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Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
Tomb of Sir James, St Bride's Kirk, Douglas. Sir James Douglas (also known as Good Sir James and the Black Douglas; c. 1286 – 25 August 1330) [1] was a Scottish knight and feudal lord.
The Retreat, commonly known as the York Retreat, is a place in England for the treatment of people with mental health needs. Located in Lamel Hill in York, it operates as a not for profit charitable organisation. Opened in 1796, it is famous for having pioneered the so-called "moral treatment" that became a behaviour model for asylums around ...
Adobe Firefly, Tyler Le/BI. Stifel warns of a sharp stock market correction by year-end, with the S&P 500 potentially dropping 12%. Chief equity strategist Barry Bannister said high valuations and ...
April 11 – Kim Myeong-sik, Korean independence activist (b. 1890) April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (b. 1888) April 16 – Carlos Arniches, Spanish playwright (b. 1866) April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884) April 21 – Rihard Jakopič, Yugoslav painter (b. 1869) April 24
Exterior view of BC Place from the south, with its original roof, October 2005. Construction of the stadium started in February of 1981, with Dillingham Construction contracted to build the stadium, designed by architecture firm Studio Phillips Barratt, Ltd. [5] BC Place was built as part of the preparations for the 1986 World's Fair, Expo 86.
Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743, Old Style, Julian calendar), at the family's Shadwell Plantation in the British Colony of Virginia, the third of ten children. [8] He was of English and possibly Welsh descent, and was born a British subject . [ 9 ]
The Retreat (French: Il neigeait) is a historic novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first published in 2000. The English translation by Will Hobson appeared in 2004. The Retreat describes the occupation of Moscow by the French Army in 1812 and its disastrous retreat .