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Hace 1 día · Early life and career. The son of Mattie Lou (née Cavender) Miller and Lewis Elmer Miller, Alton Glen Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa. He added the second n to "Glenn" during high school. Like his father (Lewis Elmer) and his siblings (Elmer Deane, John Herbert and Emma Irene), Miller went by his middle name, Glenn. As Dennis Spragg of the Glenn Miller Archives confirms, "Miller's use of ...
Hace 1 día · Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.01 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted S. populator skeleton at Tellus Science Museum Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Suborder: Feliformia Family: Felidae Subfamily: † Machairodontinae Tribe: † Smilodontini Genus: † Smilodon Lund ...
Hace 4 horas · Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his ...
Hace 4 horas · Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.He was born in Paris as the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (r. 1806 ...
Hace 1 día · The koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus ), sometimes called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the island's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland ...
Hace 1 día · Electroconvulsive therapy. Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT) or electroshock therapy ( EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. [1] Typically, 70 to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head, resulting in approximately ...
Hace 4 horas · Major amendments; Clean Air Act of 1963 (77 Stat. 392, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–206) Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 992, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–272) Air Quality Act of 1967 (81 Stat. 485, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 90–148) Clean Air Amendments of 1970 (84 Stat. 1676, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United ...
