Senate Years of Service: 1868-1869; 1875-1881; 1906-1908Party: DemocratWHYTE, William Pinkney, a Senator from Maryland; born in Baltimore, Md., August 9, 1824; was instructed by a private…
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…is Count Dracula's castle? In the Transylvania region of Romania. The castle where the historical Dracula was born still stands in the town of Sighisoara. …is a whole country a desert? There…
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The Lean YearsMovies and FilmBritish Film HistoryThe BeginningsShooting (in) the WarThe Lean YearsEngland's Left Foot: Irish Cinema In the decades following World War II, the British film industry…
(Encyclopedia) elegy, in Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th cent. b.c.…
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