Charles Dickens | ... hail from Portsmouth or who have lived in the city include: famous authors | – famous for such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwic ... |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
Walt Whitman | ... nal ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, | , Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, an ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... 60s, when the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan began his career. Allmusic editor | attributes The Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid- ... |
Robert Christgau | | , writing in Creem, praised the album, saying "This boy has a lot more of ... |
Henry Bird | In 1882 | in his Chess History and Reminiscences estimated that there were 150 chess ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
Edgar Wallace | ... ahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and | who lived at Bourne End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers ... |
Frank Mankiewicz | ... as he was closest to Robert among those in the Kennedy family; Kennedy aide | said of seeing Ted at the hospital where Robert lay mortally wounded: "I h ... |
Steven Emerson | ... as threatened the United States through covert cells on US soil. Researcher | in 2006 alleged that the group had "an extensive infrastructure in the US ... |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Barbara Ehrenreich | ... on, as has the Boston Women's Health Collective. Other criticism comes from | and colleagues who see this new sexuality as one that privileges the male ... |
William Shawcross | ... rvention "was probably the most important single factor in Pol Pot's rise". | and other commentors asserted that the bombings caused the domino effect i ... |
Owen Gleiberman | ... tle character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by Sam Raimi. | of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to "lend even the smal ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... staVision with Dolby Sound. Imagine a Star Wars-style space opera penned by | in the throes of a religious conversion. Wolfe has continued in full diapa ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of | in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ... |
Barbara Amiel | ... cated. Following these revelations and others, Trevor-Roper told journalist | in 1995 that he was no longer certain about the allegations, and that Bern ... |
Gottlieb Schuler | ... Under the management of Sir Geoffrey Syme (1908–42), and his chosen editors | and Harold Campbell, The Age failed to modernise, and gradually lost marke ... |
Jack London | ... own, little or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. | describes the artists' colony in his novel, The Valley of the Moon. Among ... |
Edward Crankshaw | ... pting the dress of a Spanish monarch, which, according to British historian | , consisted of "a black doublet and hose, black shoes and scarlet stocking ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | From 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, | . Many of her most famous short stories such as Noon Wine are set in locat ... |
Francis Fukuyama | ... oreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", in response to | 's 1992 book, . Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Cl ... |
Ray Lankester | ... nimal testing. The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote to | in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree tha ... |
Arieh O'Sullivan | ... out the Liberty. The journalist who transcribed the tapes for that article, | , later confirmed that "the Israeli Air Force tapes he listened to contain ... |
Dickens | ... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since | , he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ... |
Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ... ventors on the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. He is the main character in | 's novel Tyrant (2003). He is also featured in the 1962 film Damon and Pyt ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
Charles Dow | ... has gone into the study of financial markets and how prices vary with time. | , one of the founders of Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal, ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
Al Gore | ... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nominee | were colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ... |
Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
Craig Mathieson | ... t ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by Toby Creswell, | and John O'Donnell |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Brigitte Hamann | According to biographer | , Winifred Wagner was reported to be "disgusted" by Hitler's persecution o ... |
Stephen Fry | ... essed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. Eric Idle and | said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the newspapers had tri ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Lincoln Steffens | ... use of a valuable contact he had made at Harvard, the muckraking journalist | , who appreciated Reed's skills and intellect at an early date. Steffens l ... |
Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit is a serial novel by | published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ... |
Uri Avnery | ... ded the ceremony. Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( | , head of Gush Shalom) and a Christian minister. Arafat was buried in a st ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ns, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and | in the movie version), also provides general narration |
Cesare Pavese | ... t year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, | , Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... e End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers from Bucks include | who was born in Beaconsfield, Tim Rice who is from Amersham and who is fro ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... were educated at Harvard during Eliot's tenure, including such notables as | (Class of 1890). Booker T. Washington was awarded an honorary degree by Ha ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... nrolling at Somerville College, Oxford where she never finished her degree. | , who has personally known Indira Gandhi, has said that she felt uncomfort ... |
William Connor | ... m. In 1956, an article in The Daily Mirror by veteran columnist Cassandra ( | ) mentioned that Liberace was "…the summit of sex—the pinnacle of masculin ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in | 's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is curr ... |
Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
Noah Webster | ... nnecticut themes include Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, Josiah Willard Gibbs, | , Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan which is docked in M ... |
Dominic Lawson | ... the father of food writer and celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, and journalist | |
Émile Zola | ... letter published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898 by the notable writer | . Progressive activists put pressure on the government to reopen the case |
Walter Cronkite | ... nutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly came up on the screen and | gave the first report of the assassination |
Carlos Fuentes | ... xote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. | raised the possibility that Cervantes and Shakespeare were the same person ... |
Maziar Bahari | ... creen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker | selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas (1957), a record of a ... |
Nigella Lawson | Lawson is the father of food writer and celebrity cook | , and journalist Dominic Lawson |
Upton Sinclair | ... die Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like | . From 1957 to 1979, the show featured many non-Canadians whose trips to T ... |
Toby Young | ... teadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, | , and Alex Zane |
Winston Churchill | ... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellor | to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ... |
David Irving | ... e I would not have missed." She was also interviewed that year by historian | who reports that she said that she would then still welcome Hitler at the ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian was born in Portsmouth, | author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kip ... |
Theodor Herzl's | ... haron Haichman as commander of Tel Aviv. On 20 Tammuz, (June 29) the day of | death, a ceremony was held in honor of the reorganization of the undergrou ... |
Tony Kornheiser | ... ring an episode of Pardon the Interruption that first aired August 3, 2010, | mentioned that in Frackville it's 20 degrees colder than anywhere else on ... |
Henry W. Grady | Named The Model City by Atlanta newspaperman | for its careful planning in the late 19th century, the city is situated on ... |
William Bulfin | ... rish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora. The Irish-Argentine | remarked as he travelled around Westmeath in the early 20th century that h ... |
Andrew Greeley | Roman Catholic priest and author | criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed. In ... |
John Mitchel | ... lism was heavily influenced by the anti-Liberal rhetoric of Young Irelander | . Griffith made a number of highly controversial statements and opinions. ... |
Michelangelo Signorile | ... development process, people feel confused and experience turmoil. In 1993, | wrote Queer in America, in which he explored the harm caused both to a clo ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". In April 2010, | and Richard Dawkins wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humani ... |
Jeff Gerth | ... sta: The Hundred-Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele," written by | and Lowell Bergman. The article indicated that the La Costa Resort and Spa ... |
Garrison Keillor | ... nrelated to the television show such as recent performances by story-teller | , and music groups Return to Forever and George Thorogood. South by Southw ... |
Gordon Brown | The government of | has announced several new reforms for care in England. One is to take the ... |
Frances Marion | Another adaptation by | was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Cha ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... s article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul | , claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, P ... |
Feroze Gandhi | ... se she had no real education. During her stay in the UK, she frequently met | , whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the . The marriage ... |
J. Michael Straczynski | He was the only person other than | to write a Babylon 5 script in the last three seasons, contributing the se ... |
Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
Bill James | ... hat stood until 1962, when it was broken by Maury Wills. Baseball historian | has ranked the 1915 Tigers outfield as the greatest in the history of majo ... |
Maria Shriver | ... he had every gift but length of years." Ted now served as a role model for | , Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, ... |
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis | ... 1926, he married Jane Wyndham-Lewis (ex-wife of the original 'Beachcomber' | , no relation to the artist Wyndham Lewis); they had two daughters and one ... |
Henry Watson Fowler | ... riod when Guernsey was under German occupation during the Second World War. | moved to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother Francis George Fowler c ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir | 's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
Winston Churchill | ... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from | , then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ... |
Rick Atkinson | ... n of the causes of death between the gas and other causes is far from easy. | , in his book The Day of Battle, describes the intelligence that prompted ... |
Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
Louella Parsons | ... y Studios as a screenwriter and developed into a famous Hollywood director. | was also hired as a screenwriter and went on to be a Hollywood gossip colu ... |
Vincent Hanna | ... ecruited for one episode essentially to play himself. Political commentator | played a character billed as "his own great-great-great grandfather" in th ... |
Roger Ebert | ... aid it was very gripping and scary despite some minor unanswered questions. | gave the film "Thumbs Down" and felt it was boring and "borderline ridicul ... |
Ray Martin | ... of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host | , Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant |
H. L. Mencken | ... as a reactionary it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as | , Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie and |
Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
Michael Lind | ... Cambodian Communists. Not one of them in his opinion was the U.S. bombing. | , in his book on the Vietnam War, notes: "In 1970, the Committee of Concer ... |
Peter Stanford | ... In the book Why I Am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perseverance by | , the television presenter describes his upbringing as "classic plastic pa ... |
Carlo Collodi | ... he Adventures of Pinocchio (, ; ) is a novel for children by Italian author | , written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 ... |
Penny Lernoux | Journalist and writer | described this aspect of liberation theology in her numerous and committed ... |
Alcide De Gasperi | ... facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister | requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. | has occasionally dealt with his southern heritage in bestsellers like I Am ... |
Stephen Crane | ... on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in | 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring ro ... |
Graham Perkin | ... f the paper to a professional editor from outside the Syme family. This was | , appointed in 1966, who radically changed the paper's format and shifted ... |
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
Robert Pipon Marett | ... n in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, | , and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were ... |
Richard Roeper | ... ixed or average) from 36 reviews. On the television program Ebert & Roeper, | gave the film "Thumbs Up" and said it was very gripping and scary despite ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... ry of structuration; Althusser was vehemently attacked by British historian | in his book The Poverty of Theory |
Brian Lamb | ... ed Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPAN founder | , ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silv ... |
Dave Marsh | ... reat", half as "nonsense" and worse. In the New Rolling Stone Record Guide, | argued, "Sandinista! is nonsensically cluttered. Or rather seems nonsensic ... |
Eugenio Scalfari | ... ajority's beliefs”. During this time, he met a brilliant student from Rome, | , who went on to found the weekly magazine L'Espresso and La Repubblica, a ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies | , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... rought closer the day when all of Greece would be subjugated by an invader. | has suggested that Epaminondas may have planned for a united Greece compos ... |
Ole Torvalds | ... roadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet | , and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel ... |
Lowell Bergman | ... d-Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele," written by Jeff Gerth and | . The article indicated that the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Cali ... |
David Denby | ... the original story". Vincent Canby found it "both numbing and impressive". | of New York felt that the film would not make sense to viewers who had not ... |
Paul Krassner | ... s. The film got almost universally negative reviews. As a side note, writer | published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how G ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, | , Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Will ... |
Edward F. Daas | ... kson. The ensuing debate in the magazine's letters column caught the eye of | , President of the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA), who invited Lo ... |
Loren Pope | Millsaps was one of 40 schools in | 's Colleges That Change Lives |
Al Gore | ... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with | for their dissemination of the effects of climate change |
Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to | |
Will Rogers | The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for | , one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the ... |
Peadar O'Donnell | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included | , Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Tommy Armour | ... atest Game Ever Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, | , Jim Barnes and Al Watrous |
Roger Ebert | ... eron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic | called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". ... |
Herman Klein | ... , for instance, New York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, | , and George Bernard Shaw, castigated a succession of visiting Mediterrane ... |
Julian Bond | ... laws. The ACLU's southern office also defended African-American congressman | in Bond v. Floyd, when the Georgia congress refused to formally induct Bon ... |
Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
Stefan Aust | ... e German governments former and present. The exhaustive study of the RAF by | (revised in 2009 as "Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the RAF") is cate ... |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
Hubert Harrison | Some of Razaf's early poems were published in 1917-18 in the | -edited Voice, the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Razaf coll ... |
Billy Wilder | He became a favorite actor of director | , starring in his films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Ac ... |
Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
Tom Snyder | ... el, The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with Hugh Downs, The Tomorrow Show with | , and several others. She also toured Europe, performed a 50th Anniversary ... |
Al Gore | ... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President | 's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ... |
Stephen Fry | ... glas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994.To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor | , the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISB ... |
Cris Freddi | ... d a second goal, in The Complete Book Of The World Cup (HarperSport, 2006), | writes: "…and Bregy's free kick skimmed a defender's head on its way in (s ... |
Frankie Boyle | ... s with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, | , and |
Amy Fisher | ... esponse". In 1992, Ball became preoccupied with the media circus around the | trial. Discovering a comic book telling of the scandal, he was struck by h ... |
Stephen Fry | ... rlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with | |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
H. L. Mencken | ... Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is | 's "one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms." Skeptical Inquirer ha ... |
Ludovic Kennedy | ... k returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with | in A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life bas ... |
Gene Siskel | ... ck's facade was one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of | and Roger Ebert's "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under deve ... |
Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
Ian McFarlane | ... a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World "Rock historian, | described her as having a "rich, soulful, passionate and husky vocal deliv ... |
Antonio García Gutiérrez | ... ioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and Manuel José Quintana. The plays of | were adapted to produce Guiseppe Verdi's operas Il trovatore and Simon Boc ... |
Michael Frayn | ... him off the big screen for several years. One, Noises Off..., based on the | play, has subsequently developed a strong cult following, while the other, ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... matured, calling her progress a "declaration of strength and independence". | of Allmusic described her eponymous album, Aaliyah, as "a statement of mat ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famous | poem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ... |
Bob Costas | ... ing. It is best known for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of | , Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and ... |
Norman Mailer | ... Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival. | 's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and Annie Dillard's novel The Maytrees are ... |
Toby Creswell | ... Diesel and Dust ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by | , Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell |
J. R. Ackerley | ... though he maintained contact with a circle which included E. M. Forster and | . One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Dennis Silk. He forme ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), | (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ... |
Ambrose Bierce | ... y Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, | , Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand ... |
Thurston Clarke | American author | 's analysis of the bombing gave timings for calls and for the explosion wh ... |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Henry William Wilberforce | ... 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and | (b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indulgent and adoring father who revelled in ... |
John Nunn | ... who shared second. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with | and Murray Chandler, on 7/9. He won at Reykjavík 1985. At Brussels 1985, h ... |
Alexander Woollcott | ... il 1923. The production was staged by Arthur Hopkins starring Pauline Lord. | in the New York Times called it "a singularly engrossing play", and advise ... |
Hugh Hefner | In 1992 Smith was chosen by | to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed ... |
Jorge Ramos | ... o Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, | , Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayan ... |
Mark Ellen | In the early 1980s, Andy Kershaw, David Hepworth, | and Richard Skinner also took turns as presenters. The same four presenter ... |
Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
Ed Sullivan | ... olm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and | , and writers like Upton Sinclair. From 1957 to 1979, the show featured ma ... |
Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by | and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan a ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in | 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ... |
James Wolcott | ... loating around for over a decade." The term was used by American journalist | in a 1975 article about musician Todd Rundgren, although with a different ... |
Ivereigh | ... ode of the Catholic Church (Theo Press Ltd., 2007) ISBN 978-0-9554133-0-8.* | & Griffin: Catholic Voices, (Darton Longman and Todd, 2010) ISBN 978-0-232 ... |
Roger Ebert | ... s and currently holds a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic | named The Right Stuff best film of the year, and wrote, "it joins a short ... |
Jonas Lie | ... ur Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, | , and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Nor ... |
Wells Spicer | ... watchmaker from New York, one of three men implicated in the robbery. Judge | issued an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps found witnesses who could ... |
Tom Wolfe | Novelist | coined the term Me decade in his article "The "Me" Decade and the Third Gr ... |
John Bartlow Martin | ... teland" was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer | . Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as re ... |
