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2 days ago · (Adèle's biography inspired the movie The Story of Adele H.) His wife Adèle had died in 1868. Hugo on his deathbed (photographed by Nadar) Tomb of Victor Hugo at the Panthéon. His faithful mistress, Juliette Drouet, died in 1883, only two years before his own death. Despite his personal loss, Hugo remained committed to the cause of political ...
1 day ago · Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n s ən /; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has been featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list.
13 hours ago · Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous.
3 days ago · Lord Hanson and Gordon White (later Lord White of Hull) formed a partnership in the 1960s, and began a greetings card business. The two men also began buying other companies, in such diverse industries as fertilisers and bricks, which all sat under the umbrella of a listed entity called Hanson Trust (later renamed simply Hanson).
1 day ago · The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
5 days ago · Rita Lee Jones (São Paulo 31 December 1947 – 8 May 2023) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, presenter, actress, writer, and activist.
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