Friday, December 30, 2011

Warren Miller

Warren Miller (1921-1966)

Warren Miller (1921-1966)

Warren Miller (19211966) was an American writer. Although he gained some notoriety for his books dealing with issues of race, as in The Cool World and The Siege of Harlem, and for his more political books such as Looking for The General and Flush Times, because of his early death due to lung cancer and his outspoken political views he has been left relatively unknown today.



[The Black Panther Of The Navaho]


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A A Attanasio

A A Attanasio (1951-now)

Alfred Angelo Attanasio, born on September 20, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His science-fiction novel Radix was nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was followed by three other novels, the four books, together, comprising the critically acclaimed 'Radix Tetrad. ' The 'Tetrad' is being re-issued by Phoenix Pick Publishers. He also writes under the name Adam Lee.



[John Brown A Retrospect]

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Francis William Reitz

Francis William Reitz (1844-1934)

Francis William Reitz (1844-1934) title=

Francis William Reitz, Jr. (Swellendam, 5 October 1844 - Cape Town, 27 March 1934) was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist and poet, member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa. Reitz had an extremely varied political and judicial career that lasted for over forty-five years and spanned four separate political entities: the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, and the Union of South Africa. Trained as a lawyer in Cape Town and London, Reitz started off in law practice and diamond prospecting before being appointed Chief Justice of the Orange Free State. In the Orange Free State Reitz played an important role in the modernisation of the legal system and the state's administrative organisation. at the same time he was also prominent in public life, getting involved in the Afrikaner language and culture movement, and cultural life in general. Reitz was a popular personality, both for his politics and his openness. When State President Brand suddenly died in 1888, Reitz won the presidential elections unopposed. After being re-elected in 1895, subsequently making a trip to Europe, Reitz fell seriously ill, and had to retire. In 1898, now recovered, he was appointed State Secretary of the South African Republic, and became a leading Afrikaner political figure during the Second Boer War. Reluctant to shift allegiance to the British, Reitz went into voluntary exile after the war ended. Several years later he returned to South Africa and set up a law practice again, in Pretoria. In the late 1900s he became involved in politics once more, and upon the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Reitz was chosen the first president of the Senate. Reitz was an important figure in Afrikaner cultural life during most of his life, especially through his poems and other publications.


F Reitz's Books:


[A Century Of Wrong]

Antonio Ghislanzoni

Antonio Ghislanzoni

Antonio Ghislanzoni

Antonio Ghislanzoni (25 November 1824 - July 16, 1893) was an Italian journalist, poet, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi, among other composers, of which the best known are Aida and the revised version of La forza del destino. Ghislanzoni was born in Lecco, Lombardy, and studied briefly in a seminary, but was expelled for bad conduct in 1841. He then decided to study medicine in Pavia, but abandoned this after a short time to pursue a singing career as a baritone and to cultivate his literary interests. In 1848, stimulated by the nationalist ideas of Mazzini, Ghislanzoni founded several republican newspapers in Milan but eventually had to take refuge in Switzerland. While travelling to Rome, where he wanted to help defend the nascent republic, Ghislanzoni was arrested by the French and briefly detained in Corsica. In the mid-1850s, having forsaken the stage, Ghislanzoni became active in journalism in the bohemian circles of Milan, serving as director of Italia musicale and editor of the Gazzetta musicale di Milano. He also founded L'uomo di pietra the magazine Rivista minima, collaborating with, among others, Arrigo Boito. In 1869, Ghislanzoni retired from journalism and returned to his native Lombardy, where he dedicated himself to literature and writing libretti for operas. He wrote many short stories in verse and diverse novels including Un suicidio a fior d'acqua (1864), Angioli nelle tenebre (1865), La contessa di Karolystria (1883), Abracadabra and Storia dell'avvenire (1884). His novel of theatrical life Gli artisti da teatro, (1865), was republished into the 20th century. He also published musical essays, the most important being Reminiscenze artistiche. Ghislanzoni wrote some eighty-five libretti, including Edmea for Catalani (1866), Aida (1870), Fosca (1873) and Salvator Rosa (1874) for Gomes, I Lituani for Ponchielli (1874) and the second version of La forza del destino (1869). He also contributed a few verses to the revised translation into Italian of Verdi's Don Carlos. Ghislanzoni died in Caprino Bergamasco, Bergamo in 1893 at age 69.



