-Adoption: In the novel, Sayuri is adopted by the Nitta Okiya after selling her virginity for the highest sum ever. Mineko was scouted as an heir to the.
Viviani lived with Galileo for over two years as his last student and amanuensis; after Galileo's death, he became his literary executor and indefatigable.
The massive dome was completed around 1866 just after the American Civil War. The east front portico was extended in 1958. The building's Visitors Center was.
Traces the life of the successful businessman who co-founded Standard Oil, started the Florida East Coast Railway, and led the development of Miami, Palm Beach.
Southern Gospel legend Dottie Rambo died on Mother's Day Sunday, May 11, 2008 when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment in Missouri.
Camille Alphonse Faure (21 May 1840, Vizille – 14 September 1898) was a French chemical engineer who in 1881 significantly improved the design of the lead-acid.
Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort, the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and the mother of Suleiman's successor Selim II.