Friday, September 30, 2011

Edward Duffield Neill

Edward Duffield Neill

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Edward Duffield Neill (18231893) was an American author and educator. Neill was born at Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania for some time, he enrolled at Amherst College and graduated from Amherst in 1842, then studied theology at Andover. After ordination as a Presbyterian minister, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1848 where he became pastor of the First Presbyterian church. He also worked as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Territory in 185153, and as chancellor of the State university in 185861. During the Civil War he served as an army and a hospital chaplain from 186164. He worked for Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, who in 1869 nominated him Commissioner of Education to replace Henry Barnard, however, President Grant appointed him Consul to Dublin in 1869. He returned to the United States in 1870, and served as the president of Macalester College in St. Paul in 187374, thenceforth as professor of history and literature. He wrote a large number of historical books, mostly of the Colonial period


A Neill's Books:


[A Dominie In Doubt]

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Norman Whitfield

Norman Whitfield (1940-2008)

Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12, 1940 - September 16, 2008) was an American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s. He was credited as being one of the creators of the Motown Sound, as well as one of the major instrumental figures in the late-60s sub-genre of psychedelic soul. The hit singles Whitfield wrote and produced in his 25-year career included "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", "(I Know) I'm Losing You", "Cloud Nine", "War", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", "Smiling Faces Sometimes" and "Car Wash". Alongside his Motown lyrical collaborator Barrett Strong, he was inducted to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2004.



[Through Five Republics On Horseback]


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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson House

Ralph Waldo Emerson House

The Ralph Waldo Emerson House is a house museum located at 28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts, and a National Historic Landmark for its associations with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. The museum is open mid-April to mid-October; an admission fee is charged.



[Essays First Series | Essays Second Series]


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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Francisco Gomes De Amorim

Francisco Gomes De Amorim

Francisco Gomes de Amorim (Pvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 13 August 1827 - Lisbon, 4 de November 1891) was a Portuguese poet and Dramatist. He was a friend of Almeida Garrett.



[Diccionario De Joo Fernandes]

Saturday, September 24, 2011

H Mencken

H Mencken

Henry Louis "H. L. " Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial. In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. An opponent of World War II and democracy, Mencken wrote a huge number of articles about current events, books, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-intellectuals, temperance and uplifters. He notably attacked ignorance, intolerance, frauds, fundamentalist Christianity, osteopathy, and chiropractic.



[A Book Of Burlesques | A Book Of Prefaces | Damn | Europe After 815 | In Defense Of Women | Mark Twain Americanism | The American Credo]

Friday, September 23, 2011

John Kessel

John Kessel (1950-now)

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John Kessel (b. 24 September 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer and the author of two solo novels, Good News From Outer Space (1989) and Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997) and one novel, Freedom Beach (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly.



[The Baum Plan For Financial Independence And Other Stories]


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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Clement King Shorter

Clement King Shorter (1857-1926)

Clement King Shorter (19 July 1857 - 19 November 1926) was a British journalist and literary critic.



[George Borrow And His Circle]

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Henry White Warren

Henry White Warren

Henry White Warren (1831-1912) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop and author, brother of William Fairfield Warren. He was born at Williamsburg, Mass., and graduated in 1853 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He taught ancient languages at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. (1853-55), and then entered the New England Conference (1855). On April 6, 1855, he married Miss Diantha Kilgore, in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1863 he was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. His wife died June 21, 1867, after having borne three children: Carrie, Henry and Ellen. After serving churches about Boston he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference (1871) and was elected Bishop (1880). When he visited Colorado for the first time in 1879 he met the widow of John Wesley Iliff, Mrs. Elizabeth Iliff. They were married on December 27, 1883. He was a co-founder of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo.



[Among The Forces]

Aldon Lewis Lenard

Aldon Lewis Lenard

Aldon Lewis Lenard (born northern Italy January 6, 1921, died Kingston, Ontario, Canada February 23, 2007) was an all-around athlete, university professor, athletics administrator, coach, and referee. He has been called the best all-round athlete to ever be associated with Queen's University. Lenard was born in Italy and moved to Canada with his family at age three.


C Lewis's Books:


[Spirits In Bondage]


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Monday, September 19, 2011

Rosel George Brown

Rosel George Brown

Rosel George Brown (March 15, 1926 November 26, 1967) was an American science fiction author.



[Step Iv]

Alexis Piron

Alexis Piron

Alexis Piron

Alexis Piron (July 9, 1689 January 21, 1773) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist. He was born at Dijon, where his father, Aim Piron, was an apothecary. Piron senior wrote verse in the Burgundian language. Alexis began life as clerk and secretary to a banker, and then studied law. In 1719, when nearly thirty years old, he went to Paris, where an accident brought him money and notoriety.


