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Hace 5 días · Quick Tips for using this 1800 Historical Tennessee Counties Map tool. There are four ways to get started using this Historical U.S. Counties map tool. Type any PRESENT-day place or address in the “Search places” box above the map and choose the one you want from the auto-complete list. Click the map to see the historical county name for ...
Hace 2 días · A black-yellow horizontal bicolor with the coat of arms. The coat of arms is a reference to a legend in which Liudolf, Duke of Swabia founded a ranch, a horse breeding center and riding school on where the city is located now. Vertical flag. Ulm: 1244 – present: A black-white horizontal bicolor. The meaning of the colours is still unknown til ...
Hace 1 día · George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. [2] His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (i.e. to both left-wing authoritarian communism and to right-wing ...
Hace 1 día · Freiburg was founded by Konrad and Duke Berthold III of the House of Zähringen in 1120 as a free market town; hence its name, which translates to "free (or independent) town". Frei means "free", and Burg , like the modern English word " borough ", was used in those days for an incorporated city or town, usually one with some degree of autonomy. [8]
Hace 2 días · George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
Hace 2 días · Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, in the costume of a Roman emperor, attended by his duchess in a court-dress of the time of George I.; the English admiral, Sir Cloudesley Shovel, in a Roman cuirass, sandals, and a full-bottomed wig, in his monument in the south aisle; and many others, equally inconsistent in time and place, show the extent to which this absurd fancy was carried."
Hace 2 días · George Washington. / 38.707889°N 77.086083°W / 38.707889; -77.086083. George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the ...
