The British royal line of succession follows the eldest son of the monarch, currently Prince Charles, followed by his eldest son, Prince William. The protocol dictates that the heir to the throne and the eldest son cannot travel on the same plane, but exceptions have been made. Queen Elizabeth II granted permission for Prince Charles, […]
William Henry Harrison was the oldest president to be elected until Ronald Reagan, the first president to die in office, and served for only one month. He was a pro-settler, anti-Indian governor and participated in the Battle of Tippecanoe. He ran for president twice, winning in 1840. William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of […]
Director William Desmond Taylor’s unsolved murder in 1922 led to speculation and numerous suspects, including his personal assistant’s predecessor, Edward Sands, who may have been blackmailing him. Other possible suspects include drug dealers and mother-daughter duo Charlotte Shel and Mary Miles Minter. In 1999, former actress Margaret Gibson confessed to the murder on her deathbed, […]
William Seward was a politician who served as Governor of New York, US Senator, and Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. He was an opponent of slavery, supported education and prison reform, and was nearly assassinated the same night as Lincoln. William Seward was a 19th-century American politician. He served as Governor of […]
William Wilberforce was a British social reformer who championed various causes, including the abolition of slavery. He was born in Hull in 1759 and converted to Evangelical Christianity in 1785, which led him to philanthropy and social reform. He served as a member of parliament from 1780 to 1825 and introduced bills on labor rights, […]
William Carlos Williams was an influential American poet and pediatrician who was part of the Imagist movement. His poetry was simple and often political, and he was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. He had a significant impact on subsequent movements in writing and the arts. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an iconic figure in American […]
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American playwright and novelist known for his work before and during World War II. He declined in popularity due to his sentimental style. His most famous play, The Time of Your Life, won a Pulitzer Prize but he declined to accept it. His plays often focus on characters and sentimentality rather […]
William Morris was a British artist, writer, and socialist activist who co-founded the Arts and Crafts movement and the Socialist League. He attended Marlborough College and Oxford University, and with four other men founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Morris believed in handcrafted home furnishings and architectural objects at affordable prices. He wrote several poems and fantasy […]
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1857. He was a good student and graduated from Yale University in 1878. Taft quickly passed the Ohio bar exam and became an assistant solicitor of Hamilton County. In 1900, President McKinley sent Taft to serve as chief civil […]
William Faulkner was an experimental American science fiction writer from Mississippi. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and is known for works such as Light In August and A Rose for Emily. He established a fund for young fiction writers, now called the PEN/Faulkner Prize. Faulkner was a private man who struggled […]
