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While in Pittsburgh, Wynne worked on the Pittsburgh Press newspaper [3] and played the violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. [4] He later moved to New York City and worked on the New York World newspaper. He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5]
New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...
Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for The Guardian, The Independent (as Anarche), the Financial Times (as Rosa Klebb), the New Statesman (as Aranya), and The Times, and advanced cryptics for The Listener crossword (The Times), Enigmatic Variations (The Daily Telegraph) and the Inquisitor (The Independent).
One co-prince is the sitting Bishop of Urgell of the Catalan city of La Seu d'Urgell, currently Joan Enric Vives i Sicilia. The other is the sitting President of France, currently Emmanuel Macron (it has historically been any head of state of France, including kings and emperors of the French).
2 Hallam Tennyson 2nd Baron Tennyson GCMG, PC (1852–1928) 9 January 1903 21 January 1904 1 year, 12 days Alfred Deakin (1903–1904) 3 Henry Northcote 1st Baron Northcote GCMG, GCIE, CB (1846–1911) 21 January 1904 9 September 1908 4 years, 232 days Chris Watson (1904) George Reid (1904–1905) Alfred Deakin (1905–1908) 4 William Ward 2nd ...
In a monarchy, a regent (from Latin regens [1] ' ruling, governing ') [2] [3] is a person appointed to govern a state pro tempore (Latin for 'for the time being') because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.
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As of 2025, 51 women have served as governor of a U.S. state, three as governor of an unincorporated U.S. territory, and two as mayor of the District of Columbia.In January 2025, women have been serving as governor in 12 U.S. states (13 between January 7 and 9, and January 21 and 25; 14 between January 9 and 21), as mayor of the District of Columbia, and as territorial governors of Guam and ...