When marine biologist Rachel Carson publishedSilent Springin 1962, she changed the way we think about the environment. Throughout her life, Carson showed talent in both writing and the sciences; she was originally an English major at the Pennsylvania College for Women before switching to biology, ...
The Mexican Revolution Was Bigger Than This ; There Is No Getting Round It -- the All-Important Muralists Are Missing from a Supposed Survey of a Moment in historyEXHIBITION OF THE WEEKMEXICO: A REVOLUTION IN ART, 1910-1940 The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy, W1 INCREDULITY was ...
For most of history, Virginia Woolf suggested, Anonymous was a woman. And for the most part, even those women whose names we know have not gotten their due. Celebrate some of the many women who have shaped our world with these profiles and biographies.
The Mexican Revolution Was Bigger Than This ; There Is No Getting Round It -- the All-Important Muralists Are Missing from a Supposed Survey of a Moment in... The Mexican Revolution Was Bigger Than This ; There Is No Getting Round It -- the All-Important Muralists Are Missing from a ...
•1755–1761•AlsoknownastheSevenYears’War;fightingbetweentheFranceandEnglandoverrivalclaimsintheOhioValley.•FrenchPowerinNorthAmericawasendedundertheTreatyofParis(1763).TheAmericanRevolution •April19,1775–Oct.19,1781•FightingbeganinLexingtonandConcord,Massachusetts.•GeorgeWashingtoncommandedthe...
The Shocking Frida Kahlo:To call Frida Kahlo shocking would be an understatement. Although she is most remembered for painting, she lived a wild and exciting life. Married to the muralist Diego Rivera, the two frequently cheated on each other, Frida even had affairs with both men and women....
France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.1775 - 1783 - The American Revolution creates the United States of America. The Revolution was due to the British burden ...
Some areas of science are espacially interesting because they deal with questions all men and women ask themselves.Science tries to procide some explanations for what happens to people. Science is hard to study.One of the reason is that there are so many questions without answers.Much of sciec...
Kurt Cobain was already hailed as a cultural icon and leader of a musical revolution by the time Nirvana’s third album,In Utero, was released in September 1993. They recorded their famous acoustic performance forMTV Unpluggedin December and Cobain took his own life four months later, following...
1832 - June 26- First bloodshed of the Texas Revolution takes place at Velasco when Texans, transporting a cannon from Brazoria to Anahuac, are challenged by Mexican forces at Velasco. The Mexicans surrender on June 29. 1835 Oct. 2 - Mexican troops attempt to retrieve a cannon that had bee...