• Thumbnail for Majolica
    find it used in Spain and Majorca..." W.B.Honey, Keeper of the Department of Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Faber and Faber, 1944. "TIN-GLAZE...
    21 KB (2,359 words) - 08:06, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sassoon family
    gravitated toward London, they became prominent in England and were ennobled by Queen Victoria. Although most biographical data about the Sassons lists...
    28 KB (2,784 words) - 12:23, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siegfried Sassoon
    bravery. Sassoon was also later recommended for the Victoria Cross. Despite his decorations and reputation, in 1917 Sassoon decided to make a stand against...
    52 KB (5,898 words) - 18:30, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Gull
    performed by Claude Bernard in 1855 around the concept of the Milieu intérieur and subsequently by Moritz Schiff in Bern in 1859, and who showed that thyroidectomy...
    60 KB (8,664 words) - 03:27, 25 September 2024
  • American linguist and academic (d. 2008) 1931 – Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer 1932 – Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2007)...
    72 KB (7,324 words) - 15:51, 24 October 2024
  • Hearst Connecticut Newspapers (2012–), Managing Editor (2006–09) Stephen Schiff (1972) – journalist; finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1983) Wadada...
    219 KB (19,965 words) - 02:07, 11 September 2024
  • economist for the Council of Economic Advisers Albert LeRoy Andrews 1899, Professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist at Cornell University...
    135 KB (16,003 words) - 20:39, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of the Rising Sun
    Order of the Rising Sun (category Orders, decorations, and medals of Japan)
    Wilbur L. Ross (1937–), 2015 Vsevolod Rudnev (1855–1913), 1907 Saisho Atsushi, 1887 Shyam Saran, 2019 Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), 1907 William Francis Sempill...
    185 KB (14,679 words) - 11:47, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Putney
    Fulham Road. Sydney Schiff went to visit Gaudier there in 1914 to buy the "Dancer", which was later presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Gaudier-Brzeska...
    51 KB (6,142 words) - 00:12, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Presidency of Joe Biden
    "equivalent of a presidential pardon for murder". Democratic representative Adam Schiff also criticized the visit saying, "I wouldn't go. I wouldn't shake his hand...
    419 KB (38,243 words) - 16:11, 29 October 2024