Italo Calvino | ... other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, | , Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third pag ... |
Jules Furthman | ... e Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by | , based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the fourth of seven teamings of ... |
William Michael Rossetti | ... Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic | , and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Edmund Wilson | The Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic | , it marked "The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such e ... |
Anthony Haden-Guest | ... ied in 1996. He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, | , who was born prior to the marriage of his parents. According to an artic ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... slow pace of the peace process. In a 1977 interview with CBS News anchorman | , Sadat admitted under pointed questioning that he was open to a more cons ... |
Sarah Hudson-Pierce | The Shreveport, Louisiana, publisher | was born near Sulphur Springs in 1948 |
John Charles Daly | ... n appeared on-stage and proclaimed himself "the second mystery guest". Host | quickly called for "the relieving crew" and said "schedule two" (a code wo ... |
Roger Ebert | ... predecessor Rocky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. | and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction fro ... |
Charles Dickens | ... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and | was serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ... |
Charles Mackay | ... evous spirit that makes noises unexplainable except by supernatural causes. | , in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
Alexandre Herculano | ... ire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and | called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of hi ... |
Cathy Young | ... nts of time working, but women still spend more time on housework, although | responded by arguing that women may prevent equal participation by men in ... |
Laurie York Erskine | ... s who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, | , James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele) and Will ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... x Warp he plays TV presenter Geoffrey Vantage, parodying Top Gear presenter | (this episode broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 26 October 2008). He also plays ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... med on 5 July, presciently foreshadowing the celebrated radio broadcasts of | |
Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Theodor Herzl | ... nd Zionism by engaging in discussions with Jews and reading publications by | and other prominent Zionists. At the same time, he became an Arab national ... |
Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
Maurizio Giuliano | ... him – heavily rely on humanitarian aid for their survival. UN spokesperson | stated to The Washington Post: "If we do not manage to provide aid at suff ... |
Perez Hilton | ... ndence Day weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Celebrity gossip blogger | had also been posting items on his website about Bass's orientation since ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Benito Mussolini | ... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by | , took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ... |
Stefan Rowecki | ... ible to the Government Delegate's at Home in the civilian chain of command. | (pseudonym Grot, or "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until ... |
Selina Scott | In 2008, Seymour replaced | as the new face of the British fashion label CC (formerly known as Country ... |
Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
Frank Branston | ... r who holds the title 'Mayor of Bedford', an office which was first held by | , until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is Dave Hodgson fr ... |
Joan Collins | ... Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and | (the Siren) added to the show's mass appeal. A two-part episode featuring ... |
Irving R. Levine | ... se worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, Edwin Newman and | , who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for INS. Marion Carpent ... |
Serafino Mazzolini | ... Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to | , a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dema ... |
Jake Hooker | ... rize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, | , Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
Graham Greene | ... erious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon (1950) and | 's Brighton Rock (1947), both with Roy producing and John directing. They ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... e "Best Small Towns in America" on numerous lists during the last 50 years. | built his first Playboy resort, which was much larger than any Playboy Clu ... |
Hunter Davies | ... Ayr and Dumfries. Author and earth scientist Dougal Dixon is from Dumfries. | (author, journalist and broadcaster) lived in Dumfries for four years as a ... |
Alan Cranston | ... aign to win the United States Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Sen. | , as he received less than two percent of the vote in the Republican Party ... |
Gene Siskel | ... ky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. Roger Ebert and | attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and au ... |
David Maraniss | ... he led the construction of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace. | wrote a book, They Marched into Sunlight, which incorporated the 1967 Dow ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Benito Mussolini | In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of | as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ... |
Paul Krugman | ... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, | , Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ... |
Maurizio Giuliano | ... thing, such as the youngest person to visit all nations of the world, being | |
Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
Barbara Walters | ... ed as co-anchor at ABC until 1975, after which Reasoner anchored solo until | joined the broadcast a year later. Continuing as an analyst until 1979, Sm ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors | and Neil Gaiman |
Mariano José de Larra | ... e Espronceda. After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, | and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them m ... |
William L. Shirer | ... of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Researchers, including | and Alan Bullock, are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible ... |
Lynn Barber | ... ely considered to have negligible effect — a suspicion confirmed in 2006 by | , one of the judges. Typically, there is a three-week period in May for pu ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... by American Country and Western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet | in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include The Wild Colonial ... |
Andrew Breitbart | ... , from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and | , conservative journalist; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! ... |
Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
Al Gore | ... 000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to Jan ... |
William Henry Donald | ... sband. Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, | , who had previously been Zhang’s adviser (and had helped him overcome opi ... |
Gordon Brown | ... ll enough to appear. On March 4, 2009, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthood by Queen El ... |
Patricia Bosworth | ... gomery, after whom she named her younger son. According to Clift biographer | , Ethel was the illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson ... |
Frances Marion | ... r, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later. | was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930 |
Albert Camus | ... , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and | contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world |
Winston Churchill's | ... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared as | lover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... bara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, | , A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric B ... |
Joseph Pulitzer | ... acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with | 's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensation ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to | , the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ... |
Albert Camus | In the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as | and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; ... |
Rigas Feraios | ... eece's struggle for independence as well as the modern Greek Enlightenment. | , the first revolutionary to envision an independent Greek state, publishe ... |
Philippe Le Sueur Mourant | ... ourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, | , Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and ... |
David Irving | ... he delivered actually was until after Göring's death. Göring's biographer, | , has dismissed this claim as pure fabrication. Because he committed suici ... |
Roger Ebert | ... d "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, | , who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a ... |
Stephen J. Dubner | In the best-seller Freakonomics, economist Steven D. Levitt and co-author | both confirm and cast doubt on the notion that the broken windows theory w ... |
Luigi Albertini | ... by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of | , it became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its impor ... |
Louella Parsons | ... ised that her services were no longer required. After she told the story to | , Pepsi reversed its position and Crawford was elected to fill the vacant ... |
Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
Michael O'Donoghue | ... ting for the characters, and frequently disparaged Henson's creations; one, | , memorably quipped, "I won't write for felt. |
Noah Webster | ... in the 1630s and 1640s". The first two notebooks were published in 1790 by | . The third notebook, long thought lost, was rediscovered in 1816, and the ... |
W H Russell | File:Wh russell cartoon.png| Punch: war reporter, | , Crimean Wa |
Dino Buzzati | The Italian novelist | was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian write ... |
Theodore Dalrymple | ... es have themselves often been labeled innately "totalitarian". For example, | , a British author, physician, and political commentator, has written for ... |
Johann Voldemar Jannsen | ... 991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by Fredrik Pacius with lyrics by | has been restored |
Charles Mackay | ... rd Baruch was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by | , first published in 1841. It was also a favorite book of his best friend, ... |
Tim Healy | ... tate planned to place the new representative of the Crown, Governor-General | in a new, smaller residence, but because of death threats from the anti-tr ... |
Albert Camus | ... elation to the concept of the devastating awareness of meaninglessness that | claimed that "there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and t ... |
Phillip Knightley | According to historian | , "The remaining years of Sir John Kerr's life were miserable ones. He was ... |
Duff McKagan | ... m The Spaghetti Incident? Guitarist Slash left in 1996, followed by bassist | in 1997. Axl Rose, the only original member, worked with a constantly-chan ... |
Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
Roger Ebert | ... xtraordinary females in movies." In a 2000 review for All About Eve, (1950) | noted, "Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her exc ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and | . He later became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors a ... |
Walt Whitman | ... s. Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of | in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provi ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, | ; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request ... |
Clare Hollingworth | ... ruiting tactics amongst Displaced Persons (DP) in the camps across Germany: | , the Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman correspondent in Jerusalem during 1 ... |
Francis Fukuyama | ... eological alternative for nations in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, | argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a Hegelian sense |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
Paul Krugman | In 1991, | , as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ... |
Daniel Coit Gilman | ... ry 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins. | was inaugurated as first president on February 22, 1876 |
Brian J. Ford | ... presenter, Adrian Durham; and the biologist, author and broadcaster, Prof. | , who attended the King's School and still lives in Eastrea near Whittlese ... |
Jon Krakauer | Journalist | , on assignment from Outside magazine, was in one of the affected parties, ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Rudyard Kipling | ... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, | . Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ... |
Bertha von Suttner | ... of "A memory of Solferino". Dunant began an exchange of correspondence with | and wrote numerous articles and writings. He was especially active in writ ... |
Ebenezer Syme | ... was not initially a success, and in June 1856 the Cookes sold the paper to | , a Scottish-born businessman, and James McEwan, an ironmonger and founder ... |
Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
Alistair Cooke | ... towering figure among the informative programmes was Letter from America by | , which was broadcast for over 50 years. For many years, a daily reading f ... |
René Clair | ... filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel (director of the 1929 Un Chien Andalou) and | (director of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duc ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like Nathaniel Hawthorne and | pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leading to modern assess ... |
Caroline Coon | ... "New Musical Express" magazine. In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, | used Malcolm McLaren's term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exa ... |
John Tidmarsh | ... irst broadcast in July 1966 and was presented for more than thirty years by | , who was awarded an OBE for his services to broadcasting |
Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
Tommy Lapid | ... d strengthen Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem. Israeli cabinet minister | stated that "Jerusalem is the burial place of Jewish kings, not of Arab te ... |
Al Gore | ... 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat | , won Tensas Parish by 250 votes. The Democratic electors polled 1,580 vot ... |
Billy Wilder | Mulholland Drive has been compared with | 's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), another tale about broken dr ... |
Caroline Coon | ... Burning", about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city. Artist | , who was associated with the punk scene, argued that "[t]hose tough, mili ... |
Lynn Barber | ... criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, a prize judge ( | ) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota (about the pur ... |
Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from | 's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in hi ... |
John Kass | ... alized. "He ruined Meigs because he wanted to, because he could," columnist | wrote of Daley in the Chicago Tribune. Daley himself played the populist a ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and | )—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ... |
Molly Ivins | ... ublished in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper in August 1997, reporter | wrote that Amway had "its own caucus in Congress...Five Republican House m ... |
Hugo Brandt Corstius | ... ates into English as thermometer. The Dutch Wikipedia states, however, that | , in his book, Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, came up with the longest e ... |
Chip Berlet | | , writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), identified Horowitz' ... |
Roger Ebert | ... elling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion." | of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called ... |
Arthur Ransome | ... ng the child not just spatially, but in time, through the use of time slip. | used the device of children acting for themselves extensively in his Swall ... |
Karl Kraus | Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by | , but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed h ... |
Moshe Sneh | The leaders of Haganah opposed the idea initially. On July 1, 1946, | , chief of the Haganah General Headquarters, sent a letter to the then lea ... |
James Hannay | ... hor, journalist and broadcaster) lived in Dumfries for four years as a boy. | as well as being a novelist and journalist spent the last five years of hi ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
Hal Crowther | ... uthors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, | , Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
J. Hoberman | ... here than the power to enter and to program the dream life of the culture?" | from The Village Voice echoes this sentiment by calling it a "poisonous va ... |
Indro Montanelli | ... ing Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and | . The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to culture, in the Ital ... |
Anderson Cooper | ... lues Club in New York, in addition to performing a song live on CNN for the | . However, Brown remained hospitalized, and his medical condition worsened ... |
Louisa Albury | ... t at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New South Wales), Niels and | (1848–1920) married on 7 July 1866; he was 32 and she, 18. On Henry's birt ... |
Martin Gardner | Science writer | , and others, describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. Gardn ... |
Stephen Fry | ... her Blackadder series, to which the simple reply "No, no chance" was given: | has expressed the view that, since the series went out on such a good "hig ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
Alan Cross | ... e Guardian and Classic FM. In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, | placed the album in the #1 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Alb ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In | 's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Jessica Mitford | ... os Angeles Magazine described it as a "theme-park necropolis", paraphrasing | , indicating "Forest Lawn’s kitsch was just a sophisticated strategy for l ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and | . Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica c ... |
Lois Maffeo | ... ure of the ensemble led to collaborations with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, | and director/writer/performer Miranda July. The lineup later solidified ar ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... s," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proceedings narrated by | as if they were a NASA moon mission. "[Spacesuit transmission from astrona ... |
James M. Cain | ... he pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and | , from his novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes) |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of | 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ... |
Weegee | ... nton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer | and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don Hewitt worked for UP Newspictures ... |
William L. Shirer | ... earing a potentially devastating Allied retaliatory nerve agent deployment. | , in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, writes that the British high co ... |
Carl J. Murphy | ... building, a new student union, a new parking garage, and a new library. The | Fine Arts Center has also become a much used venue for plays and concerts ... |
Julia Keller | ... not the first presidential candidate to have a temper, and cultural critic | argues that voters want leaders who are passionate, engaged, fiery, and fe ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and | for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," and for blaming pr ... |
Michael Parkinson | Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with | in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable ... |
C. L. R. James | ... Indian songs, and epitomised an event that historian and cricket enthusiast | defined as crucial to West Indian post-colonial societies. The song, later ... |
Tom Stevenson | ... ffing wines to those approaching the level of Chianti Classico. Wine expert | notes that these basic everyday-drinking Chiantis are at their peak drinki ... |
Steven Erlanger | New York Times journalist | reported that "Hamas rocket and weapons caches, including rocket launchers ... |
Dominic Lawson | ... and food writer Nigella Lawson, the late Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, | , the former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, Tom Lawson, housemaster of Ch ... |
Poggendorff | ... 1833 they installed a long wire above the town's roofs. Gauss combined the | -Schweigger multiplicator with his magnetometer to build a more sensitive ... |
Anton Delvig | ... 839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), | , and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
Oscar Wilde | ... ces to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and | . Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives ... |
Julian Assange | ... ished works is not 'Sunshine Policy' but wholesale copyright infringement." | replied: "We thought it was a small issue, and our normal fare is governme ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... alongside Orlando Bloom, in Elizabethtown, a movie written and directed by | . The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival. Dunst revealed tha ... |
Hedrick Smith | ... ms passed few laws of his own in part because of this bridge-burning style. | 's The Power Game depicts several senators specifically blocking Helms's g ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
Keith Olbermann | ... tates Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator | and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," a ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members | and the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscaping firm of | 's sons, Frederick Jr and John Charles. Since then, the boundaries of Lake ... |
Nigella Lawson | His six children are journalist and TV presenter and food writer | , the late Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, Dominic Lawson, the former ed ... |
Richard Löwenthal | ... r, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, | , Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Frie ... |
Winston Churchill | ... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister | , and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, | of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ... |
Greg Tate | ... ld his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. Music critic | described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme. In 2008, Rolling Stone cited ... |
Terry Pratchett | In a collaboration with author | (best known for his series of Discworld novels), Gaiman's first novel Good ... |
William Henry Fry | ... oser to write for a symphony orchestra. Many other composers, most famously | and George Frederick Bristow, supported the idea of an American classical ... |
Tammy Bruce | ... ommitted suicide on April 7, 1982, following a break-up with her assistant, | |
Irwin Chusid | ... issues of several of Esquivel's albums. The first reissues were compiled by | , who also produced the first CD reissues of Raymond Scott and The Langley ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... nd the Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats". | , senior editor for Allmusic, described specifically Culture Club as a new ... |
