| Lynn Garrison | ... and F4U experience. Bob Love, a Korean war ace, Chuck Lyford, Ben Hall and | are believed to have flown combat missions but it has never been confirmed ... |
| PowerBASIC | ... decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to | and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue support and development of it |
| Ibn Battuta | ... enone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de' Conti, or | , a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle E ... |
| John Cameron Mitchell | ... Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", which opens the film Shortbus (2006) by | |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Higgins | ... rs who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based in Jersey include | , and Sinclair Forrest, author of the 2007 novel, The Dragon of Angur |
| Nas | ... , several other Wu-Tang members made appearances, as well as Black Thought, | and Rick Ross, among others. Shortly after Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang was complet ... |
| Vyasa | ... srava's epic Mahabharata, the Kurukshetra War is narrated by a character in | 's Jaya, which itself is narrated by a character in Vaisampayana's Bharata ... |
| Jules Verne | Additionally, inspired by the fiction of | , Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion ... |
| David Hume | Popper and | agreed that there is often a psychological belief that the sun will rise t ... |
| Bryan Fuller | Another remake, from Pushing Daisies creator | , is in development for NBC. A reboot of The Munsters, it is intended to b ... |
| Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | ... ized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic; and | , who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics. Ibn al-Haytham is said ... |
| Turbo C | ... period and features the Borland "black screen" similar to Turbo Pascal 4.0, | 1.0/1.5, and Turbo Prolog 1.1. Borland did not adopt its trademark "blue s ... |
| Holly Black | The children's fantasy series "The Spiderwick Chronicles", by | and Tony DiTerlizzi, includes will o'the wisps; they are listed in "Arthur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristo of Pella | ... sed only in the Dialogue, may be identical to a lost dialogue attributed to | on the divine nature of the Messiah, the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus (c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
| John Betjeman | ... d into writing. In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the | poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's ... |
| Tony DiTerlizzi | ... e children's fantasy series "The Spiderwick Chronicles", by Holly Black and | , includes will o'the wisps; they are listed in "Arthur Spiderwick's Guide ... |
| Guillem de Castro | ... translated as 'The Lord'), is based on the play Mocedades del Cid (1621) by | . Both plays were based on the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (nicknamed ... |
| Tatian | ... ests that Justin had composed an early harmony along the lines of his pupil | 's Diatesseron. However, the existence of a harmony independent of a colle ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plato | The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to | , is of a story within a story within a story |
| Lenny Henry | ... with his contribution that he decided to make a regular fixture out of Bob. | made sporadic appearances throughout this series, but was not established ... |
| Larry Wall | ... t list) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs (originally | 's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matc ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on | 's Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written ... |
| Peter Cook | ... ewbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred | and Susannah York. That saw the start of a relationship with producer/dire ... |
| Wesley Clark | ... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidate | in which Dole correctly predicted that Clark would lose the New Hampshire ... |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... arship of the Italian Renaissance. His cousin and contemporary was the poet | , who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine patron ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by | around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem by dropping the concept of a fix ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... iverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, | , Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra ... |
| Bobby Jindal | ... ean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. The election of | as Governor of Louisiana has been hailed as pathbreaking. He is the first ... |
| Richard Dutcher | ... filmmaker Don Bluth '54, Jeopardy! all-time champion Ken Jennings '00, and | , the "Father of Mormon Cinema." In the music industry BYU is represented ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... cal, Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, like | . Russian search teams at Peenemünde found a German translation of a book ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saitō Mokichi | ... on of his poetry anthology Sachio kashu in 1920. His own disciples included | and Tsuchiya Bunmei |
| Gerald Durrell | ... he Jersey Zoological Park) founded by the naturalist, zookeeper, and author | |
| Natsume Sōseki | As an author, he studied under | , who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. Terada is best known f ... |
| Moses | ... n. Abraham taught science to the Egyptians , who in turn taught the Greeks. | set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of Rome, resist ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and | |
| Abraham Maslow | ... re, or had been, prison inmates, and 5% were male prostitutes. Psychologist | asserted that Kinsey did not consider "". The data represented only those ... |
| Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | ... neighbours through a miracle. A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by | , and won the Golden Globe Award that year for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Neil Young | ... single remake of We Are the World. On October 24, 2010, Bridges appeared at | 's annual Bridge School Benefit concert and played a set with Neko Case |
| Taylor Branch | ... s. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, | in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy adminis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh Downs | ... on, The Today Show with Bryant Gumbel, The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with | , The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, and several others. She also toured E ... |
| Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... f the original 'Beachcomber' D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist | ); they had two daughters and one son. In 1953, he divorced his second wif ... |
| Brothers Grimm | ... a Barbe bleue (Bluebeard). Many of Perrault's stories were rewritten by the | , continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as T ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 by | enabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... ch John investigates the brutal murder of a former girlfriend, Isabel by an | style magician, Josh Wright. The story introduces, or reintroduces many ch ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | In the essay "The Painter of Modern Life" (1864), | gives a literary definition: "By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugi ... |
| Janet | ... on a number of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and | and Stewart Farrar. In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of sol ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. | called Wisdom his "favourite clown" |
| Girolamo Benivieni | trip to Florence, he met Angelo Poliziano, the courtly poet | , and probably the young Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola. For the rest ... |
| Darko Macan | Following a brief interlude by Croatian writer | , the series was then taken over by Brian Azzarello, once again hired on t ... |
| Chuck Jones | Renowned animator/director | is reported to have said, "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Bla ... |
| Jan Potocki | ... is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated. | 's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1805) has extremely rich interl ... |
| Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
| Augustus Asplet Le Gros | ... r Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and | . Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey ... |
| Paolo Soleri | Yavapai County is home to Arcosanti, a prototype arcology, developed by | , and under construction since 1970. Arcosanti is open Monday through Sund ... |
| 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 ... |
| Willmoore Kendall | ... ch as Harry V. Jaffa, praised this development. Critics of Lincoln, notably | and Mel Bradford, argued that Lincoln dangerously expanded the scope of th ... |
| Frederick Tennyson | ... hilippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. | and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contempo ... |
| Dave Carley | ... s been translated into English (2007) by his granddaughter Arense Lund, and | |
| Steve Ditko | ... utlaw status. Moore said he was trying to "come up with this quintessential | character—someone who's got a funny name, whose surname begins with a 'K,' ... |
| Edmundo O'Gorman | ... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, | , Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ... |
| Enid Blyton | ... S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, | who lived in Beaconsfield and Edgar Wallace who lived at Bourne End and is ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... the Northeast. Several notable musicians passed through his band, including | , Coleman Hawkins, and Cozy Cole. Sweatman also continued to record for su ... |
| Sir Thomas Browne | ... orated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of | are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictio ... |
| Milton Friedman | In 1947, Popper founded with Friedrich Hayek, | , Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to defend classical ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ar Requiem of Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of | , Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem includes a traditional Polish hymn ... |
| George Washington | ... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidate | spent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist | . It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of apprehension, an ... |
| Sophocles | ... nnos), also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by | that was first performed c. 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles's thre ... |
| Brian Azzarello | ... interlude by Croatian writer Darko Macan, the series was then taken over by | , once again hired on the strength of his own series for Vertigo, 100 Bull ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
| Brooke Shields | ... te Bill Clinton on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's | sitcom Suddenly Susan in January 1997 (shortly after losing the presidenti ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... t, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and | were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview | . Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ... |
| Bernie Taupin | ... 85 and scored two No.1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by | , Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf and was engineered by Grammy ... |
| Zoroaster | ... his character is taken from the ancient prophet usually known in English as | , the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a ... |
| ANTLR | ... escent parser which is usually coded by hand (although not always; see e.g. | for an LL(*) recursive-descent parser generator) |
| François Quesnay | ... communalism and egalitarianism. This influenced European intellectuals like | , an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ften used a historical background for his plays - among his influences were | , Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw. In his drama ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer | . He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary boo ... |
| Ann Jellicoe | ... lean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of | . Simultaneously he developed in the field of music and played a pivotal r ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
| Ptolemy | ... It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a reg ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... connotation. The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher | (1813–1855). In The Concept of Anxiety (also known as The Concept of Dread ... |
| H. G. Wells | ... , Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was | who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity ... |
| Wace | | is Jersey's earliest known author. Printing arrived in Jersey only in the ... |
| Frank Oz | ... becoming typecast as a purveyor of solely children's entertainment, Henson, | , and his team targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on the ... |
| Nigel Tranter | ... others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction. | wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace, published in 1975, which is s ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. | , Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were als ... |
| Bram Stoker | The Will o' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of | 's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jona ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... plays - among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, | , and George Bernard Shaw. In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... known account is presented in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring | , written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland. The ... |
| Eric Idle | Next there was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe ( | , Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My ... |
| Elinor Glyn | ... en ordre, edited by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include | , John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augu ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
| Denise Mina | | was unknown in comics when she took over the title in 2006, but had three ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... ion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially Samuel Beckett, | , and (and other Russian novelists) |
| C. S. Lewis | At least one line in the | book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ... |
| Marc Allégret | ... iterary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). In 1916, | , only 15 years old, became his lover. Marc was the son of Elie Allégret, ... |
| Blake | ... ll as politically revolutionary visions of a post-monarchist world, such as | 's portrayal of Newton as a divine geometer, or David's propagandistic pai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien | According to | , the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence t ... |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile | , military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived a ... |
| John Lemprière | ... ted by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, | , Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le G ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, | along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then Michael Palin cam ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and | . In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he def ... |
| Randall Wallace | ... ted in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, written by | , and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland. The film, a highly fictionalize ... |
| Charles Darwin | In On the Origin of Species (1859), | proposed evolution through natural selection, a theory central to modern b ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
