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1 day ago · The character of Walter Donovan was partially based on Irish American businessman and politician Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy. [ citation needed ] Kennedy Sr. was the United States Ambassador to Great Britain during the 1930s and was known for his advocacy of isolationism and appeasement towards the Third Reich .
1 day ago · Aleister Crowley, on his name change. Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a ...
1 day ago · Like double of the $35,000 I had received the year before, plus another $5,000 for good measure, good conduct, and good luck. They could hardly say I didn't deserve it." [ 93 ] However, during his meeting with Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi , the latter stated Koufax had not earned such a big raise, using numerous excuses to justify his stance, including that he had not pitched enough ...
1 day ago · Francis (Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis) was baptized Giovanni by his mother. His surname, di Pietro di Bernardone, comes from his father, Pietro di Bernardone. The latter was in France on business when Francis was born in Assisi, a small town in Italy.
1 day ago · The 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney starred David Strathairn as broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow and contained archival footage of McCarthy. [ 186 ] The 2016 opera Fellow Travelers , based on the 2007 novel by Thomas Mallon , is set in McCarthy-era Washington D.C. and focuses on the " lavender scare ", a witch hunt and mass firings of gay people from the United ...
1 day ago · Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [a] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her ...
1 day ago · What he had to say about the need in popular governments like our own to protect the rights of minorities, about the importance of choosing leaders with character, talent, and the willingness to speak hard truths to the people, and about the enduring need, in a vast and various country like our own, for the people themselves to develop and sustain both the civic culture and the institutional ...
