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Hace 23 horas · As writer Gary Younge said, "Probably more than almost any other writer alive, Angelou's life literally is her work." [78] Als said that Caged Bird helped increase Black feminist writings in the 1970s, less through its originality than "its resonance in the prevailing Zeitgeist ", [40] or the time in which it was written, at the end of the American Civil Rights Movement .
Hace 23 horas · Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (/ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ə r ə /). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium.The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal, is Kitti's hog-nosed ...
Hace 23 horas · Veganism The symbol widely used to denote a vegan-friendly product Pronunciation Veganism / ˈ v iː ɡ ən ɪ z əm / VEE -gə-niz-əm Vegan VEE -gən [a] Description Avoiding the use of animal products, particularly in diet Earliest proponents Al-Ma'arri (c. 973 – c. 1057) [b] Roger Crab (1621 – 1680) Johann Conrad Beissel (1691 – 1768) James Pierrepont Greaves (1777 – 1842) Lewis ...
Hace 23 horas · The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. The Capitals compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference and is owned by Ted Leonsis through Monumental Sports & Entertainment.The team initially played its home games at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland ...
Hace 23 horas · Sundial. SSW facing, vertical declining sundial on the Moot Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. The gnomon is a rod that is very narrow, so it functions as the style. The Latin motto loosely translates as "I only count the sunny hours." A horizontal dial commissioned in 1862, the gnomon is the triangular blade.
Hace 23 horas · The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.These conflicts occurred from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in ...
Hace 23 horas · Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino CCLH (Tagalog: [kɔɾaˈsɔn kɔˈhwaŋkɔ aˈkino]; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the eleventh president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the ...
