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James Riordan
Riōdan, Jeimuzu 1936-2012
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James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 10 February 2012) was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar.
Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels. -
Gabriel Miró
Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer fue un escritor español, encuadrado habitualmente en la llamada generación del 14 o el novecentismo.
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Ricardo Gullón ha calificado los relatos de Miró como novelas líricas. Son, por tanto, obras más atentas a la expresión de sentimientos y sensaciones que a contar sucesos, en las que predominan:
- La técnica del fragmentarismo,
- La utilización de la elipsis.
- La estructuración del relato en escenas dispersas, unidas a través de la reflexión y la rememoración.
La temporalidad constituye el tema esencial de la obra del autor alicantino, quien incorpora el pasado a un presente continuado, por medio de las sensaciones, la evocación y el recuerdo. Como, antes que él, hiciera Azorín. También lo sensorial es en la -
Fernán González de Eslava
Poeta y dramaturgo español, nacido tal vez en Toledo y afincado en México, donde se publicaron en 1610 sus Coloquios espirituales y sacramentales y canciones divinas al cuidado de Fray Fernando Vello de Bustamante, pues el autor, al parecer, había muerto ya. Poseemos pocos datos sobre la vida de este autor, aunque sí se sabe que, en América pasó por un proceso inquisitorial a causa de ciertas coplas (1575). Aunque, para algunos, este es un motivo para sospechar su pertenencia al grupo de los conversos, lo cierto es que en 1579 se ordenó sacerdote. Su obra dramática está constituida por dieciséis coloquios, nueve loas y cuatro entremeses que aparecen, salvo el titulado Entremés entre dos rufianes, dentro de los coloquios.
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Mike Novotny
Pastor Mike Novotny pours his Jesus-based joy into his ministry as a pastor at The CORE (Appleton, Wisconsin) and as the lead speaker for Time of Grace, a global media ministry that connects people to God through television, print, and digital resources. Unafraid to bring grace and truth to the toughest topics of our time, he has written numerous books, including 3 Words That Will Change Your Life, What’s Big Starts Small, Gay & God, How to Heal, and Sexpectations.
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Mike lives with his wife, Kim, and their two daughters, Brooklyn and Maya; runs long distances; and plays soccer with other middle-aged men whose best days are long behind them. To find all of Pastor Mike's books, go to timeofgrace.store. -
Michael Rydelnik
Dr. Michael Rydelnik is Professor of Jewish Studies at Moody Bible Institute where he has taught Jewish Studies and Bible since 1994. The son of Holocaust survivors, he was raised in an observant Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. Michael trusted in Jesus the Messiah as a high school student and has been teaching the Bible ever since. A sought after speaker and teacher, Michael is a biblical scholar specializing in the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish people, the land of Israel, and biblical prophecy.
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Michael can be heard answering listener Bible questions every Saturday morning from 9-11 AM (Central Time), on Moody Radio's Open Line with Dr. Michael Rydelnik. He is a Resource Scholar for RBC Ministries and appears frequently on the Day of Discover -
Cooking Light
Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Not the same as Arnold Toynbee, economist and nephew of Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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British educator Arnold Joseph Toynbee noted cyclical patterns in the growth and decline of civilizations for his 12-volume Study of History (1934-1961).
He went to Winchester college and Balliol college, Oxford.
During both world wars, he worked for the foreign office. He additionally published Nationality and the War (1915), The Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation (1915), The German Terror in France: An Historical Record (1917), and Turkey, a Past and a Future (1917). He attended the peace conference of Paris in 1919 as a delegate.
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Michael Sandler
Michael Sandler, best-selling author and a leading national learning disability and ADHD expert and coach; columnist and speaker; has both ADHD and Dyslexia and was once told he would never succeed in school. He learned how to work with his cluttered mind, overcoming challenges and negativity while surviving kindergarten through high school and going on to earn several advanced degrees. His lesson is clear you can and will succeed, once you learn how to work with your mind."
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Paul Ernst
Paul Frederick Ernst was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street & Smith under the house name Kenneth Robeson.
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He "[took] up fiction writing in his early twenties." Credited by pulp-expert Don Hutchison as "a prolific manufacturer of potboilers-made-to-order," his stories appeared in a number of early Science fiction and fantasy magazines. His writing appeared in Astounding Stories, Strange Tales and Amazing, and he was the author of the Doctor Satan series which ran in Weird Tales from August, 1935. His most famous work was in writing the original 24 The Avenger stories in the eponymous magazine between 1939 and 1942.
