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1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
Mankind: The Story of All of Us. America: The Story of Us (also internationally known as America: The Story of the U.S.) [2] is a 12-part, 9-hour documentary -drama television miniseries [3] that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History. [4] Produced by Nutopia, the program portrays more than 400 years of American history (with emphasis on how ...
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS.In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover ...
Release. 12 November 1972. (1972-11-12) –. 4 February 1973. (1973-02-04) America: A Personal History of the United States is a British 13-part documentary television series about the United States and its history, commissioned by the BBC and made in partnership with Time-Life Films. It was written and presented by Alistair Cooke, and first ...
April 27, 2014. (2014-04-27) –. present. (present) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American late-night talk and satire television program hosted by comedian John Oliver. [4][5] The half-hour-long show premiered in the end of April 2014 on HBO and currently premieres simultaneously on the network ...
In a car-dependent America, there is a common dislike of car dealerships and car salesmen, with only 10 percent of U.S. citizens in a Gallup poll rating them highly honest. [259] Matilda by Roald Dahl gives an example of this stereotype: Matilda's father sells used cars by filling their engines with sawdust or reversing their odometers with a ...
Glass to The New York Review of Books, August 2019 The show debuted on WBEZ in Chicago as Your Radio Playhouse on November 17, 1995. Glass conceived a format where each segment of the show would be an "act," and at the beginning of each episode, would explain that show consisted of "documentaries, monologues, overheard conversations, found tapes, [and] anything we can think of." Glass also ...
On May 19, 2015, Graceffa released a memoir titled In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World, published by Keywords Press. [34] In the book, he discusses being bullied and feeling lonely in school, his mother's alcoholism, his younger brother's autism, the beginnings of his YouTube career and his road to self-acceptance, among other topics.