Graham Greene | ... Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author | , and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval (1930–1996), foo ... |
Pierre Berton | Noted Canadian author | once wrote: "In so many ways the story of Tim Hortons is the essential Can ... |
Andrew Bisset | See: | . Black Roots White Flowers, Golden Press, 197 |
Janet L. Robinson | ... ecember 2008, and presented by The New York Times Company president and CEO | , Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian, and Jim Rettig, preside ... |
David Hume Kennerly | ... her Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns,1970s White House photographer | , White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longti ... |
Enzo Biagi | ... n he appeared in documentaries. In an interview with the Italian journalist | , Buscetta cheerfully bragged that he lost his virginity at the age of eig ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... Aaliyah's "girlish, breathy vocals rode calmly on R. Kelly's rough beats". | of Allmusic felt that the album had its "share of filler", but described t ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st Baron Hornblower. | is quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," a ... |
William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
David Horowitz | ... tor Stanley Tucci, actresses Mindy Cohn and Jennifer Lopez, television host | , and radio producer Gary Dell'Abate all hold or have held notary certific ... |
Leslie Halliwell | ... lt the film made no sense without the scene, and in later years film critic | described the missing 12 minutes as "vital. |
Rowland Evans | In 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters | and Robert Novak that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander ... |
Barbara Walters | On March 3, 1999, Lewinsky was interviewed by | on ABC's 20/20. The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
Tom Snyder | ... . In the U.S., the single "Watch Your Step" was released and played live on | 's Tomorrow show, and received airplay on FM rock radio. In the UK, the si ... |
Grace Coddington | American Vogue's creative director | , then a model herself said "It was the Sixties, it was a raving time, and ... |
Andrew Gilligan | ... partment of State. It was also added to the terrorism list on 27 June 2002. | , reporting for The London Evening Standard, stated that the Sikh Federati ... |
Reuven Frank | ... ber 29, 1956, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington. Producer | , who had advocated pairing Huntley and Brinkley for the convention covera ... |
William Lloyd Garrison | ... l as well as a political document". Abolitionist leaders Benjamin Lundy and | adopted the "twin rocks" of "the Bible and the Declaration of Independence ... |
Bolesław Prus | ... extraneous diversions from the plot. In his 1895 historical novel Pharaoh, | introduces a number of stories-within-the-story, ranging in length from vi ... |
Stephen King | ... eacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of | 's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm alongs ... |
John Mitchel | ... Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and Nationalist journalist and politician | . Alongside English convicts, they were used to build the Royal Naval Dock ... |
Hubert van Es | ... Oscar Fraley, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer | , photographer Stan Stearns,1970s White House photographer David Hume Kenn ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... 009, openly gay Congressman Barney Frank described Scalia as a "homophobe". | described Scalia in a 2003 column as "Archie Bunker in a high-backed chair ... |
James Oberg | In March 1979, NASA engineer and author | organized the First Terraforming Colloquium, a special session at the Luna ... |
Declan McCullagh | Cnet Journalist | called "series of tubes" an "entirely reasonable" metaphor for the Interne ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
Irwin Chusid | ... udes a 144-page hardcover book). Microphone Music (Basta, 2002, produced by | with Blom and Winner as project advisors), explores the original Scott Qui ... |
Roger Ebert | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews. | of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerfu ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
Mark Morford | ... West Coast Generation X writers, including Alex Steffen, Bruce Barcott and | . Snyder wrote numerous essays setting forth his views on poetry, culture, ... |
Ross McWhirter | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins Norris and | , who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The brothers were ... |
Bertram Fletcher Robinson | ... the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidaying in Cromer with | after hearing local folklore tales regarding the mysterious hound known as ... |
Gwen Ifill | ... anson. She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator | impersonator in a comedic sketch depicting the recent vice-presidential de ... |
Dominic Lawson | Lawson's son | is also a climate change sceptic, taking a similar viewpoint as his father ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
James Bamford | ... uld not have to perform this task itself and thus trigger World War Three." | , a former ABC News producer, in his 2001 book Body of Secrets, proposes a ... |
Albert G. Ingalls | ... les in Popular Astronomy by Russell W. Porter and in Scientific American by | featuring Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers helped expand intere ... |
Anna Quindlen | ... during the Thomas hearings as the worst moment of his Senate career. Writer | said "[Kennedy] let us down because he had to; he was muzzled by the facts ... |
Roger Ebert | In a 2004 review of the film, critic | wrote "Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story ... |
Tony Cozier | ... er recorded by Lord Beginner, is rarely credited to Lord Kitchener although | and many who attended the Test at The Oval can attest that it was a Kitch ... |
Frank Hurley | Also during this period | 's documentary film, South (1919), about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expe ... |
Robert Novak | ... 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters Rowland Evans and | that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander-in-chief, and su ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker | ;, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of the | period in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ... |
Jancis Robinson | | notes that Chianti is sometimes called the "Bordeaux of Italy". The flexib ... |
René Lévesque | ... Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec on 12 June 1995. It revived | 's notion that the referendum should be followed by the negotiating of an ... |
Peter Hitchens | ... mien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, | , Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. T ... |
George Crile III | ... ocumentary, shown on January 23, 1982, and prepared largely by CBS producer | , alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated Vie ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... dalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, | , Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, t ... |
Graham Greene | ... than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against | for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul ... |
James Fenton | ... ported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, and | |
Barbara Frum | ... ath threat over the change of appearance. The books also include journalist | 's remarks about how influential Robins was for 1950s-era female equality ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... ckers. Cigarette, liquor and car companies began to sponsor tournaments and | held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. Backgammon clubs were form ... |
Michael Chabon | ... the term "power pop" was not widely used until around 1978. As the novelist | has written, "Power pop in its essential form... did not come into existen ... |
Robert Ross | ... more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, Robert Sherard, | , his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously published biograph ... |
Tim Considine | ... r taking his job. Frawley died a short while later in March 1966 at age 79. | , who had worked with MacMurray on The Shaggy Dog, had played oldest son M ... |
Terry Ramsaye | ... ard to Moving Objects, likely due to erroneous citations by film historians | and Arthur Knight (see Anderson and Anderson below) |
Daniel Defoe | The author, | (who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Wes ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... a person who is well-meaning but absent-minded or ineffectual. For example, | often refers to Highways Agency Traffic Officers, who exasperate him as a ... |
Jack Webster | ... was also part of each episode. In 1990, journalist and radio/TV personality | joined the show as its permanent fourth panelist |
Bill O'Reilly | ... g break in Acapulco just a week after the dissemination of the email, while | devoted a segment of his show, The O'Reilly Factor, to urge students to st ... |
Martin Gardner | ... of FreeCell is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, | described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is ... |
Roger Ebert | ... subscribe to the theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. | and Jonathan Ross seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to ... |
David Irving | ... with Hitler while alluding to the Creativity Movement and Holocaust denier | |
Sue Townsend | In | 's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ... |
John Stauber | ... the Center for Media and Democracy, and is the creation of Center director | and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton |
Walter Lowenfels | In 1929, | jokingly suggested that Aldington should produce a new Imagist anthology. ... |
Peter Shapiro | ... the time" , and "an explosive emergence of an underground alternative". For | , Run-D.M.C.'s 1983 two-song release "It's like That"/"Sucker MCs" "comple ... |
Yves Michaud | ... air, regarding allegedly anti-Semitic comments by Parti Québécois candidate | , was another factor favouring Bouchard's departure |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
Banjo Paterson | ... owy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic | poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of A ... |
Oscar Fraley | ... ngton Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author | , military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van ... |
Italo Calvino | If on a winter's night a traveler is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer | . The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a win ... |
Gina Lollobrigida | ... ive enchantress, so he took inspiration for her look from Italian actresses | and Sophia Loren. He also wanted her to be seductive, amoral, and somewhat ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
Keir Hardie | ... this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which | had formed in 1893 |
Christopher Hitchens | ... hat the troubled grandee came to disapprove of his own conduct." His friend | said: "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his wit and char ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... ts within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and | describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic ... |
Brian Winston | ... ocumentary is scrutinised in the 2010 documentary ' ", written by Professor | of , UK, and directed by . The film explores the nature of 'controlled act ... |
Tom Forcade | ... r” and Bert Cohen who is listed as “accessory after the fact” on the cover. | was not credited in the book, but Hoffman later admitted that he had taken ... |
Penny Lernoux | ... riter and editor, and supporters of Liberation theology, such as journalist | and Michael Walsh, a writer on religious matters and former Jesuit. instru ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... e romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and | 's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Co ... |
Carlo Collodi | In 1883 | wrote his puppet story, The Adventures of Pinocchio as a first Italian fan ... |
Tim Pat Coogan | ... cents of the people – are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author | has described Newfoundland as "the most Irish place in the world outside o ... |
Thomas Frank | ... ollar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by | . It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has ... |
Susan Glaspell | ... o have arrived for the summer in Provincetown with "a trunk full of plays." | describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardi ... |
Paul Morley | ... -UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's | , dispassionately reported details of the relative nuclear arsenals of eac ... |
Dahlia Lithwick | ... to Scalia's and sometimes the two question counsel in seeming coordination. | of Slate described Scalia's technique |
Stephen Fry | ... s the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring | as the title character |
Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... lkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as | 's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s. The distinctive themes and origins of Aus ... |
Arthur Ransome | ... hitlock and Katharine Hull sent their manuscript of The Far-Distant Oxus to | , who persuaded his publisher Jonathan Cape to produce it, characterising ... |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
Kirsty Wark | BBC Broadcaster | was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster Stephen Jardine. Neil Olive ... |
Enzo Tortora | ... in reductions in jail time. A famous case regarded the popular TV anchorman | , who was falsely accused of cocaine trafficking and Camorra membership by ... |
Bart Veldkamp | ... is countryman Ådne Søndrål) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater | ) |
Ian MacDonald | Personnel as given by Mark Lewisohn and | |
Lewis Grizzard | ... e author Erskine Caldwell was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist | grew up in the town |
Allan Fotheringham | ... (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnist | joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A guest panelist, usually another ... |
Józef Mackiewicz | ... etation of the events called "Symphony No. 1 (In Memorium, Dresden, 1945)". | , a Polish writer, included a shockingly realistic description of the bomb ... |
Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
Michael Azerrad | ... punk rock bands, but soon diversified their sounds and became more melodic. | asserted that Hüsker Dü was the key link between hardcore punk and the mor ... |
André Kertész | ... e city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian | . He later wrote that he used photography "in order to capture the beauty ... |
Raymond Aron | ... u, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, | , Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl D ... |
Peggy Noonan | Hart has called herself a fan of | and Ronald Reagan. Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrateds | wrote in 2003, "There are certain figures in American history who have pas ... |
Noah Webster | ... d Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour; on the other hand, | 's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spelling ... |
Jack London | ... ed four times as a film). As another sign of influence, the American author | cited her novel Signa, which he read at age eight, as one of the eight rea ... |
Gail Collins | ... , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and | , Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables c ... |
Régis Debray | ... terary criticism and Nicos Poulantzas in sociology. The prominent Guevarist | also studied under Althusser, as did the aforementioned Derrida (with whom ... |
Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
Spencer Christian | ... New York, whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included | , Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht, Dick Wolfsie, and longtime Eyewitness News rep ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... s and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after | took over CBS's competing program (initially named Walter Cronkite with th ... |
Brigitte Hamann | ... ere not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as Ian Kershaw and | dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Fr ... |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
Rob Neyer | ... rotation for his starters. Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield later told | that when Williams yanked McLain early from a July 5 game against the Clev ... |
Ed Sullivan | ... med for many decades both in Bermuda and the United States, and appeared on | 's televised variety show, jazz pianist Lance Hayward, singer-songwriter H ... |
Louise Bryant | ... ed. O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer | . O'Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Stephen Holden | ... he English rock trio The Police (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group)". | , music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British C ... |
G. A. Henty | ... ed a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810. | wrote a novel in 1885 about this time period titled In Freedom's Cause. He ... |
René Clair | He started to paint and collect and acted in (1946) by | . He still toured throughout the United States and other parts of the worl ... |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... bject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by | '36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Bob Woodward | ... tical repercussions. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters | and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break ... |
Jabby Crombac | ... iled in the summer of 1961, the "MRD" was soon renamed. Motoring journalist | pointed out that "[the] way a Frenchman pronounces those initials—written ... |
Ma Jun | Environmental campaigners such as | have warned of the danger that water pollution poses to Chinese society. A ... |
Frank Brookhouser | ... es H. Webb, now a U.S. Senator from Virginia. It is also used by the writer | in his books Request for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Tow ... |
Luigi Capuana | Her work has been highly regarded by | and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro ... |
Al Gore | ... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by giving | an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ... |
Maria Shriver | ... ly estimated at $100–$200 million. But with his recent split from his wife, | in 2011, it has been estimated that his net worth has been hovering around ... |
Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
Al Gore | ... The trophy was handed to captain Dunga from the hands of the vice-president | . The Brazilian national team dedicated the title to the deceased Brazilia ... |
Mabel Dodge Luhan | Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of | , a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York who had run a prominent art sal ... |
Keith Murdoch | In October 1915, the journalist | reported on the situation in Gallipoli at Fisher's request, and advised hi ... |
Kathie Lee Johnson | ... o"s), and was originally hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey. In 1985, | (who would marry Frank Gifford a year later) became Philbin's co-host. Bue ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... attention to what they perceived as being the limitations of Paganism. Thus | wrote: "The Pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
Napoleon Hill's | ... for a noble person, whilst lowly thoughts make for a miserable person; and | Think and Grow Rich (1937) described the use of repeated positive thoughts ... |
Betty Kennedy | ... bly stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, | (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a mov ... |
Bryant Gumbel | ... , and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). | and Mike Adamle of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame cov ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
Colm Tóibín | ... assination of his family members and close friends, lynchings and bombings. | wrote, "throughout his career there have been poems of simple evocation an ... |
Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
Mario Impemba | ... rs' current exclusive local television rights holder is Fox Sports Detroit. | does play-by-play with former outfielder handling color commentary |
Daniel Defoe | ... ous attention; this prejudice has held considereable influence to this day. | pursued a more journalistic type of satire, being famous for his The True- ... |
Rich Karlgaard | Upside was started by banker Anthony B. Perkins and technical writer | as a magazine "for Silicon Valley about Silicon Valley." Venture capitalis ... |
Tom Friedman | ... imate of the cost of rebuilding. And with whom? As New York Times columnist | points out, there's a retail store mentality that suggests to some — if "y ... |
Long John Nebel | ... New York radio station WOR in the mid 1960s. This radio show, which filled | 's old slot with similar content after Nebel went to WNBC in 1962, had fre ... |
Mo Mowlam | The Labour politician | was educated in Coventry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Soci ... |
Carl Bernstein | ... ns. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and | uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break-in, and attempts t ... |
William Cobbett | ... ion, fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer | was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy in c ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with | , the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ... |
Varian Fry | | was a 32-year-old Harvard-educated classicist and editor from New York Cit ... |
Yair Lapid | ... u Topaz's entertainment show (In which Naor Zion was discovered) as well as | 's talk show (which had guest appearances by Adi Ashkenazi, Adir Miller an ... |
John Wilkes | ... n lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and | was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at ... |
Johnny Giles | ... r from Ken Keyworth, Banks leapt high in the air to claim a high cross from | , only to drop the ball at Herd's feet. Herd scored his second to conclude ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... mann used part of "La Marseillaise" for his 1840 setting (Op. 49, No. 1) of | 's poem "Die Beiden Grenadiere" (The Two Grenadiers). The quotation appear ... |
David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
Richard Cohen | ... imes columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist | , sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, military author Jo ... |
Evan Smith | ... al number of men and women, most of whom are between the ages of 30 and 55. | , former president of Texas Monthly, said in the September 16, 2009 issue ... |
Duff Green | ... issouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents. In October several men led by | demanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slaver ... |
Michael Smith | ... ember of the Romanov family Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. Newspaper reporter | wrote in his book that British Secret Intelligence Bureau head Mansfield C ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Pierre Berton | ... tured a remarkably stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian | , Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who la ... |
Lester Bangs | ... , well-known example of commercial studio noise music that the music critic | has called the "greatest album ever made in the history of the human eardr ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... chorus form, post-rock groups generally make greater use of soundscapes. As | states in his "Post-Rock" from Audio Culture, "A band's journey through ro ... |
Howie Carr | ... ugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, | , and Michael Savage, as well as many local commentators, support Republic ... |
Steve Albini | ... ry Norman's accent. While recording the Pixies' album Surfer Rosa, producer | recognized the Pixies' references and realized that he and Black both "had ... |
