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Hace 18 horas · Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr n b ɜːr ɡ /, US also / ˈ ʃ oʊ n-/; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k] ⓘ; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, painter, teacher, and writer.Among the first modernist composers to write music of dense motivic relations saturating the musical texture, he propounded concepts like developing variation ...
Hace 18 horas · Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to ...
Hace 18 horas · Hirohito (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world, with his reign of 62 years being the longest of any Japanese emperor.. Hirohito was born in Aoyama, Tokyo, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Emperor Meiji.
Hace 18 horas · One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution.Adapted from Dodie Smith's 1956 novel of the same name, the film was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wolfgang Reitherman from a script by Bill Peet.
Hace 18 horas · Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (/ k uː ˈ s t oʊ /, also UK: / ˈ k uː s t oʊ /, French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater ...
Hace 18 horas · Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television.Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many networks, studios, and production companies, such as Hallmark and Lifetime, produce and release new Christmas-themed ...
Hace 18 horas · Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the ...
