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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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2 days 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.
4 days ago · Churchill gave a bunch of speeches before the war, before September 1st, 1939, warning about what was coming from Berlin. And they're bound together in a book that was titled While England Slept. And then JFK writes his senior thesis at Harvard before the war, and the title is Why England Slept.
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 ...
1 day ago · In later years, he described the affair as "a violent, though pure love and passion". This statement, however, needs to be read in the context of hardening public attitudes toward homosexuality in England and the severe sanctions (including public hanging) imposed upon convicted or even suspected offenders. [44]
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.
22 hours ago · The Safekeep is a beguiling love story told in a language that entertains and enthrals and that never lets the duty to the truth get in the way of the pleasure of the writing. Or of the reading ...