| Amable de Bourzeys | ... Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, | , and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were also appointed. Using h ... |
| Bernard McKenna | In a bar about 1975, he asked Graham Chapman and | to do a "treatment" for a "mad movie". They asked a thousand pounds, Moon ... |
| Bill Wyman | ... The line-up did not at that time include drummer Charlie Watts and bassist | . By 1963, they were finding their stride as well as popularity. By 1964, ... |
| Bob Dylan | Smith mentioned his admiration for | in several interviews, citing him as an early musical influence. He once c ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ... |
| Terry Jones | ... was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, | , Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then M ... |
| Lorne Michaels | ... ances in March, April, May, and September. Henson recalled that "I saw what | was going for and I really liked it and wanted to be a part of it, but som ... |
| 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; ... |
| George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jacques Cassagne | ... finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and | (the King's librarian) were also appointed. Using his influence as Colbert ... |
| Hermann Oberth | ... and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German | and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the foun ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... a book called The Horse And His Boy after the events related in the novel. | 's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, ... |
| Thomas S. Monson | ... atter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and | '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. ... |
| Gerald Gardner | ... f the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan | sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in ... |
| Harry Shearer | ... gh her "Itchy" and "Scratchy" voices were performed by Dan Castellaneta and | , respectively |
| Ezra Pound | ... in Paris in March 1928. Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: | , W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met wi ... |
| Michael O'Donoghue | ... ting for the characters, and frequently disparaged Henson's creations; one, | , memorably quipped, "I won't write for felt. |
| Washington Irving | ... Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including | , whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dut ... |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on | ; however, when he defended pederasty in the public edition of Corydon (19 ... |
| Pausanias | ... indeed have touched with excitement. But it was being shown in the time of | in the 2nd century AD |
| 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, ... |
| Saint Paul | ... ands immediately to the east of the transept, or ritual choir; the altar of | (B) in the eastern, and that of St Peter (C) in the western apse. A cylind ... |
| Frank Marcus | ... alone on stage". But when it opened at the Palace Theatre in February 1968, | , reviewing for Plays and Players, commented that: "She sings well. The ti ... |
| 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 ... |
| M. Thomas Inge | In the introduction to his 1969 book Agrarianism in American Literature, | defines agrarianism by the following basic tenets |
| Claude Perrault | ... influence as Colbert's administrative aide, he was able to get his brother, | , employed as an a designer the new section of the Louvre, built between 1 ... |
| John Paul II | ... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope | , head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ... |
| Tim Rice | ... ay writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield, | who is from Amersham and who is from Aylesbury |
| August Derleth | | later made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his ... |
| Sheridan Morley | ... n 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As | later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done ... |
| Xenophon | In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle and | promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ... |
| Nas | ... In addition, Raekwon was selected as 'Emcee of the Year' (fellow New Yorker | had won in 2008). Their staff justified this pick with this description of ... |
| Masaoka Shiki | His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author | , who accepted him as a student. Itō established the literary magazine Ara ... |
| Hiroshi Aramata | ... ntral character in the fantasy/historical fiction novel Teito Monogatari by | |
| Dawid Wdowiński | ... Betar, Hatzohar and Polish Irgun members, under the political leadership of | , and known as Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (Jewish Military Union). There we ... |
| John Webster | ... l best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in | 's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971. In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. | 's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ... |
| Livy | ... tended to men, and celebrations took place five times a month. According to | , the extension happened in an era when the leader of the Bacchus cult was ... |
| Tony Dungy | ... tatistically worst rushing defense in the league during the regular season. | became only the third man to have won the Super Bowl as both a head coach ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... arrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), about the "unmaking" of a | retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixot ... |
| Aristotle | In Greece, Hesiod, | and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roma ... |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer | , who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprison ... |
| Berlioz | ... Hauptmann, acquiring the then-conventional prejudices against the music of | , Liszt and Wagner. (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter ... |
| Hesiod | In Greece, | , Aristotle and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential we ... |
| Horace | ... rian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, | , and Virgil. They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tillin ... |
| Martin Luther | At Wittenberg in 1522 and at Nuremberg in 1524, | encouraged him to convert the order's territory into a secular principalit ... |
| Pausanias | ... of fifty Roman miles from Peuce by the Danube Delta, and the temple there. | has been told that the island is "covered with forests and full of animals ... |
| Catullus | ... . At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitianus and | (or, less frequently, year 826 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 for t ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... full term of his presidency. The late President's brother, Attorney General | , with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in ... |
| Thomas Mann | ... arius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively. Such connections were taken up by | , who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a ... |
| Marc Allégret | ... 27, he travelled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover | . He went successively to Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Ou ... |
| Pausanias | ... ce, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by Aleus, | was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic pe ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
| Franz Kafka | ... strife during the war. However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and | in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred | as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges had previ ... |
| David A. Bednar | ... S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, | '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876 ... |
| Harry Vardon | ... wo golfers from Jersey have won The Open Championship 7 times between them, | winning 6 times and Ted Ray winning once. Harry and Ted also won the US Op ... |
| Virgil | ... Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and | . They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tilling of the soi ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ... |
| Fernão Lopes | ... n was the natural son of Peter I by a woman named Teresa, who, according to | , was a noble Galician. In the eighteenth century, António Caetano de Sous ... |
| Stanisław Lem | ... contains a science fiction story written by one of that novel's characters. | 's Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius from The Cyberia ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... ch notables as former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor | |
| Wagner | ... ng the then-conventional prejudices against the music of Berlioz, Liszt and | . (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter, who would become ... |
| Charles Wyville Thomson | Prompted by the Scot, | —of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—the Royal Soc ... |
| Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
| Doreen Valiente | ... original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess | , along with alterations and additions that have been made since then, is ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government. | , in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ... |
| Michael Morton | ... ppeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by | from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fulke Greville | ... es Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – | – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George ... |
| Marco Polo | ... ten report back to the Mongols. Around the same time, the Venetian explorer | became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and hi ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
| Charles Darwin | | 's theory of evolution is based on three principles: natural selection, he ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hans Reichenbach | ... can be resolved, and that discretization can therefore remove the paradox. | has proposed that the paradox may arise from considering space and time as ... |
| John M. Ford | ... uch as Gene Roddenberry's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, | 's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ... |
| Orson Scott Card | ... re and journalism, BYU has produced several best-selling authors, including | '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, and Stephenie Meyer '95. Other media per ... |
| Coen brothers | ... cademy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the | in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and H ... |
| Orson Welles | ... Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by | . Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a hear ... |
| Benjamin Nugent | Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, a biography by | , was rushed to publication and hit stores shortly after From a Basement o ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... rs, including Hannah Higgins, daughter of fluxus artists Alison Knowles and | , assert that although Maciunas was a key participant, there were many mor ... |
| Malcolm Hardee | ... 'Balloon Dance' performed by The Greatest Show on Legs, including comedian | . The theme tune was recorded by Roy Wood and was released as a singl |
| Newt Gingrich | ... st Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular then-House Speaker | , warning America that Dole would work in concert with the Republican Cong ... |
| Sulpicius Severus' | ... ry developed in association with that of St. Martin of Tours as a result of | Vita Sancti Martini and spread early to western Britain. The villages of S ... |
| John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
| Robert Rozhdestvensky | ... e war", and Dmitry Kabalevsky's War Requiem, a setting of a poem written by | especially for the composition. Herbert Howells's unaccompanied Requiem us ... |
| Abraomas Kulvietis | ... rotestant Lithuanian pastors as professors (e.g. Stanislovas Rapolionis and | ), making the Albertina also a centre of Lithuanian language and literatur ... |
| Sheri L. Dew | ... FO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO | , and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree |
| Nitobe Inazō | ... pacifism made a lasting impression upon Uchimura. He and his Sapporo friend | were influential in the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo as a ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | Several Star Trek tales are stories or events within stories, such as | 's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Fi ... |
| George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
| Herodotus | The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of | around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; ... |
| Andrew Bisset | See: | . Black Roots White Flowers, Golden Press, 197 |
| Stendhal | ... merent bonds are characterized by "entropy" crystallization as described by | in his 1821 treatise On Love, where a new love infatuation perceptually be ... |
| Mark Twain | ... in the past, among the most renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, | , Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian write ... |
| Henry King | ... E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – | – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Lon ... |
| Rob Zombie | ... almost $20,000 to build. Barris also built the DRAG-U-LA (which inspired a | song by the same name), a dragster built from a coffin, which Grandpa used ... |
| 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 ... |
| Otto Jespersen | ... anesca, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), Henry Sweet (1845–1912), | (1860–1943), and Harold Palmer (1877–1949). They worked on setting languag ... |
| Alessandro Barbero | | (2007). The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the ... |
| Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
| Leonard Cohen | ... ayed the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, and | |
| Artie Shaw | ... " flavoring. Noone was an important influence on later clarinetists such as | , Irving Fazola and Benny Goodman |
| Edmund Waller | Buckinghamshire later became home to some notable literary characters. | was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both ... |
| Stephenie Meyer | ... g authors, including Orson Scott Card '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, and | '95. Other media personalities include award-winning ESPN sportscaster and ... |
| Pindar | ... atises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and | |
| Zoroaster | ... in books to fall into my hands. They are Chaldean books [...] of Esdras, of | and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief and dry interp ... |
| Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
| Pausanias | ... ers: Achilleion in Messenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia ( | , III.25,4) Nicolae Densuşianu (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized ... |
| Ron Paul | ... y combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and | strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which they v ... |
| Greek theatre | ... as a model for Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Gallus and Charicles. The second, the | , which Böttiger had been interested in since his time as a drama critic i ... |
| Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like | and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds has his ... |
| Blind Harry | ... d Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by | the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years ... |
| John Wycliffe | ... val residents included Edward the Confessor, who had a palace at Brill, and | who lived in |
| Matt Damon | ... Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside | , Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld. Both the film, and Brid ... |
| François Quesnay | ... were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism; leading physiocrats like | were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies |
