William Franklin Raynolds (March 17, 1820 – October 18, 1894) was an explorer, engineer and U.S. army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. He is best known for leading the 1859–60 Raynolds Expedition while serving as a member of the U.S. Army Corps...
The primary reason for retaining such a large force was that demobilizing the army would put 1,500 officers, many of whom were well-connected in Parliament, out of work. This made it politically prudent to retain a large peacetime establishment, but because Britons were averse to maintaining a...
While Cooper toured the United States with Grass, Schoedsack joined explorer William Beebe’s 1925 expedition to the Galapagos Islands as a cameraman. He met and later married Ruth Rose, a former stage actress who was the expedition’s official historian and who would later collaborate on several...
1967 Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann 1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn 1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination Leonard W. Levy 1970 Present at...
Between Crazy Rich Asians, The Farewell, and Always Be My Maybe in recent years, there’s been a surge in Asian-American representation on screens of all sizes. These films are milestones in what has been a long, continuous journey to be seen and heard in theaters and at home, and we...
and I recommend the four accompanying volumes for context.The Maine WoodsandCape Codhave 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 ...
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 ...
William Lilly, a well-known 17th-century occultist and astrologer, provided a series of correspondences that linked Martian influence with warm, windy weather (including thunder and lightning) as well as connecting all herbs that “ come near to [redness], whose leaves are pointed and sharp” an...
Theodore Roosevelt was a walking repository of overflowing testosterone. During his life he was a rancher, deputy sheriff, explorer, police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, New York governor, war hero, vice president, and of course, president of the United States. Because of a sick...
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...