A Piron's Books:


[Du Service Des Postes Et De La Taxation Des Lettres Au Moyen | Du Service Des Postes]

Alfredo J Ramos Campos

Alfredo J Ramos Campos

Alfredo J. Ramos is a Spanish poet and editor born in Talavera de la Reina, Toldeo, Spain in 1954. He was awarded a Bachelor of Information Science from the Complutense University in Madrid. His first book of poetry, Esquinas del destierro (Corners of Exile) (1976), is a neo-romantic work and obtained a runner-up for the Adonais prize for unknown poets. He also wrote Territorio de gestos fugitivos (Territory of Fugitive Gestures) in 1980. With El sol de medianoche (The Midnight Sun) (1986), he won the Castilla-La Mancha Prize of Poetry. He is also editor and writer of the famous Espasa encyclopedia, the general encyclopedia printed in most of the world, with almost 200 volumes. Ramos has also written many travelogue books, among them on the cities of the Camino de Santiago.



[A Filha Do Cabinda]


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Sterling E Lanier

Sterling E Lanier (1927-2007)

Sterling Edmund Lanier (December 18, 1927 June 28, 2007) was an editor, science fiction author and sculptor who published as both Sterling Lanier and Sterling E. Lanier. He is perhaps known best as the editor who championed the publication of Frank Herberts bestselling novel Dune.



[Join Our Gang]

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Mandell Creighton

Mandell Creighton

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Mandell Creighton /mndl kratn/ (5 July 1843 14 January 1901) was an English historian and a prelate of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study of history was emerging as an independent academic discipline. He was also the first editor of the English Historical Review, the oldest English language academic journal in the field of history. Creighton had a second career as a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as a parish priest in Embleton, Northumberland, and later, successively, as Bishop of Peterborough and Bishop of London. His moderation, worldliness, and vigour drew praise from Queen Victoria and notice from politicians. It was widely thought at the time that Creighton would have become the Archbishop of Canterbury had his death, at age 57, not intervened. Creighton's historical work received mixed reviews. He was praised for scrupulous even-handedness, but criticised for not taking a stand against historical excesses. For his part, he was firm in asserting that public figures be judged for their public acts, not private ones. His preference for the concrete to the abstract diffused through his writings on the Church of England as well. He believed that the church was uniquely shaped by its particular English circumstances, and advocated that it reflect the views and wishes of the English people. Creighton was married to author and future women's suffrage activist Louise Creighton, and together the couple had seven children. The Creightons were greatly interested in the education of children and, between the two of them, wrote nearly two dozen school history primers. A man of complex intelligence and exceptional vigour, Mandell Creighton was emblematic of the Victorian era, both in his strengths and in his failings.



[Hilaire Belloc]

Davy Lauterbach

Davy Lauterbach

Davy Lauterbach (born May 4, 1972) is a painter and poet who also works in the television business. His most notable television credit is as an assistant director on The Simpsons. His other credits include King of the Hill, and Days of our Lives. His poetry has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Yale Review, and Base. His paintings have been printed in NYArts, and The Harvard Advocate. Davy studied English Literature at Harvard University and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.


Davy's Books:


[The Insurrection In Paris]


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Alfred Bailey

Alfred Bailey (1905-1997)

Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey, OC, FRSC (March 18, 1905 April 21, 1997) was a Canadian educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Professor Loring Woart Bailey and Ernestine Valiant (Gale) Bailey, he received his BA degree in 1927 from the University of New Brunswick and his MA in 1929 and Ph. D in 1934 from the University of Toronto. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey, one of Canada's most distinguished historians and poets, is often regarded as the father of ethnohistory because of his seminal work The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700: A Study in Canadian Civilization (1937; 2nd ed. 1969). His essay "Overture to Nationhood" in the Literary History of Canada (1965), which he helped to edit, and his collection Culture and Nationality: Essays by A.G. Bailey (1972) are classics in their field. His books of poetry include Songs of the Saguenay (1927), To (1930), Border River (1952), Thanks for a Drowned Island (1973), and Miramichi Lightning: The Collected Poems of Alfred G. Bailey (1981). From conservative beginnings that echoed strongly the romantic tones of late 19th-century verse, Bailey evolved into a contemporary poet whose statement was full of the surrounding reality, whose voice is, at times, deceptively subdued but whose imagination ranged widely and wisely. From 1935 to 1938, he worked as assistant director and associate curator at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick. From 1938 to 1969, he was head of the University of New Brunswick history department. From 1946 to 1964, he was the first Dean of Arts at University of New Brunswick and from 1965 to 1969, he was Vice President (Academic). He retired in 1970. He instituted colonial American studies at the University of New Brunswick, as a result a closer liaison developed between the history departments at UNB and at the University of Maine in the 1960s. Visits between scholars from Atlantic Provinces and the University of Maine became frequent after the establishment of the New England __ Atlantic Provinces Study Center at Orono in 1966. In 1951, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey has had a formative influence on a generation of younger poets, notably Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, and Robert Gibbs.


