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1 day ago · Herman Melville (born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
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5 hours ago · Artists Raja Feather Kelly Raja Feather Kelly (Choreographer) is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3rtheory–a dance-theatre-media company. Kelly has created 16 evening-length premieres with the feath3rtheory, most recently WEDNESDAY at New York Live Arts. He choreog...
5 hours ago · The Project Gutenberg eBook of Something of Men I Have Known This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States andmost other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictionswhatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg Lic...
5 hours ago · George Hall Dixon: deputy secretary of the treasury under President Gerald Ford; George Nicholas Eckert: director of the United States Mint, 1851–1853; Myer Feldman: White House Counsel to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; William R. Ferris: chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997–2000
1 day ago · The American novelist Herman Melville's soliloquies owe much to Shakespeare; his Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick is a classic tragic hero, inspired by King Lear. [226] Scholars have identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare's works, including Felix Mendelssohn 's overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sergei Prokofiev 's ballet Romeo and Juliet .
5 hours ago · t. e. Grover Cleveland was president of the United States first from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889, and then from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1897. The first Democrat elected after the Civil War, Cleveland is the only US president to leave office after one term and later return for a second term. His presidencies were the nation's 22nd and 24th.
1 day ago · Ward Melville, a philanthropist and businessman from the Three Village area in western Suffolk County donated over 400 acres (160 hectares) of land to the state for the development of a state university [19] and in 1962 the institution relocated to Stony Brook [22] and officially renamed as the State University of New York at Stony Brook. However, the longer name has fallen out of favor; since ...