When pulp magazine work began to dry up, Ern -
Isidore of Seville
Isidoro de Sevilla fue un eclesiástico católico erudito polímata hispano de la época visigoda. Fue arzobispo de Sevilla durante más de tres décadas. Es venerado como santo por la Iglesia católica y contado entre los Padres de la Iglesia. También es uno de los Cuatro Santos de Cartagena.
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Saint Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c.560 - 636) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the 19th-century historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "The last scholar of the ancient world".
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Cecilie Løveid
Cecilie Løveid, født 1951, bor i Bergen. Fra 1999–2011 var hun bosatt i København. Løveids forfatterskap er svært rikt, og omfatter verker innenfor flere sjangre. Hun debuterte med romanen Most i 1972, og har siden skrevet både prosa, lyrikk, og dramatikk. Hennes eksperimentelle scenetekster er siden 1980-tallet ansett som en av vårt lands mest originale bidrag til samtidsdramatikken, og hun regnes som en av de betydeligste lyrikerne i norsk litteratur. Hun har mottatt Ibsenprisen tre ganger, samt en rekke andre litterære priser.
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Grace A. Johnson
Grace A. Johnson is a Christian indie authoress with a passion for crafting authentic and edifying stories to inspire readers and glorify God. Since 2019, she’s released several novels, short stories, and a devotional. She’s also a marketer and editor who loves helping young authors through her editing business S&J Editors and her small publishing company Sky’s the Limit Press. You can join her growing community of Kingdom-minded readers and writers on her blog Of Blades & Thorns and her podcast Spirit & Script!
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Ivan Ilyin
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Ильи́н) was a Russian religious and political philosopher, White emigre publicist and an ideologue of the Russian All-Military Union.
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Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978.
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While living in the United States, Carrera developed many literary relationships with American writers, in particular Muna Lee whose critically-acclaimed translation of his poetry, Secret Country, was published in 1946. His work was praised and championed by John Malcolm Brinnin, H.R. Hays, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, William Jay Smith and William Carlos Williams. Carrera Andrade's poetic work developed for half a century in a number of volumes published worldwide. -
Aaron Kheriaty
Aaron Kheriaty, MD.
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Graduate of the University of Notre Dame (philosophy and pre-medical sciences) and Georgetown University where he earned his MD degree.
Founding director of the Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum at the University of California, Irvine. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He serves as chairman of the clinical ethics committee at UCI Irvine Medical Center. -
Christopher Tolkien
Christopher Reuel Tolkien was the youngest son of the author J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C. J. R. T. The J. stands for John, a baptismal name that he didn't ordinarily use.
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J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a great deal of material connected to the Middle-earth mythos that was not published in his lifetime. Although he had originally intended to publish The Silmarillion along with The Lord of the Rings, and parts of it were in a finished state, he died in 1973 with the project unfinished.
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Valeriu Anania
Valeriu Anania is a Romanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer and poet; currently he is the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crişana and Maramureş (Bartolomeu Anania).
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Dumitru Bordeianu
BORDEIANU, Dumitru Gh. - Student la Medicină în Iaşi. A fost arestat pe 12 iunie 1948, împreună cu fratele său, Alexandru, închis la Galata şi Suceava, unde a fost torturat în timpul anchetei, de comisarii Blehan şi Danielevici şi i s-au creat probe că ar fi fost legionar şi membru al unei organizaţii teroriste.
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Supus la chinuri îngrozitoare, într-un lot cuprinzând 123 de tineri, judecat de Tribunalul Militar Iaşi (preşedinte fiind col. Ion Gheorghe) într-un simulacru de proces, fără să aibă posibilitatea să se apere, este condamnat la 15 ani de muncă silnică (sentinţa din 23 februarie 1949).
A trecut pe la Suceava şi Piteşti, unde a fost bătut chiar de prietenul său, Virgil Bordeianu, într-un mod bestial şi pus să-l bată pe prietenul lui, G -
M.D. House
In late 2020, M.D. House semi-retired from a successful career in Corporate Finance and Business Leadership that allowed him to experience all facets of designing, producing, marketing and selling products to customers across the world. He enjoyed that career, and still consults part-time, but being able to pursue his passion for creative writing has been a tremendous blessing.
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During that first career, he published one science fiction novel, called Patriot Star. Since embarking on his new journey with much more time and focus for writing, he’s published a sequel (Kindred Star), along with seven religious historical fiction novels (which were a surprise) and his first fantasy novel, Crossroads of Awakening Memory, Book 1 of the epic fantasy -
Jack Webb
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Jack Webb's tight-lipped portrayal of Sgt. Joe Friday on the radio and television series "Dragnet" set the tone for a generation of police dramas.