| Brandon Sanderson | ... has produced several best-selling authors, including Orson Scott Card '75, | '00 & '05, and Stephenie Meyer '95. Other media personalities include awar ... |
| Giannina Braschi | Latin American writer | wrote the philosophical novel "United States of Banana" based on Walter Ka ... |
| Goethe | ... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of | . It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sappho | ... ophical treatises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were | and Pindar |
| 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 ... |
| Hank Moody | In season 5 of the television series Californication, the protagonist | mentions the Kinsey report as a derogatory comment directed towards the ch ... |
| Thomas Campbell | ... m Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – | – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture. Folk rock songs like | 's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the drea ... |
| Martin Luther | ... dreas Karlstadt. However, he developed his own principles and fell out with | over the eucharistic controversy (1524). He had his own views on the sacra ... |
| Brian Henson | ... he commercial failure of Labyrinth demoralized Henson to the point that son | remembered the time of its release as being "the closest I've seen him to ... |
| Hermes Trismegistus | ... , which fascinated him, as did the late Classical Hermetic writers, such as | . The Kabbalah and the Hermetica were thought in Pico's time to be as anci ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... ed from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. | 's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words |
| Hountondji | ... ican socialism" in the sense Nyerere, one of the "ideology of continuity" ( | left) was arrested from |
| Margaret Wander Bonanno | ... n of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection, | 's Strangers from the Sky (which adopts the conceit that it is book from t ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... ets culminated in what they later described as "auto-destructive art", with | (and Moon delightedly following suit) destroying their equipment in elabor ... |
| Attila the Stockbroker | The performers at the festival in 2009 included 3 Daft Monkeys, | , the Swanvesta Social Club, and Rory McLeod |
| Leo McCarey | Although Hal Roach employed writers and directors such as H. M. Walker, | , James Parrott and James W. Horne on Laurel and Hardy films, Laurel would ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... d not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, | , or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere. Gershwin responded to the critics, " ... |
| Jane Porter | In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in , and | penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in ... |
| St Bernard | ... of the order are undoubtedly to be attributed to the enthusiastic piety of | , abbot of the first of the monastic colonies, subsequently sent forth in ... |
| Saint Paul | ... d the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter and | , convinced Attila to turn away from the city. According to a version of t ... |
| Augustine | Ambrose ranks with | , Jerome, and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church ... |
| Michael Palin | ... nes, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then | came out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only e ... |
| Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | ... digenous languages of the area have the ñ sound. Another theory states that | and the crew of the ship Florida, wrecked off the Sonora coast, were force ... |
| Paul | ... was helped by Ambrose's sermons, owes more to him than to any writer except | |
| Rabban Bar Sauma | ... Silk Road was in the hand of Genghis Khans' daughters. The Mongol diplomat | visited the courts of Europe in 1287–1288 and provided a detailed written ... |
| Alexei Sayle | ... therland and Henry hosted a late-night show - with the up and coming comics | and Helen Atkinson-Wood called O.T.T. (standing for "Over the Top") which ... |
| Roger of Wendover | ... he same time Saint Rumwold was buried in Buckingham. In the medieval period | was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and Anne Boleyn also owned proper ... |
| Agatha Christie | Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by | . Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long ... |
| Thomas Ford | ... – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – | – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Regi ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... He was then joined by the Pythons, Innes, Carol Cleveland and special guest | , to perform "The Lumberjack Song" |
| Plato | ... ns of people his starting-point. Aspects of Socrates were first united from | , who also combined with them many of the principles established by earlie ... |
| Steven Barnes | ... d Gen Jaramet-Sauner), and J.R. Rasmussen's "Research" in the anthology II. | 's novelization of "Far Beyond the Stars" partners with Greg Cox's (Volume ... |
| John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
| Vilhelm Moberg | ... ncluding Erik Norelius, whose personal journals in part formed the basis of | ’s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States, The Emigrants. M ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eddie Braben | ... the plane. John Ammonds, the show's producer, replaced Hills and Green with | , who had just parted from Ken Dodd. With Braben as chief writer, Morecamb ... |
| Michael Jackson | In 1984, American musician | 's album Thriller became the first album by a Western artist to sell over ... |
| John Cage | ... noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by | 's prepared piano.) Typically, he played a conventional instrument, in sta ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... ized in three films — Judgement at Nuremberg, where the character played by | is a widow whose fictional German general was tried and put to death for t ... |
| Aristotle | ... eloped the whole of this material into the unity of a comprehensive system. | of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher ... |
| John Davidson | ... ion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – | – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michae ... |
| Augustine | ... late handling of Biblical and doctrinal subjects. His spiritual successor, | , whose conversion was helped by Ambrose's sermons, owes more to him than ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... e film The Contender, in which he co-starred, Bridges recorded a version of | 's standard "Ring of Fire" with Kim Carnes that played over the pivotal op ... |
| Augustine's | ... Bishop of Milan at the time of Augustine's conversion, and is mentioned in | Confessions |
| Jane Clayson Johnson | ... merica Sharlene Wells Hawkes '86 and former co-host of CBS's The Early Show | '90. In entertainment and television, BYU is represented by Jon Heder '02 ... |
| Jerome K. Jerome | ... e visited there and John Wilkes was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include | who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who ... |
| Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
| Paul | ... and is not merely a witness. Thus in Acts 23:21, over forty men, enemies of | , bound themselves, under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they h ... |
| K. Satchidanandan | ... t malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, | , Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. ... |
| Alfred Kinsey | ... sire. It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by | , Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary ... |
| 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 ... |
| St. Augustine of Hippo | ... posing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised | , his celebrated convert |
| Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 by | has several characters seeing a play called 'The Courier's Tragedy' by the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Earl Hamner, Jr. | The Waltons is an American television series created by | , based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. ... |
| Bruce Schneier | However, at the end of the AES process, | , a developer of the competing algorithm Twofish, wrote that while he thou ... |
| Aristotle | ... posed, among the earliest recorded being those of Aristotle and Archimedes. | (384 BC−322 BC) remarked that as the distance decreases, the time needed t ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... les singing and playing acoustic guitar of the film's theme song written by | , "Man in Me |
| Sukumar Azhikode | ... s home to prominent malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, | , K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, ... |
| Bobby Kennedy | ... on with the murders of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator | , and backed into the shadows, largely to make way for the feminist revolu ... |
| Sammy Cahn | ... United States to star in a Broadway production of the James Van Heusen and | musical comedy Walking Happy. His performance was nominated for a Tony Awa ... |
| 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. ... |
| Jeff Nuttall | ... ll articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war. A key text is | 's book Bomb Culture (1968) which traced this pervasive theme in popular c ... |
| Jordanes | ... s appearance. There is, however, a possible second-hand source, provided by | , who cites a description given by Priscus. It suggests a person of Asian ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | The Bodleian is used as background scenery in | Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the librar ... |
| Augustine's | In this same passage of | Confessions is a curious anecdote which bears on the history of reading |
| Ralph Ellison | ... The term was used in this manner in the title of the book Invisible Man, by | , in reference to the protagonist, likely modeled after himself, being ove ... |
| Ronnie Barker | ... by, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright ( | ), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sel ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, | who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Ed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cole Porter | The Kinsey report was mentioned in | 's contemporaneous song, "Too Darn Hot", for his musical Kiss Me Kate (194 ... |
| Galen of Pergamon | ... the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine a ... |
| Pope Innocent III | ... is doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to | , the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and ... |
| Lenny Henry | | appeared on the BBC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which ... |
| David Leland | The event was filmed and a motion picture version, directed by | and photographed by Chris Menges was released on DVD on 17 November 2003. ... |
| Nyerere | ... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense | , one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from |
| Douglas Coupland | ... g), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; "McJob", from by | ; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita ... |
| Augustine | ... author is now usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster, or pseudo-Ambrose. Because | cites part of the commentary on Romans as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has bee ... |
| Jon Heder | ... Clayson Johnson '90. In entertainment and television, BYU is represented by | '02 (best known for his role as Napoleon Dynamite), Golden Globe-nominated ... |
| Sarah Joseph (author) | ... ke Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, | , Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
| T. S. Eliot | ... for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, | who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Bl ... |
| Archimedes | Before 212 BC, | had developed a method to derive a finite answer for the sum of infinitely ... |
| Augustine's | In a passage of | Confessions in which Augustine wonders why he could not share his burden w ... |
| 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 |
| Colin Dexter | ... libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway (one of Bodley's librarians) in | 's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead. The denouement of Michael Inne ... |
| Thomas Love Peacock | ... e Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend | who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cotta ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zack Snyder | ... fter a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film, director | 's Watchmen was released in 2009 |
| Venantius Fortunatus | A vita of Hilary was written by | c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in ... |
| Augustine | ... eteris et Novi Testamenti, which manuscripts have traditionally ascribed to | . Most scholars consider this work to be that of Pseudo-Ambrose as well |
| Malcolm de Chazal | ... olas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian writers like | , Marcel Cabon, Moose Allain, Félix Laventure, Loys Masson and Marie-Thérè ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Gibson | ... nlein; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by | ; "nymphet" from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
| 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 ... |
| Paul-Jean Toulet | ... rnardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and | . Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel Cabon, Moose Allain, Fé ... |
| Thomas Wolfe | ... econd half of the 15th century to the present (the last author discussed is | ) |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... consfield and served as Member of Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe. | and his wife Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by ... |
| Hosea Ballou | According to | , then Pierre Batiffol (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a be ... |
| Philip Norman | In the words of British dramatist and novelist | , "the only point concerning Mick Jagger's influence over 'young people' t ... |
| Plato | ... uspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his translations of the works of | from Greek into Latin under Lorenzo’s enthusiastic patronage. Giovanni app ... |
| Statius | Later legends (beginning with a poem by | in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his ... |
| Joseph Mundassery | ... Books set its first shop in Thrissur by former education Minister Professor | , it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, Kovilan, VKN, Uroob, E ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... aq has undercut the influence of this doctrine within the Republican Party. | , mayor of New York at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ... |
| Menander | The origin of Attila's name is unclear. | used the term Attila as the name of the Volga River. Pritsak considers it ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | ... ttle for a time in Florence in November 1484 and met Lorenzo de' Medici and | , on the astrologically auspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his tr ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, | , and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel C ... |
| Plato | ... rojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. | named Achilles the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy |
| Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
| William of Rubruck | ... e had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as | , Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau. ... |
| John Milton | Harris Fletcher (1892–1979), academic, author, and leading authority on | was born in Superior Townshi |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... g 4th-century Latin writers earlier than Ambrose, Hilary holds first place. | called him "the illustrious doctor of the churches", and his works continu ... |