Bob Clark | He was a frequent interviewer with | on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 bu ... |
Gene Siskel | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from | and Roger Ebert on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News T ... |
Albert Camus | ... eckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on | ' concept of the absurd, claiming that Beckett and Ionesco better captured ... |
Lord Simon | ... D were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, | , D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had pr ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and | . Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
Bill James | Once asked if he thought Henderson was a future Hall of Famer, statistician | replied, "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers. |
Trevor McDonald | ... y Henry as Trevor McDoughnut (including one where the target of the spoof - | - takes over as a surprise) and the 'viewer's letters' clip where Sally Ja ... |
Todd Jones | ... do Rodney assumed the closer role in spring training, replacing the retired | . Rodney responded with 37 saves in 38 tries, while Bobby Seay, Brandon Ly ... |
Charles Dickens | ... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by | in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ... |
Alex Jones | ... Endgame. According to Dave Mustaine, the name "Endgame" is an homage to the | documentary of the same name |
A. J. Liebling | ... e the lack of any apparent demand for them by his readers. The press critic | reminds us how many Hearst stars would not be deemed employable elsewhere. ... |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Gordon Sinclair | ... dian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a movie actress) and columnist | . Columnist Allan Fotheringham joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A ... |
Charles Collingwood | ... ury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: | , Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. ... |
Louise Bryant | ... ution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist | . Reed died in Russia in 1920, and was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropol ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
Stephen King | ... lculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". | called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the cla ... |
Gideon Welles | ... d other seamanlike qualities during the present war." Secretary of the Navy | directed the Philadelphia Mint to design the new decoration. Shortly after ... |
Ed Victor | ... nd Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas Adams and his agent, | , after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which ... |
Bryant Gumbel | ... on 60 Minutes, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Today Show with | , The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with Hugh Downs, The Tomorrow Show with ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Bob Costas | ... ic Communications produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including | , Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at M ... |
Jon Savage | ... e backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist | during a promotional event |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... mination had, in fact, been made long before the movie was filmed, and even | 's book only states that this possibility was considered, not that it was ... |
Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
Nate Thayer | ... mer Rouge insurgency, giving speeches to his followers. Journalists such as | who spent some time with the Khmer Rouge during that period commented that ... |
Hedda Hopper | ... iner described the film as "an unfortunate finale to her brilliant career". | wrote, "If Bette had deliberately set out to wreck her career, she could n ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... n-unreleased "Njósnavélin" (later 'un-named' "Untitled #4") appeared in the | film Vanilla Sky. The former two also subsequently appeared in the US vers ... |
Langston Hughes | ... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets | and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ... |
Oliver North | ... old different offices. For example, the Sliders find alternate Earths where | , Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were ... |
Norbert Zongo | ... a in Burkina Faso have been intermittent. In 1998, investigative journalist | , his brother Ernest, his driver, and another man were assassinated by unk ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Mike Kim | ... at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver and the Korean-American | ) |
Terry Pratchett | ... prin died of a myocardial infarction at home in his bed on May 22, 2008,. A | novel and his reading glasses were found next to him. He was to have been ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... the period of his fame by Hugh Walpole, W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. | tried to rehabilitate his reputation with a long essay in The New Yorker |
Roger Ebert | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and | on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News Toronto claims it ... |
Len Berman | ... tions produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, | , Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of | . Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was Nat Goldhaber |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Filippo Turati | ... due to their shared ideological views. He also was already in contact with | , perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he al ... |
Winston Churchill | ... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war | attempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ... |
Pim Fortuyn | ... larized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of | , the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four. The VVD nonethele ... |
Toby Robins | ... storian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), | (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnis ... |
Stephen Holden | In 1993, New York Times music critic | wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other America ... |
Pierre Giffard | ... on's behavior was savagely criticised by Le Vélo and its Dreyfusard editor, | . De Dion responded by starting L'Auto. He was supported by other wealthy ... |
Max Holland | ... ing and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian | in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt plant ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ibuted to it, but there's no disbelieving the grim evidence on the screen." | gave it (3.5 out of four stars) and called it "new and fresh and not shy o ... |
Émile Zola | ... itional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe. He also supported | 's position in the Dreyfus affair |
Tom Standage | ... hers. These points of comparisons have spurred modern commentators, such as | , to refer to the 19th Century telegraphic network as the "Victorian Inter ... |
Billy Wilder | ... can tour was in 1955, with Vic Schoen as arranger and musical director. The | film Love in the Afternoon (1957) with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper was ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... errell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, | , and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ fa ... |
Joel Chandler Harris | In 1881 | (1845–1908) published Uncle Remus, a collection of stories narrated by the ... |
Ralph Winston Fox | ... ssued, saying: "[t]oday, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets | and John Cornford were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taki ... |
Carl Hiaasen | She also has narrated several audio books, including | 's novel Nature Girl |
Tom Wolfe | Sparta was stated as the hometown of Charlotte Simmons in | 's 2004 novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" |
Paul White | ... let, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, | , for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organizatio ... |
Terry Pratchett | while | has said |
Walter Cronkite | ... nated by the Vietnam War more than ever. Following evening news broadcaster | 's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the war was unwinnable, ... |
Charles Dickens | ... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and | had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ... |
five Australia-based TV personnel | ... 007, Whitlam testified at an inquest into the death of Brian Peters, one of | killed in East Timor in October 1975. Whitlam indicated that he had warned ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by | 's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ... |
Roger Ebert | ... a sterling cast, and a wonderful one from newcomer Keisha Castle- Hughes." | gave the film four out of four stars and said, "The genius of the movie is ... |
Bob Greene | ... the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U.S. Senator George Voinovich, | --the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, c ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay | ... earst's photographer and at least three Hearst correspondents. One of them, | , by that flight became the first woman to travel around the world by air |
Ron Rosenbaum | Blue boxing hit the mainstream media when an article by | titled Secrets of the Little Blue Box was published in the October 1971 is ... |
Martin Dillon's | Much of what is known about the Butchers came first from | The Shankill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder (1989 and 1998). In com ... |
Lynn Barber | ... mation Act, The Sunday Telegraph obtained emails between the Tate and judge | , which revealed that the judges had been sent a list of shows by artists ... |
Maria Shriver | ... was out of town, we were free to do whatever we wanted." Schwarzenegger met | at the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in August 1977, and went on to ... |
Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... of his novel Good Omens "is in the works from Terry Jones." with a link to | 's webpage confirming the news |
Ritchie Calder | ... its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee were | , journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, King ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
Ambrose Bierce | Twain's younger contemporary | gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, b ... |
Luigi Facta | ... re intending to restore law and order. The Fascists demanded Prime Minister | 's resignation and that Mussolini be named to the post. Although the Itali ... |
Terry Pratchett | The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by | . First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time traveling such as ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... odern anaesthetics, who was born above a shop overlooking the Market Place. | stayed in Aylsham in 1732 and enjoyed a meal at the Black Boys Inn. Parson ... |
Allan Jones | ... peratic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance". The newspaper's critic | heard only a "superficially impressive pastiche" of operatic styles |
J. M. Barrie | ... sness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol | ) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detectiv ... |
Al Gore | ... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after | lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
Gore Vidal | ... a comment which the network censors decided to cut from the broadcast tape. | once quipped to Claire Bloom, Roth's second wife: "You have already had Po ... |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Philip Norman | In the words of British dramatist and novelist | , "the only point concerning Mick Jagger's influence over 'young people' t ... |
Walter V. Robinson | ... ases* Bernard Cardinal Law* Roger Cardinal Mahony;Anti-abuse* Ferns Report* | * Sex Crimes and the Vatican (Panorama documentary Episode)* Survivors Net ... |
Alexander Cockburn | ... admitted that prisoners of war were murdered in the 1967 War. According to | , Israeli reporter Gabriel Bron, a former IDF soldier allegedly witnessed ... |
Andrew Breitbart | TenNapel is politically conservative and has written articles for | 's "Big Hollywood" blog |
Cecil Adams | ... hs under the editorship of Kendrick Frazier, former editor of Science News. | of The Straight Dope calls Skeptical Inquirer "one of the nation's leading ... |
Charles Dickens | ... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the | novel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella |
Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
Jack Newfield | ... s own lawyer present, he signed four "contracts of servitude" (according to | ). One was an exclusive promotional contract with Don King, two were manag ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... 's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General | , following the general election that took place that year. As with all ot ... |
Michelle Malkin | The controversial conclusions drawn by Lowman were defended by pundit | in her book In Defense of Internment; The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in W ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
Nayan Chanda | ... orks about Cambodia are Ben Kiernan, David P. Chandler and Michael Vickery. | , the Indochina correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is also ... |
Walter Cronkite | The program's ratings slipped late in the decade as CBS's | gained fame for his coverage of the space program, a field in which neithe ... |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of the largest urban parks in the United States. It was designed in 1891 by | , the designer of New York City's Central Park |
James Cameron | ... he other members of its executive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist | , Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestl ... |
Bernard B. Fall | ... t adds that the number of these recruits has been subsequently exaggerated. | , who was a supporter of the French government, writing in the context of ... |
Jonathan Rigby | Both the stage and TV versions starred | (Horne), Robin Sebastian (Williams), Kate Brown (Marsden), Nigel Harrison ... |
Walter Lippmann | Jack also attended meetings of the Socialist Club, over which his friend | presided, but he never joined. Still, the club left its impact on his psyc ... |
Maria Shriver | On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist | , niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. ... |
Ed Rice | ... view. Also on the Jesters staff were the poet Robert Lax and the journalist | . Lax and Merton became best friends and kept up a lively correspondence u ... |
Arthur Ashe | ... orce. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and | . Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langs ... |
Terry Pratchett | In the United Kingdom, a popular modern satirist is Sir | , author of the internationally best-selling Discworld book series. One of ... |
Gerald Posner | ... Pepper's claims that the government killed King. He is supported by author | who has researched and written about the assassination. In 2003, William P ... |
Budd Schulberg | In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by | , Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillip ... |
Michael Reagan | ... ch as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, | , Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local commentators, supp ... |
Dan Savage | ... so long," he clarifies. "But I still use it, I still say it." Responding to | 's It Gets Better campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youth, ... |
G. A. Henty | ... readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as | , rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popul ... |
Joan Biskupic | ... eventy, Scalia characterizes his victories as "[d]amn few". His biographer, | , speculates that Scalia, given good health, may remain on the Court for a ... |
Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ng and provocative story led by an excellent performance by Edward Norton." | gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as "always interesting ... |
Michael Davitt | ... ish camp of an Irish-American Ambulance Corps bolstered MacBride's Brigade. | who had resigned as an M.P due to the Boer War visited MacBride's Brigade. ... |
Joanne Colan | ... an of Invention, a TV show on Planet Green starring Kamen and correspondent | , in which they investigate new technologies, premiered on October 22, 201 ... |
Frederick Douglass | Highland Beach was founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass ( | ' son) and his wife Laura after they had been turned away from a restauran ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... and delicately weighted poems...a wonderful and humane achievement". Writer | described Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one t ... |
J. Michael Straczynski | ... under the "Before Watchmen" banner. Among the creators involved are writers | , Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... government announced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as governor general. The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, inc ... |
Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
Albert Camus | ... ilosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and | . Other scholars extend the term to Kierkegaard, and yet others extend it ... |
Maria Shriver | Schwarzenegger was married to | . The couple separated in 2011 after 25 years of marriage |
Alex Haley | ... to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included | , Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Hen ... |
Neal Boortz | ... including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, | , Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well ... |
Richard A. Fineberg | ... o lived in the immediate vicinity of Ester, at No. 8 Below Discovery Claim. | is an investigative journalist living in Ester who specializes in petroleu ... |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... Avenue retains its name along the eastern border). The park was designed by | and Calvert Vaux. The park offers extensive walking tracks, two ice-skatin ... |
Ray Martin | The series comprehensively lampooned | , and it's relevance in exposing the hypocrisy of ratings driven current a ... |
Den Uyl | ... of government by the social-democratic/Christian-democratic cabinet led by | . Although the ties between the VVD and other organizations within the neu ... |
Waldemar Young | ... s written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and | . The screenplay was largely based on an original story by former naval av ... |
Daniel Defoe | Writer | devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great ... |
Roger Ebert | ... pisode." Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. | did not like it. "The movie starts promisingly... a scene where Butch puts ... |
Dan Patrick | ... in the nation. This sentiment was echoed by Scott Van Pelt in July 2010 on | 's ESPN radio show when he proclaimed Madison the best college sports town ... |
Toby Young | ... on of the memoir of the same name by former Vanity Fair contributing editor | . After she signed on to the film, she revealed that she had joined the pr ... |
Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
Maggy Whitehouse | ... similar Catholic organizations) will decrease.In her 2006 book on Opus Dei, | , a non-Catholic journalist, argues that the relative autonomy of each dir ... |
Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
Scott Van Pelt | ... ison the #1 college sports town in the nation. This sentiment was echoed by | in July 2010 on Dan Patrick's ESPN radio show when he proclaimed Madison t ... |
Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
Dan Dickerson | ... ations are Detroit sister stations WXYT-AM (1270 AM) and WXYT-FM (97.1 FM). | does play-by-play and former Tigers catcher Jim Price does color commentar ... |
Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
Louella Parsons | ... the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, | and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI |
Hunter Davies | The song's composition is unusually well documented as | was present and described the writing process in the Beatles' official bio ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... hort story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by | , Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Cowa ... |
John Reed | ... e also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party founder | . O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... rms "Little Englanders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, | , Vanessa Feltz and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous criti ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... ng a rich, thriving industrious place full of weaving, knitting and dyeing. | in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City |
Helen Thomas | ... ion (RTDNA) is named, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, | , Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit ... |
Giovanni Maria Vian | ... e" and the other 90 per cent concerned sex between priests and adolescents. | , editor of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, said t ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
Dave Barry | The Hawley-Smoot Tariff appears repeatedly in | 's because, "We think it has a wonderful ring to it, and we just like to s ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... c attention. This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by | in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on liv ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... 843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from | 's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mist ... |
Markos Moulitsas | The Hill published an op-ed piece by | of the liberal blog Daily Kos titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The co ... |
Bob Considine | ... ugh some joined the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as | , Louella Parsons and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI |
John Maddox | ... d reviews. Then in September 1981, Nature published an editorial written by | , the journal's senior editor, entitled "A book for burning?" In it, Maddo ... |
William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg | ... cle appeared in The Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor | , but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next deca ... |
Albert Camus | ... the former does not necessarily lead to the latter, as philosophers such as | believed. Happiness is not inextricably linked to optimism, nor is pessimi ... |
Wells Spicer | Wyatt and Holliday were arrested and brought before Justice of the Peace | . Morgan and Virgil were still recovering at home. All four were required ... |
Gaspar Roca | ... editions. José M. Saldaña is a frequent op-ed contributor to the newspaper. | was responsible for most, if not all, of the successful freedom-of-informa ... |
Louis Veuillot | ... scribers. He edited it for three years. (It afterwards became his co-editor | 's ultramontane organ, L'Univers. |
Roger Ebert | ... ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. | commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of th ... |
Peter Maas | ... United States. Valachi mentions, in the book The Valachi Papers, written by | , a certain "Sandino," as the Family counselor. The mysterious "Sandino" w ... |
Mark Kermode | ... e writer Jo Nesbø's novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with | and Simon Mayo on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working ... |
Roger Ebert | ... or Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews. | , a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out o ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... ssions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that | emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 183 ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's | "—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on" |
Michael Wilbon | ... FA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). Washington Post columnist | called Hamm, "Perhaps the most important athlete of the last 15 years. |
