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Hace 3 días · An archival collection shared by Middlebury College invites the curious to make connections across the history of American literature. Left to right: Dr. Emily Blackwell, Mr. Ainsworth Spofford, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Lucy Stone. Henry Browne Blackwell, Florence Spofford, and Mrs. Sarah (Partridge) Spofford. via Wikimedia Commons.
Hace 2 días · The environmental crisis following the eruption of the Samalas volcano in the mid-1250s led to a massive dearth of grain and severe famine crisis across Europe from 1256 onwards. English chroniclers and other contemporaries commented extensively on these effects at the time, and Richard of Cornwall responded to the famine in 1258 by organizing grain shipments.
Hace 1 día · Winchcombe Henry Hartley married in 1787 Ann eldest daughter of Samuel Blackwell of Williamstrip Park, Gloucestershire, was M.P. for Berks. in 1774, 1780, 1790 and 1794, and died in 1794, leaving the manor to his only son the Rev. Winchcombe Howard Hartley, who married in 1809 Elizabeth eldest daughter of Thomas Watts of Bath, and died in 1832, leaving two children, a son and a daughter.
Hace 3 días · Marjorie Taylor Greene. May 08, 2024— Washington, D.C. Print friendly. categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green introduced a motion to vacate the chair in an effort to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. The motion failed when a majority of the members voted to table it. REP. GREENE: Mr ...
Hace 3 días · The world bids farewell to Marilyn Rose Jarema of Boyne City, Michigan, departing on May 8, 2024 at the age of 92. Marilyn leaves behind memories cherished by the community. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family. She was predeceased by : her parents, Ralph, Sr. Bearss and Ethyl Bearss (Lynch); her ...
Hace 4 días · Influential women’s rights activist and abolitionist Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818, in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. One of Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews’s nine children, Stone was steeped early on in life the virtues of fighting against slavery from her parents, both committed abolitionists.
Hace 5 días · Speeches. TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN. Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honor for me to represent Italy before this General Assembly of the United Nations. An honor that is, however, not light like privilege, but heavy like the weight of responsibility.
