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John Napier Wyndham Turner PC CC QC (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of the Official Opposition from 1984 to 1990.
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The characteristics of the funeral march are found in various symphonic poems such as Tasso (1854), Die Ideale (1857), Hamlet (1858), Héroïde funèbre (1849-1850), Hungaria (1854), where the Hungarian composer deals with both death and mourning itself, and death as a prelude to rebirth. In the last two poems cited the reference to the funeral ...
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
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John Napier of Merchiston (/ ˈ n eɪ p i ər / NAY-pee-ər; [1] Latinized as Ioannes Neper; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
John Turner in 2018. This article is the Electoral history of John Turner, the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada. A liberal, Turner served one term as prime minister (June 30 to September 17, 1984), as successor to Pierre Trudeau. He had the second shortest-tenure of office of all the prime ministers, with only Charles Tupper having a ...
The Painting is attributed to Turner. It is highly likely to be a Turner work, and part of the Turner Bequest also. [3] Interior of a Romanesque Church: c.1795–1800 Tate Britain, London: 61 x 50.2 Fishermen at Sea: 1796 Tate Britain, London: 91.4 × 122.2 Diana and Callisto (after Wilson) 1796 Tate Britain, London: 56.5 x 91.4 Interior of a ...