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Hace 15 horas · Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French.She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and ...
Hace 15 horas · Don Van Vliet (/ v æ n ˈ v l iː t /; born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982.His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant ...
Hace 15 horas · Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962. In 1960, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected the 35th president of the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate. Kennedy's tenure saw the height of the Cold War, and much of his foreign policy was dedicated to countering the Soviet Union and ...
Hace 15 horas · William Henry Seward (/ ˈ s uː ər d /; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in ...
Hace 4 horas · I know originally I said that I was going to draw Surge the Tenrec next for the Waifu Picks bingo. But, I decided to put the picks through a random spinner program. It landed on the Goat Mom herself, Toriel Dreemurr. Oh man, to think the first and only time I drew Toriel was in October like 9 years ago, just as Undertale was exploding into popularity. And in those 9 years it’s easy to see ...
Hace 15 horas · The Battle of Thermopylae (/ θ ər ˈ m ɒ p ɪ l iː / thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I.Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian ...
