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1 day ago · In January 1829 Sam Houston, then Governor of Tennessee, married 19-year-old Eliza Allen. The marriage lasted 11 weeks. Neither Houston nor Eliza ever gave a reason for their separation, but Eliza refused to sanction divorce.
3 days ago · On July 1 of that year, at age 77, he married Eliza Jumel, a wealthy widow who was nineteen years his junior. They lived together briefly at her residence which she had acquired with her first husband, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Jun 25, 2024 · ELIZA, often considered the world’s first chatbot, was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in the early 1960s. Weizenbaum did not intend to invent the chatbot, but rather to build a platform for research into human-machine conversation and the important cognitive processes of interpretation and misinterpretation.
Jun 18, 2024 · Poe was the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore. After his mother died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1811, he was taken into the home of John Allan, a Richmond merchant (presumably his godfather), and of his childless wife.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works include the poems “To Helen” (1831), “The Raven” (1845), and “Annabel Lee” (1849); the short stories of wickedne...
- Edgar Allan Poe is credited with initiating the modern detective story, developing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant early forerunne...
- Edgar Allan Poe turned up in a tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3, 1849, in bad shape and nearly unresponsive and was soon admitted to a h...
3 days ago · Edgar Allan Poe ( né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Jun 25, 2024 · More likely, Raguet was frustrated with Houston’s inability to secure a divorce from his first wife, Eliza Allen, which wasn’t finalized until 1837.
15 hours ago · Alice was born in Shanghai, China on October 13, 1950. She moved to Winnipeg with her father in 1973. She found work full time as a seamstress, and on the weekends as a server at Marigold Restaurant. In 1980 her sister Eliza Oi Chu and brother-in-law Chun Fong opened Miriwa Restaurant where she worked for 25 years until her retirement in 2005.
