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1 day ago · NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest group to that date. The class was the first to include female and minority astronauts; of the 35 selected, six were women, one of them being Jewish American, three were African American ...
2 hours ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt[ a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the ...
2 hours ago · Richard Bruce Cheney ( / ˈtʃeɪni / CHAY-nee; [ a] born January 30, 1941) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. Often cited as the most powerful vice president in American history, [ 4][ 5] Cheney previously served as White ...
1 day ago · Warren G. Harding. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as ...
6 hours ago · Week 1 of the Kentucky and Ohio high school football season is here. Follow along for live updates and Greater Cincinnati scores from Friday night.
1 day ago · Ed Gein: Ed Gein – The Wisconsin Serial Killer: Steve Railsback: 2000 Georg VI. (Vereinigtes Königreich) The King’s Speech: Colin Firth: 2010 Geronimo: Geronimo – Eine Legende: Wes Studi: 1993 George Gershwin: Rhapsodie in Blau: Robert Alda: 1945 William Schwenck Gilbert: Topsy-Turvy – Auf den Kopf gestellt: Jim Broadbent: 1999 ...
1 day ago · Edward FitzGerald. Throughout the 18th century, the watchword of translators was ease of reading. Whatever they did not understand in a text, or thought might bore readers, they omitted. They cheerfully assumed that their own style of expression was the best, and that texts should be made to conform to it in translation.
