Risultati di ricerca
1 giorno fa · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Adichie in 2015 Born Amanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-09-15) 15 September 1977 (age 46) Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria Occupation Writer public speaker fashionista Nationality Nigerian Alma mater Eastern Connecticut State University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) Yale University (MA) Period 2003–present Notable works Purple Hibiscus (2003) Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) "The ...
4 ore fa · Join Whites for Racial Equity and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula for a free showing of the documentary Slay the Dragon at 490 Aguajito Rd., Carmel.<br/><br/>"Slay the Dragon" is an incisively made and morally suspenseful film, at once chilling and stirring. It deals with gerrymandering on a human level — as the endgame in the fight for democracy — and it shows ...
1 giorno fa · Allen Ginsberg. Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( / ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic ...
4 ore fa · Ronald Wilson Reagan ( / ˈreɪɡən / RAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in ...
1 giorno fa · v. t. e. The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
1 giorno fa · Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
1 giorno fa · Shivaji escaped from Panhala by cover of night, and as he was pursued by the enemy cavalry, his Maratha sardar Baji Prabhu Deshpande of Bandal Deshmukh, along with 300 soldiers, volunteered to fight to the death to hold back the enemy at Ghod Khind ("horse ravine") to give Shivaji and the rest of the army a chance to reach the safety of the Vishalgad fort.
