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A chessboard. A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. The play is notable for its political content, dramatizing a conflict between Spain and England. The plot takes the form of a chess match, and the play includes some genuine chess moves.
1 day ago · Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) [ 1 ] is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy ...
10 hours ago · Pitched a perfect game on July 18, 1999. David Brian Cone (born January 2, 1963) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball. [1] A third round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals in the 1981 ...
10 hours ago · Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) [ 1 ] is an English classical crossover soprano singer and actress. Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she later ...
1 day ago · The traditional Royal Harem still existed during the reign of king Hassan II of Morocco (r. 1961-1999): the Royal Harem included forty personal concubines (who by Islamic law were by definition slaves) as well as an additional forty concubines who the king had inherited by his father; additional concubines who worked as domestic servants in the Royal Harem, as well as male slaves performing ...
10 hours ago · Despite the efforts of royal surgeons Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius, the court doctors ultimately "advocated a wait-and-see strategy"; [96] as a result, the king's untreated eye and brain damage led to his death by sepsis ten days later. [97] His death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in France ...
10 hours ago · t. e. Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American politician, actor and professional wrestler. He rose to fame in WWE under the ring name Kane and in 2018 became the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Jacobs began his professional wrestling career on the independent circuit in 1992, wrestling in promotions such as Smoky Mountain ...