Dickens | ... elding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, | , Flaubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century work ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... r been out of print and has been adapted for film four times. The historian | has argued that the novel drew from Wallace's life, particularly his exper ... |
G. K. Chesterton | At the turn of the century, | and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various ... |
Vladimir Pribylovsky | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and | , top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plo ... |
Gaspar Roca | On April 8, 2007, | , the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief died due to a respira ... |
Will Friedwald | ... n of his groundbreaking 1937–39 six-man quintet. A year earlier, Chusid and | produced a CD of live Scott quintet broadcasts titled The Man Who Made Car ... |
Benjamin Hoff | The Te of Piglet was written by | following the publication of The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the origi ... |
Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
Simon Jenkins | ... many as one of the outstanding pieces of Christian architecture in England. | ' book, England's Thousand Best Churches, has St Botolph's ranked within t ... |
Donald Trelford | ... s best known are Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Didcot Power Station. | , journalist and academic, was born in Coventry and attended Bablake Schoo ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from | to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ... |
Larry Elliott | ... estricted by the capital controls in place after Bretton Woods. Journalists | and Dan Atkinson say 1968 was a pivotal year when power shifted in the fav ... |
Al Gore | ... sage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) then-Vice President | mentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced ... |
Charles G. Finney | Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. | 's famous fantasy The Circus of Dr. Lao was influenced by Cabell's work. T ... |
Kate Garraway | ... , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, | , Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Hig ... |
Mussolini | ... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when | 's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ... |
Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
Nathaniel Benchley | ... rge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), | (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, ... |
Benjamín Carrión | ... novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist | ; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carrera Andrade; the novelist Enriq ... |
Dan Neil | ... e shark" in a broader context, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive journalist | used the expression to describe the Mini Countryman, a much larger and les ... |
Cho Ramaswamy | According to | , the editor of Tughlaq magazine, the RSS-sponsored Sewa Bharati did yeoma ... |
Arsenio Lacson | With | becoming the first elected mayor in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
Paul Klebnikov | A 1996 article in Forbes "Godfather of the Kremlin" by | accused Boris Berezovsky of ordering the murder. A few months after the ar ... |
Bill Roy | ... ne truly enthusiastic and well-financed challenger – in 1974 by Congressman | . Much of Roy's popularity was in response to the fallout from Watergate. ... |
Roger Ebert | ... n recent cinematic history". It received acclaim from many critics, such as | of the Chicago Sun-Times, who had given negative or mixed reviews to most ... |
Edgell Rickword | ... omment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, | and Henry Williamson |
H. L. Mencken | ... be a viable career, and he focused on it. His self-esteem was enhanced when | , editor of the popular magazine, American Mercury, bought two of his stor ... |
Julia Keller | | . 2008. Mr Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... Anti-Sikh Riots. Sikh intellectual and author of 'A History of the Sikhs', | , credits members of the RSS with helping and protecting Sikhs who were be ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Frank Rich | New York Times critic | said of the 1992 London production: "What is remarkable about Mr. Hytner's ... |
Eppie Lederer | ... 40) is an American advice columnist, and the only child of advice columnist | (better known by her pen name, Ann Landers) and business executive Julius ... |
John Mayer | ... clips from past shows and a reflection on the show's sixteen-year-long run. | sent a farewell video message, singing a song about how Los Angeles is "go ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie | ... led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by | , Lord Durham was appointed governor general of British North America and ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Dan Atkinson | ... apital controls in place after Bretton Woods. Journalists Larry Elliott and | say 1968 was a pivotal year when power shifted in the favour of private ag ... |
Kate Webb | ... ABC News president Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, | , Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, Ne ... |
Stephen King | ... pular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in | 's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining |
Anthony DeCurtis | ... n the hit film Wayne's World) hit number two. In a retrospective interview, | from Rolling Stone magazine explains the song's relatively poor performanc ... |
Harold Hobson | ... ormed the title role in at least six productions. His Othello was called by | of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing: ".. ... |
Arthur Machen | ... ing cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, and | |
Ambrose Bierce | Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali, and Hastur from | : specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta th ... |
Stanley Crouch | ... a close second). In his Newsweek article "The Problem With Jazz Criticism" | considers Miles Davis' playing of fusion as a turning point that led to sm ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... ism in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in 1898 was also criticized in | 's 1919 book, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. According t ... |
David McWilliams | ... lly been positive from some economic commentators including Eddie Hobbs and | who have praised the proposals stating that they have considerable potenti ... |
Mike Wallace | | interviewed Westmoreland for the CBS special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietna ... |
David Axelrod | Rahm Emanuel worked for the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, | as campaign strategist, William Daley as chief strategist, and as a campai ... |
John Mitchel | ... unty is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is named in honor of | . The population was 10,776 in the 2010 census, a decline from 10,874 in t ... |
Nikki Finke | A 2006 comment from LA Weeklys | reflects the same sentiments |
Ben Bova | ... Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by | was published in 1971 |
Martha Rountree | ... on debut on November 6, 1947. It has been hosted by 11 moderators, first by | . The current host is , who assumed the role in December 2008. The show go ... |
John O'Hara | ... he age of 38 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital following surgery for the tumor. | remarked: "George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to beli ... |
Edgar Wallace | ... as early as 1924, making his debut in Who Is the Man? and appearing in the | -based thriller The Clue of the New Pin (1929), he did not make an interna ... |
Adela Rogers St. Johns | ... by Gerald C. Duffy (titles), Winifred Dunn, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and | from the story by Rupert Hughes. It was directed by Alfred Santell |
E. H. Carr | ... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian | claimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ... |
Louella Parsons | ... h around three million dollars. When she took the story to gossip columnist | , the studio was forced to give in and granted all the profits from MGM mo ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
William Worthy | ... hose to not defend him. The ACLU later reversed their stance, and supported | and Rockwell Kent in their passport confiscation cases, which resulted in ... |
Patrice de Plunkett | ... orked independently on Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, | , Maggy Whitehouse, Noam Friedlander many of the criticisms against Opus D ... |
John Robb | ... rock consciousness", according to music journalist and former punk musician | . Though the album charted well in the UK, climbing to number 12, CBS refu ... |
Stephen Sackur | In a September 2010 interview with | for the BBC’s HARDtalk program, May said that he would rather be remembere ... |
Karl Marx's | ... n, thinking it to be from the book of Acts. Ironically, the quote is wholly | , but does exist partially within the Bible (Acts 11:29 & Matthew 25:15) |
Ernest Hemingway | ... of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, | , and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fiction works are to ack ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – | – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donal ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
G. K. Chesterton | ... influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors | and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponent ... |
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | ... became 'More than a club' (Més que un club) for the Catalans. According to | , the best way for the Catalans to demonstrate their identity was by joini ... |
J. D. Hayworth | ... , a primary challenge from radio talk show host and former U.S. Congressman | materialized in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Arizona and drew support ... |
Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
Albert Camus | ... depict events just preceding an execution. The latter explanation points to | 's novel The Stranger, in which a young man confesses to an impulsive murd ... |
Maggy Whitehouse | ... n Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, Patrice de Plunkett, | , Noam Friedlander many of the criticisms against Opus Dei are myths and u ... |
Luke Ford | ... t women a year—1.8 women a day—for the next 21 years. Pornography historian | calculated the number of Holmes' sexual partners over the course of his li ... |
Friedrich Clemens Gerke | ... stems, such as those designed by Claude Chappe for the French military, and | for the Prussian military, thus becoming the first form of electrical tele ... |
John Arlott | ... cademics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians. Its sponsors included | , Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britt ... |
Peter Haining | ... ared in The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, a hardback anthology edited by | , first published by Orion in 1994.(This Steed and Tara story first appear ... |
Charles Dickens | ... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842, | visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ... |
Renee Chenault-Fattah | Penn Law has also produced media professionals and artists, like | (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), Mark H ... |
Arthur Machen | ... when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories. The influence of | , with his carefully constructed tales concerning the survival of ancient ... |
Kuldip Nayar | In 1999, | , writing for Rediff.com, stated in his article "It is fundamentalism agai ... |
Said Aburish | ... and other Palestinian militias, within the occupied West Bank. According to | , the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... ity, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down | 's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anch ... |
Mikhail Katkov | ... 77 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor | over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpop ... |
William Walker | ... ability immediately after the war made it susceptible to buccaneers such as | , Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon and Henry Alexander Crabb who attacked Sonora ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
Roger Ebert | ... ew York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to date, and | of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a ... |
Albert Camus | ... ry criticisms of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, | , Ernest Hemingway, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fictio ... |
Winston Churchill | ... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving | and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
Amos Elon | ... book an "obtuse text, [a] piece of nonsense", but this was perhaps due, as | notes, to the level of comfortable assimilation enjoyed by Viennese Jews a ... |
Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips | Her aunt, | , wrote the Dear Abby column. Although her mother and aunt were twin siste ... |
Edith Kinney Gaylord | Colorado College’s | Cornerstone Arts Center, completed in 2008 and located at the intersection ... |
Gene Weingarten | ... ion of the phrase is "Marrying Irving", coined by Washington Post columnist | . A recent cinema-specific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to th ... |
Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
Stuart Littlemore | ... Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. | , who at the time was hosting the media commentary show Media Watch, appea ... |
Defoe | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, | , Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists S ... |
William L. Shirer | ... rvations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author | . Last Train from Berlin became an American best-seller and was reprinted ... |
Howard K. Smith | ... med Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, | , and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for wh ... |
Bill James | ... me, Henderson was still in the all-time top 100 home run hitters, with 297. | wrote in 2000, "Without exaggerating one inch, you could find fifty Hall o ... |
William Safire | ... re, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, | , environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, and environmental law atto ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Elder writes that "he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as | or Raymond Carver. With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone descriptio ... |
Robert W. Service | ... later became the Ester Gold Camp, featured a musical variety show including | 's poetry, held at a sawdust-strewn bar known as the Malemute Saloon, afte ... |
John L. Allen, Jr. | ... ation which provides them religious education. Writer and broadcast analyst | states that Opus Dei provides abundant information about itself. These jou ... |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
Ferdinand Lundberg | ... orrespondents" in London, Paris, Venice, Rome, Berlin, etc. Another critic, | , extended the criticism in Imperial Hearst (1936), charging that Hearst p ... |
Nellie Bly | #Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by American woman journalist | (birth name Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, 1864–1922). It is a true account of ... |
Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
Steve Coll | ... ny sources, notably Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, and Ghost Wars by | |
Evan Davis | ... which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today presenter | commented that "She shouldn't be guest editing; she should be permanently ... |
Kevin Powell | ... Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in reality television. His housemate, | , became a successful author, poet, journalist, and 2006 candidate for Uni ... |
Maggie Brooks | The county's executive branch is headed by the County Executive, | . The executive's office is located on the first floor of the County Offic ... |
Louise Bryant | ... paid a visit to his mother in Portland, where he met and fell in love with | , who joined him on the East coast in January 1916. Though happy, both had ... |
Mark Halperin | One such allegation of misleading balance came from | , political director of ABC News. He stated in an internal e-mail message ... |
Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
Jon Krakauer | The aftermath of the 1996 disaster further intensified the debate. | 's Into Thin Air (1997) expressed the author's personal criticisms of the ... |
Victor Lewis-Smith | ... ed actor/writer/composer Peter Serafinowicz and satirist/writer/broadcaster | . Multiple cameras recorded the event but it has yet to be broadcast or re ... |
Jack London | ... er. He also knows and meets various real-life historical figures, including | , Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick R ... |
James Brown Scott | ... he Court "should have given every lawyer a thrill of cosmic vibration", and | wrote that "the one dream of our ages has been realised in our time". Much ... |
Ghazi Hamad | ... of Taliban and to publicly support the Erdoğan model were Ahmad Yousef and | , advisers to Prime Minister Hanieh. Yusuf, the Hamas deputy foreign minis ... |
Christopher Ruddy | ... avid Horowitz Freedom Center, edits FrontPage Magazine, and also writes for | 's NewsMax. Horowitz has also founded the organization , whose self-stated ... |
Peter King | # | , football columnist for Sports Illustrated and author |
John Barrasso | ... ay, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, Mike Enzi and | , and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Cynthi ... |
Irwin Chusid | ... lease of Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights (Columbia, 1992, produced by | with Hal Willner as executive producer), the first major-label CD compilat ... |
Joseph Pulitzer | ... and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with | , owner and publisher of the New York World, from whom he "stole" Richard ... |
Georgi Markov | In 1978 Bulgarian dissident writer | was killed in London by a dose of ricin injected via a modified umbrella. ... |
Paul Krassner | ... Frost, Eleanor Bron and the television program That Was The Week That Was. | 's magazine The Realist was immensely popular during the 1960s and early 1 ... |
Jeff Cooper | ... he Scout Rifle is a class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by | in the early 1980s |
Rob Sheffield | ... irst Yo La Tengo to feature James McNew on every song. Ira Kaplan explains: | , writing in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide remarked that McNew "became ... |
David Irving | ... locaust deniers and pro-Nazi polemicists—most notably by the British writer | in his book The Destruction of Dresden—in an attempt to establish a moral ... |
Theodor Herzl | ... shed in the Neue Freie Presse, whose literary editor was the Zionist leader | , Zweig was not attracted to Herzl's Jewish nationalism, nor did the publi ... |
Ron Ben-Yishai | ... Marranos of Portugal" the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter | to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. Afte ... |
Albert Camus | ... sm in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with | and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesias ... |
Cedric Belfrage | ... oup held a conference and concert at St Pancras Town Hall, London headed by | , on May 26, 1957 with Robeson singing direct from New York over a telepho ... |
George Seldes | ... ed payments from abroad to slant the news. After the war, a further critic, | , repeated the charges in Facts and Fascism (1947) |
Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
Larry LeSueur | ... arles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and | . The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award gi ... |
Julian Sanchez | ... his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After investigative work by blogger | , Lott admitted to use of the Rosh persona. Sanchez also pointed out that ... |
John Cargher | ... and he was eventually nicknamed "Mr Sunday Morning" by the general public. | , a record retailer, avid collector of records and author of many books, p ... |
Marchamont Needham | ... republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , | , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
Martin Gardner | According to | , at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between N ... |
Alexandra Robbins | In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, | alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its pr ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
Said Aburish | ... Palestinian territories within the PLO command and according to biographer | , had "impressive knowledge of local conditions" in the Israeli-occupied t ... |
Gloria Steinem | ... olithic feminist orthodoxy", noting in response that she has disagreed with | about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion |
Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
Sue Townsend | In the book Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by | , Adrian names the swan that terrorises him outside his apartment Gielgud ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Gerard Henderson | ... ally not appearing to know that The Age was published in Melbourne, sacking | , a prominent conservative columnist, from the paper and by making remarks ... |
Artyom Borovik | ... how watched weekly by as many as 100 million people. The other anchors were | , Evgeny Dodolev, Alexander Lyubimov, Alexander Politkovsky and Dmitry Zah ... |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
Gloria Steinem | ... brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight. | , Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, ... |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Lee Miller | ... ntal films. In 1929 he began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer | |
Boris Vian | ... instruments was sparked by his discovery at the Saint-Ouen flea market of a | Trumpet Violin. He often accompanied his mother to Le Chat Qui Pêche (The ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
Roger Ebert | ... l of Silvia as "enchanting." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic | wrote "[The film] stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most parti ... |
Gloria Steinem | Like | and Camille Paglia, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in ac ... |
Ida Minerva Tarbell | ... ity was nearly deserted. Tarbell moved to Titusville in 1870. His daughter, | , grew up amidst the sounds and smells of the oil industry. She became an ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... st prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on | 's satire "The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski" (Aus den Memoiren de ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
Eliot Asinof | The book Eight Men Out by | and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being gr ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by | . He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... sounds of late 1960s to mid 1970s rock music. According to music journalist | , the music had a twitchy, agitated feel to it. New Wave musicians often p ... |
Jean Paul Richter | In 1804, the author | moved from Coburg to Bayreuth, where he lived until his death in 1825 |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... vious highlights away." Critical reaction was quite positive, with reviewer | calling it "a subtly addicting album." Robert Christgau also praised the g ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator | . Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ... |
Johann Christian Poggendorff | ... ary of Pure and Applied Chemistry) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and | , and he also wrote an important textbook. In 1851 Kolbe succeeded Bunsen ... |
William Nicholson | In 1800, | and Johann Wilhelm Ritter succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and ... |
Ernest Hemingway | In 1928 | and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth ... |
Keith Olbermann | ... rie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, | , New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington P ... |
