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Edward Alfred Pollard (February 27, 1832 – December 17, 1872) was an American author, journalist, and Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War who wrote several books on the causes and events of the war, notably The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1866) and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), [1] wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo ...
New crops that had come to Asia from the Americas, via the Spanish colonizers in the 16th century, contributed to Asia's population growth. [211] Although the bulk of imports to China were silver, the Chinese also purchased New World crops from the Spanish Empire. This included sweet potatoes, maize, and peanuts, foods that could be cultivated ...
A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne is an 1888 history painting by the English artist Andrew Carrick Gow. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland when James II sailed for France from the port of Kinsale following his Irish Army's defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Claire Littleton is a fictional character played by Emilie de Ravin on the ABC drama television series Lost, which chronicles the lives of the survivors of a plane crash in the South Pacific. Claire is introduced in the pilot episode as a pregnant crash survivor. She is a series regular until her disappearance in the fourth season finale. The ...
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The Lost Cause is a 2023 social fiction novel by Canadian writer Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books.. The novel is set in near-future California, where rising seas, fires, and floods due to climate change have made millions homeless, and has caused a political sea-change in North America and Europe, shifting towards Green New Deal-style eco-socialism.
The National Weather Service in New York said most of the tri-state area − New York, New Jersey and Connecticut − received 0.15-0.30 inches of rain. That is not a lot, but it was the most rain ...
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