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6 hours ago · Calling it "a Victorian gentleman who has refused to die", Charlotte Devree in The New York Times said that "There is nothing else quite like Gramercy Park in the country." [ 14 ] When the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission created the Gramercy Park Historic District in 1966, they quoted from John B. Pine's 1921 book, The Story of Gramercy Park :
6 hours ago · Afognak Mountain, summit of Afognak Island; Alabaster Peak; Alagogshak; Amak Volcano, active stratovolcano; Amherst Peak; Amulet Peak; Andy Simons Mountain; Annex Peak; Anvil Peak NGS PB, active stratovolcano that forms the summit of Semisopochnoi Island
1 day ago · Lord Ruthven in The Vampyre (1819), Edmond Dantes from Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847)
1 day ago · Africa seen by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of what was then known as northern Africa, located west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referring to all lands south of the Mediterranean, also known as Ancient Libya.
6 hours ago · Eve Merriam née Moskovitz: (College for Women class of 1937): author and actress [39] Jonah Meyerson: film and television actor; Sia Michel: Current Culture editor and past pop music editor of The New York Times; Andrea Mitchell: NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent; Ethan Mordden: novelist, theater historian
1 day ago · 1751 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1827) 1764 – Valentino Fioravanti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1837) 1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish surgeon and explorer (d. 1806) 1786 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (d. 1832) 1798 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
1 day ago · Λεξικό Merriam-Webster Ακούγεται απίστευτο όμως κάποια σχολεία στην Καλιφόρνια αποφάσισαν να αφαιρέσουν τη 10η έκδοση του Λεξικού Merriam-Webster από τις αίθουσες της τέταρτης και πέμπτης τάξης Δημοτικού το 2010.
