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Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. [1] It was planned as Wallace's third novel, and the first since Infinite Jest in 1996, but it was not completed at the time of his death. [ 2 ]
Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
Lovecraft used this essay to echo the political proposals that were made over the course of the last few decades. In this essay, he advocates governmental control of resource distribution, fewer working hours and a higher wage, and unemployment insurance and old age pensions. He also outlines the need for an oligarchy of intellectuals.
At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations.
“The most authentic cadavers that I’ve ever seen,” says Cooper. “So lifelike that I would look over at one of the actors looking at his cadaver, and you could see them having an unsettling ...
George Virden Watsky (born September 15, 1986) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, poet, author, and illustrator.. Watsky broke out as a rapper with his viral video "Pale kid raps fast" in 2011, which featured his trademark chopping style.
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived won gold at the 2017 Foreword INDIE Book Awards for Science, [2] and won the 2018 Thomas Bonner Book Prize. [3] The book was also a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award non-fiction finalist, [ 4 ] featured on the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize longlist, [ 5 ] and appeared on National Geographic 's top 12 ...