Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay in 1853, he changed the course ...

MILLARD FILLMORE'S STORY OF BOYHOOD EXPERIENCES; Letter to a Friend Recently Made Public Tells of Lonely Life in the Forests of East Sparta -- Objected to Doing the Chores for His Employer.

Perry monument in Shimoda Japan, Perry monument in Newport ... closer to shore and landed four hundred sailors and marines. He presented a letter from President Millard Fillmore; the following ...

Surgeons at Millard Fillmore Suburban have been using this option for more than a decade and are continuously developing ways to collaborate for the benefit of patients. To be on the cutting edge ...

A Millard Fillmore statue by Bryant Baker at Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo, New York built in 1930. File Image While his foreign policy initiatives, such as opening relations with Japan, are seen as ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Time now for “The Last of the Whigs” - Millard Fillmore. Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New York and served eight years in the ...

AMHERST, N.Y. — Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital is preparing for changes at and near its Maple Road campus in Amherst. That includes expanded services, a new focus for a building in the rear ...

Employees will have a golden anniversary celebration on Monday. Personal finances of Walz and Vance show stark differences Japan’s Ami Yuasa wins inaugural gold in Olympic breaking Maduro Takes ...

"Vase With Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

FIRST ON FOX: A Republican congressman has personally delivered a letter to Japan’s prime minister urging him to take action in order to address the issue of hundreds of American children being ...

On July 9, 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore received ... into the Union as a free state. Fillmore also dispatched Commodore Matthew Perry to open Japan to the West. After finishing his ...