| Katherine Jackson | ... , Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph and | and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet. Growing up, La Toya ... |
| John McCain | ... followed in regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as | , Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrog ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by | and others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ... |
| Paulin Hountondji | ... ining egalitarianism. Hence, socialism. Hence, also, scientific socialism." | has emphasized the breaks in the thinking of Nkrumah. During the early Nkr ... |
| Joseph Heller | ... of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 (from the title of | 's novel). Alternatively, the author's name may become the neologism, alth ... |
| John Junkin | ... xclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter); Barry Cryer and | were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows (Braben eventually ... |
| Kenneth Grahame | He also adapted | 's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The t ... |
| Roy Clarke | Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by | which ran for four series (26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs) a ... |
| David Lodge | ... ting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, | , Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The ... |
| Frank Oz | ... Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use | as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in The Empire Strikes B ... |
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| Kovilan | ... ent Corner"). Thrissur is home to prominent malayalam literary figures like | , Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Jo ... |
| Thomas Day | ... ds of slaves. Referring to this seeming contradiction, English abolitionist | wrote in a 1776 letter, "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, | , Parmigianino and Titian. The most remarkable of his works are Mercury an ... |
| Martin Duberman | ... e results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist | , "Instead of Kinsey's 37% (men who had at least one homosexual experience ... |
| George Lucas | ... lation of enigmatic Jedi Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator | that he use Frank Oz as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in ... |
| Steven Seagal | ... available throughout the world. Aikido was exhibited in Hollywood films by | in the 1990s |
| Khal Torabully | ... oetry. Other Port Louis born poets and writers, like Robert Edward Hart and | , also made of this intricate and fascinating town the setting of some of ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... writing in The Red House Mystery (although this was severely criticised by | for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, ... |
| Sulpicius Severus | ... ble. More trustworthy are the notices in Saint Jerome (De vir. illus. 100), | (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's own writings |
| Manetho | ... ons ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to | are also addressed |
| John Milton | ... acted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. | lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and ... |
| Dorothy Tennov | Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist | to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a roma ... |
| Barry Cryer | ... BBC (signing an exclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter) | ;and John Junkin were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows ( ... |
| Kovilan | ... fessor Joseph Mundassery, it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, | , VKN, Uroob, Edassery, M T Vasudevan Nair, K G Sankarapillai and Sarah Jo ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
| John Lennon | ... ay around as was often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame" co-writers | and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Bro ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
| Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of | 's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character ... |
| Tina Turner | ... ity concert, he performed at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium; he did a duet with | of "It's Only Rock and Roll", and the performance was highlighted by Jagge ... |
| David Hume | ... erning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher | , published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Trea ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... were the only ones by Western actors permitted by Enver Hoxha to be shown. | once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown" |
| Giambattista Vico | ... on the methodological approach of Hobbes include those of Locke , Spinoza , | (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). David Hume made what he considered ... |
| Jan Timman | ... ccount of the 1972 World Chess Championship match, co-authored by Euwe with | , was written in 1972 but not published in English until 2002 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... Orbit 18 edited by Damon Knight. Robinson gave the novella in rough form to | to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in ... |
| Artie Shaw | ... Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller and | |
| Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... ikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, | , Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xeno ... |
| Martin Luther | ... was as a disgusted response to Tetzel's activities selling indulgences that | wrote his famous 95 Theses, which he sent to Albert on 31 October 1517 and ... |
| Plato | The Greek philosopher, | (429–347 BC), identified her with the Libyan deity Neith, the war goddess ... |
| David Hume | ... Locke , Spinoza , Giambattista Vico (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). | made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply ... |
| Stephen Oppenheimer | ... nd the conclusion has been questioned even by the authors themselves and by | , who pointed out that much earlier migrations, 5000 to 10,000 years ago f ... |
| Gary Oldman | ... Brown was featured in Tony Scott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, | , Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in th ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... s, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, | , Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine ... |
| Peadar Ua Laoghaire | ... s by Henry Glassie. The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by | , is a version of the tale |
| Malcolm Bradbury | ... campus novels, setting a precedent for later generations of writers such as | , David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associa ... |
| Molière | ... rneille’s Tite et Bérénice (1671) was inferior to Racine’s play (Bérénice). | was also prominent at the time and Corneille even composed the comedy Psyc ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. Along with | he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusi ... |
| Philo | ... West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like | , Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchang ... |
| Walt Disney | For | , she played Lucifer the Cat in the feature film Cinderella, Lambert's mot ... |
| the actor | ... le producers, all long-time staffers. Adam Sandler (not to be confused with | ) is the current producer of the show. Stan Blits, who joined the show in ... |
| Jean de Joinville | ... t of Provence, perhaps due to the strong relationship she had with her son. | tells of the time when Queen Margaret was giving birth and Blanche entered ... |
| George William Russell | There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: | 's Deirdre (1902), William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deir ... |
| Jerome | ... dered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of | , and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo |
| Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
| A. E. W. Mason | Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to | 's fictional detective—Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté—who, first ap ... |
| Howard Chaykin | ... stunned. Gibbons recalled, "What really clinched it ... was [writer/artist] | , who doesn't give praise lightly, and who came up and said, 'Dave what yo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | Starting with | , attempts were made to use the methods of the new modern physical science ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... ul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to | |
| Gennadi Sosonko | ... ng in originality and in the mental toughness required of a world champion. | thought Euwe's modesty was a handicap in top-class chess (although Euwe wa ... |
| Boiardo | ... nd Count of Concordia (1415–1467), by his wife Giulia, daughter of Feltrino | , Count di Scandiano. The family had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola ... |
| Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
| 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 ... |
| Taliesin | ... n of the Head of Annwn. The narrator of the poem is possibly intended to be | himself. One line can be interpreted as implying that he received his gift ... |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | ... for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was the young | , who would later become a noted fantasy author. Christopher Tolkien had t ... |
| Damon Knight | ... ella On the North Pole of Pluto in 1980 in the anthology Orbit 18 edited by | . Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and ... |
| Vladimir Kramnik | ... e was well aware of how much stronger he was than "ordinary" grandmasters). | also says Euwe anticipated Botvinnik's emphasis on technical preparation, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Penelope Delta | ... omos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, | , Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embe ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... by recalling both its shabbiness and the fact that the greatest Polish poet | died there from the cholera in 1855. Mickiewicz´ museum at Dolapdere, stil ... |
| Jean Racine | ... eer. Other writers were beginning to gain popularity. In 1670 Corneille and | , one of his dramatic rivals, were challenged to write plays on the same i ... |
| Gennadi Sosonko | ... to Chess, and Strategy and Tactics in Chess Play. Former Soviet grandmaster | used Euwe's Practical Chess Lessons (Practische Schaaklessen) as a textboo ... |
| Maurice Sendak | ... ngdom, and the other in Hardy's birthplace, Harlem, Georgia, United States. | showed three identical Oliver Hardy figures as bakers preparing cakes for ... |
| Livy | ... us (c. 280/260 BC – c. 200 BC), not to be confused with the later historian | , was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He be ... |
| J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur | ... n history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, | (1735–1813), and John Taylor of Caroline (1753–1824) in the early national ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... ps from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like | and Fatty Arbuckle. The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Mari ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... he title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, | as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian |
| 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 ... |
| John Milton | ... avelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , | , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
| Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
| Epicurus | ... s friends, who again presents them in an imagined speech by the philosopher | . His friend argues that, though it is possible to trace a cause from an e ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... to think and behave independently. The Emperor accepted new ideas, such as | 's theory of evolution, of which he remarked that "the laws that he [Darwi ... |
| Walther Rathenau | ... rom the League of Nations. Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. | , the Jewish Foreign Minister who signed the treaty, was assassinated two ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
| Emmanuel Rhoides | ... odern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, | , Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, ... |
| David Hume | ... influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , | , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... find description of the hero's death, Kúpria (unknown author), Aithiopis by | , Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by Arctinus of Miletus, ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met | , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ... |
| George Padmore | ... ved in London in May 1945 intending to study at the LSE. After meeting with | , he helped organize the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capture | in December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ... |
| David Nasaw | According to | , Hearst was a supporter of Adolf Hitler from 1934 until 1938: Hearst beli ... |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Icehenge (1984) is a science fiction novel by | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... committee of 30 Florentine citizens that comprised many artists, including | and Sandro Botticelli, to decide on an appropriate site for David. While n ... |
| Johnny Speight | ... and In Sickness and in Health (BBC, 1985–92), all of which were written by | . He holds both British and Australian citizenship and has enjoyed conside ... |
| Blake Edwards | ... ights; and The Great Race, a large-scale salute to slapstick which director | dedicated to "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy." For many years the duo were imper ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... andleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, | , Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller and Artie Sh ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | ... n the basic fundaments of insight and on the innermost character of things. | identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person t ... |
| Orson Welles | One of the most influential films of all time was | ' 1941 film Citizen Kane, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's lif ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as | (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosoph ... |
| Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips | Her aunt, | , wrote the Dear Abby column. Although her mother and aunt were twin siste ... |
| Noah Gordon | In his book The Physician (1988) | tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himsel ... |
| Vincent Woods | ... ge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter's (playwright) (1944), and | ' A Cry from Heaven (2005). There are also three books: Deirdre (1923) by ... |
| Alexander Alekhine | ... jor contributions to chess theory. Paradoxically his two title matches with | were displays of tactical ferocity from both sides. But the comments by Km ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ed with The Jacksons on the song "State of Shock", sharing lead vocals with | . For his own personal contributions in the 1985 Live Aid multi-venue char ... |
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| Kostis Palamas | ... de Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, | , Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzak ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... nd Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. He has also translated a | play into English. He appeared on the programme on BBC Four in 2012 called ... |
| Ulrich von Hutten | Albert's large and liberal ideas, his friendship with | , and his political ambitions, appear to have raised hopes that he would b ... |
| Neil Peart | Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including | and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from thei ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
| Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
