Following Victoria's death in 1901, Louise entered the social circle established by her brother, the new king, Edward VII. Louise's marriage survived thanks to long periods of separation; the couple reconciled in 1911 and she was devastated by her husband's death in 1914. After the end of...
Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and would settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American passport.Eliot attracted widespread attention...
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It forms part of a cross-sectional study which was carried out in 1988, involving two random samples of 800 non-institutionalized persons born in 1904–1913 and 1914–1923. Functional ability tests included 18 questions; eight concerned coping with physical activities of daily living (PADL) and ...
In the years after the American Civil War (1861–65), Mexicans began crossing into Texas to work the cotton harvests. By the end of World War I (1914–18) they were also working in California on large farms in the Central Valley. Slowly they began to work their way to states farther ...
touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19 he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to America. Chaplin was scouted by the film industry, and made his first appearances in 1914 with Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp pe...
Born in 2000 with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., Verizon quickly became a technology leader. Today, the company is the leading mobile phone carrier, holding nearly 35% of the market. Shell: then Shell Shell: then
He is best known for his television series Born Survivor, known as Man vs. Wild in the United States. Edward Snowden - (1983-). American whistleblower and US former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details ...
; doctor in Arles Albert Dubois-Pillet, 1846-1890; French artist Albert Goupil, 1840-1884; French art collector and son of Adolphe Goupil Albert Mairet, 1852-1935; French professor of psychiatry Albert Neuhuys, 1844-1914; Dutch artist Albert Plasschaert, 1866-1941; Dutch art critic Albert ...
who studied with him and began to appear in concerts as Mme. P. Casals-Suggia, although they were not legally married. Their liaison was dissolved in 1912; in 1914 Casals married the American socialite and singer Susan Metcalfe; they were separated in 1928, but did not divorce until 1957....