These explorers are among the most prominent in their field, and information about each well-known explorer from the United States is included when available. These people, like Meriwether Lewis and William Clark include images when available. This historic explorers from the United States list ...
Farewell to Moonlit Tides (East West 2013) To have loved and lost… Is there no greater challenge? China’s most renowned explorer sets sail again! Saria, Oliver Inay Dalisay’s World Famous Lechon (Bindlestuff Studio, 2022) Set in the Labis family’s extravagant backyard kitchen (a.k....
Critics Consensus: Madeline's Madeline proves experimental cinema is alive and well -- and serves as a powerful calling card for Helena Howard in her big-screen debut. Synopsis: Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director...
What Kubrick's movies do have in common is not a theme so much as a method. He is a hunter in the atavistic jungle of human nature, an explorer set on discovering what happens to men and women when pushed to extremes in differing stressful environments.THE...
The Maine Woods and Cape Cod have their moments as well, but ultimately I think it’s fair to say that Thoreau was less compelling as a traveler of New England than as an explorer of himself. I love both of Bob Pepperman Taylor’s books, and I think that Walden Warming offers an ...
The purchase was negotiated by US Secretary of State William Seward(威廉·西沃德), who obtained the vast stretch of land for $7.2 million US Dollars (USD). Despite this seeming bargain, the Alaska Purchase was initially unpopular among much of the US public as well as many of the nation’...
The poet Xu Lizhi come to prominence in one of the worst possible ways: he jumped from a high-rise in Shenzhen, ending his life at the age of 24. Before his death, Xu was not well known as a poet; he published very few poems during his lifetime, and he concealed his writing even...
serving as the hometown of both the great explorer Marco Polo and the infamous womanizer Casanova (born in Venice in 1725). The city withstood plagues, became part of the Hapsburg Empire after being defeated by Napoleon in 1797, was spared during World War II on account of its beauty, and...
Noted commissions include two ornate English altar wine flagons and an ornate processional cross for an Episcopal cathedral--and the historic gilded silver chalice of noted American missionary explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S.J., used by Pope John Paul II at the 1999 Papal Mass. Noted ...
"Boone... occupied quite a prominent position, and served asa Representative in the Virginia legislature,while his fame asa hunterandexplorerwas now spread abroad in the United States, and even Europe. To travelers and newcomers generally, he was always pointed out as thefirst discoverer...