Over the years Webb had achieved considerable success as the producer of such television shows as "Emergency" and "Adam 12," and as the star of such motion pictures as "Pete Kelly's Blues" and "The D.I."
But he remained best known to the public as the stone-faced Los Angeles Police detective of the 1950s and 1960s who greeted audiences each week with a terse: "My name is Friday... I'm a cop."
During the shows Friday and a succession of partners labored through investigative interviews frequently cut short by the request, "Just the facts, ma'am."
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Manuel Antonio
Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez, nado en Rianxo (Barbanza, A Coruña, Galicia) o 12 de xullo de 1900 e finado en Asados (Rianxo) o 28 de xaneiro de 1930, foi un poeta galego.
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«De catro a catro. Follas sin data d'un diario d'abordo» é un libro de poesía de Manuel Antonio publicado en marzo de 1928 pola Editorial Nós. É a única obra que o autor publicou en vida, e está considerado a súa obra por excelencia.
Dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas no 1979.
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Gary North
Gary North received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He served on the Senior Staff of the Foundation for Economic Education, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and was the president of the Institute for Christian Economics. Dr. North’s essays and reviews have appeared in three dozen magazines and journals, including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Spectator, and others.
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Jon J. Cardwell
Jon J. Cardwell is a wretched sinner saved by God's free and sovereign grace. He lives in Ninilchik, Alaska with his wife, Lisa. He is the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Ninilchik after having ministered as pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama, a missionary and as a missionary-pastor in the Philippines, California, and remote bush villages in Alaska.
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He is the author of TO BE A PILGRIM as well as the Amazon bestseller, CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED and several other books. Jon has also held the office of vice-chairman of the national Sovereign Grace Baptist Fellowship (2009-11), and was elected a -
Mary Astell
Mary Astell was an English feminist writer. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."
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Few records of Mary Astell's life have survived. As biographer Ruth Perry explains, "as a woman she had little or no business in the world of commerce, politics, or law. She was born, she died; she owned a small house for some years; she kept a bank account; she helped to open a charity school in Chelsea: these facts the public listings can supply." Only four of her letters were saved and these because they had been written to important men of the period. Researching the biography, Perry uncovered more letters and manuscript fragments, but she notes that if Astell had not written to weal -
Xavier Alcalá
Francisco Xavier Alcalá Navarro, máis coñecido como Xavier Alcalá, nado en Miguelturra (Cidade Real) o 19 de agosto de 1947, é un escritor galego.
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Viviu en Ferrol dende a infancia, e estudou no Instituto Concepción Arenal desa vila. Estudou Enxeñaría de Telecomunicacións na Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría e Sistemas de Telecomunicación da Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Doutorouse en Informática no Departamento de Electrónica e Sistemas da Facultade de Informática da Universidade da Coruña. Foi profesor asociado de dita facultade, e impartiu docencia tamén na Facultade de Xornalismo da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, a Universidade Católica Arxentina e a Escola de Organización Industrial de Madrid.
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David Vincent Meconi
In 1992, David Meconi entered the Jesuit novitiate. He was sent to Xavier University to teach Classics and Philosophy, and then to the University of Innsbruck to obtain a pontifical license in Patrology. There he wrote a thesis on the apologetic nature of the Christian cento.
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He was missioned to Oxford, studying Augustine under one of Henry Chadwick's last students. His dissertation was on Augustine’s use of deification and the Christian’s call to become Christ. -
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Bejamin Lee Whorf was an inspector for a fire insurance company who studied and wrote about language with his teacher, a Yale professor named Edward Sapir. Together they proposed what Whorf called the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, commonly known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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Mark Zepezauer
Mark Zepezauer is an author and cartoonist based in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of Take the Rich Off Welfare and The CIA's Greatest Hits as well as the cartoon panel US History Backwards. On his shoulder he carries a Siamese cat.
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William Law
William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I. Previously William Law had given his allegiance to the House of Stuart and is sometimes considered a second-generation non-juror (an earlier generation of non-jurors included Thomas Ken). Thereafter, Law first continued as a simple priest (curate) and when that too became impossible without the required oath, Law taught privately, as well as wrote extensively. His personal integrity, as well as mystic and theological writing greatly influenced the evangelical movement of his day as well as Enlightenment
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Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Professor Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson CBE FRSE FSA DLitt was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written circa AD 1100, preserves an oral tradition originating some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard.
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In retirement, Jackson continued his work on place-names and Goidelic languages. However he suffered a stroke in 1984 that restricted his work.