[Abrakadabra | In Chiave Di Baritono | La Contessa Di Karolystria | Libro Allegro | Libro Bizzarro | Libro Proibito | Libro Serio]


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Albert Vandal

Albert Vandal

Albert Vandal title=

Albert Count Vandal (7 July 1853, Paris - 30 August 1910, Paris) was a French historian, born in Paris



[Napoleon Et Alexandre Ier Tome Second | Napoleon Et Alexandre Ier Vol 3 | Napoleon Et Alexandre Ier | Napoleon Et Alexandre Ier V2]

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Adam T Smith

Adam T Smith

Adam T. Smith is an Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. He is also Faculty Associate in the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and the Center for East European/Russian and Eurasian Studies, Co-Director The American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of ancient Transcaucasian Societies. Smith received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona's Department of Anthropology (1996) and M. Phil. from the Cambridge University (1991). His research is dedicated to the research of history and societies of the South Caucasus.



[An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations | An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of | The Theory Of Moral Sentiments]


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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE (November 30, 1874 April 24, 1942), (called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, in Canada, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. Montgomery's work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide.



[Anne Of Avonlea | Anne Of Green Gables | Anne Of Ingleside | Anne Of The Island | Anne Of Windy Poplars | Annes House Of Dreams | Rainbow Valley | Rilla Of Ingleside]


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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Colonel George Durston

Colonel George Durston

Colonel George Durston was a fictional author created by the Saalfield Publishing Company, who was credited with the authorship of various American series books. Durston is credited for the "Boy Scouts" series, 24 volumes originally published by Saalfield between 1912 and 1919. Ghostwriters for the series included Frederick Dey, J.W. Duffield, William A. Wolf, and Georgia Roberts Durston. Col. Durston was also credited with the Potter Brother books, which appeared in the six-book "Stars and Stripes" Series.



[The Boy Scout Aviators | The Boy Scouts On The Trail]

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.



[Der Tor Und Der Tod | Gedichte | Jedermann]


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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Albert Pike

Albert Pike (1809-1891)

Albert Pike (1809-1891) title=

Albert Pike (December 29, 1809April 2, 1891) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C..



[Morals And Dogma Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite]


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Friday, December 23, 2011

George Loane Tucker

George Loane Tucker

George Loane Tucker (12 June 1872 - 20 June 1921) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 61 films between 1911 and 1921. Tucker had been an actor before moving to directing. In 1913 he directed Traffic in Souls, which concerned the topic of white slavery. The film, over 70 years, later ramains an early influential example of realism in early cinema. Tucker continued working in feature productions. He made several films with actress Jane Gail.



[A Voyage To The Moon]


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Charles De Coster

Charles De Coster (1827-1879)

Charles De Coster (1827-1879)

Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. He was born at Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a native of Lige, who was attached to the household of the papal nuncio at Munich, but soon returned to Belgium. Charles was placed in a Brussels bank, but in 1850 he entered the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, where he completed his studies in 1855. He was one of the founders of the Socit des Joyeux, a small literary club, more than one member of which was to achieve literary distinction. De Coster made his debut as a poet in the Revue trimestrielle, founded in 1854, and his first efforts in prose were contributed to a periodical entitled Uylenspiegel (founded 1856). A correspondence covering the years 1850-1858, his Lettres a Elisa, were edited by Ch. Potvin in 1894. He was a keen student of Rabelais and Montaigne, and familiarized himself with 16th-century French. He said that Flemish manners and speech could not be rendered faithfully in modern French, and accordingly wrote his best works in the old tongue. The success of his Lgendes flamandes (1857) was increased by the illustrations of Flicien Rops and other friends. In 1861 he published his Contes brabanons, in modern French. His masterpiece was The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak (1867), a 16th-century romance, which was barely read in Belgium because it didn't meet up to the conventional standard of Belgian nationalism, but became popular over the rest of the world. In the preparation for this prose epic of the Gueux he spent some ten years. Uylenspiegel has been compared to Don Quixote, and even to Panurge. He is the type of the 16th-century Fleming, and the history of his resurrection from the grave itself was accepted as an allegory of the destiny of the race. The exploits of himself and his friend form the thread of a semihistorical narrative, full of racy humour, in spite of the barbarities that find a place in it. This book also was illustrated by Rops and others. In 1870 De Coster became professor of general history and of French literature at the military school. His works however were not financially profitable; in spite of his government employment he was always in difficulties; and he died in much discouragement in May 1879 at Ixelles, Brussels and was interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery. The expensive form in which Uylenspiegel was produced made it open only to a limited class of readers, and when a new and cheap edition in modern French appeared in 1893 it was received practically as a new book in France and Belgium. He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Vrais Amis de l'Union et du Progrs Runis of the Grand Orient of Belgium, where he was initiated on 7 January 1858.



[La Legende Et Les Aventures Heroiques Joyeuses Et Glorieuses Dulenspiegel Et De Lamme Goedzak | De Legende En De Heldhaftige Vroolijke En Roemrijke Daden Van Uilenspiegel En Lamme Goedzak In Vlaa]


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Amy Kellogg

Amy Kellogg

Amy Kellogg is a news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She has been with the network since 1999 and is based out of the network's London news bureau. Kellogg received her B.A. from Brown University in Soviet studies, and her M.A. from Stanford University in Russian and East European studies. Kellogg is fluent in Russian, Spanish and French. She spent the second semester of her junior year at Leningrad State University, in the former Soviet Union.



[First Book In Physiology And Hygiene]


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Arthur James Moore

Arthur James Moore

Arthur James Moore (26 December 1888 - 30 June 1974) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), the Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1930.



[A Comedy Of Masks]


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Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 9 January 1908) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts. After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Dsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures. One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz (published in 1865), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller. Max and Moritz as well as many of his other picture stories are regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic strip. Max and Moritz, for instance, was an inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids. Wilhelm Busch also wrote a number of poems in a similar style to his picture stories. Besides that he produced more than 1,000 oil paintings that remained unsold up to his death in 1908. He was also active as a sculptor. Many couplets from Busch's humorous verses have achieved the status of adages in the German language, such as "Vater werden ist nicht schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr" ("It is easy to become a father, but being one is rather harder") or "Dieses war der erste Streich, doch der zweite folgt sogleich" ("This was the initial trick, but the second follows quick"). Only Goethe and Schiller are quoted more frequently in German than Busch.



[De MuisOf De Gestoorde Nachtrust | Hans Huckebein | Kritik Des Herzens | Max And Maurice | Max Und Moritz]


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Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge (November 30, 1812 November 30, 1891) was an English historian, classicist, and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works. He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire. He attended Oxford University, where he played first-class cricket in 1836. Later he was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Queen's College, Belfast. He died in Belfast.



[The Constitutional History Of England From 1760 To 1860 | The Life Of Marie Antoinette]

Antonio De Morga

Antonio De Morga

Antonio De Morga

Antonio de Morga Snchez Garay was a Spanish lawyer and a high-ranking colonial official in the Philippines, New Spain and Peru. He was also a historian. He published the book Sucesos de las islas Filipinas in 1609, one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He also led the Spanish in one naval battle against Dutch corsairs in the Philippines, in 1600.



