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2 giorni fa · On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his royal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. [b] The British Museum Act 1753 also added two other libraries to the Sloane collection, namely the Cottonian Library , assembled by Sir Robert Cotton , dating back to Elizabethan times, and the Harleian Library , the collection of the Earls of Oxford .
4 giorni fa · Henri VI d'Angleterre (6 décembre 1421 – 21 mai 1471) est roi d'Angleterre de 1422 à 1461, puis de 1470 à 1471. Il est duc d'Aquitaine de 1422 à 1453, en vertu du traité de Troyes conclu en 1420 par son père, le roi d'Angleterre Henri V, avec son grand-père maternel, le roi de France Charles VI, mais il refuse de rendre hommage, et revendique le trône de France comme descendant d'une ...
10 mag 2024 · An English chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI written before the year 1471 by John Silvester Davies. Call Number: DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.64. with an appendix, containing the 18th and 19th years of Richard II and the Parliament at Bury St. Edmund's, 25th Henry VI and supplementary additions from the Cotton. ms ...
4 giorni fa · The Hittites ( / ˈhɪtaɪts /) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, [2] they settled in modern day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC. The Hittites formed a series of polities in north-central Anatolia, including the ...
3 mag 2024 · On April 25, 2024, students at GWU took over University Yard, which is at the center of the campus and has as its centerpiece a statue of George Washington erected in 1932.
21 mag 2024 · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
16 mag 2024 · The Billy Graham Statue is a 7-foot bronze sculpture by North Carolina artist Chas Fagan. WASHINGTON, May 16, 2024 – A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol for the first time this morning. “My father would be a little uncomfortable with this being here because he would want the focus to be on the One that he ...