An obituary was published in The Times on 8 March 1991 and in the journal Nomina. -
Geoffroi De Charny
Geoffroi de Charny (c. 1300/1306 – 19 September 1356), first name sometimes spelled Geoffroy, was a French knight and author of at least three works on chivalry. He was born around 1300. His father, Jean de Charny was the Lord of Lirey in Burgundy and his mother was Margaret de Joinville (d. 1306), a daughter of Jean de Joinville, biographer of King Louis IX the Saint. Geoffroi was a knight in the service of King Jean II of France and a founding member of the Order of the Star, an order of chivalry founded on 6 November 1351 by Jean II of France similar to the Order of the Garter (1347) by Edward III of England. He was also the carrier of the Oriflamme, the standard of the crown of France, an immensely privileged, not to mention dangerous,
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Jorge Guillén
Fue uno de los más importantes poetas de la generación del 27.
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Cursó estudios universitarios en París, dónde se casó en primeras nupcias y posteriormente, en 1917, también dio clases en La Sorobona. También impartió cursos en Oxford. En 1924, con treinta años de edad, regresó a España, dónde inició su carrera literaria.
Siendo uno de los discípulos más directos de Juan Ramón Jímenez, elaboró una poética muy personal que se proponía eliminar lo anecdótico, sustantivizar los adjetivos, preferenciar los versos cortos, reducir el número de verbos, concentrar los temas poéticos y primar la precisión del lenguaje por encima del lirismo. A ese procedimiento se conoce como poesía pura
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Yusuf Akçura
YUSUF AKÇURA; 2 Aralık 1876’da Moskova’nın doğusundaki Ulyanovsk’ta (eski adıyla Simbir) dünyaya geldi. Kazan’a göç etmiş Kırım Türkleri’nden aristokrat bir ailenin mensubu idi. Babası çuha fabrikası sahibi fabrikatör Hasan Bey, annesi Yunusoğulları’ndan Bibi Kamer Banu Hanım idi. 2 yaşında iken babasını kaybetti ve annesi ile birlikte yedi yaşına gelmeden İstanbul’a göç ettiler. Annesi, İstanbul’da Dağıstanlı Osman Bey ile evlendi. Kuleli Askeri Lisesi’nde öğrenim gördükten sonra 1895 yılında Harbiye Mektebi’ne girdi. Okulun 2. sınıfında iken Türkçülük hareketlerine katılmaktan dolayı 45 gün ceza aldı. Erkân-ı Harbiye sınıfına ayrıldıktan sonra askeri mahkeme tarafından müebbet olarak Fizan’a sürgün edildi ve askerlikten uzaklaştırıldı. Fi
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (Russian: Владимир Сергеевич Соловьёв) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early 20th century.
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Antonio Quilis
ANTONIO QUILIS (Larache, Marruecos, 1933 - Madrid, 2003), ha sido uno de los más prominentes filólogos del último siglo y una de las mayores autoridades en fonética de la lengua española.
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Se licenció y doctoró en Filología Románica en la Universidad de Madrid. Catedrático en la Universidad de Sevilla y luego en la Universidad de Valladolid. Desde 1975 hasta su jubilación estuvo vinculado a la cátedra de Lengua Española de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Entre sus múltiples cargos cabe destacar también el de director de la Revista de Filología Española y el de encargado del Laboratorio de Fonética Experimental del CSIC, entre otros muchos.
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Clemens Brentano
Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano de La Roche was a leading German Romantic poet and novelist.
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Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva
VÍTOR MANUEL DE AGUIAR E SILVA nasceu em 1939, na freguesia de Real, em Penalva do Castelo, Viseu. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Universidade de Coimbra (1962) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor catedrático da Universidade de Coimbra até Setembro de 1989, data em que se transferiu para a Universidade do Minho. Nesta Universidade, desempenhou diversos cargos, nomeadamente o de vice-reitor, de 1990 a 2002. Como professor visitante, exerceu funções docentes em várias Universidades estrangeiras. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da Teoria da Literatura. Os estudos camonianos têm constituído objecto constante da sua actividade de investigador, sendo numerosas as suas publicações nesta área. Foi ainda deputado à A
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Charles Mortimer Carty
Fr. Charles Carty broadcast a radio program, the Catholic Radio Hour, from St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked as a Catholic Campaigner for Christ, an "Apostolate to the man in the street", using a trailer and loud-speaker.
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He wrote and distributed pamphlets and books on the Catholic Faith, most notably the Radio Replies series, in which he collaborated with Fr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C.
They worked together--Fr. Carty in the United State, and Fr. Rumble in Australia--without meeting in person until after the first Radio Replies volume was a hit.
