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Hace 2 días · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by ...
Hace 2 días · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
Hace 1 día · In November 1868, following the Battle of Washita River, Custer was alleged (by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition) to have unofficially married Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868–1869 (Little Rock was killed in the one-day ...
Hace 4 días · Theodore Watts-Dunton (born Oct. 12, 1832, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, Eng.—died June 6, 1914, London) was an English critic and man of letters, who was the friend and, after 1879, protector, agent, and nurse of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.. Watts studied law and practiced in London, but his real interest was literature.He contributed regularly to the Examiner and was the chief poetry ...
Hace 4 días · Muddy Waters (born April 4, 1913?, near Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S.—died April 30, 1983, Westmont, Illinois) was a dynamic American blues guitarist and singer who played a major role in creating the post-World War II electric blues.. Waters, whose nickname came from his proclivity for playing in a creek as a boy, grew up in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta, where he was raised ...
Hace 4 días · Walter Cronkite (born November 4, 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.—died July 17, 2009, New York, New York) American journalist and pioneer of television news programming who became known as “the most trusted man in America.”He was the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962–81), for which he reported on many of the most historic events of the latter half of ...
Hace 5 días · It is therefore possible that Martha Tabram, murdered in the early hours of August 7th 1888 on the dark, first floor landing of George Yard Buildings, was the first victim to die at the hands of Jack the Ripper.
