Unlike Peeters, the life of Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun is well documented. She was the most successful, and expensive, portrait painter of the 18th Century, yet when the retrospective of her work opened at Paris’ Grand Palais in 2015, few outside academia had heard her name. If you’re an…
Answer and Explanation: The Battle of Goliad was a Texan victory. The early skirmish in the Texas Revolution occurred when revolutionaries in Goliad attacked a garrison of Mexican troops nearby. The Mexican troops fought at first but then surrendered. The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas…
On November 22, 1963, in a crowded cabin on Air Force One, at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Judge Sarah T. Hughes, who administered the oath that day, became the first woman to swear in a…
Main Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi BearsCast Gruffi Gummi voiced by Bill Scott and 3 others Cubbi Gummi voiced by Noelle North and 3 others Sunni Gummi voiced by Katie Leigh and 2 others Tummi Gummi voiced by Lorenzo Music and 5 others Zummi Gummi voiced by Paul Winchell and…
With advertising using the phrase “exceedingly good cakes”, and television adverts which originally featured the voice of actor James Hayter, the brand had become the market leader in the United Kingdom by 1976, a position it still holds over forty years later. The brand was created in the 1960s by…
After more than three decades of lobbying, Sarah Josepha Hale (and the United Statesthe United StatesContents. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New…
In 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright (otherwise known as the Wright Brothers) were the first to sustain powered and controlled flight. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Aviation pioneers are people directly and indirectly responsible for the advancement of flight, including people who worked to achieve manned flight before the…
1- #8: “Hino Nacional Brasileiro” … 2- #7: “The Star-Spangled Banner” … 3- #6: “Il Canto degli Italiani” Italy. … 4- #5: “Deutschlandlied” Germany. … 5- #4: “The State Anthem of the Russian Federation” Russia. … 6- #3: “O Canada” Canada. … 7- #2: “God Save the Queen” United Kingdom.…
killer whales (orca) sperm whales. Antarctic toothfish are spatially distributed by age and depth, with juveniles are pelagic live in surface waters before moving to deeper depths as they mature. It is believed that Antarctic toothfish become benthic at an age of about 21 months. Predators: Sperm whales, colossal squid,…
In October of 1992, when Menchú was 33, she learned she would be given the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the rights of indigenous peoples. The youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize was Rigoberta Menchu Tum. Rigoberta Menchu Tum is a Guatemalan indigenous…