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2 days ago · But Robert wasn’t the only Kennedy who captured the imagination of Skakel; she campaigned for John Kennedy during his 1946 run for U.S. Congress and wrote her college thesis on his book, Why England Slept (1940), a foreign-policy rebuttal to Winston Churchill’s explanation of England’s slow reaction to the rise of Germany in the 1930s ...
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21 hours ago · Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [ 1 ] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
1 day ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
5 days ago · John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially the Cuban missile crisis, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress.
- John F. Kennedy was reared in a large Roman Catholic family of Irish descent that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among its...
- John F. Kennedy’s father was Joseph P. Kennedy, who acquired a multimillion-dollar fortune in banking, bootlegging, shipbuilding, motion pictures,...
- John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. While riding...
- John F. Kennedy served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, represented the Massachusetts 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Represe...
- John F. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic president of the United States, sparked the idealism of “a new generation of Americans” with his charm an...
- Whether the U.S. should maintain its embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba is hotly debated. Some say Cuba has not met the conditions re...
3 days ago · Othello. "Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒˈθɛloʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign ...
2 days ago · England, predominant constituent unit of the United Kingdom, occupying more than half of the island of Great Britain. Outside the British Isles, England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom. Despite the political, economic, and cultural ...
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