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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers".
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Chest, 1845–1850, Walnut and Yellow Pine, North Carolina Museum of History. Thomas Day remained in Milton as a craftsman and achieved success and respect for his skill, and in 1829 he married Aquilla Wilson of Halifax County, Virginia; she, too, was a free Black. However, due to the increasingly strict migration laws imposed by the state of ...
"Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's name ...
An African Man, a portrait by Albrecht Dürer in the Albertina in Vienna, might be earlier, with a possible date of 1508, [3] but it is a charcoal drawing. The Rijksmuseum , who own the painting, have said that it might be Christophle le More (Christopher the Moor), a black archer recorded at the court of the Habsburg emperor Charles V . [ 2 ]
Renty Taylor was born around 1775 in the Congo; his birth name is today unknown. [1] He was captured by slave traders and arrived in New Orleans on a Spanish slave ship around 1800. [ 1 ] He was eventually purchased by Col. Thomas Taylor (1743–1833) during the early 1800s and he eventually made his way to the "Edgehill" plantation at Columbia ...
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