Friday, November 28, 2008

Edgar Alfred Bowring

Edgar Alfred Bowring

Edgar Alfred Bowring (18261911) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848 - 1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868 - 1874). He was the youngest son of Sir John Bowring, and brother of John Charles Bowring and Lewin Bentham Bowring.



[The Poems Of Goethe]


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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Daniel Stern

Daniel Stern

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.



[Dante Et Goethe Dialogues | Nelida]

Friday, November 21, 2008

Adrian Hastings

Adrian Hastings

Adrian Hastings (23 June 1929 30 May 2001) was a church historian and a controversial Catholic priest.



[Autobiography Of Z S Hastings]

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903)

Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903)

Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 - March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. By the end of his life shortly after the turn of the century, Leland had worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmanns Ballads, fought in two conflicts, and had written what was to become a primary source text for Neopaganism half a century later, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches.



[Aradia Or The Gospel Of The Witches | The Gypsies]


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Sunday, November 16, 2008

George Cary Eggleston

George Cary Eggleston

George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 - 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837-1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in the The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections."



[A Captain In The Ranks | Captain Sam | Red Eagle And The Wars With The Creek Indians Of Alabama | The Big Brother]

Friday, November 14, 2008

Bartol Gyurgieuvits

Bartol Gyurgieuvits

Bartol Gyurgieuvits (also Bartol Jurjevic or Gjurgjevic) (15061566) was a Croatian musicologist and Lexicographer born in Turopolje near Zagreb.


C Bartol's Books:


[Senatorial Character]

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Wilhelm Meinhold

Wilhelm Meinhold

Johann Wilhelm Meinhold (27 February 1797 - 1851) was a Pomeranian priest and author. Meinhold was born in Netzelkow on the island of Usedom, where his father Georg Wilhelm Meinhold (1767-1728) was Lutheran priest. Growing up in the atmosphere of the Napoleonic Wars, he matriculated at the University of Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, in the fall of 1813. After his theological education, he was priest in Koserow on Usedom from 1821 until 1827.



[The Amber Witch]


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Lewis Carroll Epstein

Lewis Carroll Epstein

Lewis Carroll Epstein is the author of layman's books on physics that use an idiosyncratic mix of cartoons and single-page brain teasers to pull the reader into advanced concepts in classical mechanics, quantum theory, and Relativity. His books "Thinking Physics" and "Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics" have been republished for almost 30 years, the former being on the Exploratorium recommended science reading list. He credits his teaching style to experience presenting technical testimony to trial juries and congressional hearings.



[Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles | Alices Adventures In Wonderland | De Lautre Cote Du Miroir | Sylvie And Bruno | Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There]


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Monday, November 10, 2008

Sue Ellicott

Sue Ellicott

Sue Ellicott is a former television correspondent for the BBC and political writer for The Times in Washington, DC. Ellicott has appeared on CNN, ABC News, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Ellicott is one of the recurring guest panelists on the NPR radio news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! She was briefly a co-host of Air America Radio's Morning Sedition with comedian Marc Maron and radio veteran Mark Riley.



[Addresses On The Revised Version Of Holy Scripture]


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Antonia San Juan

Antonia San Juan

Antonia San Juan (born March 22, 1961), is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter. She was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and bars. She became known thanks to her role as Agrado in Todo sobre mi madre by Pedro Almodvar. A famous Spanish magazine article about her transexuality caused great controversy. She is well-known in Spain not only because of her film career but also for her humorous monologues on television and theatre. Since 2009 she has been acting in the popular Spanish TV series La que se avecina, where her role of Estela Reynolds is one of the most acclaimed roles in the show.


Don Juan's Books:


[Don Juan Visits The Planet Mars]


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Anthony Ludovici

Anthony Ludovici (1882-1971)

Anthony Mario Ludovici, (January 8, 1882 - April 3, 1971) was an English philosopher, Nietzschean sociologist and social critic. He is best known, perhaps, as a proponent of aristocracy, and in the early 20th century was a leading British conservative author. He wrote on subjects including metaphysics, politics, economics, religion, the differences between the sexes, race and eugenics. Ludovici began his career as an artist, painting and illustrating books. He became private secretary to sculptor Auguste Rodin. Ultimately, he would turn towards writing, with over 40 books as author, and translating over 60 others.



