Display Textbook. Colonel Robert E. Lee led a force of marines that were dispatched to join with the militia on the scene to rescue Harper’s Ferry. In 1861 after Virginia seceded from the Union, he resigned his commission and became commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Yet, many…
Known as “Rosie” to members of her family, she had mild mental retardation and was described as slow, shy, and good natured as a girl. Institutionalization was a common response to intellectual disability at the time, but the Kennedys kept her at home. How was Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy performed? In…
At the age of 18, Robert leaves for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which had earned the reputation as one of the best schools in the country. June 1829 Robert E. Lee graduates second in his class from West Point. While at the military academy, Lee is one…
Top Questions. Roxana was the wife of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great. She was the daughter of the Bactrian chief Oxyartes and was captured and married by Alexander in 327 BCE. She is fun, smart, and very down to earth. Roxana, loves to have a good time but only…
Others were more open to her unconventional sexual identity, and just as in life she became a fixture of the counterculture. Though a 1965 exhumation of Christina’s bones found no positive evidence that she was intersex, it’s undeniable that she wasn’t a normal woman of the period. Is the movie…
According to WordHippo, while the present tense of the verb is “to read” (with the third person plural being “reads”), the past tense is also read, but it is pronounced “red” rather than “reed”. The confusion inherent in the grammar does pretty much come down to the pronunciation at the…
Though Elizabeth had a quiet romance with one of her earls (played by Joe Alwyn in the film), she was believed to have remained a virgin until she died in 1603 at age 69 — and never named an heir. What happened to Queen Elizabeth’s face? It is known however…
See what the community says and unlock a badge. Landscape painting was regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting, and generally still is. The time from the Five Dynasties period to the Northern Song period (907–1127) is known as the “Great age of Chinese landscape”. Landscape painting was regarded…
Under Isabella, the Spanish Renaissance leaned toward the humanists* of northern Europe with their emphasis on Christian piety and good works. The queen, an important patron* of the arts, also preferred the art of the northern Renaissance. What did Queen Isabella believe in? Isabella was a pious Catholic and in…
Reggie Jackson. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). TJ: My Twenty-Six…