H Bailey's Books:


[Call Mr Fortune | The Highwayman]


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Edward Tanjore Corwin

Edward Tanjore Corwin

Edward Tanjore Corwin D.D. Litt.D. (1834 1914) was an American writer, and historian of the Reformed Dutch church. He was born in New York City, July 12, 1834; graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1853, and at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J.



[John Marshall And The Constitution | John Marshall And The Constitution A Chronicle Of The Supreme Court]

Antonio Feliciano De Castilho

Antonio Feliciano De Castilho

Antonio Feliciano De Castilho

Antnio Feliciano de Castilho, 1st Viscount of Castilho (January 28, 1800 - June 18, 1875), Portuguese man of letters, born at Lisbon. He lost his sight at the age of six, but the devotion of his brother Augusto, and aided by a retentive memory, enabled him to go through his school and university course with success; and he acquired an almost complete mastery of the Latin language and literature. His first work of importance, the Cartas de Echo e Narciso (1821), belongs to the pseudo-classical school in which he had been brought up, but his romantic leanings became apparent in the Primavera (1822) and in Amor e Melancholia (1823), two volumes of honeyed and prolix bucolic poetry. In the poetic legends A noite do Castello (1836) and Cimes do bardo (1838) Castilho appeared as a full-blown Romanticist. These books exhibit the defects and qualities of all his work, in which lack of ideas and of creative imagination and an atmosphere of artificiality are ill-compensated for by a certain emotional charm, great purity of diction and melodious versification. Belonging to the didactic and descriptive school, Castilho saw nature as all sweetness, pleasure and beauty, and he lived in a dreamland of his imagination. A fulsome epic on the succession of King John VI brought him an office of profit at Coimbra. On his return from a stay in Madeira, he founded the Revista Universal Lisbonense, in imitation of Herculano's Panorama, and his profound knowledge of the Portuguese classics served him well in the introduction and notes to a very useful publication, the Livraria Classica Portugueza (1845-47, 25 volumes), while two years later he established the "Society of the Friends of Letters and the Arts. " A study on Lus de Cames and treatises on metrification and mnemonics followed from his pen. His praiseworthy zeal for popular instruction led him to take up the study of pedagogy, and in 1850 he brought out his Leitura Repentina, a method of reading which was named after him, and he became government commissary of the schools which were destined to put it into practice. Going to Brazil in 1854, he there wrote his famous Letter to the Empress. Though Castilho's lack of strong individuality and his excessive respect for authority prevented him from achieving original work of real merit, yet his translations of Anacreon, Ovid and Virgil and the Chave do Enigma, explaining the romantic incidents that led to his first marriage with D. Maria de Baena, a niece of the satirical poet Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida and a descendant of Antnio Ferreira, reveal him as a master of form and a purist in language. His versions of Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, made without a knowledge of German and English, scarcely added to his reputation. When the Coimbra question arose in 1865, Garrett was dead and Herculano had ceased to write, leaving Castilho supreme, for the moment, in the realm of letters. But the youthful Antero de Quental withstood his claim to direct the rising generation and attacked his superannuated leadership, and after a fierce war of pamphlets Castilho was dethroned. The rise of Joo de Deus reduced him to a secondary position in the Portuguese Parnassus, and when he died ten years later much of his former fame had preceded him to the tomb.



[A Chave Do Enigma | Eco Da Voz Portugueza Por Terras De Santa Cruz | O Presbyterio Da Montanha]


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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Augusta Lady Gregory

Augusta Lady Gregory (1852-1932)

Augusta Lady Gregory (1852-1932)

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime. Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her work behind the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park, County Galway, served as an important meeting place for leading Revival figures, and her early work as a member of the board of the Abbey was at least as important for the theatre's development as her creative writings. Lady Gregory's motto was taken from Aristotle: "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."