| Matthew Arnold | ... reline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in | 's poem "Dover Beach" |
| Ferdinand Lundberg | ... orrespondents" in London, Paris, Venice, Rome, Berlin, etc. Another critic, | , extended the criticism in Imperial Hearst (1936), charging that Hearst p ... |
| Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
| Orson Bean | ... unded in New York City in 1965 by Laurel and Hardy biographers John McCabe, | , Al Kilgore, and John Municino, with the sanction of Stan Laurel. Since t ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
| Lyman Draper | ... less qualified men such as Felix St. Vrain. In the 19th century, historian | argued that the Black Hawk War could have been avoided had Forsyth remaine ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... stallment in the Rocky film series. It is written and directed by and stars | as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo C ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | Politically, modernity's earliest phase starts with | 's works which openly rejected the medieval and Aristotelian style of anal ... |
| John McCain | ... or his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, Barack Obama and | , were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said that Stevens ne ... |
| Andreas Kalvos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, | , Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Ya ... |
| Jeremy Marre | ... rs television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by | |
| patron of the arts | ... a Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine | and scholar-poet, |
| Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
| Ed Helms | Cedar Rapids is an American comedy film about a naive insurance agent | who is sent to represent his company at a regional conference in big town ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ve plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre (1902), | ' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter ... |
| Kisshomaru Ueshiba | ... 1974. Tohei left as a result of a disagreement with the son of the founder, | , who at that time headed the Aikikai Foundation. The disagreement was ove ... |
| Bent Larsen | ... with the Soviets; for example, in 1973 he accepted the Soviets' demand that | and Robert Hübner, the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was no ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though | and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
| Ron Ben-Yishai | ... Marranos of Portugal" the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter | to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. Afte ... |
| Grace Lee Boggs | ... st C.L.R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American | , all of whom were members of a US based Trotskyist intellectual cohort. N ... |
| Mabel Normand | ... their popularity stemmed from the 1913 short The Bangville Police starring | |
| Pete Townshend | ... Rodgers and Bill Laswell, featuring Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, | , and the Compass Point All Stars. It sold fairly well, and the single "Ju ... |
| Naevius | ... this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than Plautus and | , though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a play. Livy sa ... |
| Robert Hübner | ... ; for example, in 1973 he accepted the Soviets' demand that Bent Larsen and | , the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was now champion), shou ... |
| George Seldes | ... ed payments from abroad to slant the news. After the war, a further critic, | , repeated the charges in Facts and Fascism (1947) |
| Angelos Sikelianos | ... iterary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, | , Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexand ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... ple narratives into one story are various novels written by American author | . Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his n ... |
| Ameen Rihani | ... partnership with Saudi officials. Through his advisers St. John Philby and | , he granted substantial authority over Saudi oil fields to American oil c ... |
| 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) |
| Aristotle | ... mesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of | . Goethe defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his i ... |
| Galen | ... icine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of | (and Hippocrates) |
| John F. Kennedy | ... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senator | helped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
| William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
| Simon Maginn | ... awcett directed the film The Dark. Based on the novel book Sheep written by | , the movie tales the story of Adèlle, a divorced woman who travels to Wal ... |
| John Selden | ... ded between 1610–1612, (known as the Arts End) and again in 1634–1637. When | died in 1654, he left the Bodleian his large collection of books and manus ... |
| Mack Sennett | ... silent film comedies in the early 20th century. The movies were produced by | for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. The idea came from Ha ... |
| 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 ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author | lived in a cottage on Horton's estate for a time in the late 1930s |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | ... (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanist | (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John ... |
| Adamantios Korais | ... er, during the period of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as | and Rigas Feraios will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821 ... |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | ... ar second place finish in the great tournament at Groningen in 1946, behind | . But Euwe consented to participate in a five-player tournament to select ... |
| Julian Lombardi | ... arted, along with David A. Smith, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, | , and Mark McCahill, the Croquet Project, which is an open source networke ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... uld keep the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering Spirit, only having | as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
| Euripides | According to other reports in | ' lost play about Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar and ... |
| Orson Welles | ... 975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. (Legendary actor and director | voiced her husband, the cobra "Nag". |
| Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
| Dionysios Solomos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include | , Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Pe ... |
| Hippocrates | ... des a complete system of medicine according to the principles of Galen (and | ) |
| Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
| Heinz Guderian | ... 24 May. Becoming part of the XIX Panzer Corps under the command of General | , they took up a position 15 miles south west of Dunkirk along the line of ... |
| Richard DeVos | ... auty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and | . Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Altico ... |
| Martin Amis | ... econd half of the twentieth century." He was the father of English novelist | |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist | , who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | ... ed in since his time as a drama critic in Weimar; his unfavorable review of | 's Ion was withdrawn at the request of Goethe. It was mainly as a schoolma ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... stra. Other influential large ensembles included Fletcher Henderson's band, | 's band (which opened an influential residency at the Cotton Club in 1927) ... |
| Bobby Fischer | In 1957 Euwe played a short match against 14-year-old future world champion | , winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fisch ... |
| Rigas Feraios | ... of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as Adamantios Korais and | will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) |
| Cassiodorus | ... , one of the Livia gens. The praenomen Lucius is given by Aulus Gellius and | |
| Chuck Jones | ... Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches, including Witch Hazel, for | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... ning, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, | , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ers included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and | (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanis ... |
| Paul Keres | He played a match with | in The Netherlands in 1939–40, losing 6½–7½ |
| Thomas of Celano | ... if present). The sequence employed in the Requiem, Dies Irae, attributed to | (c. 1200 – c. 1260–1270), has been called "the greatest of hymns", worthy ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause". | later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johann Gottfried Herder | ... of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of | , he was for 13 years headmaster at the gymnasium and consistorial council ... |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... by Arctinus of Miletus, Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by | , there is no trace of any reference to his general invulnerability or his ... |
| Andrew Young | ... Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – | |
| George Eliot | ... 3 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, | refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: "He thought it [Z] had onl ... |
| Ptolemy | ... one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Vitsentzos Kornaros | ... is period of Greek literature. It is a verse romance written around 1600 by | (1553–1613). Later, during the period of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos) ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... the first official place name of the Star Trek television series created by | (who was born in El Paso, Texas) |
| Augustine | ... Phrygia under Constantius and the quality of his later major works. Because | cites part of the commentary on Romans as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has bee ... |
| Vladimir Kramnik | ... standard of play was worthy of a world championship. Former World Champion | has said that Euwe won the 1935 match on merit and that the result was not ... |
| Herodotus | ... lays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while | and Thucydides are two of the most influential historians in this period |
| Harlan Ellison | ... ot know where that sentence originated. After reading the interview, author | informed Moore that the sentence is a translation of the question "Quis cu ... |
| William Gibson | His final role on stage was as Jerry in Two for the Seesaw by | , at the Civic Theatre in Rotherham. He was left stranded on stage because ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
| Aristophanes | ... vived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by | are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and Thucy ... |
| 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 ... |
| Garry Kasparov | ... . Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and | analyzed the match for their own benefit and concluded that Euwe deserved ... |
| Wilkie Collins | ... ok about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and | . In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves such inconsequent ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – | – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas. | was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... . The Lebor Gabála synchronises Conn's reign with that of the Roman emperor | (161-180). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn date ... |
| Brian Henson | ... osaurs and their society has this strange toxic life style,' said [his son] | . But until The Simpsons took off, said Alex Rockwell, a vice president of ... |
| James Whale | ... humorous writer and critic. His novel Benighted (1927) was adapted into the | film The Old Dark House (1932); the novel has been published under the fil ... |
| Peter Jackson | ... ention for his stance toward The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by | . He expressed doubts over the viability of a film interpretation that ret ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... ldo Leopold (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors | (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. ... |
| Charles Wolfe | ... – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – | – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
| Reuben Fine | ... a worthy champion, even if he was not as dominant as the earlier champions. | wrote, "In the two years before the return match, Euwe's strength increase ... |
| Saint Jerome | ... c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in | (De vir. illus. 100), Sulpicius Severus (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's ... |
| Ralph Borsodi | ... A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), | (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon ... |
| Pete Wentz | ... nything", vocals on Box Car Racer's track "Elevator", and "In Transit" with | of Fall Out Boy, recorded for Almost Alice (2010), as well as vocals in To ... |
| Thucydides | ... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and | are two of the most influential historians in this period |
| Carl Linnaeus | The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist | in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ... |
| Horace | ... t is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. Varro, Cicero, and | , all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, conside ... |
| Aristophanes | ... ord for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in | ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp- inserted to sound more aris ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ge, only a limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of | , Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See | , The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ... |
| Philippe Quinault | ... eille even composed the comedy Psyché (1671) in collaboration with him (and | ). Most of the plays that Corneille wrote after his return to the stage we ... |
| Vasily Smyslov | ... atch, and Alekhine himself said he would win easily. Former World Champions | , Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and Garry Kasparov analyzed the match for ... |
| Donald Knuth | CWEB is a computer programming system created by | and Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ... |
| Suetonius | ... dy, came to be called comoedia palliata, "the Greek comedy," by the Romans. | later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to thei ... |
| John Steinbeck | ... Bailey (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist | (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist A ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Salo Flohr | ... hine was unlikely—and is sometimes attributed to Alekhine's alcoholism. But | , who was helping Euwe during the match, thought over-confidence was more ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young | . Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying: "Th ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... hur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, | , Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justi ... |
| John Suckling | ... obert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – | – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dy ... |
| Nicholas Negroponte | ... hine, and the XO-1. The program was begun and is sustained by Kay's friend, | , and is based on Kay's Dynabook ideal. Kay is a prominent co-developer of ... |
| 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. ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... popular works. He also references the music of The Pogues and the poetry of | , both of these being relevant to Ennis' Irish heritage |