[History Of The Philippine Islands Vols 1 And 2]

Monday, December 19, 2011

Emilio Salgari

Emilio Salgari (1862-1911)

Emilio Salgari (1862-1911)

Emilio Salgari (August 21, 1862 April 25, 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy. For over a century his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than Dante - and even today, he remains among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of his most popular novels have been adapted as comics, animated series and feature films. He is considered the father of Italian adventure fiction, the father of Italian pop culture and the grandfather of the Spaghetti Western.



[La Favorita Del Mahdi]


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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as a whole. On the eve of World War II in 1939, he personally alerted President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon. As a result, Roosevelt advocated uranium research and the top secret Manhattan Project, which led to the U.S. becoming the only country to possess nuclear weapons during the war. Einstein published more than 300 scientific along with over 150 non-scientific works, and received honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities; he also wrote about various philosophical and political subjects such as socialism and international relations. His great intelligence and originality has made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius.



[Por Que Socialismo | Relativity The Special And General Theory | Sidelights On Relativity]


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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Augustus Thomas

Augustus Thomas (1857-1934)

Augustus Thomas (1857-1934)

Augustus Thomas (8 January 1857 - 12 August 1934) was an American playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a doctor, he worked a number of jobs including a page in the 41st Congress, studying law and gaining some practical railway work experience before he turned to journalism and became editor of the Kansas City Mirror in 1889. Thomas had been writing since his teens when he wrote plays and even organized a small theatrical touring company. Thomas was hired to work as an assistant at Pope's Theatre in St. Louis. During this time, he wrote a one-act play based on a short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett called The Burglar. After touring in the play, he expanded the show to four acts and was able to get Maurice Barrymore to play the title role. Subsequently, he was hired to succeed Dion Boucicault adapting foreign plays for the Madison Square Theatre. His first original play, Alabama was produced in 1891 and its success allowed Thomas to write full time. Alabama is the story of an un-reconstructed Confederate. Notably, Thomas was one of the first playwrights to make use of American material. Other plays along the same lines include Arizona (1899), In Mizzoura (1893), Colorado (1901) and Rio Grande (1916). Perhaps his most successful play was The Copperhead (1918) which made Lionel Barrymore a star. Thomas reached a high artistic level in Arizona and The Witching Hour. A novelization of the latter appeared in 1908. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the National Institute's gold medal in 1913, and in 1914 received an honorary A. M. degree from Williams College. According to the Oxford Companion to the Theatre, his plays are "on the whole, not profound, and provided entertainment of a kind acceptable to his audiences."



[Representative Plays By American Dramatists 1856 1911 | Representative Plays By American Dramatists 1856 1911 In Mizzoura]


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Friday, December 16, 2011

Cyrus Adler

Cyrus Adler

Cyrus Adler (September 13, 1863 - April 7, 1940) was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar. Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893. He was employed by the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years, with a focus on archaeology and Semitics, serving as the Librarian from 1892-1905. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participarted in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, Assyriology, and Semitic philology. He was president of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning 1908 to 1940 and Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was also a contributor to the New International Encyclopedia. In addition, he was a founding member of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia. Adler was a bachelor much of his life, marrying Racie Friedenwald of Baltimore in 1905, when he was 42. They had one child, a daughter Sarah. He died in Philadelphia, and his papers are held by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.



[Told In The Coffee House]


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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Abel Botelho

Abel Botelho

Abel Accio de Almeida Botelho (23 September 1855 1917), born in Tabuao and deceased in Argentina, was a Portuguese military officer and diplomat, but distinguish himself as a writer. In 1911, he took part on the commission which chose and approved the draft for what would be the current flag of Portugal.



