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Hace 4 días · America’s Cup Experience es la Exposición oficial de la 37th America’s Cup Barcelona. Un espacio que te abre las puertas a la emocionante historia de la regata Copa América de vela, sus reglas, los equipos y los secretos de la tecnología que hace volar los barcos por encima del agua.
Hace 1 día · Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: / ˈ m ɒ n eɪ /, US: / m oʊ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of ...
Hace 6 días · America's Historical Newspapers. Features full-text images of over 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. American Historical Periodicals. This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (parts I-V) provides a history of the American people and the growth of the nation from ...
Hace 8 horas · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
Hace 4 días · He slipped away quietly on 6 June 1976 – three years to the day after George’s death – in the chair in his study, next to the settee upon which he had once jumped so boisterously. Extracted from Growing up Getty: The Story of America’s Most Unconventional Dynasty by James Reginato ( Simon & Schuster, £20) Tatler.
Hace 2 días · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights.
Hace 1 día · —Angela Grimké, 1851, in a letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton Significant barriers had to be overcome, however, before a campaign for women's suffrage could develop significant strength. One barrier was strong opposition to women's involvement in public affairs, a practice that was not fully accepted even among reform activists. Only after fierce debate were women accepted as members of the ...
