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Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine, on September 3, 1849.Her family had been residents of New England for many generations. [2]Jewett's father, Theodore Herman Jewett, was a doctor specializing in "obstetrics and diseases of women and children," [3] and Jewett often accompanied him on his rounds, becoming acquainted with the sights and sounds of her native land and its people. [4]
— Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (29 July [O.S. 19 July] 1692), to Reverend Nicholas Noyes prior to execution by hanging [note 100] "More weight." [note 101] — Giles Corey, English-born American farmer (19 September 1692), before being pressed to death during the Salem witch trials
"Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!", a famous excerpt from the "Second Reply to Hayne" speech given by Senator Daniel Webster during the Nullification Crisis. The full speech is generally regarded as the most eloquent ever delivered in Congress. The slogan itself would later become the state motto for North Dakota.
March 7 A Court of Silver Flames: Sarah J. Maas: Bloomsbury Publishing [11] March 14 The Four Winds: Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press [12] March 21 Life After Death: Sister Souljah: Emily Bestler Books [13] March 28 The Four Winds: Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press [14] April 4 Win: Harlan Coben: Grand Central Publishing [15] April 11 The Four ...
1811 – Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author (d. 1875) 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882) 1839 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909) 1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star ...
Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, 1980; Wesley C. Salmon, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, 1984; Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, 1985; Ronald Giere, Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach, 1988
Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. [1] His father died in 1619, his mother in 1621. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Fürstenschule in Grimma.
In December 1984, the painting was stolen from the St. John's Co-Cathedral. The canvas was cut out of the frame. Two years later, following numerous telephone negotiations between the thieves and the then Director of Museums in Malta and Gozo, Fr. Marius J. Zerafa, [1] the painting was recovered.