the westernmost of Japan’s four main islands. It was the first Dutch ship to reach Japan. Among the crew was an English navigator, William Adams, who managed to gain the trust of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful warlord who became a shogun (the military leader of the samurai caste) in 1603...
In the section on portraiture in The Genius of Rome, it was catalogued as by Domenichino, something I've believed for nearly a decade. The portrait has similar features to a portrait of Guido by Ottavio Leoni, in a drawing of 1614, and the letter, until recently attached to the back ...
Jamestown seemed doomed, but things changed drastically in 1614 when John Rolfe started exporting new tobacco seeds he had brought from Bermuda. It was a success in London, and the demand grew exponentially. Rolfe, now wealthy, married Pocahontas. She had been abducted by the colonists and had...
(Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although in modern times she has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history, the number of murders a ...
Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate in the Black Market The Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate in the Black Market (Parallel Market) as of today stands at: Buy : $1 = ₦1605 Sell: $1 =1614 What is the Black Market? According toWikipedia, ablack marketis a clandestine market or series of trans...
(1614-79) claimed that he had created ‘within the most lawful of monarchies the most scandalous and most dangerous tyranny which may ever have enslaved the state’. He ‘blasted rather than governed the King’s subjects’. Michel Le Vassor wrote in his history of Louis XIII (1712) ‘I ...
The Museum is proud to be the stewards of a significant collection of artifacts and archival materials pertaining to the lumber industry and local history, donated by William Bittenbender in 2007. Currently, the Museum has the Bittenbender camera collection on display as part of the current exhibi...
any time. They have just witnessed the election of thequeerest congress in history, including two openly-gay Black men. Every day my kids are exposed to images and messages that celebrate diversity and those that foster deep hatred and polarization. Technology is contributing to and facilitating ...
某单位有职工160人，其中有业务人员120人，管理人员24人，后勤服务人员16人.为了解职工的某种情况，要从中抽取一个样本容量为20的样本，记作①；从某中学高三年级的18名体育特长生中选出3人调查学习负担情况，记作②；那么完成上述两项调查应采用的抽样方法是 ...
The landforms of Connecticut, by Joseph Bixby Hoyt.An ethnic history of New Haven: Pre-1638.These old houses of Connecticut. 1614 By the long tidal river, by Arthur E. Soderlind. 1638 The landing at Quinnipiac, by Ernest Hickock Baldwin. 1641 The Richard