The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. The Stern (German for star) refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma).. The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928.

Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.

Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s]; born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture.Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.

Genealogia. Figlia di Acrisio e di Euridice, ebbe da Zeus o da Preto il figlio Perseo.. Mitologia Danae e Perseo ritrovati nella cassa (1892), di Waterhouse. Fu imprigionata in una torre dal padre, il re Acrisio, spaventato dalla predizione dell'oracolo di Delfi che sarebbe stato ucciso dal nipote. Ma Preto riuscì a raggiungerla e a sedurla (oppure fu Zeus che andò da lei in forma di …

Djuna Barnes (/ ˈ dʒ uː n ɑː /, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.. In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield.After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield. Originally named "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd" (Everton Athletic for short), the club …

The Schönberger-Laumann 1892 is an early semi-automatic pistol, having received a patent in Austria in 25 November 1891, only a few months after the 11 July patent awarded to first semi-automatic design, the Salvator Dormus pistol.Austrian inventor Joseph Laumann modified his 8mm repeating pistol in 1892 to use a blowback actuated self-loading mechanism.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes …

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor (Russian: Прелюдия, romanized: Prelyudiya), Op. 3, No. 2, is one of the composer's most famous compositions. Part of a set of five piano pieces titled Morceaux de fantaisie, it is a 62-bar prelude in ternary (ABA) form. It is also known as The Bells of Moscow since the introduction seems to reproduce the Kremlin's most solemn …

Secondary education in the United States is the last six or seven years of statutory formal education, including grade 6 (age 11–12) or grade 7 (age 12–13) (varies by states and sometimes by district) through grade 12 (age 17–18).It occurs in two phases. The first is the ISCED lower secondary phase, a middle school or junior high school for students grade 6 (age 11–12) …

Early life. Stead was born in Embleton, Northumberland, the son of the Reverend William Stead, a poor and respected Congregational minister, and Isabella (née Jobson), a cultivated daughter of a Yorkshire farmer. A year later the family moved to Howdon on the River Tyne, where his younger brother, Francis Herbert Stead, was born.Stead was largely educated at home by his father, …

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions.The Bible is an anthology – a compilation of texts of a variety of forms – originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. ...