The Anglo-Soviet Agreement was signed in July 1941 and formed an alliance between the two countries. United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill discussed what would become the Atlantic Charter in August 1941 during the Atlantic Conference in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter was…
Nygma does end up changing his plans, but he still meant to kill Penguin. He took Penguin to the docks and brought him to the water’s edge with a gun aimed right at him. Penguin tried to plea with him once more saying that he loves him, he’s proven it…
Here we look back at the summer of 2012, the events that led up to that being a landmark period for Scottish football and the blow by blow incidents that ultimately led to the liquidation of Rangers FC. The Rangers Football Club plc entered liquidation on 31 October 2012. The…
It was not until the mid-19th century that lobster trapping, also first practiced in Maine, became a more popular way to collect the sea creatures. Dirt-cheap because they were so copious, lobsters were routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices, slaves and children during the colonial era and beyond. While it’s considered…
Since then, his four children, three of whom are alive today, have faced the challenge of growing up without their father and within his shadow, becoming their own people while carrying on his legacy and that of their mother, who died in 2006. (Yolanda King, their sister, died in 2007.)…
Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh was recovering Friday after a liver transplant in what may be another case of a ’60s survivor paying for his rock ‘n’ roll excesses. Lesh, 58, was in stable condition at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, where the surgery was performed Thursday. The Grateful Dead’s…
She is currently a probation officer in Little Rock and is the mother of two sons. In 2018, Eckford released a book for young readers, The Worst First Day: Bullied while Desegregating Central High, co-authored with Dr. Eurydice Stanley and Grace Stanley and featuring artwork by Rachel Gibson. Eckford took…
Persuasion, novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel Northanger Abbey, with which it was published, Persuasion (written 1815–16) is a work of Austen’s maturity. Like Mansfield Park and Emma, it contains subdued satire and develops the comedy of character and manners. Persuasion is the last novel…
Magritte first began to paint in 1915 and enrolled in the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels the following year. However, he was fairly uninspired by his classes, and his attendance suffered as a result. After studying at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1916–18), Magritte became a designer for a…
Seuss’s original works by individually drawing and/or separating each color, then mixing and printing them one at a time via a plate or stone lithograph press. Dr. Seuss produced some 66 books in all, counting those he wrote but didn’t illustrate, those he co-authored or wrote under a pseudonym, and…