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Charles Pinckney: A Steady and Open Republican

A Steady and Open RepublicanCharles PinckneyMonday, May 5, 1788Mrs. Timothy The enclosed,[23] copied from a paper sent me by a friend, seems so peculiarly adapted to our present situation,…

Brewer's: Wages

Giles Moore, in 1659, paid his mowers sixteenpence an acre. In 1711 Timothy Burrell, Esq., paid twentypence an acre; in 1686 he paid Mary his cook…

Terrorist Attacks

1920 Sept. 16, New York City: TNT bomb planted in unattended horse-drawn wagon exploded on Wall Street opposite House of Morgan, killing…

2017 Deaths - People We Lost

  Deaths in 2017 Prev Next Philip Bond British Actor Philip Bond was best known for The Onedin Line, Doctor Who, The Avengers (television show), and Fever Pitch . Bond died while on…

Walt Whitman: Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

Give Me the Splendid Silent SunPart 1Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the unmow'd…

Nobel Prizes: 2002

/* /*]]>*/ 2002 Nobel Prize Winners Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States Related Links Nobel Prize HistoryEncyclopedia:Nobel Prizes Quiz:Nobel Prize History Past…

1980 Academy Awards

The 1980 Academy Awards were presented March 31, 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.Best PictureCoal Miner's Daughter, Bernard Schwartz, producer (Universal)The Elephant Man…