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Robert Lipsyte (January 16, 1938) is an American sports journalist and author....
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W. H. Auden was a major English poet, probably the most important English-speaking poet born in the twentieth century. Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and a...
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A precursor of the imagists in poetry and of the novelists writing the new fiction of the 1920s, Stephen Crane was one of the most gifted and influential writers of the late nineteenth century, noted for his brilliant and innovative style,...
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The Orchard is a tea garden in Grantchester, near Cambridge. Since opening in 1897, it has been a popular retreat for Cambridge students, teachers and tourists, with many famous names among its patrons. The Orchard is open every day of the ...
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Spider-Man, a character appearing in Marvel comic books from 1962, ranks not only as Marvel's most popular superhero, but as one of the most instantly recognizable comic-book characters of all. Of the many superheroes to appear over...
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Chili's Grill & Bar is a chain of over 1,000 casual dining restaurants, most located in the United States. It was founded by Larry Lavine and is currently owned by Brinker International, which also owns On the Border Mexican Grill &...
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Lauren Myracle is the author of numerous young adult novels. She was born in 1969 in Groovy Town, Colorado. Lauren Myracle holds an MA in English from Colorado State University and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermon...
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Sleep Disorders Problems involving disruption in sleep pattern or inability to sleep. Sleep is a period of decreased activity and muscle relaxation, characterized by patterns of deep sleep (where brain waves are slower, called non-rapid eye...
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Alyssa Brugman (born May 1974) is an Australian author of fiction for young adults. She was born in Rathmines, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, Australia and attended five public schools before completing a Marketing Degree at the University of ...
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Ruth Minsky Sender is a survivor of the death camps in Auschwitz during the 1940-1945 Holocaust. She was born in 1927. Now a mother, and grandmother, she has written four books: The Cage, To life, The Holocaust Lady, and Remember Your Name....
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In rural areas, both in Britain and the USA, this term was formerly the normal way of addressing a person who was a stranger to the district and whose name was unknown. Examples of such usage occur in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Cast...
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Short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is noted for her short stories with themes relating to women's lives and social hierarchies as well as her sense of wit and characterizations. Katherine Mansfield has played an important r...
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Molded plastic disc containing digital data that is scanned by a laser beam for the reproduction of recorded sound or other information. Since its commercial introduction in 1982, the audio CD has become the dominant format for high-fideli...
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Leif Enger is the author of the United States bestselling novel Peace Like a River. Enger was born in 1961 and raised in Osakis, Minnesota. Since his teens, he wanted to write fiction. He worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Publ...
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Please note: this is not the same Angela Johnson who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003....
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Wicca Craft: The Modern Witch's Book of Herbs, Magick and Dreams reveals the traditions, tools and symbols of Wicca craft and offer methods for Wiccan rituals. Written by Gerina Dunwich and published by Citadel Press in 1991, it was instrum...
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European critical movement of the mid-20th century. It is based on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, which hold that language is a self-contained system of signs, and the cultural theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, whi...
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Vaporization of a liquid and subsequent condensation of the resultant gas back to liquid form. It is used to separate liquids from nonvolatile solids or solutes (e.g., water from salt and other components of seawater) or to separate two or...
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district within the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S., whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (s...
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cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form. ...
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Chuck Cooper may refer to: Chuck Cooper (actor) Chuck Cooper (athlete)...
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Bernard Barton, traditionally known as the "Quaker Poet," achieved popular recognition during the early 1820s through the publication of several volumes of moralistic verse. His literary output declined after 1828, but his popularity with ...
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William Bell may refer to: William Bell (bishop) (died 1343), Bishop of St Andrews William Bell (baseball player) (1897–1969) William Bell (tuba player) (1902-1971) William Bell (singer) (born 1937) Dr. William Bell (city founder), founde...
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"The most important things to me in my own life, as well as in my books, are human relationships of all kinds," Lois Lowry once told Author and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA) in an interview. "Although my books deal largely with families,...
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Legendary director/choreographer Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is known for hits such as Sweet Charity, with its trademark jazzy number, "Hey Big Spender," and Cabaret. Bob Fosse began his unusual career as a dancer in the late 1940s, touring with...
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SOURCE: “The Post-Liberal Mind/Body, Postmodern Fiction, and the Case of Cyberpunk SF,” in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, No. 58, November, 1992, pp. 395-403. In the following essay, Fekete reviews the volume Storming the Reality Stu...
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Embryo space colonization is a theoretical interstellar space colonization concept that involves sending a robotic mission to a habitable terrestrial planet transporting frozen early-stage human embryos or the technological or biological me...
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Regeneration or regenerative may refer to: In biology:...
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Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in. (41 cm) and has five or six le...
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A cultural analyst and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich is arguably one of the most astute, acerbic and witty critics in the United States. She belongs to the generation of feminists who came to maturity in the 1960s as student dissi...
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Buonaccorso Pitti was a prominent Florentine merchant in the 14th century. His family was very prestigious and his father very involved in politics. He was a gambler and often made unsafe investments, though he always seemed to come out all...
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a writer and lecturer who tried to create a cohesive body of historical and social thought that combined feminism and socialism. Charlotte Perkins was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connect...
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Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured....
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Solid or liquid chemical compound used to whiten or remove the natural colour of fibres, yarns, paper, and textile fabrics. Sunlight was the chief bleaching agent up to the discovery of chlorine in 1774 by Karl Wilhelm Scheele (b. 1742&mda...
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