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29 de abr. de 2024 · Great Contemporaries: Stanley Baldwin, A Case for Magnanimity. By FRED GLUECKSTEIN. | April 29, 2024. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (center) with Churchill (r) and Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain. (Library of Congress) “Will the bloody duck swim?”
12 de may. de 2024 · Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description." Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these portraits of notable figures of his age offer wisdom for our own. With keen observations and telling anecdotes ...
2 de may. de 2024 · In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for Rome, never to see his native city again. He was 59, which many contemporaries regarded as old, but for Michelangelo this move marked the beginning of a dramatic new chapter which would fundamentally shape his experiences as an artist and as a man.
13 de may. de 2024 · 18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness. During the Renaissance, art experienced radical and unprecedented development. This article lays out all the important painters, sculptors, and architects whose masterpieces helped transform the world of art. May 13, 2024 • By Mia Forbes, BA in Classics.
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Hace 21 horas · Failed strangulation. Between January 1918 and May 1925, various Allied powers sent 180,000 troops to intervene in the Russian Civil War, attempting to, in Winston Churchill’s words, “strangle Bolshevism in its cradle.” 1 In A Nasty Little War, the former Economist journalist Anna Reid has written a devastating analysis about why they ...
9 de may. de 2024 · On January 16, 1547, Ivan was crowned “tsar and grand prince of all Russia.” The title tsar was derived from the Latin title caesar and was translated by Ivan’s contemporaries as “emperor.” In February 1547 Ivan married Anastasia Romanovna, a great-aunt of the future first tsar of the Romanov dynasty.
Hace 4 días · Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music. His best-known work is The Four Seasons, a cycle of violin concerti wherein each concerto depicts a different season of the year.
