Frick did what plenty of 19th-century businessmen did when they were battling unions. He hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which was notorious for such activities as infiltrating its agents into unions and breaking strikes-and which at its height had a larger work force than the entire U.S. Army. In…
From 2006 to 2013, Gorder was married to Canadian actor Tyler Harcott, with whom she has a daughter, Bebelle. Did Genevieve Gorder get married? Personal life. In September 2018, Gorder married Christian Dunbar, an interior designer and furniture builder. From 2006 to 2013, Gorder was married to Canadian actor Tyler…
He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father’s generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, available to all three concurrently. The first happens after…
Harriet Grigg (nee. Summers) is a character in the Hetty Feather television series, played by Ava Merson-O’Brien. She was a foundling and later a maid for Lady Asquith. In Series 6, she marries Mathias Grigg. Hetty Feather – Harriet answers your questions. We caught up with Ava, who plays Harriet,…
In 1908, when he was 20, Berlin took a new job at a saloon named Jimmy Kelly’s in the Union Square neighborhood. There, he was able to collaborate with other young songwriters, such as Edgar Leslie, Ted Snyder, Al Piantadosi, and George A. Whiting. Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; Yiddish:…
It was held from Wednesday, November 1, to Wednesday, December 6, 1820. Taking place at the height of the Era of Good Feelings, the election saw incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Monroe win re-election without a major opponent. There was very little negative campaigning, as Monroe was popular throughout the country,…
The season opened at the Australian Grand Prix, won by Jenson Button with teammate Rubens Barrichello in second, giving the team a 1–2 on its début. In the first diary looking back at his 2009 world championship year, Sky F1’s Jenson Button recalls his Honda regret, the birth of Brawn…
No one is descended from Captain John Smith, the brassy leader of early Jamestown. Many would like to claim descent, but the truth is that, according to documents, Smith never married or fathered any children. However, Smith did claim to have “children”—England’s New World colonies. Did John Smith marry Pocahontas?…
Harris won her seat in November 2016 and was sworn in January 2017. At the time, Harris was California’s attorney general. Newsom has already named Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, to fill Harris’ seat. (CNN) Early Friday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris did something Joe Biden never did in…
Lithuanian nationalists took the repudiation of the Brezhnev Doctrine as a signal that a declaration of independence might be accepted. On March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared that it was an independent nation, the first of the Soviet republics to do so. Lesser Poland Province ( Polish: Małopolska ),southern Poland,with two…