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14 de jun. de 2024 · Robert Browning (born May 7, 1812, London—died Dec. 12, 1889, Venice) was a major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books.. Life. The son of a clerk in the Bank of England in London, Browning received only a slight ...
Hace 4 días · Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968. Learn more about his life and career in this article.
23 de jun. de 2024 · Robert Mugabe (born February 21, 1924, Kutama, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]—died September 6, 2019, Singapore) was the first prime minister (1980–87) of the reconstituted state of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. A Black nationalist of Marxist persuasion, he eventually established one-party rule in his country, becoming executive president ...
Hace 6 días · Robert Ballard (born June 30, 1942, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.) is an American oceanographer and marine geologist whose pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles laid the foundations for deep-sea archaeology. He is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985. The research submarine Alvin. Ballard grew up in San Diego, California ...
22 de jun. de 2024 · Robert Johnson (born c. 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 16, 1938, near Greenwood, Mississippi) was an American blues composer, guitarist, and singer whose eerie falsetto singing voice and masterful rhythmic slide guitar influenced both his contemporaries and many later blues and rock musicians.. Johnson was the product of a confusing childhood, with three men serving as his ...
8 de jun. de 2024 · Robert Bruce Peck Obituary. With solemn reverence, we commemorate Robert Bruce Peck of Carmel, Indiana, born in Lansing, Michigan, whose life came to an end on June 8, 2024 at the age of 85, leaving behind cherished memories. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Robert Bruce Peck to show support.
25 de jun. de 2024 · After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, the physicists Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, and Eugene Wigner warned the U.S. government of the danger threatening all of humanity if the Nazis should be the first to make a nuclear bomb.Oppenheimer then began to seek a process for the separation of uranium-235 from natural uranium and to determine the critical mass of uranium required to ...
