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Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States. She was also the mother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. Abigail has the distinction of being only one of two women who were both the wife and mother of a U.S. president. As First Lady, ...
Karl Behr: A tennis star who survived the Titanic disaster, Behr was traveling on the ship with his future wife, Helen Newsom. When the Titanic struck the iceberg, Behr helped his fiancée onto a lifeboat before being separated from her. Despite the chaos, he managed to secure a spot on ...
This time aboard Iowa inspired me to return and join the Navy Reserve and finally become the Boatswain-mate I was always meant to be. Interestingly, the proudest moment I had occurred years later. While shopping with my wife I overheard a father tell his son to go ask me a question. ...
However, Henry VIII was seeking a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and Rome refused to grant approval. In response, Henry separated from the Catholic church, declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, and began supporting Protestant reform. When Edward VI ascended t...
Take a look back at Mick Jagger, Hugh Hefner and other proud pops who fathered children in their silver years — details
When Sophie Rhys-Jones wed Queen Elizabeth II's son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 1999, she wore a tiara that was a gift from her mother-in-law—which is said to have been created from four pieces of one of Queen Victoria's crowns. Known as the Anthemion tiara, this custom he...
and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword. 媒体推荐 Pr...
He was accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von BÜlow (born Martha Sharp Crawford, 1931–2008) by administering an insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life, but his conviction in the first trial was reversed and he ...
He still recalls how “bewildering” it was when he and his late wife, Suzanna, found some 60,000 of her negatives and prints in their attic shortly after Miller’s death. She had developed a unique surrealist way of looking at the world, capturing everyday eccentricities that play with th...