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Presidential Medal of Freedom. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday ...
The slave trade, lightly taxed and regulated, flourished in all reaches of the Roman Empire and across borders. In antiquity, slavery was seen as the political consequence of one group dominating another, and people of any race, ethnicity, or place of origin might become slaves, including freeborn Romans.
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
On September 11, 2011, the Hartsville Fire Company in Hartsville, Pennsylvania, dedicated a September 11 memorial. The memorial honors the firefighters killed in the attacks in New York City and contains two columns representing the World Trade Center along with a piece of steel from the World Trade Center.
A young toga-clad man of letters holding a scroll. In classical antiquity, Greek and Roman writers were acquainted with people of every skin tone from very pale (associated with populations from Scythia) to very dark (associated with populations from sub-Saharan Africa ( Aethiopia ). People described with words meaning "black", or as Aethiopes ...
Art by Todd McFarlane. Albert Francis " Al " Simmons, better known as Spawn, is an antihero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by American company Image Comics, as well as in a number of films, television series, and video game adaptations set in the Image Universe. Created by Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in ...
A Roman candle is a traditional type of firework that ejects one or more stars or exploding shells. Roman candles come in a variety of sizes, from 6 mm (0.24 in) diameter for consumers, up to 8 cm (3.1 in) diameter in professional fireworks displays. Roman candles are banned in some countries as they have a tendency to malfunction. [ 1]
Reuters. Reuters ( / ˈrɔɪtərz / ⓘ ROY-terz) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. [ 1][ 2] It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. [ 3] Reuters is one of the largest and most trusted news agencies in the world. [ 4][ 5][ 6]