Constantin Mille | ... cques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. | , a Romanian socialist writer and émigré in Paris, described the anti-Drey ... |
Jeffrey Simpson | ... cretion. At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts such as | , Donald Savoie, and John Gomery argued that both parliament and the Cabin ... |
Martin Parr | ... my White and football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Magnum Photographer | was born in Epsom. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame is also a famous son of ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... s and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However populist | upset Dole in the early New Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second ... |
Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
Mike Kilian | ... an Collins was fired from the strip, and Tribune staff writer and columnist | took over the writing. Kilian was paid less than half of what Collins was ... |
Rigas Feraios | ... of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as Adamantios Korais and | will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) |
Reza Deghati | ... nture Magazine, along with photographs by the renowned Iranian photographer | |
Ofra Haza | | from Israel, who took the second place, had an enduring success with her s ... |
Terry Milewski | ... as killed in retaliation for revealing the identity of a young rape victim. | reported in a 2006 documentary for the CBC that a minority within Canada's ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Marchamont Needham | ... ndeavoured to prevent the Restoration of the English monarchy. He published | 's book News from Brussels in a Letter from a Near Attendant on His Majest ... |
Daniel Mendelsohn | ... .so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde". According to | , Wilde, who had long alluded to Greek love, was "initiated into homosexua ... |
Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
Sheila Copps | ... Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy | (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image consciou ... |
Cristina Scabbia | ... (Set Me Free)" would be released on the album. It would feature a duet with | of the band Lacuna Coil, and was to be the first single on the album until ... |
William Safire | ... -language style and usage guides recommend against its use. Language expert | in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express ... |
Michael Aspel | ... tween its inception in 1955 and his death in 1987, when he was succeeded by | (who had also succeeded Andrews as host of Crackerjack 22 years earlier). ... |
Thomas Friedman | ... n Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists | and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter an ... |
Ze'ev Schiff | ... half of the airlifted Soviet hardware actually went to Syria. According to | , Arab losses were so high and the attrition rate so great that equipment ... |
Bob Harris | ... t music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. According to presenter | , the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years be ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... a fable of the forest". In 1948, he interviewed one of his literary idols, | , travelling with Natalia Ginzburg to his home in Stresa |
William J. Mann | In | 's novel The Biograph Girl (2000), Mann asks the question, "What if Floren ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and | . In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva Novela), Fuentes of ... |
Brian Inglis | ... rception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as Arthur Koestler, | and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Paul Morley | According to critic | , "The Gang spliced the ferocious precision of Dr. Feelgood's working-clas ... |
Joseph Pulitzer | Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 famed newspaper publisher | , who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one ... |
Auguste Vermorel | ... e executed by firing squad on May 24 in the prison de la Roquette. This led | to ironically (and perhaps naively, since had refused any negotiation) dec ... |
Michael Moore | ... The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and | 's Roger & Me placed far more interpretive control with the director. The ... |
Bruce Elder | ... admission to concerts, for writing unfavourable reviews. Writer and critic | , in a mid-1980s newspaper review described their music as "narrow and xen ... |
Reuven Frank | ... ews with Walter Cronkite did so. It was developed and produced initially by | . Frank left the program in 1962 to produce documentaries (Eliot Frankel r ... |
Andy Rooney | ... o a popular place for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including | and Sloan Wilson who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in t ... |
Roger Ebert | ... am of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Metacritic. The film led | to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy", and sai ... |
William Cobbett | ... This liberalism is different from most modern forms, taking influence from | and John Ruskin, who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the esta ... |
Ron Rosenbaum | ... cause one of theirs caused the destruction of Germany". But American author | suggested another reason for Frank's story: "On the other hand, a differen ... |
Dan Rather | ... Iraqi press. This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of | over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 elec ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... liot's poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like | , Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being wr ... |
Kim Bolan | Canadian journalist | has written extensively on Sikh extremism. Speaking at the Fraser Institut ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Eric Zorn | ... he University of Michigan and an accomplished sculptor. Max Zorn's grandson | is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Max Zorn's great-grandson, Alex Zo ... |
Michael Buerk | ... ar (October 23), a BBC news crew was the first to document the famine, with | describing "a biblical famine in the 20th Century" and "the closest thing ... |
Gore Vidal | ... or McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of | 's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh. Other journalists compared him to ... |
Ring Lardner | ... n in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis (Abbott) and journalist and humorist, | . After being educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton Univers ... |
Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
John Cameron Swayze | ... inkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by | . The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minut ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... called "Unipressers" and were noted for their fiercely competitive streak. | , who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his covera ... |
Jim Murray | ... which reduced his strike zone without sacrificing much power. Sportswriter | described Henderson's strike zone as being "smaller than Hitler's heart". ... |
Stephen King | In the book by | , Eddie Dean remembers hearing an audiobook version of The Lord of the Rin ... |
Alex Massie | Scottish journalist | wrote in National Review |
Peter Arnett | ... ar biased. This approach was used in the Killian documents affair and after | 's interview with the Iraqi press. This approach is presumed to have been ... |
Josep Maria Espinàs | ... he official Barça anthem is the "Cant del Barça" written by Jaume Picas and | . Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelo ... |
Oliver North | In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel | , whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fift ... |
Lucien Carr | ... ower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, | , Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thom ... |
Antonio Fontan | ... who were vocal critics of the Franco Regime such as Rafael Calvo Serer and | , who was the first Senate President of Spain's democracy. The German hist ... |
Michael Backman | In 2009, The Age suspended its columnist | after one of his columns condemned Israeli tourists as greedy and badly be ... |
Tara Singh Hayer | On 18 November 1998, the Canada-based Sikh journalist | was gunned down by the suspected Khalistani militants. The publisher of th ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ence unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment". | called Bakshi's effort a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, oc ... |
Merrill Markoe | ... ff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Letterman's girlfriend | in the head writing role, in addition to seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee di ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... nd Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, | , Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
Jim Price | ... XYT-FM (97.1 FM). Dan Dickerson does play-by-play and former Tigers catcher | does color commentary. Games are carried on both stations unless a conflic ... |
Alex Haley | ... g them QB VII, and Rich Man, Poor Man. The most successful, Roots, based on | 's novel, became one of the biggest hits in television history. Combined w ... |
Greg Gumbel | ... o television studio analyst for The NFL Today in 1990 (which he hosted with | through the 1993 season), and Fox NFL Sunday, where he normally acts as a ... |
Jeanne Phillips | ... of that rivalry, Howard has had several public differences with her cousin | , who took over the Dear Abby column when her mother became ill with Alzhe ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and | decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, | , Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ... |
Alexander Afanasyev | ... Korsakov's interest in pantheism was whetted by the folkloristic studies of | . That author's standard work, The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, ... |
Gaston Leroux | ... re many similarities between Nilsson and the character of Christine Daaé in | 's novel Phantom of the Opera, and many believe Leroux based the character ... |
Roger Grimsby | For sixteen years starting in 1970, | and Bill Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel ... |
Émile Zola | ... n Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by | and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin |
Neil Sheehan | ... n Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, | , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman an ... |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
Henry Jarvis Raymond | The company was founded by | and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The ... |
George Negus | ... ffice Mole (series 2); Glenn Robbins and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, | in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line (series 3) and Ian Baker-Finch in ... |
Seymour Hersh | ... esident Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, | , Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times co ... |
Stephen King | The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by | , published for the mass market by Viking in 1987. Previously, it was publ ... |
Mohammed Heikal | At the same time, Nasser contacted Arafat through the former's adviser | and Arafat was declared by Nasser to be the "leader of the Palestinians." ... |
Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by | . The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King nove ... |
G. K. Chesterton | The English Roman Catholic writer | said of More that "He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or a ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by | . The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ... |
Gordon Brown | ... idents George W. Bush and Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister | of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, and other g ... |
Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
Nigel Jaquiss | ... Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, | , Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
Cork Graham | ... Bones. Additionally, the Oak Island/Money Pit Mystery led to the ill-fated | /Richard Knight hunt for Captain Kidd's treasure off western Vietnam in 19 ... |
Shana Alexander | ... am 60 Minutes, Curtin portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing | ) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the ri ... |
Stephen Fry | ... nto contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( | ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ... |
Ron Rosenbaum | Journalist | , in his book , found that the phrase "final solution" had been used much ... |
Walt Whitman | ... elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic realism of | . The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and Herman M ... |
Anténor Firmin | ... 1892, the German government supported suppression of the reform movement of | . In January 1914, British, German and US forces entered Haiti, ostensibly ... |
Michael Pollan | ... ealth. It was originally credited to Gyorgy Scrinis, and was popularized by | . Since nutrients are invisible, policy makers rely on nutrition experts t ... |
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire | ... Paris, for Auguste Blanqui, but flatly refused and his personal secretary, | , declared: "The hostages! The hostages! too bad for them (tant pis pour e ... |
Andrew Gilligan | ... y, who committed suicide on 17 July 2003 after being named as the source of | 's disputed Today programme contribution |
Oliver North | ... conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, Henry Ford, and | ; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, H. L. Mencken ... |
Gordon Brown | ... nal one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, | and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regula ... |
Mark Halperin | ... retary Scott McClellan, there are some who contend that this is evidence of | being correct instead of biased. In his book, McClellan admits to lying to ... |
Henry Chadwick | ... the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, after | wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cric ... |
Pim Fortuyn | ... o because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero | was murdered. Lots of fans were still full of emotion, before and after th ... |
Stephen King | The Long Walk is a novel by | published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback origi ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
Theodor Herzl | The Hungarian-Jewish journalist | had been assigned to report on the trial and its aftermath. Soon afterward ... |
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright | ... he Nineteenth Century, and Pen, Pencil and Poison, a satirical biography of | , in the Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend Frank Harris. Two of ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... luence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and | , but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his ... |
William Safire | ... sts Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold | ;, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Fi ... |
Oliver North | ... to travel secretly between Cyprus and Lebanon and his appearance with Capt. | , however, meant that he was compromised when the Irangate scandal broke. ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under | . He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed ma ... |
Roger Ebert | ... reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 59, based on 36 reviews. | wrote: "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' is the work of a born filmmaker, able ... |
Tom Snyder | ... announced show thus displaced the Tomorrow Coast to Coast program hosted by | from the 12:30 slot. NBC initially offered Snyder to move his show back an ... |
David K. Shipler | ... t, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, | , and Joseph Rago |
Alexander Prokhanov | ... wing aircraft shot down. According to Crile, who includes information from | , the Stinger was a "turning point". Milt Bearden saw it as a "force multi ... |
Jerry Dumas | ... al creator. Over the years, Mort Walker has been assisted by (among others) | , Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons Neal, Brian and Greg Walk ... |
Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
Jessica Mitford | ... that year four shows originated from Montreal including one with challenger | . The show continued going on the road, being videotaped in cities across ... |
Edmond Picard | Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee (1881–1884) with | , a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brusse ... |
Bill Beutel | For sixteen years starting in 1970, Roger Grimsby and | were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel 7 in 1968 from ... |
Michael Parkinson | ... s to have been a disappointment. He was replaced after only two episodes by | , the start of Parkinson's career as a chat show host. Parkinson later ask ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... dacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, | likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kenne ... |
Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
Julie Burchill | ... ate 1980s, with weekly columns in Time Out magazine where he took over from | , the short-lived Sunday Correspondent, and The Mail on Sunday (where he o ... |
Harvey Wasserman | ... nd Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America of 1972, have also called Bexley home. | , noted writer and leading anti-nuclear activist, lives in Bexley (the fam ... |
Mariana van Zeller | ... haemorrhage, and hypovolemic shock. A film shot in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, by | in 2007 discusses how girls who bleed excessively are regarded as witches |
Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
Brit Hume | ... Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, | , Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Coll ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on | , both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as d ... |
Broad, William J. | ====References==* | , New York : Penguin, 2006. ISBN 1-59-420081-5.*Burkert, Walter, Greek Rel ... |
William Henry Donald | ... ved to be more independent than anyone had expected. With the assistance of | , he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for Chiang Kai- ... |
Andrew Jaspan | In 2004 Gawenda was succeeded as editor by British journalist | . Jaspan aroused controversy by initially not appearing to know that The A ... |
James J. Kilpatrick | ... l viewpoint (referencing Shana Alexander) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (referencing | ) prototyped the right-wing view, albeit with an over-the-top "attack" jou ... |
Danny Baker | ... , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and | . Two series (totalling twenty-two editions) were broadcast during 2010 an ... |
Jean Paul | ... Germany. He had however read Schiller, Goethe, Swift, Sterne, Rousseau, and | , and wrote part of a novel called Der Geheimnisvolle |
Alison Stewart | Partial List | , Ira Glass, Mary Louise Kelly, Tony Co |
Roger Ebert's | ... one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of Gene Siskel and | "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under development. There are ... |
James Bamford | ... rol and turned back in the direction of Port Said. Investigative journalist | points out that Liberty had only four .50 caliber machine guns mounted on ... |
Elmar Huseynov | ... ts Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including Eynulla Fatullayev and | , have been persecuted or been killed for their criticism of the governmen ... |
Martha Rountree | ... ad purchased in 1939. Before the program aired, Spivak asked the journalist | , who had worked in radio and had worked for Spivak as a roving editor for ... |
William James Henderson | ... the absence of a disruptive vibrato from his singing. The scholarly critic | wrote in The Sun newspaper, for example, that Caruso "has a pure tenor voi ... |
Tom Gross | ... orists, in contradiction to the BBC's internal policy. But by the next day, | and many others noted that the online articles had been edited, replacing ... |
Jonathan Rigby | ... e for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by | and Robin Sebastian. The show was recorded at the Radio Theatre, Broadcast ... |
Martin Gardner | ... TAC-TIX); Nash's fellow players at first called the game Nash. According to | , some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as J ... |
Mort Kondracke | ... al analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator | , and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, a former professor at the U ... |
Mary Louise Kelly | Alison Stewart, Ira Glass, | , Tony Co |
Georgi Markov | ... case of state-sponsored assassination, poisoning can be more easily denied. | , a Bulgarian dissident was assassinated by ricin poisoning. A tiny pellet ... |
Liz Smith | ... others, including Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, James MacArthur, June Allyson, | , and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. Bette Davis supported Christina's version, ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... nd to emerge during the 1980s was Manchester's The Smiths. Music journalist | singled out The Smiths and their American contemporaries R.E.M. as "the tw ... |
Lucy Mangan | ... ares". The compilation has continued to be offered for sale. The Guardian's | described some of the recordings as being "touched with genius". Writing a ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... in and Abel, and Fiddler's Green, a sailor's dream of paradise who emulates | when in human form. He recruits or creates (or re-creates) servants to per ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... , news executives, novelists and high government officials. Among them were | , David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core me ... |
Jonathan Rigby | ... one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured | as Horne |
Ira Flatow | 1991-Present: | - Science Frida |
Benito Mussolini | ... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that | and Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ... |
Stephen Crane | ... William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, | 's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction ... |
Winston Churchill | ... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as | , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
Charles Rocket | ... n the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, | , Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall and o ... |
Michael Moore | In 2005, it was reported that Bradbury was upset with filmmaker | for using the title Fahrenheit 9/11, which is an allusion to Bradbury's Fa ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Billy Wilder | ... he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in | 's film The Lost Weekend (1945). He was the first Welsh actor to ever win ... |
Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum | ... yer, Ken Brodziak, Denis Handlin, Stan Rofe, Jade Johnson, Terry Blamey and | . These were the people largely responsible for promoting and developing t ... |
Eynulla Fatullayev | ... criticism by Human Rights Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including | and Elmar Huseynov, have been persecuted or been killed for their criticis ... |
Martin Wolf | ... free market consensus even from some on the economic right. In March 2008, | , chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, announced the death ... |
Joey Smallwood | ... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premier | negotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | ... Abingdon. He gained two stepsons from this marriage; Sir Simon Towneley and | . Lord Norman died at his home in Campden Hill, London, in 1950 following ... |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Stephen Fry | ... the first three Macintosh in the UK — the other being bought by his friend | ). In So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, Arthur Dent purchases a compute ... |
Neal Conan | 2001-Present: | 1991-Present: Ira Flatow - Science Frida |
