Drafted in secret by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the resolutions condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void. In the Report of 1800, Madison addressed every justification used by supporters…
Madison Declares War on Britain in 1812. William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana territory, formed a large force to try to capture Detroit from the British. At the same time, Captain Oliver Perry built five warships on Lake Erie. With these, and four he already had, Perry met and…
Hollywood actor James McAvoy ran a leg in his native Glasgow, where Winter Olympics gold medallist, curler Rhona Martin, also carried the flame. The flame also visited the birthplace of poet Robert Burns and Hampden Park, home of the Scotland football team. Who was the last person to carry the…
On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise was made up of three parts: it admitted Maine, part of northern Massachusetts, as a free state; it admitted Missouri as a slave state; and it henceforth restricted slavery to territories south of the latitude 36º30’ north.…
Written By: James Monroe, (born April 28, 1758, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died July 4, 1831, New York, New York, U.S.), fifth president of the United States (1817–25), who issued an important contribution to U.S. foreign policy in the Monroe Doctrine, a warning to European nations against intervening in the Western…
James Starks. James Darell Starks (born February 25, 1986) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Buffalo and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was a member of their…