[Too Old For Dolls]


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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

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Abbott Lawrence Lowell (December 13, 1856 - January 6, 1943) was a U.S. educator and legal scholar. He served as President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. With an "aristocratic sense of mission and self-certainty," Lowell cut a large figure in American education and to some extent in public life as well.



[Some Imagist Poets An Anthology]


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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Philip K Dick

Philip K Dick (1928-1982)

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards", Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real. " Dick referred to himself as a "fictionalizing philosopher. " In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, nine of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.



[Beyond Lies The Wub | Beyond The Door | Mr Spaceship | Piper In The Woods | Second Variety | The Crystal Crypt | The Defenders | The Gun | The Skull | The Variable Man]


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George Cochrane Hazelton

George Cochrane Hazelton

George Cochrane Hazelton, actor and playwright, was born January 20, 1868. He performed as an actor with Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth, and Madame Modjeska. His first attempt as a playwright was The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe, which was later made into a film. His next play, Mistress Nell, was written in 1900 and was a great success. His most well-known play was The Yellow Jacket, which he co-authored in 1912 with Benrimo.



[Mistress Nell]


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Monday, November 3, 2008

Addams Stratton Mcallister

Addams Stratton Mcallister

Addams Stratton McAllister, Ph.D. (24 February 1875, Covington, Va., USA - 26 November 1946, Clifton Forge, Va. ) was an American electrical engineer and editor. He was educated at Pennsylvania State College (B.S. 1898; E.E., 1900) and at Cornell (M.M.E., 1901; Ph.D., 1905). He was employed by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company in 1898 and by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1899. He was associate editor (1905-12) and thereafter editor of the Electrical World.



[A Dissertation On The Medical Properties And Injurious | A Dissertation On The Medical Properties And Injurious Effects Of The Habitual Use Of Tobacco]

Wilhelm Raabe

Wilhelm Raabe

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Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 - November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (18491854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (18551857). While a student at that university he published his first work, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1857), which at once attained to great popularity. Raabe next returned to Wolfenbttel, and then lived (18621870) in Stuttgart, where he devoted himself entirely to authorship and wrote a number of novels and short stories; notably Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei (1862); Der Hungerpastor (1864); Abu Telfan (1867) and Der Schdderump (1870). In 1870 Raabe removed to Brunswick and published the narratives Horacker (1876); Das Odfeld (1889); Stopfkuchen (1891) perhaps his masterpiece, Kloster Lugau (1894) and numerous other stories. The distinguishing characteristic of Raabe's work is a genial humour reminiscent of Dickens; but often combined with realistic pessimism. His works, many of which double as fairy tales, have a recurrent theme of homecoming to the place of birth. Raabe's 40th anniversary as a writer in 1894 was a matter of national celebration. The critical edition of Raabe's complete works was published as Smtliche Werke (Braunschweiger Ausgabe) Im Auftrage der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft hrsg. von Karl Hoppe, beginning in 1965.



[Deutscher Mondschein | German Moonlight | La Nigra Galero]

Kelly Link

Kelly Link

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction. Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. They also co-edit St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow. (The couple inherited the "fantasy" side from Terri Windling in 2004. ) Link was also the slush reader for Sci Fiction, edited by Datlow. Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series for spring semester 2006. She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts; Clarion East at Michigan State University; and Clarion West in Seattle, Washington. She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. Link currently teaches a course on Short Story Writing to undergraduates at Smith College, near her home in Northampton.



[Magic For Beginners | Stranger Things Happen]


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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Albert Bushnell Hart With Mabel Hill

Albert Bushnell Hart With Mabel Hill

Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (July 1, 1854-July 16, 1943), was an American historian, writer, and teacher. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, "The Grand Old Man" of American history, looking the part with his "patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches."



[Camps And Firesides Of The Revolution]


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Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) was an American writer and poet.



[The Burglar And The Blizzard | Are Women People | Come Out Of The Kitchen | Ladies Must Live | Manslaughter | The Beauty And The Bolshevist | The Burglar And The Blizzard A Christmas Story | The Happiest Time Of Their Lives]