Michael Azerrad | ... radio interview for a 20th anniversary special edition, with liner notes by | |
Paul Krugman | Economist | argues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... er years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries. | quipped: "Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for ... |
Varian Fry | ... the intercession of Paul Éluard and other friends, including the journalist | , he was discharged a few weeks later. Soon after the Nazi occupation of F ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... escribes an umbrella as a "screen commonly used by women to keep off rain." | 's Robinson Crusoe constructs his own umbrella in imitation of the ones he ... |
Ben Macintyre | ... ing up terrace after terrace, three hundred metres into the air"; columnist | of The Times has stated that that was "a prescient description of the sort ... |
Toshio Sakai | ... Smith (National Reporting, 1964), Kyoichi Sawada (News Photography, 1966), | (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (National Re ... |
Martin Gardner | ... a tiling of the plane with integral squares, each having a different size. | has published an extensive article written by about the early history of s ... |
Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
Ray Suarez | 1993-1999: | 2000-2001: Juan William |
Winston Churchill | ... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944. | (The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ... |
Jack London | ... sh the town's literary base. He was associated with Mary Austin, as well as | , who also spent considerable time in the Carmel and Monterey area. In San ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... ude ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter | , political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, c ... |
Robert Christgau | ... wing individuality, and wickedly prankish humor." He gave it a grade of B+. | gave the album an A- and said "I like it and I enjoy it; I think it repres ... |
Spencer Christian | ... street appeared on the "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers," and weatherman | later visited the town. After the hoopla died down, Flora lost their bid t ... |
Tim Ralfe | When CBC reporter | asked how far he was willing to go to stop the FLQ, Trudeau replied: "Just ... |
Louisa Lawson | ... lia's "greatest writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist | |
Juan Williams | 2000-2001: | 2001-Present: Neal Cona |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
Jean Paul | ... han twenty years after the latter's death. The theme alludes to the work of | , who invented the term Doppelgänger the previous decade, and continued to ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... tember 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary | , Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of t ... |
Jim Cramer | Commentator | has expressed concern about short selling and started a petition calling f ... |
Amy Fisher | ... s a play in the early 1990s, partly inspired by the media circus around the | trial in 1992. He shelved the play after realizing the story would not wor ... |
Jonathan Rigby | Horne was played in the West End and in the film by | , who in 2008-9 reprised the role in a new show, devised this time by Barr ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... as being spherical, with Narnian king Caspian X being amazed by this fact). | 's Discworld novels (1983 onwards) are set on a flat, disc-shaped world th ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... US draft policies. Combat Rocks "Straight to Hell" is described by scholars | and Joy Press as an "around-the-world-at-war-in-five-verses guided tour of ... |
Émile Zola | ... g distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and | , whose realist and naturalist novels were now exceeding the popularity of ... |
Gene Siskel | Film critic | , who listed this as one of his favorite movies, praised the film: "One mi ... |
Lee Miller | Together with | , who was his photography assistant and lover, Man Ray reinvented the phot ... |
Ambrose Bierce | Sterling wrote to his long-time literary mentor, | |
Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
Gordon Brown | ... en as the single planned location, the development was cancelled soon after | became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As a result there are no lawf ... |
John Charles Daly | ... Sundays, opposite CBS's long-running quiz program What's My Line? hosted by | , who had been the first ever ABC news anchorman. ABC stood by Smith on th ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
Eric Sevareid | ... ublic television in 1964 and then in two one-hour conversations on CBS with | in the late 1960s |
Carlos Fuentes | ... 15, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quixote. | noted that, "Cervantes leaves open the pages of a book where the reader kn ... |
Lorraine Kelly | ... f celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and | at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank ... |
Stephen Fry | ... g light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by | as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also con ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
Jeremy Paxman | ... taken off the air in 1987. In 1994 the show was resurrected by the BBC with | as the new quizmaster. It remains very popular in Britain. The show, and t ... |
Stefan Aust | ... Meinhof Complex, an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by | . Wokalek's performance in the film was awarded with a nomination for the ... |
Paul Krugman | Nobel laureate | also actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ... |
Harrison Salisbury | ... t officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, | , several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: C ... |
Miranda Devine | Conservative commentators such as | categorised the crimes as racially motivated hate crimes The Sydney Mornin ... |
John Mayer | ... e former Shea performer Roger Daltrey of The Who, Tony Bennett, Don Henley, | , John Mellencamp, Garth Brooks, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. The concer ... |
Chris Mitchell | ... later in the year without explanation, to the amusement of The Australian's | , who called the about-face "a bit embarrassing" |
Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
Kingsley Martin | ... he rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, | , to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as it ... |
David Yallop | ... llectual lightweight not up to the responsibilities of the papacy, although | ("In God's Name") says that this is the result of a whispering campaign by ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ificant number of celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as | and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and Joh ... |
Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend | . In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ... |
Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
Walter Francis White | Black was close friends with | , the black executive secretary of the NAACP who would help assuage critic ... |
John Kass | ... ed Meigs because he wanted to, because he could," Chicago Tribune columnist | wrote of Daley. "The issue is Daley's increasingly authoritarian style tha ... |
Arch Ward | ... of the Steelers from Bell. Compounding Bell's financial problems, in 1944, | organized a group of investors to create the AAFC for the purpose of compe ... |
Stephen Fry | ... e, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and "Reasons To Be Miserable", sung by | , along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-c ... |
Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | ... bert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of | 's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, she was the first woman to preside o ... |
Brian Sewell | ... Tom Parker Bowles, ran the "Alternative Turner Prize" with judges including | , who said it was for "a wider and more generous choice of art and artist. ... |
Andrew Morton | ... Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show. She cooperated with | in his telling of her life and her side of the Clinton affair in Monica's ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
Bernard Levin | ... nedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As | wrote in The Sunday Times: "...demonstrating once more that she is a comic ... |
Alexander Cockburn | ... on Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. According to attendee | , Horowitz related how his Stalinist parents had not permitted him or his ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... d belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including | and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, | , and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest s ... |
Ben Watson | ... arding what is considered noise, relative to music, have changed over time. | , in his article Noise as Permanent Revolution, points out that Ludwig van ... |
Joe Posnanski | ... nuous, regular move like Rickey's can't be thrown out, and he's proven it." | of the Kansas City Star and Sports Illustrated wrote |
Julie Bindel | ... who hold such views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, | , Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also con ... |
John Sutherland | ... t important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, including the academic | , have echoed the sentiment that he is "the greatest poet of our age" |
Dayanita Singh | ... jras visiting Humsafar clinics are nirwaan (castrated). Indian photographer | writes about her friendship with a Hijra, Mona Ahmed, and their two differ ... |
Paul Morley | ... Gill's staccato, aggressive style has proved an enduring influence in turn. | described the band's music as "a kind of demented funk, incredibly white b ... |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... reforms could not match his achievement of complete, lasting independence. | , Amanullah's father-in-law and Foreign Minister, encouraged the monarch's ... |
Martha Rountree | ... st two terms of the New Deal Administration. Its first host was its creator | , to date the program's only female moderator. She stepped down November 1 ... |
Alexander Afanasyev | ... eglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian | , the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the English ... |
Al Gore | ... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democrat | won 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ... |
Émile Zola | ... al achievements who took positions on grounds of higher principle – such as | , novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poinca ... |
Willie Wilde | ... ty College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874, sharing rooms with his older brother | . Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, set him with scholars suc ... |
Robert Benchley | ... atures Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and | , along with Edmund Gwenn |
Graydon Carter | ... atriates maintain homes in New Preston. Current inhabitants of note include | , the editor of the magazine Vanity Fair, comedian Joan Rivers, actress Ch ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... lamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian | and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most ... |
Walt Whitman | ... r the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or | |
Arthur Ransome | This bird is central to the plot of the novel Great Northern? by | (in which it is referred to throughout as Great Northern Diver, with the o ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... portance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by | . First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it ... |
Greil Marcus | ... ultimately as close to the depraved edge of the blues and Hendrix." Critic | found his first viewing of the group's performance so shattering that he l ... |
Katharine Whitehorn | ... layed by Williams), and "Daphne Whitethigh", presumably based on journalist | and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock t ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
Robert Kuttner | ... d even continued to be called "Keynesian". Writing in The American Prospect | argued it was not so much excessive Keynesian activism that caused the eco ... |
Maxine McKew | ... e 11th count, and three-fourths of her preferences went to Labor challenger | . This margin was enough to make McKew only the second person to unseat a ... |
Piers Morgan | ... later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, | , Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, C ... |
Dorothy Kilgallen | ... Russell disguised her voice. Her voice however, was so well disguised that | was convinced that the Mystery Guest was a man. After Russell's identity w ... |
Nick Tosches | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and | , whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and h ... |
Ira Flatow | ... ded John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams. Each Friday | hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from science and technology. ... |
David Hume Kennerly | ... hy, 1968), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (National Reporting, 1971), and | (Feature Photography, 1972). John H. Blair (spot news photography) a speci ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... er. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and | , used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in particular is noted for ... |
Stephen King | ... mmon literary elements. The horror genre also emerged, and by the late '70s | had become one of the most popular genre novelists |
Jerry Pournelle | ... uch of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and | being prominent examples), and his work has been called the most successfu ... |
Laurie Oakes | ... ill come when you may interrupt me". According to early Whitlam biographers | and David Solomon, this cool response put the Coalition government on noti ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Norberto Bobbio | ... his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, | , and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He then left Einaudi ... |
William Safire | The development was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but | , a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his m ... |
Hunter S. Thompson | ... kshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of | 's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... r of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and | . In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioner ... |
Maeve Binchy | ... y. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, | , and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are fo ... |
Ned Brooks | ... ly female moderator. She stepped down November 1, 1953, and was replaced by | , who remained as moderator until December 26, 1965. Spivak became the mod ... |
Joan Biskupic | ... ervened: "Maybe we should go through counsel." According to his biographer, | , Scalia "ridiculed" the majority in his dissent for being so ready to cas ... |
Robert J. Samuelson | ... an essay appearing in the 14 May 2007 issue of Newsweek, business columnist | argued that China was pursuing an essentially mercantilist trade policy th ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... nced as un-American or unpatriotic. In one typical instance in 1923, author | was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial W ... |
Meredith Vieira | In media, alumni include | , journalist and TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York ... |
David Axelrod | ... t proper procedures were always followed," Daley admitted a few days later. | , a Democratic political consultant whose clients included Daley, contribu ... |
Juan Williams | ... st regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and | . Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from ... |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk. Socially, Amanullah enjoyed many of | 's thoughts at the time, such as giving women more rights and allowing fre ... |
Helen Thomas | ... a, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, | , resigned her position, after working for UPI 57 years |
Stephen King | | used a fictionalized version of Hemingford in three of his stories, with t ... |
Norman Solomon | ... ost critiques combine elements of both strains. Journalist and media critic | reflects in Columbus Day: A Clash of Myth and History that many people cho ... |
Mo Mowlam | ... ters played the late MP and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, | in a drama for Channel 4, broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings abou ... |
Roger Ebert | ... hed, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released | , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelist | wrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ... |
Charles Dickens | ... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities, | uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
Joyce Kilmer | ... te developer. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico; the poet | is a distant cousin of Kilmer's. Kilmer is of German, Swedish, Irish, and ... |
John Hockenberry | 1991-1992: | 1993-1999: Ray Suare |
Stuart Maconie | ... and John Dobson, and recently extensively restored. Broadcaster and writer | described Newcastle as England's best-looking city and the late German-bor ... |
Robert Benchley | ... 1939 (the first was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: | , Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, ... |
Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
Martin Gardner | Not all accusations of bias are political. Science writer | has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias. He claims that t ... |
Max Hastings | ... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to | , by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ... |
Jean Paul | ... imar performances, Mahler gave the piece the title Titan after the novel by | , although Mahler specified that the piece was not in any way "about" the ... |
Harry Reasoner | ... irst with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, | . He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular ad ... |
Angela Rippon | ... enabled them to have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including | , Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Ar ... |
Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
Tyler Cowen | Bill Clinton, as well as economists Brad DeLong and | have all argued that the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act softened the impact of the ... |
Bob Harris | ... elody Maker, the music weekly. From 1972, the programme was presented by DJ | (nicknamed "Whispering Bob Harris", due to his quiet voice and "laid back" ... |
Oscar Wildian | ... itings of men like H.G. Wells and Graham Wallas, wrenching us away from the | dilettantism which had possessed undergraduate litterateurs for generation ... |
Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
Marvin Kalb | ... in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Roger Mudd and | (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by Chris Wallace i ... |
Tony Fletcher | ... of the tale. Another version of the night was recounted by Moon biographer | in the book Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legen |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
Martin Gardner | ... ng critically a wide range of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were | , Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resource ... |
Charles Osborne | ... ent", but still hails the work as "a triumph of pure theatre". Music critic | ascribes Toscas immense popularity with audiences to the taut effectivenes ... |
Karl Kraus | ... aplin is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as | , Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and ... |
Richard Roeper | ... ifah appeared in a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday. Film critic | stated that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for e ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... re Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice) | ;and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliam ... |
C.B. Forgotston | ... na, New Orleans attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog | relocated to Hammond in 2006. Lawson Swearingen, a former Democratic membe ... |
Marx | ... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by | ) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ... |
Cesare Pavese | ... y Giulio Einaudi. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with | , Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectual ... |
Captain Ángel Rivero Méndez | ... r of Spain, name unknown, resulting in a Spanish victory. Around this time, | was assigned the command of the Spanish forces in the fortress of San Cris ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... from that he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with | on the comic novel Good Omens, about the impending apocalypse |
Gene Siskel | ... mob movie ever" and is ranked #1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with | and Peter Travers, the film is widely considered one of the director's gre ... |
Alistair Cooke | ... ular the pursuit of objectivity. Taking as an example some comments made by | in 1935, where Cooke claimed to be without politics as a critic, Anderson ... |
Ring Lardner | ... g. The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by | 's well-known baseball short story "Alibi Ike" (1915), filmed in 1935 as t ... |
Roger Ebert | ... en, gave a wooden performance as Bruce Wayne. Other critics though, such as | , had kind words for Kilmer. Batman creator Bob Kane said in a Cinescape i ... |
Al Gore | ... e National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Former Vice President | presented, and artists such as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed |
Charles Dickens | ... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, | , and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
Charles Dickens | ... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it. | was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | In 1956, Robeson, along with close friend | , compared the anti-Stalinist revolution in Hungary to the "same sort of p ... |
Stephen Crane | ... mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like | and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with ... |
Larry Stark | ... 964) and Mister Downchild (1967), were short story collections published by | , whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to storie ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... tic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of | " |
Benito Mussolini | ... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up | 's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ... |
Boris Johnson | ... g, the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London | , followed by a performance organized by the London Organising Committee o ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... hen Cruz starred in the feature films Vanilla Sky and Blow. In Vanilla Sky, | 's interpretation of Open Your Eyes, she played Sofia Serrano, the love in ... |
Éric Rohmer | ... of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and | who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by making their own films, ... |
Tim Russert | Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to | , the network's Washington bureau chief. He took over on December 8, 1991, ... |
Frank Rich | ... e Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 176 performances and eight previews. | , in his review for The New York Times, wrote "In their scrupulous re-crea ... |
Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
Martin Gardner | ... raneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials, and books. | for example wrote that the trances of Cayce did happen, but the informatio ... |
Neal Conan | The show began broadcasting in November 1991. It has been hosted by | since late 2001. Each episode includes special guests involved in the topi ... |