| Walter Lantz | ... ice of Grandmother Fa in Mulan in 1998; she also did a variety of voices in | 's Woody Woodpecker cartoons. For Warner Brothers Cartoons, she was Granny ... |
| Michelangelo | The history of the statue begins before | 's work on it from 1501 to 1504. Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the ... |
| Euripides | ... of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and | . The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic p ... |
| Anatoly Karpov | ... he would win easily. Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, | , and Garry Kasparov analyzed the match for their own benefit and conclude ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, | was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ... |
| Fred Brooks | ... Chapter 6 called "A programming language" for the book he was writing with | , Automatic Data Processing, which would later be published in 1963 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with | and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in | 's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ck (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist | (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Be ... |
| Ennius | ... " by the Romans. Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and | (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds). The genre was im ... |
| Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf | ... cution of the Austrian emperor, and some found refuge on the lands of Count | . These followers became known as Schwenkfelders. A group arrived in Phila ... |
| Sophocles | ... limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, | , and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure t ... |
| Fatty Arbuckle | ... es to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and | . The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel ... |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of | . He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ... |
| Zarathustra | ... of their problems. Nietzsche achieves all of this through the character of | (referring to the traditional prophet of Zoroastrianism), who makes speech ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... thinkers are sometimes referred to as neo-Agrarian and include the likes of | , Paul B. Thompson, and Gene Logsdon. They are characterized by seeing the ... |
| Jackson Mac Low | ... when Maciunas met them through minimalist composer La Monte Young and poet | in the early 1960s. John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition clas ... |
| Newt Gingrich | On January 26, 2012, Dole issued a letter critical of | , focusing on Dole's and Gingrich's time working together on Capitol Hill. ... |
| Alexander Alekhine | At Zürich 1934, Euwe finished second, behind only World Champion | , and he defeated Alekhine in their game. Alekhine was in an eight-year st ... |
| George Washington | ... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and named | its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( | 's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Kn ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
| Guillaume Colletet | ... ts”; also translated as “the society of the five authors”). The others were | , Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and Claude de L'Estoile |
| Ernie Wise | ... by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with | formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership la ... |
| Cratylus | Plato, in | (407B) gave the etymology of her name as signifying "the mind of god", the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the action of the plot of the outer story. An example is "The Mad Trist" in | 's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means t ... |
| Robert Conquest | ... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist | , the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ... |
| Gene Logsdon | ... neo-Agrarian and include the likes of Wendell Berry, Paul B. Thompson, and | . They are characterized by seeing the world through an agricultural lens. ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... Hank Mann as a prop man. Sennett also starred in a cameo role-as himself.) | directed a Keystone Kops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie |
| Stephen Schiff | Jagger told | in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile: "I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those ... |
| Shakespeare | ... d Henry's decision to fight the Agincourt campaign. The account was used by | as the basis for a scene in his play Henry V |
| William John Gruffydd | ... and the Mabinogion does not contain the only version of them. Welsh scholar | noted that 15th- and 16th-century poets apparently knew an alternate tradi ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... g to similar projects. His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad. | said of him: "The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific ... |
| Harvey Kurtzman | ... layouts "was a very deliberate thing", although his inspiration was rather | , but it was altered enough to give the series a unique look. The artist a ... |
| Allan C. Carlson | ... authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and | (b. 1949) |
| Iain Banks | Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer | , published in 1987 |
| John Cage | The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer | in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of indetermi ... |
| Jerry Lewis | ... of the new generation of comedians and celebrities, including Dick Cavett, | , Peter Sellers, Marcel Marceau and Dick Van Dyke. Laurel lived until 1965 ... |
| Frederik Pohl | ... nd society. Amis was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of | and C. M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell coined the term "comic infern ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), | postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ... |
| Robert Sheckley | ... be a type of humorous dystopia, particularly as exemplified in the works of | . Amis further displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the So ... |
| Jan Hein Donner | ... e Salo Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete, and | in 1954. He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The Hague, ... |
| Livy | Livius’ first play, according to Cicero, was staged in 240 BC. | tells us that Livius was the first to create a fabula with a plot. One sto ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... nt between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young | and occasionally Jim Davidson together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
| Cyril Fagan | Some modern Western astrologers, such as | , have advocated abandoning the tropical system in favour of a sidereal on ... |
| Jean Shepherd | ... classic 1983 comedy movie “A Christmas Story”, co-writer and film narrator | described the hectic holiday season as a “. . . yearly bacchanalia of peac ... |
| Baldassare Castiglione | ... rary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, | 's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well ... |
| Herodotus | ... t was also used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies. The Greek historian | said hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls of Babylon |
| Iakovos Kambanelis | ... : Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, | , Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Irene Papas etc. More t ... |
| Gene Logsdon | ... Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), | (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. 1949) |
| George Padmore | ... e writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and | , and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest success in this area ... |
| RZA | ... ut in 1999 to mixed reviews, which were mainly attributed to the absence of | and Ghostface Killah. The Lex Diamond Story followed in 2003 on Universal ... |
| Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
| Hipparchus | ... s responded to this phenomenon of precession once it had been discovered by | around 130 BC. Today, some read Ptolemy as dropping the concept of a fixed ... |
| Thomas Corneille | ... guilbert and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer. His younger brother, | , also became a noted playwright. He was given a rigorous Jesuit education ... |
| Paruyr Sevak | On 27 September 2004, Yerevan adopted a hymn, "Erebuni-Yerevan", written by | and composed by Edgar Hovhanissian. It was selected in a competition for a ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... n 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the | story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Ptolemy | ... n once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read | as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is r ... |
| Tomé Pires | ... Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and | diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of ... |
| Eddie Campbell | Following a brief interlude by From Hell artist | , the series' direction was taken over by Paul Jenkins in 1995. He had bee ... |
| Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of Marcus Licinius Crassus (played by | ). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and stayed at the house for pa ... |
| Lafcadio Hearn | ... dhist monk U Dhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll?) in Burma, Buddhist sympathiser | in Japan, the Hindu nun Sister Sanghamitta (Margaret Noble) and the Theoso ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist | , where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays w ... |
| Pindar | ... her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia..." ( | , Seventh Olympian Ode). Plato, in the Laws, attributes the cult of Athena ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... eir time entertaining, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included | , Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon v ... |
| Harry Graf Kessler | ... s of woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by | in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Cha ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aeschylus | ... rst extensive works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists | , Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The militar ... |
| Ficino | ... He was interred at San Marco and Savonarola delivered the funeral oration. | wrote: “Our dear Pico left us on the same day that Charles VIII was enteri ... |
| Pausanias | The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that | saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there dur ... |
| Michelangelo | ... Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist | . It is a marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... ; one of their early compositions, "As Tears Go By", was a song written for | , a young singer being promoted by Loog Oldham at the time. For the Rollin ... |
| Longus | ... by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by | (1937) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine (1939) |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
| General Wesley Clark | ... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired | |
| Carl Linnaeus | ... in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was first validly published by | in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. olerace ... |
| Paul Verlaine | ... so illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Chansons pour elle by | (1939) |
| Dick Higgins | ... ch in New York City were attended by Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht, and | , many of whom were working in other media with little or no background in ... |
| John Steinbeck | In | 's novel East of Eden, the atmosphere of Jenny's whorehouse is described a ... |
| Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien | ... They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. | , his son by his first marriage, to Faith Faulconbridge, is a barrister an ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... g of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil: | 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describes the Will o' the wisp |
| Molière | ... as one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with | and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produce ... |
| Donna Tartt | In | 's novel The Secret History, four of the central characters hold a bacchan ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, | , John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jon ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... place in a leek field. This story may have been made up by the English poet | , but it is known that the leek has been a symbol of Wales for a long time ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author | (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1953). | Wendell Berry is an author of several books, essays, and poems whose writi ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... nces abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include | 's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, a ... |
| Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer | . It was published in 1984 |
| Nikos Tsiforos | ... national acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, | , Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Ire ... |
| Meredith Vieira | In media, alumni include | , journalist and TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York ... |
| St. Paul | Domínguez claimed that he was visited by Christ, along with St. Peter and | , who told hi |
| John Milton | In Book IX of | 's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a "will-o-the-wisp" in tempting of ... |
| Arthur Grimble | Sir | wrote about his time working in the British colonial service in Kiribati ( ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... ons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big | fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Je ... |
| Jerome | | has some additional detail that tends to support the capture at Tarentum a ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. Maarten Troost | ... e Islands (1957). He also undertook academic studies of Gilbertese culture. | 's more recent autobiographical experiences on the Tarawa Atoll are docume ... |
| Peter Gallagher | ... ater from the United States; Rainn Wilson, American actor and comedian; and | , American actor |
| Charles Avery | ... he original Kops numbered only seven: George Jeske, Bobby Dunn, Mack Riley, | , Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann |
| Alfred Frankenstein | A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is | 's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters ... |
| Stephen Slesinger | Gotto presented Ozark Ike to promoter | , who also managed Red Ryder, King of the Royal Mounted and the merchandis ... |
| Caesar of Heisterbach | ... s in Arnaud-Amaury's report to the Pope. According to the Cistercian writer | , Arnaud-Amaury, when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... particular religion and patriarchal tendency have subsided to some degree. | Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University. He developed the ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
| 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 |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with | as a Keystone Kop |
| Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
| Plautus | ... agrees with this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than | and Naevius, though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a pl ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| RZA | ... Rhymes, whom Raekwon cited as getting him in the "Cuban Linx mindset", and | , with RZA handling most of the production. Dr. Dre, Scram Jones, and were ... |
| Alekos Sakellarios | ... gures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, | , Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nik ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Jeske | The original Kops numbered only seven: | , Bobby Dunn, Mack Riley, Charles Avery, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, ... |
