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6 hours ago · The following were the countries of origin for new arrivals to the United States before 1790. [30] The regions marked with an asterisk were part of Great Britain. The ancestry of the 3.9 million population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names from the 1790 census and assigning them a country of origin. The Irish ...
1 day ago · Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS [1] (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach.
1 day ago · By 1712, the term "North Carolina" was in common use. In 1728, the dividing line between North Carolina and Virginia was surveyed. In 1730, the population in North Carolina was around 30,000. [ 38 ] By 1729, the Crown bought out seven of the eight original proprietors and made the region a royal colony.
6 hours ago · Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈkæðər /; [ 1 ] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [ 2 ] December 7, 1873 [ A ] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
6 hours ago · – Patricia Highsmith, "My New Year's Toast", journal entry, 1947 According to her biographer, Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's personal life was a "troubled one". She was an alcoholic who, allegedly, never had an intimate relationship that lasted for more than a few years, and she was seen by some of her contemporaries and acquaintances as misanthropic and hostile. Her chronic alcoholism ...
1 day ago · Art by Jack Kirby. (repurposed from his 1970s Marvelmania poster). The Fantastic Four is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover-dated November 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism in the medium.
6 hours ago · Accessed February 21, 2012. "Dr. Lederberg was born May 23, 1925, in Montclair, N.J., to Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, a rabbi, and the former Esther Goldenbaum, who had emigrated from what is now Israel two years earlier. His family moved to the Washington Heights section of Manhattan when he was 6 months old."
