- of or relating to a style of art and music marked by complex forms and bold ornamentation
- characterized by grotesqueness, extravagance, complexity, or flamboyance
- irregularly shaped
- "Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.
- In Albania, nodding your head means no and shaking your head means yes.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.
Fr. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J. was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, author, professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the first school for international affairs in the United States. He founded the school in 1919–six years before the U.S. Foreign Service itself existed–and served as its first regent.
The second inauguration of Harry S. Truman as President of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1949 at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 41st inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and only full term of Harry S. Truman as President as well as the only term of Alben W. Barkley as Vice President. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the presidential oath of office while Justice Stanley Forman Reed administered vice-presidential oath of office.
It was the first televised U.S. presidential inauguration and the first with an air parade. Truman also restarted the tradition of an official inaugural ball, which had disappeared since the inauguration of William Howard Taft in 1909. The day before the inaugural ceremony, Truman signed a law increasing the President's salary by $25,000 to $100,000 a year—the first increase since 1909.