Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. His best known works include his two piano concertos and his piano collections "Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces" and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans made members in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist. His paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River are good examples of the Luminist style. Bingham was little-known in his time. His work was rediscovered in the 1930s. By 2011, he was considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century.
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for a spying mission in New York City, but was captured by the British and executed. He is probably best remembered for possibly saying before being hanged: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Hale has long been considered an American hero. In 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.
Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American entertainer. He developed a character called Jim Crow. Using African-American speech, song, and dance, Rice performed successfully as Jim Crow in America and England. Rice is known as the "Father of the Minstrel Show".
Rice was born in New York City in 1808. He had some formal schooling, and was apprenticed to a woodcarver in his teens. By 1827 though, he had entered the entertainment field and was acting in theaters around the United States.
About 1828, Rice developed a burnt-cork blackface character called Jim Crow. This character was a witty, raggedy black man, and was based on a real-life black stableman Rice saw singing and dancing to a tune called "Jump Jim Crow". By 1830, Rice was performing in theaters as Jim Crow. His act was widely popular in America and England.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, "Jim Crow" became a term used to describe racial segregation laws in the United States. Whites referred to all black males as "Jim Crows". Rice wrote and appeared in "Ginger Blue, Jim Crow in London", and a comic rendition of "Othello". He also appeared on Broadway as the title character in an adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
About 1840, Rice began to suffer from a paralysis that affected his speech and movement. He died of a stroke on September 19, 1860, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Wang Lisi
Wang Lisi (; born 28 November 1991 in Nanjing, China) is a Chinese association football midfielder who currently plays for Jiangsu Huatai and the China women's national football team.
LED lamp
A LED lamp is a product that uses a Light-emitting diode and that is assembled into a lamp or a light bulb. LED lamps last much longer, and are more efficient than incandescent lamps. Many LED lamps are also better than fluorescent lamps.
Unlike fluorescent lamps, most LED lamps do not need to "warm up" before they emit the full amount of light.
China women's national football team
The China women's national football team is the women's association football team that represents the Asian country of China.
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Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski (born July 20, 1936) is an American politician. In January 2007, she became the senior United States Senator from Maryland. She is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. Mikulski was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1986. She was elected to the Senate in 1986. Mikulski is the longest serving woman in the history of the United States Congress.
Senator Mikulski retired in 2017.
Mikulski was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup
The 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup. It was won by Japan, who got their first title.
These teams automatically qualified for the tournament because they were in the top 4 of the previous tournament. The North Korea team wasn't allowed to be in the tournament because of a doping scandal in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
These teams were in the tournament because they won their qualification group.
AFC Women's Asian Cup
The AFC Women's Asian Cup is a women's association football tournament for teams in Asia. The most successful team is currently the China women's national football team with 8 titles.
Yang Li (footballer)
Yang Li (Traditional Chinese: 楊麗; Simplified Chinese: 杨丽; born in Lianyungang, China on 31 January 1991) is a Chinese association football forward who plays for the China women's national football team. She was one of the top scorers in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup.
China PR national football team
1968–71 Nordic Football Championship
The 1968–71 Nordic Football Championship was the 10th Nordic Football Championship. Four Nordic countries were in the tournament, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden ended up winning their 8th title.
Alex Morgan
Alexandra Patricia Morgan (born 2 July 1989 in San Dimas, California, United States) is an professional women's footballer. She plays as a forward for Tottenham Hotspurs in the FA Women's Super League, and the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT).
She won a Olympic Gold medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics, and also won the 2015 and 2019 World Cups with the US national team.
Morgan began her career with West Coast FC in the WPSL in 2008. Then she moved to California Storm in 2010, and later that year she moved to Pali Blues of the USL W-League. In 2011, she transferred to Western New York Flash, and in 2012, she joined Seattle Sounders. Morgan moved to Oregon to play for Portland Thorns in 2013, and she stayed with the team until 2015. Orlando Pride bought her in October 2015, and Morgan played for them from 2016 to 2019. She also played one season with Olympique Lyon in France, and she won the UEFA Women's Champions League that season. She won three trophies with Olympique Lyon.
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Miranda (programming language)
Miranda is a functional programming language from the 1980s. It was not seen as a tool to teach functional programming. Miranda affected other programming languages like Haskell, but it is not used very much anymore.
History of the geologic time scale
This article describes the history of the geologic time scale.
The principles were first laid down by Nicolaus Steno in the late 17th century. Steno argued that rock layers (or strata) are laid down in succession, and that each represents a "slice" of time.
Steno formulated the principle of superposition. This says that any given stratum is probably older than those above it and younger than those below it. This principle is simple, but applying it to real rocks is complicated by their history. During the 18th century geologists realized that:
The first serious attempts to formulate a time scale of historical geology that could be applied anywhere on Earth happened in the late 18th century. The most influential of those early attempts was led by Abraham Werner and others. They divided the rocks of the Earth's crust into four types: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. Each type of rock, according to the theory, formed during a period of Earth history. It was possible to speak of a "Tertiary period" as well as of "Tertiary rocks". Indeed, "Tertiary" (now Palaeocene-Pliocene) and "Quaternary" (now Pleistocene-Holocene) remained in use as names of geological periods well into the 21th century.