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"There were numerous uncomplimentary remarks passed about the fake news association which had so completely befogged itself," wrote The New Era of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [15] "The fake was kept up all the afternoon," said the Sentinel of Rome, New York. [16]
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (19 February 1775 – 10 March 1804) was a British Royal Navy officer and peer best known for his participation in the Vancouver Expedition and the resulting feud with its leader, George Vancouver, during and after the expedition.
Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1985) Mary Madeline " May " Bonfils Stanton (April 30, 1883 – March 11, 1962) [ 1] was an American heiress and philanthropist. She and her younger sister, Helen Bonfils, succeeded their father, Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, as principal owners of The Denver Post. However, May's elopement at age 21 with a non ...
02:33. Sen. JD Vance told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that “I don’t like those comments” when asked about far-right activist Laura Loomer’s remarks about Vice President ...
Mariamne. (Nadal play) Mariamne is a 1725 French tragedy by Augustin Nadal based around the Herodian dynasty. Nadal was encouraged to produce the play after his rival Voltaire 's play on the same story had failed after only one performance the previous year (1724). However, at the play's February 1725 premiere at the Comédie-Française, the ...
(The correct approach to the study of comets had been proposed at the time by Tycho Brahe.) In its opening passage, Galileo and Guiducci's Discourse gratuitously insulted the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner, [9] [10] [11] and various uncomplimentary remarks about the professors of the Collegio Romano were scattered throughout the work. [9]
Voltaire's fine-honed savagery inspired Nadal to excise the uncomplimentary remarks about Voltaire in his prefaces when he came to collect and publish the plays in 1736 with others of his poems, in three small volumes. But it is in Voltaire's response that the abbé Nadal is remembered.
James Lowndes Randall, 1901 portrait from A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country, 1780-1901. James Lowndes Randall (1855–1932) was an English investor in the development of the Gallatin Valley in Montana during the 1880s. In later life he adopted the habits of a country gentleman, and became known for his writings on fox-hunting .