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Signature. Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart[ 3 ] or Mary I of Scotland, [ 4 ] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
A second film miniseries, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977), was made the following year which detailed Roosevelt's terms as president during the Great Depression and World War II, told as a series of flashback episodes as Eleanor sits with her husband's body in the back bedroom during a legendary private moment in the cottage ...
No Ordinary Time. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a 1994 historical, biographical book by American author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin published by Simon & Schuster. Based on interviews with 86 people who knew them personally, the book chronicles the lives of President ...
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History is a 2014 American documentary television miniseries directed and produced by Ken Burns.It covers the lives and times of the three most prominent members of the Roosevelt family, Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican and the 26th President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, the 32nd President of the United States, and fifth cousin of ...
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater. Wellesley College. Syracuse University. Occupation (s) Suffragist, educator. Partner. Nancy Cook. Marion Dickerman (April 11, 1890 – May 16, 1983) was an American suffragist, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School, and a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, [1] and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th-century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became ...
241. On My Own: The Years since the White House[ 1] is a 1958 memoir by Eleanor Roosevelt, an American political figure, diplomat, activist and First Lady of the United States while her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was President of the United States. On My Own was the third of four memoirs written by Roosevelt, the other three being: This Is ...
Mary Tudor(/ˈtjuːdər/TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of Franceas the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of Englandand Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive infancy. Following Louis's death, Mary married ...