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Hace 6 horas · Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S ...
Hace 1 día · A map outlining the Japanese and U.S. (but not other Allied) ground forces scheduled to take part in the ground battle for Japan.Two landings were planned: (1) Olympic – the invasion of the southern island, Kyūshū, (2) Coronet – the invasion of the main island, Honshū. March 1946's Operation Coronet was planned to take Tokyo with a landing of 25 divisions, compared to D-Day's 12 divisions.
Hace 1 día · In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. In other words, utilitarian ideas encourage actions that ensure the greatest good for the greatest number. Although different varieties of utilitarianism admit different characterizations, the basic idea behind all of them ...
Hace 6 horas · From The Art and Popular Culture EncyclopediaJump to: navigation, search"Dr. Maurice Parmelee has recently written a book, The New Gymnosophy, describing the German 'Nacktkultur' movement, ‘which advocates the practice of nudity by both sexes in common for hygienic, social and aesthetic reasons.’ In...
Hace 6 horas · George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).
Hace 1 día · Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891: 17 : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker.She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
Hace 6 horas · Paul Joseph Goebbels ( German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler 's closest and most ...
