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4 days ago · The election came down to the Whig Henry Clay and the Democrat Polk. Polk won. Four years later came Polk’s chance for reelection. He, however, already had dismissed the idea. Right after his nomination in 1844 by the Democratic National Convention, Polk took his friend Aaron V. Brown’s advice to pledge that he would serve only one term.
2 days ago · Henry Clay Work (October 1, 1832, Middletown – June 8, 1884, Hartford) was an American songwriter and composer of the mid-19th century. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War —songs documenting the afflictions of slavery, the hardships of army life and Northern triumphs in the conflict.
2 days ago · Abstract. August Strindberg’s Miss Julie and Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard have always been recurrently analyzed within disputable studies concerning the characters’ psychoanalytic makeup, the characters’ breakdown at the break of a new social class, and a naturalistic, existential approach.
4 days ago · "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" from 1910 is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
4 days ago · In physical chemistry, Henry's law is a gas law that states that the amount of dissolved gas in a liquid is directly proportional to its partial pressure above the liquid. The proportionality factor is called Henry's law constant. It was formulated by the English chemist William Henry, who studied the topic in the early 19th century.
1 day ago · A short movie by Ogilvy Italy that celebrates the story of an English chemist, founder of Italy’s major personal care brand Neutro Roberts. Bolton Group, a major Italian company of personal care products, along with Ogilvy Italy, takes us back in time to Florence in 1843, when English chemist Henry Roberts arrived from London to set up his ...
5 days ago · Humanities Texas. July 2023. Born in 1916 and raised in Wharton, Texas, Horton Foote has been praised for his authentic depictions of everyday people living in small Texas towns. One critic compared him to Faulkner, noting Foote's "ability to make his own corner of America stand for the whole."
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