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1 day ago · A bequest from Miss Emma Turner in 1892 financed excavations in Cyprus. In 1897 the death of the great collector and curator, A. W. Franks , was followed by an immense bequest of 3,300 finger rings , 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1,500 netsuke , 850 inro , over 30,000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure .
7 hours ago · —Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg ...
1 day ago · 1883 2013–14 Private 4,341 Hatters: ASUN: Women's rowing: Villanova University: Villanova, Pennsylvania: 1842 2003–04 Private (Augustinian) 11,023 Wildcats: Big East: Women's water polo: Virginia Military Institute: Lexington, Virginia: 1839 2011–12 Public 1,685 Keydets: SoCon: Women's water polo: Wagner College: Staten Island, New York ...
1 day ago · Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. [1] It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression.
7 hours ago · Afro-Venezuelans have also stood out in the arts, especially in music; for example: Magdalena Sánchez, Oscar D'León, Morella Muñoz, Allan Phillips, Pedro Eustache, Frank Quintero, and many others. Miss Venezuela 1998, Carolina Indriago, Miss Venezuela Universe 2006, Jictzad Viña, and Miss Venezuela World 2006, Susan Carrizo are mulatto.
1 day ago · Ariel Castro. 2013. Puerto Rican American man convicted in August 2013 of kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for holding Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus in his Cleveland, Ohio, home over the course of a decade, hanging [100] Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart.
