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Yordan Radichkov is the most original fiction writer and playwright in Bulgarian literature in the second half of the twentieth century, one who has created works that are appreciated both within his country and abroad. The recognition of ...
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Yordan Yovkov has the reputation, along with Elin Pelin, of being one of the two outstanding Bulgarian prose writers in the period between the world wars. Of the many attempts to characterize him, "visionary realist," "dreamer," and "bard ...
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city and unitary authority, geographic county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss, about midway between London and Edinburgh. It is the cathedral city of...
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one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. Much smaller, scattered groups live in Benin and northern Togo. The Yoruba numbered more than 20 million at the turn of the 21st cent...
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This is a selection of Yoruba proverbs. A translation is given for each proverb but no indictaion is given of usage or meaning (apart from the last three). This is left to the reader to determine, though other editors should feel free to a...
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SOURCE: "Yosano Akiko," in Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press, 1983, pp. 53-94. A Japanese-born critic and translator, Ueda is the author of several volumes of criticism on Japanese literature. In ...
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The Jewish codifier Joseph ben Ephraim Caro (1488-1575) is the most universally recognized authority on Jewish law and practice. Joseph Caro was born in Spain or Portugal. His family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and then continued eastw...
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scenic mountain region in east-central California, U.S. It is situated about 140 miles (225 km) east of the city of San Francisco; Devils Postpile National Monument lies about 15 miles (25 km) to the east and Kings Canyon National Park abo...
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The technique and mind are just like the front and back of one’s hand, meaning they are very closely related....
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Yoshida Kenkō (Japanese: 吉田兼好; 1283 ? – 1350 ?) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezure-Gusa ( Essays in Idleness ), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Born Urabe Ka...
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Ambition never comes to an end. Ambition never comes to an end....
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(born Sept. 20, 1830, Nagato province, Japan—died Nov. 21, 1859, Edo) Japanese teacher of military tactics in the domain of Chōshū. He studied “Dutch learning” (European studies) in Nagasaki and Edo (modern To...
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Furui Yoshikichi, the youngest of four children, was born in Tokyo. Both his parents had come from Gifu Prefecture, where his father's family had been wealthy. During World War II the Furui home in Tokyo was bombed, and the family evacuate...
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Yoshio Kodama was the fifth son of an unsuccessful businessman in Nihonmatsu City, Japan. He was sent to Korea to be raised by relatives. In Korea, Kodama's upbringing was filled with isolation and child labor in industry. These experience...
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Yossef ("Yossi") Beilin (born in Petah Tikva, June 12, 1948) is a leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. He is currently chairman of Meretz-Yac...
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Introduction Reading Howard Zinn's autobiography demonstrates that once the train departs on the journey of life in which events take fatal routes you can't be neutral because that means you're accepting your fate. This is more than an aut...
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SOURCE: "In Search of the Grampian Hills with W.C. Fields," in The American Scholar, Vol. 48, No. 1, Winter, 1978/79, pp. 101-5. In the following essay, Prior explores the origins of a line from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, in which Field...
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You Can't Do That on Television (1979–1990) was a sketch-comedy television program for pre-teens produced at CJOH-TV in Ottawa , and aired in the United States on Nickelodeon , in Canada on CTV and YTV , and in other countries around the...
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To a remarkable extent, Capra's films caught the mood of America in the Thirties and Forties. When sufficiently little was happening in the world for the masses to be bemused for weeks by the deserved misfortunes of the rich, Capra rebuilt ...
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This page lacks sufficient introduction or links to Wikipedia . Without such information, it is hard to distinguish this topic from similarly-named topics or to research quotations. You can help Wikiquote by adding it . Contents 1 David 2 ...
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You Only Live Once is one of Fritz Lang's most widely admired American films and is thought to be among the finest of the 'social consciousness' films of the 1930s. The movie is praised for its technical excellence, its richness of visual t...
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You Only Live Twice is the fifth film in the James Bond series. It was released in 1967 . Directed by Lewis Gilbert . Written by Roald Dahl . Other Russian Diplomat: The world knows we are a peace-loving people. Blofield: "You only live tw...
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David Bowie's Young Americans lp is the strongest set of studio material he has released since Ziggy Stardust. Like a split leaf philodendron whose leaves grow back whole, the segmented parts of Bowie's musical personality have coalesced in...
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When The Young and the Restless premiered on March 26, 1973, it revolutionized the entire concept of the "soap opera." Historically, the format reflected its roots in radio and, despite its jump to television, was still an au...
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Young Avengers is a superhero comic book published by Marvel Comics , as part of Marvel Next. Written by Allan Heinberg. Contents 1 Sidekicks 1.1 Issue 1 1.2 Issue 2 1.3 Issue 3 1.4 Issue 4 1.5 Issue 5 1.6 Issue 6 2 Secret Identities 2.1 I...
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