Biography EssayJohann Paul Friedrich Richter created for his first published novel, Die unsichtbare Loge (1793; translated as The Invisible Lodge, 1883), a narrator called 'Jean Paul," and that name h...
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The German humorist and prose writer Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825), usually referred to as Jean Paul, achieved his greatest fame as a novelist.On March 21, 1763, J. P. Richter was born at ...
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter created for his first published novel, Die unsichtbare Loge: Eine Biographie (1793; translated as The Invisible Lodge, 1883), a narrator called "Jean Paul," and that name...
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Paris (dpa) - Arrests were made for the third night in a row in
France as violent protests broke out in Paris, Toulouse and Lyon over
the election of conservative Nicolas Sa...
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Jan 8 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on
Tuesday hinted at marriage with Italian singer and former model
Carla Bruni, but avoided giving any date for a wedding. Below are five facts a...
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Feb 2 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy married
Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, French radio
station RTL reported, quoting witnesses. A spokesman at Sarkozy's office said ...
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Sharon Stone played auctioneer, Kylie Minogue and Julian Lennon sang, and burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese did a saucy strip routine _ all to raise money for AIDS research.An annual benefit soiree o...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature since
1945:
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2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005 Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004 Elfried...
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Brussels/Utrecht, Netherlands (dpa)- The Belgian-Dutch Fortis Bank
made a net profit of 1.167 billion euros in the first quarter of
2007, it said Friday.
Prof...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
AN OVERDUE MEMORIAL (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Considering the enormity of what it commemorates, the Memorial
to the Victims of ...
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China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year's Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday.The gover...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Belgian-Dutch bank and insurance company Fortis
NV announced on Thursday its net profit in the second quarter was 16
per cent higher at 1.6 billion euros (...
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To judge New York Fashion Week by the lineup at Thursday night's Fashion Rocks concert, you'd think the mismatched look was in.Fergie sang with Aerosmith, Teri Hatcher shared the stage with 50 Cent...
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Arrests, arson mark third-straight night of anti-Sarkozy protests
