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13 hours ago · East India Company. The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South ...
13 hours ago · Religious affiliations can affect the electability of the presidents of the United States and shape their stances on policy matters and their visions of society and also how they want to lead it. While no president has ever openly identified as an atheist, Thomas Jefferson, [2] Abraham Lincoln, [3][4] and William Howard Taft [5] were speculated ...
13 hours ago · Wilhelm II. Wilhelm II[b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia. Born during the reign of his granduncle Frederick William ...
13 hours ago · Elizabeth was placed in her half-brother's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening. [12] A rare portrait of a teenage Elizabeth prior to her accession, attributed to William Scrots. It was painted for her father in c. 1546.
13 hours ago · The following list contains scores or songs which are the primary theme music of a television series or miniseries. They are sorted alphabetically by the television series' title. Any themes, scores, or songs which are billed under a different name than their respective television series' title are shown in parentheses, except in cases where they are officially billed as "Theme from [Series' Name]", " [Series' Name] Theme", etc., which are omitted. This list does not include television ...
13 hours ago · Thurgood [a] Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Norma and William Canfield Marshall. [2]: 30, 35 His father held various jobs as a waiter in hotels, in clubs, and on railroad cars, and his mother was an elementary school teacher. [3]: 41, 45 The family moved to New York City in search of better employment opportunities not long after Thurgood's birth; they returned to Baltimore when he was six years old. [3]: 50 He was an energetic and boisterous child who ...
4 hours ago · Genealogy for Mary Anne Danowski (c.1946 - 1962) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
