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Arthur Mervyn is a novel written by Charles Brockden Brown and published in 1799. It was one of Brown's more popular novels, and is in many ways representative of Brown's dark, gothic style and subject matter....
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Former republic (1949–90), west-central Europe. It consisted of the western two-thirds of what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. It was formed in 1949 when the U.S., British, and French zones of occupation in Germany were unite...
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For Blinken, see: Meir Blinken and Alan Blinken. A statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod located in Washington Park, Denver Wynken, Blynken, and Nod is a popular poem for children written by Denver journalist Eugene Field on March 9, 1889. The ...
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The Indian film director Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was noted for his refined and subtly moving studies of native family life. His creations possess a humanistic warmth, crystalline purity, and mythic evocativeness which enable them to trans...
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Conrad Aiken's long and productive literary career has prompted such descriptions of him as "the buried giant of twentieth-century American writing" (Malcolm Cowley), "the best known unread poet of the twentieth century" (Louis Untermeyer)...
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Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷; pinyin: Shǐ Jǐngqiān, August 11, 1936– ) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He has b...
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Robin McKinley has been described by her friends Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold in Horn Book as a "person who approaches every instant and event with such boisterousness, energy, and vehemence that even the most mundane aspects of her...
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Arthur Schnitzler was born on 15 May 1862 in Vienna, the first child of Johann Schnitzler, a laryngologist, and Louise Markbreiter Schnitzler, a physician's daughter. Johann Schnitzler, who wrote for the Wiener Medizinische Presse and in 1...
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SOURCE: "Slow Motion," in The Spectator, Vol. 243, No. 7896, 10 November 1979, pp. 29-30. In the following evaluation, Toynbee faults Shaffer for a lack of character and plot development in Amadeus. Amadeus by Peter Shaffer should have been...
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The Kipsigis was a pastoralist ethnic group in Kenya, speaking the Kipsigis language.Currently the community practises farming and they are famously known for growing Kenyan "green gold" - tea. They are a sub-group of the Kalenjin and origi...
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Among the most striking examples of mass civil disobedience ever to occur in the United States, the Underground Railroad occupies a significant place in American history. Although African American slaves were denied the legal protections of...
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country of northeastern Europe and one of the Baltic states. Latvia, which was occupied and annexed by the U.S.S.R. in June 1940, declared its independence on Aug. 21, 1991. The U.S.S.R. recognized its sovereignty on September 6, and Unite...
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Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is also known as Enterprise Asset Management. A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. This information is inten...
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As early as 1922, Susan Glaspell was being hailed as "the playwright of woman's selfhood." Currently, this is the major claim for her lasting importance as a dramatist. Glaspell, however, was not merely a feminist but also one of the few e...
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a section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. The term Dust Bowl was suggested by conditions that struc...
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David Malouf enjoys a distinguished reputation, nationally and internationally, as a writer whose lyrical mappings of identity, place, and the body also bear upon questions of belonging and national identity. Crossing successfully from poe...
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Dubbed "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" by Jamie James in the Atlantic Monthly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka explores what it means to grow up Asian American in Hawaii, looking behind the usual tourist-brochure image o...
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Equalism is a name often given to forms of egalitarianism (advocacy of equality) concerned with issues of gender or race. Thus, equalism is another name for gender egalitarianism, sexual egalitarianism and/or racial egalitarianism. Central ...
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French government (1870–1940). After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws of 1875 were adopted, establishing a regime based on parliamentary supremacy. Despite its series...
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SkyTrain or Skytrain can refer to: Mass transit SkyTrain (Vancouver), the metro system in Vancouver, Canada Bangkok Skytrain, the elevated metro system in Bangkok, Thailand Changi Airport Skytrain, the inter-terminal automated people mover ...
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Television news music are used by television stations to brand their news operations. Each television station uses an identifiable news theme; some themes are used by multiple stations while others are composed specifically for a certain st...
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The disaster recovery response to Hurricane Katrina included federal government agencies like Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state and local-level agencies, federal and National Guard soldiers, non-governmental charities, and p...
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any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The practice was most prevalent from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Octo...
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A Jewish refugee from Germany, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) analyzed major issues of the 20th century and produced a brilliant and original political philosophy. Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Hanover, Germany, the only child of middle-cla...
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Chemical element, one of the alkaline earth metals, chemical symbol Ca, atomic number 20. The most abundant metallic element in the human body, it is an essential part of bones and teeth and has many physiological functions (&see; calcium ...
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Great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century. Its early dramatic succ...
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Inorganic compound of sodium and chlorine, a salt in which ionic bonds hold the two components in the familiar white crystals. Salt is essential to health as a source of sodium; blood and all other physiological fluids are dilute salt solu...
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Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee,[1] Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and In America....
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Traditionally, Afghan dress reflects ethnic diversity and the socio-cultural, historical, and geopolitical dynamics of the region. The country and its people are positioned at the crossroads between the Arab, Persian, Turkish, and Asian em...
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Peter Andrikidis is an Australian television director and producer. Peter Andrikidis graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Film Direction in 1981 and was immediately recruited to Crawford Productions wher...
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Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long before Sebold's attack, another young woman ...
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the most sophisticated optical observatory ever placed into orbit around Earth. Earth's atmosphere obscures ground-based astronomers' view of celestial objects by absorbing or distorting light rays from them. A telescope stationed in outer...
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Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn Ruthanne Lum McCunn has written several books about the role of the Chinese in American history. A Chinese American herself, McCunn lived in Boise, Idaho-the state in which her novel is set-wit...
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Any serious discussion of the development of black fiction in modern American literature must include Richard Wright. He was the first black novelist to describe the plight of the urban masses and the first to present this material in the ...
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