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High Watch (formerly named Holiday House but locally known as the Harkness House) is an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2) home in Watch Hill, a historic district in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States. The most expensive private home in Rhode Island, [2] High Watch has been owned by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift since 2013 and is a ...
Rhode Island Colony period: 1636–1776. The original 1636 deed to Providence, signed by Chief Canonicus. In 1636, Roger Williams settled on land granted to him by the Narragansett tribe at the tip of Narragansett Bay after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views. He called the site "Providence Plantations" and ...
James Grant Forbes II (1879–1955), American lawyer, banker and businessman, son of Francis Blackwell Forbes and his wife Isabel Clark. Was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes amassed a fortune from the opium trade and merchant banking after the Opium Wars. The grandfather of Brice Lalonde and John Forbes Kerry.
1799–. The Perry family is an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island whose members have included several United States naval commanders, naval aviators, politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th-century English immigrant to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the Perry family ...
For history after the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China, see China–United States relations. The history of the relations with China and the United States covers with the Qing and Republic eras. Harold Isaacs in 1955 identified six stages of American attitudes toward China. [1] They were "respect" (18th century), "contempt" (1840 ...
For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.
Matthew Perry was a member of the Perry family, a son of Sarah Wallace (née Alexander) (1768–1830) and Navy Captain Christopher Raymond Perry (1761–1818). He was born April 10, 1794, in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese ...