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Hace 1 día · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
Hace 3 días · John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially the Cuban missile crisis, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress.
Hace 2 días · SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
Hace 1 día · Zelda Fitzgerald ( née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite. [1] Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. [1] In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success of his debut novel ...
Hace 5 días · A "miracle" woman who had her leg severed off by a train in a "freak accident" remarkably managed to survive after she pulled herself off the tracks. Lisa Fitzgerald, 29, was struck by a train at ...
Hace 17 horas · A piece of notepaper, newspaper clipping, and three envelopes on which notes are written regarding the President's assassination. One of the notes posits that the assassination was foretold some time prior to the event.
Hace 3 días · John F. Kennedy and Religion. Anti-Catholic prejudice was still very much in the mainstream of American life when JFK decided to seek the presidency in 1960. Only one Catholic, Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, had ever been the presidential nominee of one of the major parties.