[Amor Crioulo]

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Of Chandos

Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Of Chandos

Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Of Chandos title=

Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos (23 April, 1670 - July 16, 1735) was a British historian, travel writer and artist. She was the daughter of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer on natural history, and his wife Emma, the daughter of Sir Henry Barnard of Bridgnorth, Shropshire and London. In 1713, at the age of forty-three, Cassandra became the second wife of her wealthy cousin, James Brydges, FRS, whose mother was a Barnard. Brydges' social standing rose the following year when he was made Earl of Carnarvon and inherited a barony and baronetcy when his father, the 8th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, died; in 1719 he became Duke of Chandos, and Cassandra the Duchess.


Duchess's Books:


[Portia Or By Passions Rocked]


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Charles Bruce

Charles Bruce

Charles Edward Rhodes Bruce (C.E.R. Bruce), MA., DSc., FIEE., FInstP., (1902 near Glasgow 30 Dec 1979) was a Scottish astrophysicist and writer. He was educated at Edinburgh University where he finished with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 1924 he joined the Electrical Research Association (now ERA Technology Ltd) in Leatherhead, England, where he began analysing the operation of oil circuit-breakers. An interest in electrical arcing developed into a study of lightning discharges, where "Similarity between quantities he had calculated from first principles in his work on lightning, and values deduced from astrophysical observations, led Charles Bruce to the conclusion that most astrophysical phenomena could be interpreted as the results of electrical discharges on the cosmic scale. The idea totally captured his imagination, and he developed it with great vigour in a series of about fifty publications, being greatly encouraged in this work by two highly respected astrophysicists, Sydney Sydney] Chapman at Oxford and F.J.M. F.J.M. ] Stratton at Cambridge. " In 1952, he submitted his papers on electrical discharges to Edinburgh University and was subsequently awarded a Doctorate of Science. He was also awarded the Silver Pen from the Franklin Institute for his writing skills.



[Leslie Ross]

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was very popular, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned praise from critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".



[A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthurs Court | Die Schrecken Der Deutschen Sprache | La Celebre Rana Saltarina Del Distrito De Calaveras | Les Aventures De Tom Sawyer | Life On The Mississippi | Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc | Roughing It | The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn | The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | The Bequest And Other Short Stories | The Jumping Frog | The War Prayer | Tom Sawyer Abroad | Tom Sawyer Detective]


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Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender (1909-1995)

Stephen Spender (1909-1995)

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.



[Home Rule]


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Alan F Alford

Alan F Alford

Alan F. Alford, B. Com, FCA, MBA is a British writer and speaker on the subjects of ancient religion, mythology, and Egyptology. His first book Gods of the New Millennium (1996) drew on the ancient astronaut theory of Zecharia Sitchin and became a number 11 non-fiction bestseller in the UK.


G Alford's Books:


[How To Prosper In Boll Weevil Territory]

Thea Von Harbou

Thea Von Harbou (1888-1954)

Thea Von Harbou (1888-1954)

Thea Gabriele von Harbou (December 27, 1888 - July 1, 1954) was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria.



[Metropolis]


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Monday, December 12, 2011

Greg Bear

Greg Bear (1951-now)

Greg Bear (1951-now)

Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practices, and accelerated evolution.


W Greg's Books:


[Catalogue Of The Books Presented By Edward Capell To The]


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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Frank B Robinson

Frank B Robinson

Frank Bruce Robinson (18861948), a pharmacist of Moscow, Idaho, son of an English Baptist minister, Robinson studied in a Canadian Bible school but later rejected organized religion in favour of the New Thought Movement. He founded the spiritual movement Psychiana in 1928.



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Saturday, December 10, 2011

William Morison 1843 1937

William Morison 1843 1937 (1843-1937)

William Morison (1843-1937) was Scottish presbyterian minister, writer and biographer. He was born in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway. His father was Alexander Moffat, a master builder. and his mother was Catherine Campbell. He was educated at Moffat Academy, the University of Edinburgh where he graduated M.A. in 1862, and at the United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh. He married Anne Primrose Douglas on 24th March 1869. They had three daughters - Annie, Catherine and Helen. He died on 9th March 1937 at his home at Corstorphine, Edinburgh.



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