Casey Viator | ... red his worst defeat, placing 10th at the AAU Mr. America, which was won by | . Mentzer considered his presence at this contest important later on, as i ... |
Frederick Douglass | ... or women. The suffrage movement was supported by William Lloyd Garrison and | |
John Willison Green | ... the rest of North America. Some Bigfoot advocates, such as cryptozoologist | , have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon. The most notable ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... oversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: | alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ... |
Raymond Arroyo | Similarly, in | 's autobiography of Mother Angelica, she recounts a similar event seeing a ... |
Waldemar Januszczak | ... . The discussion was chaired by Tim Marlow and also included Roger Scruton, | , Richard Cork, David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal. Emin 'wrote' about t ... |
Raymond Aron | ... sized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and | . According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who had met Weber duri ... |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... estructuring and labor tension, Pittsburgh steelmaker George McMurtry hired | 's landscape architectural firm in 1895 to design Vandergrift as a model t ... |
Guy Garvey | ... to be Tunde Adebimpe's "Pray For Rain", Martina Topley-Bird's "Psyche" and | 's "Bulletproof Love". The latter two tracks appear as remixes of the inte ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... ech activities to encompass censorship of art and literature. In that year, | deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned America ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Tim Marchman | In July 2007, New York Sun sportswriter | wrote about Henderson's accomplishments |
Ernest Hemingway | ... cknowledgments and Notes". The later US hardcover edition adds a quote from | , has 43 chapters, drops the subtitle, and expands the Acknowledgements an ... |
William Lloyd Garrison | ... vention demanded suffrage for women. The suffrage movement was supported by | and Frederick Douglass |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
Edward R. Murrow | McCarthyism declined in late 1954 after television journalist | and others publicly chastised McCarthy. The controversies over the Bill of ... |
Miranda Seymour | ... edition published as Under the Influence, 1979), and also was the basis for | 's novel The Summer of '39 (1998). In 1939 Riding and Graves parted, and i ... |
Damon Runyon | ... (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day), based on a story by | . She accepted her next role, in the Grand Guignol horror film What Ever H ... |
Julian Hawthorne | ... the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and | and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer, own ... |
Winston Churchill | ... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and | ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ... |
David Marsh | ... est singles ever made. Ranking it second of the three at #467, music critic | , identifying Junior Walker as "the one gutbucket star in Motown's heaven" ... |
Eric Sevareid | ... ore members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, | , Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding di ... |
Elizabeth Hawley | ... was subject to an unprecedented dispute by renowned Mt. Everest chronicler | and other mountaineers in Nepal . Pemba was later arrested and jailed for ... |
Joseph Devlin | ... of London for funerals at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. When | , an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killin ... |
John L. Allen, Jr. | ===Vatican responses=== | , Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has commented ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ly the highest quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic | describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... ed (and often marketed as) a fantasy novel, but like Peter Pan and Wendy by | and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, both of which influen ... |
Richard C. Hottelet | ... Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, | , Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, P ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
Charles Dickens | ... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to | . Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ... |
René Clair | ... camera on Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924). Man Ray also appeared in | 's film Entr'acte (1924), in a brief scene playing chess with Duchamp |
Libby Purves | ... Midweek, during which he booked Arthur Mullard as a stand-in presenter for | (interviewing Prof. A. J. Ayer). That programme was featured on the BBC Ra ... |
Dorothea Lange's | ... e Vine Hill area from 1940 to 1972. Florence Owens Thompson, made famous by | Migrant Mother photograph, died in Scotts Valley in 1983 |
Charles Barkley | ... s, science lessons or magic tricks. When they introduce themselves to kids, | also appears, but is immediately shooed away by Jay. In the "Science Sez" ... |
Rachel Beer | ... arn a living (however, he would later be left a generous legacy by an aunt, | , allowing him to buy the great estate of Heytesbury House in Wiltshire. H ... |
Lester Bangs | In contrast to contemporaries such as | , Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosync ... |
Mark Haines | ... -Fattah (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), | (host on CNBC television network), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstin ... |
Hermann Kelly | ... ne's story is "largely invented" according to Kathy's Real Story, a book by | , a Derry born journalist on the Irish Daily Mail and former editor of The ... |
Oliver North | ... iega. After the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered opposition from | in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Sheila Copps | ... n easily defeated his sole remaining opponent, former Deputy Prime Minister | by securing ninety-three per cent of the party delegates from across the c ... |
Mabel Dodge Luhan | ... tists. In addition to the attention brought by the Taos Society of Artists, | was instrumental in promoting Taos to artists and writers within her circl ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in | ' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ... |
Ronald Kessler | Author | mentioned Bono in his exposé book Inside Congress. Kessler pointed out tha ... |
Ida M. Tarbell | One of the original "muckrakers" was | , an American author and journalist. Her father was an oil producer whose ... |
Ray Suarez | ... on that day. Past regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, | , and Juan Williams. Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts Science Friday, with dis ... |
Anthony Haswell | ... cluded the assertion that Jefferson had fathered children by a slave woman. | was an English immigrant and Jeffersonian printer in Vermont. Haswell call ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Reese Schonfeld | ... ecutives later helped Ted Turner create CNN, with its first two presidents, | and Burt Reinhardt, coming from UPITN ranks |
Vittorio Messori | ... nalists who have worked independently on Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., | , Patrice de Plunkett, Maggy Whitehouse, Noam Friedlander many of the crit ... |
Charles Dickens | The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on | ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ... |
Patricia Bosworth | | , who had access to Clift's family and many people who knew and worked wit ... |
Steve Turner | ... no organized three book deals for Norman: a biography by English journalist | , which would be published by Word; a book of Norman's photographs; and an ... |
Larry Collins | ... urma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and | 's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted source) — his reco ... |
Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
Terry Pratchett | In the 2008 TV miniseries adaptation of | 's The Colour of Magic, the characters of Rincewind and Twoflower parody t ... |
Ambrose Bierce | ... red the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time, including | , Mark Twain and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on t ... |
Richard Ingrams | ... d he founded and edited the magazine Passing Wind, for which he interviewed | , who was then editor of Private Eye. Hislop joined the publication immedi ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, | , poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler and | declared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... n be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by | , where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved i ... |
Molly Meldrum | ... ver appear on the show, a promise they faithfully kept. Countdown presenter | shaved his head bald, imitating Garrett, for its final show on 19 July 198 ... |
Eric Zorn | ... midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field," according to Chicago Tribune columnist | . Fresh off his huge re-electoral mandate, one of Daley's first major acts ... |
Bill Dedman | ... 980s, a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by investigative reporter | showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middl ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
Robert Capa | ... helma Ritter and Raymond Burr. Stewart's character, a photographer based on | , must temporarily use a wheelchair; out of boredom he begins observing hi ... |
Albert Camus | ... y through the public prominence of two French writers, Jean-Paul Sartre and | , who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read journalism as well ... |
Gordon Brown | ... ewitt jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of | . The following day, he said that it appeared to have failed and was "over ... |
Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
Lester Bangs | ... Styx's early progressive rock sound, only cleaner." Rolling Stone reviewer | was more critical of the album, however, saying that "What's really intere ... |
George Ade | Kentland is the birthplace of the famous turn-of-the-century humorist | , author of such plays as The College Widow, Artie, and The Sultan of Sulu ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister | , who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ... |
John Hockenberry | ... olved in the topics discussed on that day. Past regular hosts have included | , Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams. Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts S ... |
Don Herbert | ... out various civic problems with righteous indignation. The second guest was | , TV's "Mr. Wizard", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fes ... |
Russell Baker | ... ge C. Marshall resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist | grew up in Morrisonville, Virginia and his book Growing Up highlights his ... |
Robert Christgau | ... 89 did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics including | who praised the "mysterioso guitar hook" in the first song titled Barnaby, ... |
Tom Brokaw | ... ture). The former NBC Nightly News anchor and current special correspondent | hosted a special edition of Meet the Press dedicated to the life of Russer ... |
William L. Shirer | ... tes, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian | , writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. A ... |
Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
Hodding Carter | In 1932 | founded the now-defunct Hammond Daily Courier, which he left in 1939 to mo ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Jack London | ... most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and | . A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municip ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... cht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and | , with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited i ... |
Dolores Ibárruri | ... organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the Spanish Civil War, | (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Although she supported e ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... e prefix Sir before their name; of the first eight premiers of Canada, only | refused the honour of a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Following the 1919 ... |
Helen Thomas | White House reporter | became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferen ... |
Tom Verducci | ... lf the problem. When he gets on base he's more trouble still." Sportswriter | wrote, "Baseball is designed to be an egalitarian sort of game in which on ... |
Tom Brokaw | Following Russert's death, | was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw ... |
Michael Weisskopf | In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, David Maraniss and | credit Bono with being the first person to recognize Gingrich's public rel ... |
Edouard Drumont | ... e who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards), such as Hubert-Joseph Henry and | , the director and publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper La Libre Parole ... |
Michael Edward Reagan | ... had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941–2001), their adopted son | (born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely on June 26, ... |
Malcolm Gladwell | ... cupy movement in creating meaningful change with the civil rights movement, | described King as "one of the foremost tacticians of the 20th century. |
Brian Moore | ... tand, to be named the Brian Moore Stand after television sports commentator | , who was a well-known Gills fan, but the club's financial situation has n ... |
Ion Mihai Pacepa | ... racted AIDS as a result of homosexual affairs with his bodyguards, based on | 's book Red Horizons in which Pacepa reported that he had a conversation w ... |
Greg Dyke | ... especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-General | and BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, who he blamed for lowering the sta ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... er, these three statues were later speculatively 'identified' by the writer | (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for t ... |
Giovanni Amendola | ... talitarianism" a "total" political power by state was formulated in 1923 by | who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from con ... |
René Lévesque | ... ed at the time and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including | , Robert Stanfield, and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be exce ... |
Nigel Dempster | ... Independent that this was despite opposition from Eye hacks Peter McKay and | , with the former taking the magazine's majority shareholder, Peter Cook, ... |
Arthur Ransome | ... s eloquence and intelligence by telling the story to his impressed friends. | uses the device to allow his young characters in the Swallows and Amazons ... |
Ayelet Waldman | ... married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers | and Michael Chabon |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
Dan Rather | ... osoft PowerPoint. It includes one image that depicts, according to Byrne, " | 's profile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlaid on the ... |
Michael Aspel | ... version of the event omitted the incident, bridging the gap with announcer | saying, "Mr Horne was taken ill at this point and has since died. |
Chuck Todd | ... tor on December 14, 2008. On December 18, 2008, NBC News Political Director | was named Contributing Editor of Meet the Press |
Arianna Huffington | ... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with | , and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ... |
Vittorio Messori | ... riticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like Piers Paul Read and | to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in reference to the biblical quo ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... trian School economist, libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist founder | |
Jeremy Vine | Notable people who were born in Epsom include television personalities | , Mel Giedroyc and Michaela Strachan (born in Ewell) as well as artist Sim ... |
Charles Dickens | ... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton): | sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ... |
Gil Noble | ... he 5,000 gathered there as he had earlier in the year to London. Journalist | called the concert "perhaps the most emotional and moving in Robeson's lon ... |
David Frum | ... espread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. | , a former speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, speculated that ... |
Frank W. Mayborn | ... on, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher | , who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee. T ... |
Henry Blofeld | ... Miriam Margolyes as the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC Radio cricket legends | and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie ... |
William Cullen Bryant | Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, | , poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of , and Natalie Portman |
Alfred Lansing | ... ulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, | , author of , and Natalie Portman |
Edward R. Murrow | ... Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of | 's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hot ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6th District, which is cur ... |
Charles Péguy | ... res has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet | (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... s Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, | , and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Pri ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will. | dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, The Man Who ... |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
Andrew Gimson | However, journalist | , writing in The Spectator, cast doubt upon the official version of events ... |
Éric Rohmer | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially | , Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and pr ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... hartoff and Irwin Winkler outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to | 's book, hiring William Goldman to write the screenplay. Goldman's adaptat ... |
Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
Simon Reynolds | The term "post-rock" is believed to have been coined by critic | in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 is ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot. However, notable film critic | gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that "Some will sa ... |
Hedda Hopper | ... Pictures (Kramer's brand new boss at the time), John Wayne of the MPA, and | of the Los Angeles Times. Cast and crew members were also affected. Howlan ... |
Henry Morton Stanley | ... ons to Africans. One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was | of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" fame, as he was a principal explorer of "T ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Many subsequent critics, | among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolve ... |
Robbie Ross | ... nt for his arrest was applied for on charges of sodomy and gross indecency. | found Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, Knightsbridge with Reginald Turner; both ... |
Howard Jacobson | ... enerations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and | . As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
Jonathan Aitken | ... d expulsion. The last individual to leave the Privy Council voluntarily was | , who left on 25 June 1997 following allegations of perjury |
Charlie Rose | ... Mónica, who is an actress. She has said that she had a happy childhood, and | of 60 Minutes described Cruz's childhood as a "simple life." In a foreshad ... |
Gregorios Xenopoulos | ... os Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, | , Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have bee ... |
Ariel Levy | ... pects of feminism; second-wave feminist Betty Friedan is a notable example. | used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinis ... |
Adam Gopnik | ... rt of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and | 's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's ... |
Stephen Glass | ... eviews for 2003's Shattered Glass, which tells the true story of journalist | , who was discovered fabricating stories as a writer for The New Republic. ... |
Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include | , Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably m ... |
Jon Krakauer | According to | , the era of commercialization of Everest started in 1985, when the summit ... |
Gordon Brown | The Rt. Hon. | , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the Unive ... |
David Axelrod | ... -known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama | , former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and former chairma ... |
Dave Marsh | ... . It's got to do with trying to keep Keith Moon on his fucking drum stool." | 's The New Book of Rock Lists ranks Moon at No. 1 on its list of The 50 Gr ... |
Arthur Machen | ... th M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and | . Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exist today, most of w ... |
Michael Foot | ... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, | , Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
Edgar O'Ballance | ... third parties affected by the Arab oil embargo. This claim was disputed by | , who claimed that no oil went to Israel during the blockade, and the Eila ... |
Bhob Stewart | ... ng and visual impact that he could now predict and use to dramatic effect." | of The Comics Journal mentioned to Gibbons in 1987, that the page layouts ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
Thomas Sowell | ... received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, Milton Friedman, and | |
Roger Ebert | ... tating: "Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told." | gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jun ... |
Daniel Defoe | His work as therapist caught the attention of | , whose youngest daughter Sophia he married in 1729 |
Roger Ebert | ... The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven. Film critic | speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( ... |
Vanessa Feltz | ... nders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, Jeremy Clarkson, | and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-Ge ... |
Albert Camus | ... f a Condemned Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as | , Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary shor ... |
Michael Chabon | ... y 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and | |
Alan Carpenter | ... lop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the State Labor Caucus. | was elected unoppose |
Kingsley Martin | ... Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, | , J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
Henry Winter | ... erms of discipline and spirit" and a "defensive masterplan" by David Pleat, | wrote, "it can only be a matter of time before he [Dalglish] is confirmed ... |
Bob Phillips | ... . The steel house was featured on an episode of Texas Country Reporter with | shortly before Bruno's death |
Rudyard Kipling | ... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though | had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ... |
John Wilkes | The journalist | published a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ... |
Heinrich Heine | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, | , Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Aug ... |
David Maraniss | In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, | and Michael Weisskopf credit Bono with being the first person to recognize ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... ws like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, | 's Person to Person and on the shows of Jack Benny and Red Skelton, on whi ... |
Almeida Garrett | ... uguese poetry develops its character from the work of its Romantic epitome, | , a very prolific writer who helped shape the genre with the masterpiece ( ... |