Inhislateryears,hecontractedaterribledisease,andnobodyknewwhatitwas.Nomedicinecanbeeffective.untiltheageof53,hedied,afterheruledEnglandfor30years.Hediedin901,theexactdateisnotknown,andcauseofdeathisstillamystery.In1539,hisgravewasrediscovered,becauseprisonsareplantedtobuildthere,hiscoffinsufferedthedevastating(...
2020-8-301 AlfredtheGreat阿尔弗雷德大 帝 2020-8-302 •AlfredtheGreat (849–26 October899) wasKingof Wessex(韦塞克斯) from871to899 2020-8-303 mainachievements: Alfredsuccessfullydefendedhiskingdomagainst theVikingat(北欧海盗)temptatconquest,andby thetimeofhisdeathhadbecomethedominantruler inEngland...
Alfred the Great阿尔弗雷德大帝 Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex(韦塞克斯) from 871 to 899 main achievements: Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking at(北欧海盗)tempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in...
The quiet and meek adolescent was a good student, but due to the illness and subsequent early death of his father he left school at the age of fourteen to help support his family. While plodding through a series of menial jobs young Hitch spent his free time reading voraciously and after ...
His greatest wish, however, was to see an end to wars, and thus peace between nations, and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous will,in which he left money to provide prize for outstanding work in physics,chemistry,physioligy...
The Death of the Author: The Impact of Off-Screen Behaviour on On-Screen Antics… Posted on August 24, 2012 by Darren The rather convolutedly-titled Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho will be arriving soon, the director’s Vertigo was recently named by Sight & Sound as the best ...
England we are familiar with was ruled as one country for the first time. His preservation from the Vikings and unexpected succession as king after the death of four older brothers, seem to have given Alfred a sense that he had been specially destined for high office. With the help of ...
"I'd rather takecare of stomachs of the living than the glory of the dead in the form of stonememorials(纪念碑)," he once said. His great wish was to see an end to warsand the peace between nations. He spent much time and money working forthis cause until his death in 1896. His...
Dame May Whitty essays the part of Miss Froy, the lady who vanished, just one of many highlights in a tremendously successful seven-decade acting career lasting from her teens until just weeks before her death at the age of 82. Though she had long trodden the boards, including many roles...
He was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense. His greatest wish was to see an end to wars, and thus peace between nations, and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896....