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Hace 6 horas · Life Childhood: 1928–1945 Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents, William Chomsky and Elsie Simonofsky, were Jewish immigrants. William had fled the Russian Empire in 1913 to escape conscription and worked in Baltimore sweatshops and Hebrew elementary schools before attending university. After moving to Philadelphia ...
Hace 6 horas · James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and ...
Hace 1 día · Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and 8th most populous.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, its 2023 estimated population was 11,029,227.
Hace 1 día · The history of human activity in Indiana, a U.S. state in the Midwest, stems back to the migratory tribes of Native Americans who inhabited Indiana as early as 8000 BC.Tribes succeeded one another in dominance for several thousand years and reached their peak of development during the period of Mississippian culture.The region entered recorded history in the 1670s, when the first Europeans ...
Hace 1 día · Channel Four also became a major sponsor of the British Film Institute's Production Board, which backed three of Britain's most critically acclaimed filmmakers: Derek Jarman (The Last of England, 1987), Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, 1988), and Peter Greenaway; the latter of whom gained surprising commercial success with The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) and The Cook, the Thief ...
Hace 6 horas · The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of the federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester) and ...
Hace 6 horas · A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180.It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative.. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD, although some prefer other start and end dates. The Middle Ages is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western ...
