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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?”
23 de abr. de 2024 · Even more than his younger contemporaries, Catherine II the Great of Russia and Joseph II in the Habsburg territories, it was Frederick who, during the mid-18th century, established in the minds of educated Europeans a notion of what “enlightened despotism” should be.
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Hace 2 días · Rembrandt's portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible are regarded as his greatest creative triumphs. His approximately 40 self-portraits form an intimate autobiography.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Great Contemporaries: Edmund Murray, Churchill’s Ubiquitous Bodyguard Explore , Great Contemporaries , The Lion and the Mouse: Did Churchill Desecrate Rubens?
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.
15 de abr. de 2024 · The scramble for African Empire between 1880 and 1913. (Map by Somebody500 using Wikimedia and other sources, Creative Commons) Brad Faught. Churchill and Africa: Empire, Decolonisation and Race. Barnsley, Yorks. and Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Books, 2023. 188 pages, $39.95, Amazon $23.95, Kindle $29.99.
22 de abr. de 2024 · Voltaire (born November 21, 1694, Paris, France—died May 30, 1778, Paris) was one of the greatest of all French writers. Although only a few of his works are still read, he continues to be held in worldwide repute as a courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty. Through its critical capacity, wit, and satire, Voltaire’s work ...
