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The Forsyte Saga. The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that ...
October 15, 1966. (1966-October-15) Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood. He was born at the Sinking Spring site south of Hodgenville and remained there until the family ...
Kingston. 45°30′9.45″N 65°58′32.8″W / 45.5026250°N 65.975778°W / 45.5026250; -65.975778 (Trinity Church and Rectory) The oldest surviving Anglican church in New Brunswick and a rare Maritimes example of a church and rectory surviving as a unit. William Brydone Jack Observatory [64] 1851 (completed) 1954.
Designated CP. April 11, 1973. Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park is a state park in Pall Mall, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Situated along the Wolf River, the park contains the farm and gristmill once owned by decorated World War I soldier Alvin C. York (1887–1964), who lived in the Pall Mall area for his entire life.
Starting on Sept. 24, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont will begin to see beautiful fall-colored leaves, according to predictions from the Farmers’ Almanac. New England boasts some of the ...
Clay and wood model of a bull cart carrying farm produce in large pots, Mohenjo-daro. The site was abandoned in the 19th century BC. In northern China, millet was domesticated by early Sino-Tibetan speakers at around 8000 to 6000 BC, becoming the main crop of the Yellow River basin by 5500 BC. [59] [60] They were followed by mung, soy and azuki ...
Abel Tasman's voyage of 1642 was the first known European expedition to reach Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight Fiji. On his second voyage of 1644, he also contributed significantly to the mapping of Australia proper, making observations on the land and people of the north coast below New Guinea. [15]
April 4, 1979. Designated NHL. June 23, 1986. Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is a 9.65-acre (3.91 ha) United States National Historic Site located 10 mi (16 km) southwest of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, within the municipality of Grantwood Village, Missouri. The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career ...