Its lifelike and forthright portrayal broke with conventions of earlier Renaissance portraiture of women, including a preference for the more detached profile view. Ginevra de’ Benci is one of the first known three-quarter-view portraits in Italian art. She eyes the viewer directly.
Born in Massachusetts, Virginia Lee Burton was brought up in California. Her father was the first dean at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; her mother was a poet and painter who called herself Jeanne D’Orge.
Gunnar Jarring (gŭn´är yär´Ĭng), –, Swedish diplomat. He entered diplomatic service during World War II and was minister to India (–51), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka; –51), and Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan (–52).
Sensational Nigerian artist now turned gospel musician ONYEKACHI Elizabeth Gilbert Onwuka, better known as Yeka Onka has recounted how she switched from singing worldly songs to gospel songs. She recounted her transitions from her secular music into her new found love in gospel music.
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Alonzo Jacob Ransier (January 3, – Aug) was an American politician in South Carolina who served as the state's first black Lieutenant Governor and later was a United States Congressman from until He was a Reconstruction era Republican.
Yunalis binti Mat Zara'ai (Jawi: يوناليس بنت مد ظراعي; born 14 November ), known professionally as Yuna, is a Malaysian singer. Her initial exposure came through the viral success of her music uploaded to Myspace, which received over one million plays.
Dr Rizvi is the founder of ethical transplant programme in Pakistan and played a pivotal role in promulgation of transplant legislation to ban transplant tourism and allow deceased donation. He is also the pioneer of deceased donor programme and live related liver transplantation in the country.
Barack Obama (born August 4, , Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (–08).
Barack Obama (born August 4, ) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States, the first Black man to do so. Prior to that, he was a civil rights lawyer, constitutional law professor, and U.S. senator from Illinois.
Philippe Desportes, est un poète baroque français. Surnommé le «Tibulle français» pour la douceur et la facilité de ses vers, il fut abbé de Tiron, lecteur de la chambre du Roi et conseiller d'État. Le ciel poétique s'assombrit en ce xvir siècle finissant.
Prachee Shah Pandya, also known as Prachi Shah, is an Indian actress and Kathak dancer who appears in Hindi films and television. She is known for her roles in television shows like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Ek Shringaar-Swabhiman.
Following their marriage, and the arrival of two daughters, Barack Obama was elected as Illinois Senator and then as the 44th President of the United States of America. He became the first African American to hold this role.
On Octo, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and married in her mature years a good but poor man with adult children.
Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist created a collection of photographs entitled "All I Own" where students were pictured with a sculpture of all their possessions inspiring anticonsumerism.
Professor Sutton, I have the honour to present Stepan Kerkyasharian, AM, for admission to the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. Mr Kerkyasharian was born in Cyprus in where his parents had settled as refugee survivors of the genocide of the Armenians in
Mr. Lasun Ray Eyiwunmi has been acting since A proud member of the Eyiwunmi acting dynasty, his two brothers, Muka and Murphy, are also flying the family’s flag so very well. YES INTERNATIONAL!’s JULIET IKEOKWU spoke to him recently.
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii [1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (–) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District, [2] Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (–) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).
Nien Cheng, whose memoir “Life and Death in Shanghai” was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution, died Nov. 2 of cardiovascular and renal disease at her.
Mahnaz Afshar (born 11 June , in Tehran) is an Iranian actress who has been active since with acting in cinema and television series. She graduated in natural science in high school. After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in Soureh college introduced.
Jane Russell. Actress: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on J, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe.
Choose between the Deering 06 Tone Ring or the Jens Kruger Swiss Made Reutschi Tone Ring Crisp Maple with a brilliant full bodied tone, deep bass, brilliant highs, The Saratoga Star is one of the most elegantly beautiful modern banjos to enter the musical arena of classic instruments.
In her sunset years and living in the Waldorf in New York, Sayuri has agreed to lay out her life to Harhuis, who captures it all on cassette. (The smarter of us will have seen through the name.
The French author Victor Hugo, is regarded by many as the supreme poet of French romanticism (a style in the s that emphasized a free form of writing and expressed strong emotions, experiences of common people, and imaginative expressions and passion).
A team of researchers led by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre has proposed new theoretical models for a warp drive that could enable high-speed subluminal travel, addressing previous.