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Hace 3 días · Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) [a] was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union on 1 May 1707, which merged the kingdoms of Scotland and England. Before this, she was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702. Anne was born during the reign of her uncle King Charles II.
Hace 4 días · Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. The events surrounding the annulment of Henry’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne led him to break with the Roman Catholic Church and brought about the English Reformation.
Hace 6 días · Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, translit. Geṓrgios; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army.
Hace 4 días · * Actor-turned-Broadway producer Ron Simons, who earned five Tony Award nominations and four wins, died at 63. He also produced the films “Night Catches Us,” “Blue Caprice” and “Mother of George." (Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times)
Hace 4 días · George Clooney, American actor and filmmaker who was a popular leading man and a respected director and screenwriter. His movies included Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Syriana (2005), Up in the Air (2009), The Descendants (2011), and Gravity (2013).
Hace 6 días · Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.
Hace 3 días · His mother was Mary Ball, whom Augustine, a widower, had married early the previous year. Washington’s paternal lineage had some distinction; an early forebear was described as a “gentleman,” Henry VIII later gave the family lands, and its members held various offices.