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Lope de Rueda
Dramaturgo español. De oficio batidor de oro, lo abandonó para dedicarse al teatro y fundar una compañía propia con gran éxito. Como autor teatral produjo comedias, coloquios pastoriles, algún auto sacramental y pasos. Sus obras están escritas al estilo de la comedia italiana y suponen el triunfo en el teatro español de la adaptación de la dramaturgia italiana, en un momento en que la influencia italianizante en la lírica castellana estaba completamente consolidada.
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Su gran creación la constituyen los pasos, precedentes del entremés e intercalados en las comedias en prosa para entretener al público con una situación de trama sencilla y rápido desenlace, cuya gracia residía en la comicidad de las situaciones y los personajes, que se expresaba -
Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson (1832-1916), was a Keeper of the National Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Johannes von Saaz
Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 – c. 1415), also known as Johannes von Saaz (Czech: Jan ze Žatce), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German—depending on the criteria). He was literate in Czech, German and Latin
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Vitaly Shentalinsky
Vitaly Shentalinsky (Виталий Шенталинский in Russian) - poet and writer - was born in Siberia. He studied journalism and worked as a journalist and for radio and television. He spent the winter at the polar station on Wrangel Island, and participated in five high latitude expeditions.
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Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (Chinese: 白居易; 772–846), or Bo Juyi (Wade–Giles: Po Chü-i) was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made as a government official, including as governor of three different provinces. Bai Juyi was also renowned in Japan. Burton Watson says of Bai Juyi: "he worked to develop a style that was simple and easy to understand, and posterity has requited his efforts by making him one of the most well-loved and widely read of all Chinese poets, both in his native land and in the other countries of the East that participate in the appreciation of Chinese culture. He is also, thanks to the translations and biographical studies by Arthur Waley, one of the most accessible to English readers".
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Yu Xuanji
Yu Xuanji (simplified Chinese: 鱼玄机; traditional Chinese: 魚玄機; pinyin: Yú Xuánjī; Wade–Giles: Yü Hsüan-chi, approximate dates 844–868/869), courtesy names Youwei (Chinese: 幼微; pinyin: Yòuwēi) and Huilan (simplified Chinese: 蕙兰; traditional Chinese: 蕙蘭; pinyin: Huìlán), was a Chinese poet and courtesan of the late Tang dynasty, from Chang'an. She was one of the most famous women poets of Tang, along with Xue Tao, her fellow courtesan.[1]
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Her family name, Yu, is relatively rare. Her given name, Xuanji, means something like "Profound Theory" or "Mysterious Principle," and is a technical term in Daoism and Buddhism. "Yòuwēi" means something like "Young and Tiny;" and, Huìlán refers to a species of fragrant orchid. She is distinctive for the quali -
Li He
Li He (c. 790–791 – c. 816–817) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui.
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He was a native of Fuchang County (west of modern-day Yiyang County, Henan Province). His family were of distant royal descent (from the Li family who were the ruling dynastic family of the Tang Dynasty), but his branch's fortunes had declined early on, and by Li He's time they were of low rank.
He started composing poetry at the age of 7, and by around 15 he was being compared to the yuefu master Li Yi. When Li was 20, he attempted to take the Imperial Examination, but was forbidden from doing so because of a naming taboo: the first character (晉 jin) of his father's given name (晉肅 Jinsu) was a -
David Sepkoski
David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, most recently Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline.
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Michael Laitman
Founder and president of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute, which is dedicated to teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. Professor of Ontology, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in bio-Cybernetics. Father of three and grandfather of three.
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Fredrika Bremer
Fredrika Bremer was a Swedish 19th century writer and one of the earliest and perhaps most influential women rights activist in the country.
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Born into a wealthy family in the Swedish speaking parts of Finland Bremer recieved a thorough education including a Tour d'Europe.
In 1828 she she started to publish her series Teckningar utur hvardagslifvet (Drawings from the everyday life), in which her story Familjen H... (The Family H...) was included. The work drew influences from the English 'novel of letters', as well as the utilitism of Jeremy Bentham and the works of Freidrich Schiller. The work was widely acclaimed and she continued her writings by publishing Grannerna (The Neighbours) and Hemmet (The Home).
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Malise Ruthven
Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam in the World, The Divine Supermarket: Shopping for God in America, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam and several other books. His Islam: A Very Short Introduction has been published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean, Romanian, Polish, Italian and German.
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A former scriptwriter with the BBC Arabic and World Services, Dr Ruthven holds an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. He has taught Islamic studies, cultural history and comparative religion at the University of Aberdeen, the University of California, San Diego, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and Colorado College.
Now a full-time writer, he is currently work