A Lady's Books:


[The Young Lady Mentor]


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Friday, September 16, 2011

James Patrick Kelly

James Patrick Kelly (1951-now)

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James Patrick Kelly (born 11 April 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field. Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a major force in the science fiction field. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, with a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating from college, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. He attended the Clarion Workshop twice; once in 1974 and again in 1976. Throughout the 1980s, he and friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly also wrote several cyberpunk-like stories, such as "The Prisoner of Chillon" (1985) and "Rat" (1986). His story "Solstice" (1985) was published in Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Kelly has been awarded several of science fiction's highest honors. He won the Hugo Award for his novelette "Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) and again for his novelette "10 to 1" (1999). Most recently, his 2005 novella, Burn, won the 2006 Nebula Award. Other stories by him have won the Asimov's Reader Poll and the SF Chronicle Award. He is frequently on the final ballot for the Nebula Award, the Locus Poll Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He frequently teaches and participates in science fiction workshops, such as Clarion and the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop. He has served on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts since 1998 and chaired the council in 2004. He is currently on the Popular Fiction faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine, along with fellow science fiction and fantasy author Kelly Link. He is a frequent contributor to Asimov's Science Fiction, and for the past several years has contributed a non-fiction column to Asimov's, "On the Net. " He has had a story in the June issue of Asimov's for the past twenty years. In addition to his writing, Kelly has recently turned his hand to editing (with his friend and writer John Kessel), with several reprint anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Through these anthologies, Kelly and Kessel have brought together a wide spectrum of both traditional genre authors and authors who are considered to be more mainstream, including Don DeLillo, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon and Steven Millhauser.



[Barry Westphall Crashes The Singularity | Burn | Faith | Itsy Bitsy Spider | Luck | Men Are Trouble | Monsters | The Pyramid Of Amirah]


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William Logan Harris

William Logan Harris

William Logan Harris (4 November 1817 - 2 September 1887) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.



[Mex]

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (19291933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience.



[Principles Of Mining]


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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organised religion.



[History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 1 | History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 2 | History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 3 | History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 4 | History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 5 | History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 6]


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Henry Milner Rideout

Henry Milner Rideout

Henry Milner Rideout

Henry Milner Rideout (1877-1927) was a native of Calais, Maine. Author of sixteen novels, twenty-three short stories and novellas, and a biographical memoir, he also was editor of one college textbook, as well as co-editor of three others. Many of his stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.



[Dragon Blood]


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Helen Stuart Campbell

Helen Stuart Campbell

Helen Stuart Campbell was a social reformer and pioneer in the field of home economics. Campbell wrote several important studies about women trapped in poverty, and the role that effective home economics could play in lifting women and families out of poverty. Helen Campbell was born in Lockport, New York and studied in Warren, Rhode Island and Bloomington, New Jersey. Her father was a Stuart and her mother was a Campbell.



[Prisoners Of Poverty Abroad | Prisoners Of Poverty | The Easiest Way In Housekeeping And Cooking]


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Alden Partridge

Alden Partridge (1785-1854)

Alden Partridge (1785-1854)

Alden Partridge, (February 12, 1785 - January 17, 1854) was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S. military education, emphasizing physical fitness training, advocating the concept of citizen soldier and establishing a series of private military academies throughout the country, including Norwich University.



[The Psychology Of Nations]

Monday, September 12, 2011

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966)

Cordwainer Smith - pronounced CORDwainer - was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller Atomsk), "Anthony Bearden" and "Felix C. Forrest" (for the novels Ria and Carola).



[The Game Of Rat And Dragon]


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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Andy Lane

Andy Lane (1963-now)

Andrew Lane (born 1963), who also writes as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist. He is best known for writing a number of spin-off novels and audio dramas based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who (and a novel for the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood), as well as assorted non fiction books based upon popular film and TV franchises such as James Bond. He has also written TV storylines and scripts for the Sky One science fiction series Space Island One. During 2009 Macmillan Books announced that Andrew Lane would be writing a series of three books focusing on the early life of Sherlock Holmes. The series has been developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first book -- Death Cloud -- is scheduled for June 2010, with the second -- Red Leech -- being published six months later. Andy Lane currently lives with his wife and son in Dorset, England. He is represented by Robert Kirby at United Agents.



[Doctor Who And The Empire Of Glass]


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Monday, September 5, 2011

James Phinney Munroe

James Phinney Munroe

James Phinney Munroe

James Phinney Munroe (b. 1862 d. 1929) was an American author, businessman, professor and genealogist of the Clan Munro. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated in 1888, although remained active in the affairs of the school. He published a number of mostly scholarly works. He was the father-in-law of Frederic Lansing Day who married his daughter Katharine.



[Everyone In Silico | Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask]

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Alexander William Kinglake

Alexander William Kinglake

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Alexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 2 January 1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life.



[Eothen]