Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
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The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by
Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader,
Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a
Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary
Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by
Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian
T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".
Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
1831 –
Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which engendered a period of reforms that provided for the westernization of the local society.
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Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
Today's featured picture
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by
Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader,
Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a
Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary
Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by
Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian
T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".
Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
1831 –
Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which engendered a period of reforms that provided for the westernization of the local society.
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Village pump — For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.
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