Search results
3 days ago · The small centrist party campaigned on improving health and social care. Its leader, Ed Davey, wooed voters with publicity stunts and personal appeals. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London He ...
3 days ago · Two of his sons, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, migrated to Australia, Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales as Member for Wilcannia between 1889 and 1894.
2 days ago · Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine.
5 days ago · smallpox, acute infectious disease that begins with a high fever, headache, and back pain and then proceeds to an eruption on the skin that leaves the face and limbs covered with cratered pockmarks, or pox. For centuries smallpox was one of the world’s most-dreaded plagues, killing as many as 30 percent of its victims, most of them children.
4 days ago · A new TIFF film series showcases a brilliant director you’ve probably never heard of. The retrospective, Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories, features the Taiwanese director’s “Yi Yi ...
3 days ago · He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He was later given multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.
2 days ago · Prince Edward Island, one of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Curving from North Cape to East Point, ‘the Island’ is about 140 miles (225 km) long. To the south and west, the Northumberland Strait separates the island from the mainland provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
