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Humor, Gag-a-day. The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning November 16, 1964, [1] the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". The title is a play on The Wizard of Oz, combined with the Freudian psychological ...
Alma mater. Jesus College, Oxford. Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
v. t. e. Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans, killed between 55 and 65 white people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group ...
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, I Love a Parade. Sally Hoelscher, USA TODAY. September 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM. There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve ...
Syria–Lebanon campaign. Roald Dahl[a] (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. [1][2] His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. [3][4] He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of ...
1858: Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. 1858–61: The War of the Reform in Mexico. 1859: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia. 1859: The Second Italian War of Independence.
0-553-80319-0 (Blackout) ISBN 978-0-553-80767-7 (All Clear) Blackout and All Clear are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. Blackout was published February 2, 2010 by Spectra. The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010. [1]
Twenty-six republicans were assassinated by Franco 's Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, between August and September 1936. This mass grave is located at the small town of Estépar, in Burgos Province. The excavation occurred in July–August 2014.