Today in History - May 6--Today in History for May 6:On this date:In 1491 BC, it is said Moses began his ascent up Mount Sinai and his inevitable appointment with the Lord to receive the Ten Commandments.In 878, the Christian king of Wessex, Alfred the Great, defeated the pagan ...
Nov 2, 1950 A great author died on this day in 1950. George Bernard Shaw(26 July 1856 – 2 Nov 1950), was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
April 4, 1953 – Death of King Carol II of Romania in Estoril, Portugal; first buried in the Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, Portugal; in 2003, his remains were transferred to the Curtea de Argeş Monastery in Argeş, Rom...
He held the office for 42 years, and in this official capacity, he wrote the Histoire du renouvellement del Académie des Sciences (Paris, 3 vols., 1708, 1717, 1722) containing extracts and analyses of the proceedings, written with great simplicity and delicacy. Fontenelle presented many ...
Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 30th of September some of the events you will find here, please use the following link where...
Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 20th of February some of the events you will find here, please use the following link where you will find more details and all other events of this day ... Naval/Maritime History - 27th of August - Today in...
Hickeringill (1631-1708), an eccentric English pamphleteer, who – after many strange adventures – received an appointment in the West Indies. For a time, he lived in Jamaica, which had only recently been seized from the Spanish and was still in the grip of a brutal war against the ...
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detailed drawings of fruit and flowers by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770), a collaborator of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, to depictions of more exotic examples by Matilda Conyers (1753–1803), “In Pursuit of Flora” reveals 18th-century European appreciation for the beauty of the natural...
The patient’s medical history was noncontributory. His initial goal was to attain a “natural, beautiful appearance.” He did not like his existing short, square, yellow-speckled front teeth; misshapen lateral incisors; worn flat edges of the anterior teeth; and lack of buccal corridor fullness...