Delaware has a significant African American population. African Americans were enslaved in the state. In 1721, an estimated 2,000-5,000 black slaves lived in Pennsylvania and the three lower counties on the Delaware.
African Americans in Alabama
Alabama has a large population of African Americans. African Americans were enslaved in the state.
Black Southerners
Black Southerners are African Americans who live in the Southern United States. African Americans were enslaved in most states in the South such as Alabama and Mississippi. African Americans have contributed to the cuisine of the Southern United States and Southern culture.
John Leonard (critic)
John Leonard (February 25, 1939 – November 5, 2008) was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic. He worked for "Life" and "The New York Times". He wrote under the pen name of Cyclops.
Suicide among African Americans
There has been a spike in the African American suicide rate since the COVID-19 pandemic. More African Americans have commit suicide than whites during the pandemic.
Shall We Tell the President?
Shall We Tell the President? is a 1977 novel by English author Jeffrey Archer. A revised edition was published in 1986.
In the first edition, a plot to kill the President of the United States, Edward Kennedy, is stopped by Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Mark Andrews working with the head of the FBI.
The U.S. edition of the novel was published by Viking Press, where Kennedy's sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was then a consulting editor. Although Kennedy Onassis was not involved in editing "Shall We Tell the President?", she was criticized for not trying to stop her employer from publishing a novel about an assassination plot against a member of the Kennedy family. She resigned from Viking Press shortly after the publication.
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick (born August 24, 1946) is an American cartoonist. He is best known for "The Cartoon History of the Universe", a history of the world in comic book form, which he published from 1977 to 2009. He has also written "The Cartoon History of the United States".
Gonick was born in San Francisco, California. He studied mathematics at Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1967 and his master's degree in 1969.
B. L. Patil
Balkrishna Limbaji Patil, better known as B. L. Patil was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was a member of Maharashtra's Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Khalapur Vidhan Sabha constituency from 1972 to 1979. He was also a Minister Of State from 1978 to 1980. He was a member of the Nationalist Congress Party.
The Cartoon History of the Universe
The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick, who started the project in 1978. Each book explains a period of world history in a loosely chronological order. The final volume covers history from the late 18th century to early 2008. The final two volumes, published in 2007 and 2009, are named "The Cartoon History of the Modern World" volumes one and two.
COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
The first case of COVID-19 in Africa was reported in Egypt on February 14, 2020.
Cairo Trilogy
The Cairo Trilogy ( 'The Trilogy' or 'The Cairo Trilogy') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. It is one of the best known works of his literary career.
The "Cairo Trilogy" was first translated into Hebrew between 1981 and 1987. Mahfouz was very satisfied by this and saw it as another proof that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 should be supported. The English translation was published by Doubleday in the early 1990s. The translators were:
The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time, and Martha Levin.
COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea
The COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
On 21 March, the first case in Eritrea was confirmed in Asmara.
Gelsey Kirkland
Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American ballerina. She was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor. She appeared in Balanchine's revival of "The Firebird", Robbins' "Goldberg Variations", and Tudor's "The Leaves are Fading". She left the New York City Ballet to join the American Ballet Theatre in 1974.
She is best known for dancing the role of Clara Stahlbaum in Baryshnikov's 1977 televised production of "The Nutcracker". She left the American Ballet Theatre in 1984.
Mental health related to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has effected the mental health of African Americans. There has been a increase in the African American suicide rate since the COVID-19 pandemic. More African Americans have commit suicide than whites during the pandemic.
Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was a French-American columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazines "Harper's Bazaar" and "Vogue", being the editor-in-chief of "Vogue". She was a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Olana State Historic Site
Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and property in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks parkland and a working farm designed by the artist. The residence has a wide view of the Hudson River Valley, the Catskill Mountains and the Taconic Range
COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia (U.S. state)
The COVID-19 pandemic was first detected in the U.S. state of Georgia on March 2, 2020.
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter. He was a well known figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. He was best known for painting large landscapes. His best known works were "Niagara" and "The Heart of the Andes".
Ron Galella
Ronald Edward Galella (born January 10, 1931) is an American photographer. He is thought to have been the first paparazzo. He has been called "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by "Time" magazine and "Vanity Fair". He is seen by "Harper's Bazaar" as "arguably the most controversial paparazzo of all time".
During his career, Galella has taken more than three million photographs of public figures.
Fox hunting
Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "master of foxhounds" ("master of hounds"), follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City involved with medical schools: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine. It is made of two distinct medical centers, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center.
, the hospital is ranked as the 4th best hospital in the United States and 1st in the New York City metropolitan area by "U.S. News & World Report". The hospital has around 20,000 employees and 2,678 beds in total, and is one of the largest hospitals in the world.
Municipal Art Society
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) is a non-profit membership organization for preservation in New York City. It hopes encourage thoughtful planning and urban design and neighborhoods across the city.