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Lady Mary Pierrepont was born on 15 May 1689 at Holme Pierrepont Hall in Nottinghamshire, and baptised on 26 May 1689 at St. Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London. [4] She was the eldest child of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (c.1655–1726), and his first wife Lady Mary Feilding (died 20 December 1697), [5] [6] the only daughter of the third Earl of Denbigh (1640–1685).
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, [1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729.
1905 illustration of Girty. Simon Girty (November 14, 1741 – February 18, 1818) [a] also known by his Seneca Nation name, Katepacomen, or "Renegade Girty" was a Pennsylvania-born Loyalist and white chief of several tribes within the Shawnee-Iroquoian nations between the period of 1777 - 1812, and slave owner. [2]
“The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don’t feel as if I need a man.” — Diane Keaton “There’s a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you’re alone in what you’re ...
Mom is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker for CBS. The series was broadcast for eight seasons from September 23, 2013, to May 13, 2021. [1] Set in Napa, California, it follows dysfunctional mother/daughter duo Bonnie and Christy Plunkett, who, after having been estranged for years while both ...
A straw-man (or straw-dog) proposal is a brainstormed simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion of its disadvantages and to spur the generation of new and better proposals. [1] The term is considered American business jargon, [2] but it is also encountered in engineering office culture. Often, a straw man document will be prepared ...
Bixby letter. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, the letter has ...
e. E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is e (pronounced / ˈiː / ); plural es, Es or E's. [ 1]