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1883. (TV series) 1883 is an American Western drama miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. The series stars Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sam Elliott, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen, and James Landry Hébert. The story is chronologically the first of several ...
Edmund Jackson Davis (October 2, 1827 – February 24, 1883) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician. Davis was a Southern Unionist and a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He also served as the 14th Governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874, during the Reconstruction era. Reviled by many Texans during and after the Civil ...
The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, on November 21, 1783. The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying human passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France.
Mugwumps. 1884 cartoon by Bernhard Gillam in Puck magazine which ridicules James G. Blaine as the man tattooed with many indelible scandals. A parody of Phryne before the Areopagus, an 1861 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Mugwumps were Republican political activists in the United States who were intensely opposed to political ...
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Ep. 1: As the daughter of a teacher, a girl is always harshly punished whenever she makes a mistake. In one scene, four schoolgirls are given a stroke of the cane after fighting in school. However, the main character's mother decides to take over her daughter's punishment, harshly caning her multiple times in school and at home. Anne With An E ...
January–March. January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people. January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, reforming the United States civil service with the aim to end the spoils system, becomes law. January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New ...
The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an infrared video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as unexplained aerial phenomena. 2006-11-07 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting