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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 · Frederick II, king of Prussia (1740–86), a brilliant military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars, greatly enlarged Prussia’s territories and made Prussia the foremost military power in Europe. He ruled as an enlightened despot and instituted numerous economic, civil, and social reforms.
22 de abr. de 2024 · Winston Churchill was a grand traveler throughout his life and visited a vast number of countries. His travels largely occurred when aircraft were either non-existent or rarely used. They sometimes were taken at great risk of his life. Among contemporary statesmen, Churchill must have been one of the most well-travelled, if not the record-holder.
22 de abr. de 2024 · Voltaire, one of the greatest French writers, best known for his philosophical fantasy Candide (1759). Through its critical capacity, wit, and satire, Voltaire’s work vigorously propagates an ideal of progress to which people of all nations have remained responsive.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,” and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.”
23 de abr. de 2024 · Constantine I. Byname: Constantine the Great. Latin in full: Flavius Valerius Constantinus. Born: February 27, after 280 ce ?, Naissus, Moesia [now Niš, Serbia] Died: May 22, 337, Ancyrona, near Nicomedia, Bithynia [now İzmit, Turkey] Title / Office: emperor (324-337), Roman Empire. Notable Family Members: father Constantius I. mother St. Helena.
Hace 1 día · It includes entries on the plays and the major characters, on Shakespeare's life and his contemporaries, on actors from Edmund Kean to Peter O'Toole, on theaters and directors, and comments on Shakespeare by later authors such as Austen, Johnson, Keats, and Woolf.
