Charles Upham was the only man to be awarded two Victoria Crosses during World War II, and was known for his quick thinking. The man is remembered for destroying enemy posts, rescuing a wounded man while under fire, going deep behind enemy lines and killing 22 Germans to rescue a platoon—...
弗朗茨一世的女儿、女大公玛丽·路易丝(Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma)是法国皇帝拿破仑的第二任妻子,即法国皇后,也是拿破仑唯一的嫡子、皇位继承人、赖希施泰特公爵(Duke of Reichstadt)拿破仑·弗朗索瓦·约瑟夫·夏尔·波拿巴(Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte,即拿破仑二世)的母亲。拿破仑的帝国崩塌后,奥...
King Louis XV Charles, Prince of Soubise Casualties and losses 180,000 dead Over 145,000 dead or missing v t e Silesian Wars First Second Third v t e Theatres of the Seven Years' War Western Europe Silesia Pomerania Portugal North America West Indies West Africa India ...
2004 King Solomon's Mines Allan Quartermain Miniseries; 2 episodes Whoopi Tony Episode: "One Last Dance" 2005 Icon Jason Monk Television movie 2009 The Beast Charles Barker / Apache Series regular; 13 episodesFilmed in 2008; final acting appearance Theatre YearTitleRoleNotes 1974 The Music Man ...
This experiment shows that a male butterfly will ignore a living female butterfly of his own species in favor of a painted cardboard one if the cardboard one is bigger than he is—bigger than any female butterfly ever could be. After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousand...
[e] Tom has certain parallels with William "Bill" Mitchell, the Chicago businessman who married Ginevra King.[45] Tom and Mitchell were both Chicagoans with an interest in polo.[45] Also, like Ginevra's father Charles King, whom Fitzgerald resented, Tom is an imperious Yale man and polo ...
Charles Ingram Charles Whitman Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 - August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer who became infamous as the "Texas Tower Sniper". On August 1, 1966, he used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the Universit...
In addition to Engels and Liebknecht, Marx's daughter Eleanor and Charles Longuet and Paul Lafargue, Marx's two French socialist sons-in-law, also attended his funeral. Liebknecht, a founder and leader of the German Social-Democratic Party, gave a speech in German, and Longuet, a prominent...
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a histori