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2 days ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature [3] and has ...
2 days ago · Elizabeth's father, Sir James Bourchier, was a London leather-merchant who owned extensive lands in Essex and had strong connections with Puritan gentry families there. The marriage brought Cromwell into contact with Oliver St John and leading members of London's merchant community, and behind them the influence of the Earls of Warwick and Holland .
2 days ago · Dr. Strangelove / G/C Lionel Mandrake / Pres. Merkin Muffley Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Nominated Peter O'Toole King Henry II of England: Becket: Nominated Richard Burton Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury: Nominated 1965: Alec Leamas The Spy Who Came In from the Cold: Nominated Laurence Olivier ...
1 day ago · Stephen William Hawking, CH , CBE , FRS , FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [ 6 ][ 17 ][ 18 ] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ...
1 day ago · The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist in the mid-20th century in the United States. The blacklist began at the onset of the Cold War and Red Scare, and affected entertainment production in Hollywood, New York, and elsewhere. Actors, screenwriters, directors, musicians, and other film and television professionals were ...
1 day ago · Vice-President, Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Lecturer on Anatomy at St Thomas’s Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women. Formerly Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. {
1 day ago · Travis James Mullis, 38, American child murderer, execution by lethal injection. [76] Julián Muñoz, 76, Spanish politician and convicted criminal (Operation Malaya), mayor of Marbella (2002–2003), lung cancer. [77] Sebastião Nery, 92, Brazilian journalist. [78] Ibrahim Qubaisi, Lebanese militant, commander of Hezbollah, airstrike. [79]
