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Hace 15 horas · Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well ...
Hace 15 horas · Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. It covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the ...
Hace 15 horas · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were also aspects of the movement ...
Hace 15 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 15 horas · In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue (now the site of Los Angeles City College) in East Hollywood. In 1917, UC Regent Edward Augustus Dickson , the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore , Director of the Normal School, began to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus ...
