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18 hours ago · Signature. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
18 hours ago · Raleigh ( / ˈrɑːli /; RAH-lee) [8] is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeast, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro ...
18 hours ago · Jemele Hill: B.A. 1997 columnist, The Atlantic, former television host at ESPN, columnist ESPN Page 2 Adrienne LaFrance: B.A. 2004 executive editor of The Atlantic: Wanda Lau: B.S. award-winning editor of technology and practice for Architect Magazine: Myra MacPherson: B.A. 1956 Pulitzer Prize nominee, journalist, author Jim Mitzelfeld
18 hours ago · John C. Calhoun. John Caldwell Calhoun ( / kælˈhuːn /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
18 hours ago · The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [39] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [40] [41] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central ...
18 hours ago · At the hill station of Shimla, the summer capital of British India, an attempt was made to recreate the Home counties in the foothills of the Himalayas. Although Gothic Revival was the predominant architectural style, alternatives were also deployed; Rashtrapati Niwas , the former Viceregal Lodge, has been variously described as Scottish Baronial Revival , [160] Tudor Revival [161] and ...
