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Hace 3 días · O. Henry (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York) was an American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City.
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- American writer O. Henry is famous for his short stories. His tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular, the life of ordinary people in New...
- O. Henry was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- American writer O. Henry was born William Sidney Porter. He later changed the spelling of his middle name to “Sydney” and subsequently adopted “O....
- Before O. Henry was a professional writer, he worked as a clerk in a drugstore. In 1882 he went to Texas, where he worked on a ranch, in a general...
Hace 4 días · Walden, series of 18 essays by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1854 and considered his masterwork. An important contribution to New England Transcendentalism, the book was a record of Thoreau’s experiment in simple living on Walden Pond in Massachusetts (1845–47).
Hace 2 días · Anne Boleyn ( / ˈbʊlɪn, bʊˈlɪn /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation .
Hace 2 días · Philosophy portal. v. t. e. Born on Milk Street in the City of London, on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, [11] a successful lawyer and later a judge, [3] [12] and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger). He was the second of six children. More was educated at St. Anthony's School, then considered one of London's best schools.
Hace 1 día · Citation: Dr John Watts, review of Henry VII, (review no. 624) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/624. Date accessed: 30 May, 2024. A new book on Henry VII is a major event. The last full-length study of the king and his reign, by S. B. Chrimes, was written in 1972, in a very different historiographical world.
Hace 5 días · Penn’s book re-examines the reign of Henry VII, one of the most misunderstood of English kings. The reign sits uncomfortably on the borders between the Middle Ages and modernity, and the standard biography remains Stanley Chrimes’s 1972 account, a book in which the king himself remains elusive.
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