| Jerome | Ambrose ranks with Augustine, | , and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Theolo ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as Jack Kerouac and | , he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and R&B. Inspired by ... |
| Herman Melville | ... leases of films. An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story from | 's famous novel Moby-Dick, which tells a fully formed story of an exciting ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend | . Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ... |
| Ptolemy | ... an anciently recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in | 's Almagest, but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
| Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... in the 1950s and early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as | and Allen Ginsberg, he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and ... |
| Frederick Douglass | ... or women. The suffrage movement was supported by William Lloyd Garrison and | |
| Mihalis Kakogiannis | ... portant historical figures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: | , Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, ... |
| Bento de Góis | ... s, but others were not convinced yet. To check the situation on the ground, | , a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a ... |
| Xenophon | ... d to some universally read and admired history, the works of Thucydides and | . Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the or ... |
| Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-691, a Type IXD/42, launche ... |
| 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, ... |
| Botvinnik | Vladimir Kramnik also says Euwe anticipated | 's emphasis on technical preparation, and Euwe was usually in good shape p ... |
| Warren Ellis | | took over the title in 1999, after his work on Transmetropolitan which had ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... species for s, so bluebell woods are likely to date back to at least 1600. | , one of the romantic poets, was very keen on the plant as revealed by the ... |
| William Lloyd Garrison | ... vention demanded suffrage for women. The suffrage movement was supported by | and Frederick Douglass |
| Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... me. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met | (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematic ... |
| Thucydides | ... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works of | and Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. | and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings" ... |
| Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-553 which runs aground abou ... |
| Christopher Golden | ... ch as the title characters of Two Guys and a Girl and the lead character of | 's Body of Evidence mystery novels |
| René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
| Gregory Maguire | ... k Times publisher; Lew Rockwell, founder of Ludwig von Mises Institute; and | , novelist. Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of ... |
| Orestis Laskos | ... there were several minor productions such as newscasts before this. In 1931 | directed Daphnis and Chloe (Δάφνις και Χλόη), contained the first nude sce ... |
| Georges de Scudéry | ... mie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). Even the prominent writer | harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid (1637). The int ... |
| Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
| John Ruskin | After passing his 11-plus school examination, McTell attended the | Grammar School. He hated his time there, and despite being a very bright p ... |
| Aristophanes | ... Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and | in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athenians led to some ... |
| James VI of Scotland | ... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, | , to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ... |
| Euripides | ... literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, | and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athen ... |
| Odysseas Elytis | ... have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Seferis in 1963 and | in 1979 |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
| Epicurus | ... nd was therefore materialist, like the ancient philosophy of Democritus and | . But he also added a theme that science should seek to control nature for ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... ating the antagonistic character, Demon Constantine, with the assistance of | . The landmark hundredth issue gave more detail on John Constantine's fath ... |
| Sophocles | ... ve works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, | , Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... tion. The Académie's recommendations concerning the play are articulated in | 's Sentiments de l'Académie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). ... |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist | . Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ... |
| Reshevsky | Euwe finished equal fourth with Alekhine and | in the AVRO tournament of 1938 in The Netherlands, which featured the worl ... |
| Democritus | ... final causes, and was therefore materialist, like the ancient philosophy of | and Epicurus. But he also added a theme that science should seek to contro ... |
| Lew Rockwell | ... d TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York Times publisher | ;, founder of Ludwig von Mises Institute; and Gregory Maguire, novelist. S ... |
| Piet Hein | The game was invented by the Danish mathematician | , who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independen ... |
| Robert Barnard | ... he tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist | called the best of the Christie novels |
| Richard Curtis | ... levision special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired screenwriter | , who attended the London service, to write the growing-orchestra wedding ... |
| Gus Kahn | ... uite includes lyrics to the central section of "On the Trail" by songwriter | |
| George Washington | ... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing | commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ... |
| Mikhail Frunze | ... ittee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961. In 1925, after the death of | , Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affair ... |
| Charles Laughton | The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was | . He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been ada ... |
| Demetrius Vikelas | ... irikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and | . Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Georg ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of | 's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (particularly in Act III) |
| Elizabeth I | ... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as | in the film Shakespeare in Love |
| Sean B. Carroll | ... in the evolution of morphological diversity. Several biologists, including | of the University of Wisconsin–Madison suggest that "changes in the cis-re ... |
| Jon Hendricks | ... ettes, beginning with their 1933 program featuring Grofé and his orchestra. | wrote lyrics for "On the Trail", and the song was recorded for Hendricks' ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by Jeffrey Archer in which | tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly on July 4 |
| Jackie Chan | ... ny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 | film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Br ... |
| Photius | ... th independent additions, to elucidate the portions of Scripture concerned. | (cod. 206), while blaming the diffuseness of these commentaries, praises t ... |
| Jeffrey Archer | ... Declaration document is at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by | in which Saddam Hussein tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | ... s Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, | , and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Pri ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... an legend, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by | , and a speculative explanation of the writing of Kubla Khan, and what the ... |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | ... ion for several years running, an honor which the late LDS Church president | had commented on with pride. BYU's 2010 "#1 stone cold" sober rating marke ... |
| John Dickson Carr | ... micide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist | to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time |
| Flohr | ... (1926), Capablanca (1931), and Spielmann (1935); and Euwe drew a match with | in 1932. His playing strength gradually increased, so that by 1932 he and ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
| Julius Pokorny | ... ho of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher". Similarly, | derives the name from a Proto-Indo-European root *neu-d- meaning "acquire, ... |
| Shigeru Mizuki | ... wide variety of situations and locations. These phenomena are described in | 's 1985 book Graphic World of Japanese Phantoms (妖怪伝 in Japanese) |
| Aristotle | ... enes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher | (384-322 BC), whose mentor was Plato, dates from the period of transition ... |
| John Gower | ... offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of | and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare' ... |
| Howard Jacobson | ... enerations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and | . As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
| Gregorios Xenopoulos | ... os Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, | , Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have bee ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which | suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ... |
| Marilyn Manson | ... ott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and | . Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxe ... |
| Burgess Meredith | Rocky's trainer Mickey ( | ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Spielmann | ... n matches against the world's best: Alekhine (1926), Capablanca (1931), and | (1935); and Euwe drew a match with Flohr in 1932. His playing strength gra ... |
| Marinus of Neapolis | This role is expressed in a number of stories about Athena. | reports that when Christians removed the statue of the Goddess from the Pa ... |
| Tom Sharpe | ... ent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, | and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
| Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
| Schiller | ... ällino, der grosse Bandit (1793; subsequently also dramatized), modelled on | 's Die Räuber, and the melodramatic tragedy Julius von Sassen (1796) |
| Jean Rotrou | ... iety of the five authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, | , and Claude de L'Estoile |
| Dick Van Dyke | ... ties, including Dick Cavett, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers, Marcel Marceau and | . Laurel lived until 1965, surviving to see the duo's work rediscovered th ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
| Kostas Karyotakis | ... is Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, | , Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two ... |
| Claude de L'Estoile | ... authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and | |
| Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as Marguerite Duras, | and Jorge Semprún |
| Bob Fosse | ... ole as the vampish Lola, and it was on this show that she first worked with | as her choreographer. In the story, Verdon's Lola is a woman who was once ... |
| 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 ... |
| St Jerome | ... from Justin's "Apology" of a "Refutation of all Heresies ". Epiphanius and | mention Justin |
| Carmel Schrire | ... tes of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in the Inuit population. | mentions diverse studies ranging from 15-50% to 80% |
| James Agee | ... Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. | , in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated t ... |
| Zheng He | ... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of | 's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vernor Vinge | The poem was referenced in | 's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep |
| William Blake | ... interest in this technique is a result of the influence of artists such as | and , and the style of political editorial cartoons |
| James Kent | The village was named for New York jurist and legal scholar, | , as was Kent County |
| Virgil | ... llowed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of | 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification |
| Dave McKean | ... initial creative team was writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with | supplying distinctive painted and collage covers. Delano introduced a poli ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | ... Renaissance, Florence was the hometown of political writer and philosopher | , whose ideas on how rulers should govern the land, detailed in The Prince ... |
| Hagop Baronian | ... nificant theatres include: Yerevan State Musical Comedy Theatre named after | , Russian Drama Theatre named after Constantin Stanislavski, Yerevan State ... |
| Muhammad al-Idrisi | ... brew word, as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. | , wrote in 1154 that itriyya was manufactured and exported from Norman Sic ... |
| Roberto Bolaño | In | 's novel 2666, the philosophy professor Oscar Amalfitano begins his three- ... |
| Paul Greengrass | ... ed attached, collaborating with Aronofsky's producing partner, Eric Watson. | replaced Aronofsky when he left to focus on . Ultimately, Paramount placed ... |
| Sam Houston Johnson | ... and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, | (1914–1978), and sisters Rebekah (1910–1978), Josefa (1912–1961), and Luci ... |
| Miles Malleson | ... Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and | |
| 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 ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... o pay for Republican "infomercials" and televising of the GOP convention on | 's Family Channel, but backed off when Democrats criticized the donation a ... |
| Hovhannes Tumanyan | ... , Yerevan State Hamazgain Theatre and the State Pupppet Theatre named after | . The Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan is the oldest modern the ... |
| Poul Anderson | It was also an influence for | 's hard science fiction novel "Tau Zero |
| Maupassant | ... pect, an influence which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French writer | whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives' Tale." Maupassant is also one of ... |
| Darren Aronofsky | ... was announced Paramount Pictures would produce Watchmen, and they attached | to direct Hayter's script. Producers Gordon and Levin remained attached, c ... |
| Werner Herzog | He next starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the | film , and alongside Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in Streets of Blood. Both we ... |
| Zack Snyder | ... Levin met with Warner Bros. to develop the film there again. Impressed with | 's work on 300, Warner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Wat ... |
| Osama bin Laden | On 2 May 2011, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the killing of | in Pakistan by the United States. Haniyeh praised Bin Laden, the founder o ... |
| Kendrick Frazier | ... he name The Zetetic and retitled after a few months under the editorship of | , former editor of Science News. Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope calls Sk ... |
| Stan Laurel | ... rly Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin Englishman | (1890–1965) and heavy American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), they became well ... |
| Stan Lee | The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer | and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) ... |
| Harihara | ... g the life of Lord Krishna leading up to his fight with the demon Banasura. | , (also known as Harisvara) a Lingayati writer and the patron of King Nara ... |
| Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | Today, game soundtracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, | and Gackt sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and House Speaker | slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... d as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for | , art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation ... |
| Alex Tse | ... rner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Watchmen. Screenwriter | drew from his favorite elements of Hayter's script, but also returned it t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg's | ... in and Greek borrowings like tænia and ex æquo. It was great popularized in | song "Elaeudanla Teiteia" (trans.Elayeeina Tee I Tee I A, which is the pho ... |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | ... the Holy See never did so. This is partly due to the erroneous reference in | 's 1987 film The Last Emperor, that the Holy See diplomatically recognised ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... , Kilmer was filming in Kelseyville, California; he is the lead role in the | film Twixt. The film is being filmed mostly on Coppola's estate in Napa Co ... |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by | , and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson (Same Old S ... |
| Jack Kirby | ... e a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist | , and first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963). The basic concept o ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Since 2010, Kilmer has been working on a film about the life of | , the founder of the Christian Science church, and Mark Twain, one of her ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... g's "Metropolis", which offer an example of how technophobia can occur, and | 's "Modern Times", in which people are reduced to nothing but cogs in the ... |
| Brian Azzarello | ... writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, | , Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
| Penny Lernoux | Journalist and writer | described this aspect of liberation theology in her numerous and committed ... |
| Ovid | ... the myth of the Athenian maidens is told in Metamorphoses by the Roman poet | (43 BC – 17 AD); in this late variant Hermes falls in love with Herse. Her ... |
| UCSD p-System | ... s, which were released by Apple at about the same time. These ran under the | operating system, which had its own disk format and emitted code for a "vi ... |
| Warren Ellis | ... o date. Other writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, | , Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
| Mark Twain | ... e life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church, and | , one of her most famous critics. Kilmer wrote the screenplay, describing ... |
| Galen | ... d sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the Greek physician | mentioned itrion, made of flour and water. The Jerusalem Talmud records th ... |
| Ernst Lubitsch | ... have been based on an ancient Sanskrit play, The Little Clay Cart. The 1942 | comedy To Be or Not to Be confuses the audience in the opening scenes with ... |
| Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
| Charles Gounod | ... a matter of debate. Other men closely linked to her included the composers | (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and Hector Berlioz (who in ... |
| Shelley | ... son's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and | ." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in f ... |
| Horace | In the 1st century BCE, | wrote of fried sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the G ... |
| Billy Wilder | He became a favorite actor of director | , starring in his films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Ac ... |
| Yukio Mishima | ... to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in | 's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar seas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yidya | ... BC, contains seven letters to the Egyptian pharaoh, from its 'King'/mayor: | . Yidya was the only ruler of Ašqaluna during the 15–20-year time period. ... |
| Russell Kirk | ... cal theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author | . Kirk resided at Piety Hill, currently the location of the Russell Kirk C ... |
| Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
| Athenaeus | ... xplain the figure of Ino that is aboriginally inseparable from Melikertes." | (392d) summarizes a story by Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE ) telling how H ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... omposers Charles Gounod (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and | (who initially had her in mind for the role of Dido in Les Troyens, but ch ... |
| Denise Mina | ... e Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, | , and currently Peter Milligan |
| Diego Durán | ... because they were considered equals in power. 16th century Dominican Friar | wrote, "These two gods were always meant to be together, since they were c ... |
| David Hayter | ... tober 2001, Gordon partnered with Lloyd Levin and Universal Studios, hiring | to write and direct. Hayter and the producers left Universal due to creati ... |
| John Milton | ... radise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet | . It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over t ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... ins – his last original Broadway staging. The set, designed in the style of | 's paintings, was by Boris Aronson. A colorful logo for the production, al ... |
| Simon Bisley | ... d on the series as well, such as John Ridgway (the original series artist), | , Mark Buckingham, Richard Corben, Steve Dillon, Marcelo Frusin, Jock, Dav ... |
| Frank Capra | ... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), | on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ... |
| Marguerite Duras | ... in collaboration with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as | , Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Semprún |
| Galen | ... itation of the male, mapping the female body onto the male, as if, like the | ic view, it was incomplete. Furthermore, overemphasis of ejaculation may i ... |
| Leonardo Pieraccioni | ... is home to renowned Italian actors and actresses, such as Roberto Benigni, | and Vittoria Puccini |
| Peter Cotes | Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as | ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap |
| Umberto Eco | In | 's novel Foucault's Pendulum the protagonist Casaubon claims that the idea ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... Tony came when Verdon memorably played a role associated with Greta Garbo, | 's Anna Christie, the hard-luck girl fleeing from her past as a prostitute ... |
| Richard Matheson | Also in the 1960s, the film Omega Man (loosely based on the | novel I am Legend) showed a world scarred by biological warfare and only a ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title. | sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of Henry V in the tiring room of t ... |
| Mike Gravel | ... age Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat | . In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat Bo ... |
| Sheila Jeffreys | Even some radical feminist writers, such as | (1985) were dismissive, claiming it as a figment of male fantasy |
| Anatole France | ... Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, | , Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This p ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... vements. The introduction of valves made this process unnecessary (although | wrote horn parts as if crooks were still in use, evoking the tradition whi ... |
| Kathy Troccoli | ... was Chris Rice, who had written "Go Light Your World", a No. 1 hit song by | , in 1995. In 1999, Smith collaborated with Jim Brickman on "Love of My Li ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
| Tom Wolfe | Novelist | coined the term Me decade in his article "The "Me" Decade and the Third Gr ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... t into turnaround in 1991, and the project was moved to Warner Bros., where | was attached to direct and Charles McKeown to rewrite it. They used the ch ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... ,” but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle. | 's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climact ... |
| Madonna | ... ed after this city based on the results of a dart thrown randomly at a map. | was born here and once referred to Bay City as "a stinky, little town in N ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Sand | ... ed. However, she remained on good terms with him for many years. Her friend | (who later based the heroine of her 1843 novel Consuelo on her) had a role ... |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... funeral games were held. He was represented in the lost Trojan War epic of | as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the river ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... ing of the town, and presented it to the accompaniment of a text written by | . A political perspective on art also underpinned his next project, co-dir ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ks had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist | who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has bee ... |
| Giacomo Gorrini | ... ry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, | , Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This place of remembran ... |
| Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
| William B. Davis | ... 996, as well as co-producing a TV documentary series Critical Eye hosted by | (the actor who played the Smoking Man in The X-Files). CSI members can als ... |
| Moses | ... cribe the same God. De ente et uno, has explanations of several passages in | , Plato and Aristotle |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... dstone. The last picture he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a scene from | 's The Deserted Village in 1857 |
| Plutarch | ... st of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to | ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new memb ... |
| James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | ... e him raves... I had a wonderful experience in spite of all the naysayers." | (producer of Prince of Egypt) talks about the actor. "Val was one of the f ... |
| Guido Cavalcanti | ... nte with his Divine Comedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as | and Lapo Gianni composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece i ... |
| Paul of Tarsus | ... temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopagus, the "mount of Ares" where | preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis; from archaic times ... |
| Mary Shelley | An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is | 's Frankenstein. It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemp ... |
| Norman Finkelstein | ... best we're likely to see – on the [one-sided diplomacy] Miller describes." | published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Journal of Palestine Stud ... |
| Charles McKeown | ... t was moved to Warner Bros., where Terry Gilliam was attached to direct and | to rewrite it. They used the character Rorschach's diary as a voice-over a ... |
| Fritz Hochwälder | ... e on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by | . In the following year, Ayckbourn appeared in six other plays at the Conn ... |
| Ivan Turgenev | ... iage did not stop the steady stream of infatuated men. The Russian novelist | in particular fell passionately in love with her after hearing her renditi ... |
| Lapo Gianni | ... omedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as Guido Cavalcanti and | composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece is the Divine Com ... |
| Pietro Kuciukian | ... remembrance was created by Laurenti Barseghian, the Museum's director, and | , the founder of the "Memory is the Future" Committee for the Righteous fo ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Of minor interest is a passing reference to Mirandola by | , in the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927). Mirandola is given ... |
| James Joyce | ... in Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly | , and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance ... |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
| Abraham Rees | ... ng technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and | 's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopaedia contains an ... |
| Blake | ... places Empson's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of | and Shelley." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton ... |
| Frank H. Easterbrook | Stephanos Bibas writes in a 2003 analysis for Cornell Law Review that Judge | and a majority of scholars "praise these pleas as efficient, constitutiona ... |
| Dave McKean | ... oyd, Leonardo Manco, and Sean Phillips. Notable cover artists have included | (who designed the first run of the series' covers), Tim Bradstreet (who de ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature. Studies of | 's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natu ... |
| James Randi | According to | , controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ... |
| Edna Ferber | ... gain (1953), The Blue Veil (1951) (another Oscar nomination), the remake of | 's So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Oscar nomination), Lucy Ga ... |
| Ronald Neame | ... ain (Jack Gold, 1984), The Dunera Boys (Ben Lewin, 1985) and Foreign Body ( | , 1986) |
| Virgil | ... real characters of his age or before. He is first guided by the Roman poet | , whose non-Christian beliefs damned him to Hell. Later on he is joined by ... |
| Michael Johns | ... Pakistan. Others included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, | and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resis ... |
| August von Kotzebue | Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist | was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student at the University of Jena. The ... |
| Sydney Grundy | The Vicar of Bray is an 1882 comic opera by | and Edward Solomon. The opera is based on the character described in the 1 ... |
| Mary Renault | | , in Funeral Games, translates the sobriquet into English: "One Eye. |
| 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 ... |
| Emma Goldman | ... ortrayed this in more positive terms. Thus we find Almeda Sperry writing to | in 1918, about the "rhythmic spurt of your love juices". Anatomical knowle ... |
| Evelyn Scott | Happy to get away from the company of | , in 1923 Merton returned to Douglaston to live with the Jenkins family an ... |
| Aristotle | As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of | , which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on th ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
| Clausewitz | ... on-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by | , On Wa |
| Armin T. Wegner | ... Genocide committed against the Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are | , Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bry ... |
| Thomas More | ... Marches and clerk controller to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. | , writing when she was still alive, but old, declared that even then an at ... |
| Oliver Stone | In the 2004 | film Alexander, Antigonus is played by Ian Beattie |
| William Wordsworth | ... he mechanical, and a longing for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like | and William Blake believed that the technological changes that were taking ... |
| George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
| Bill Dally | ... he CSX700 (2008) has 192. Stream Processors is headed by computer architect | . Their Storm-1 processor (2007) contains 80 SIMD cores controlled by a MI ... |
| Sammo Hung | Films featuring cycle rickshaws and their drivers include Kickboxer and | 's 1989 martial arts film Pedicab Driver, which dealt with a group of pedi ... |
| François Truffaut | The | film Day for Night is about the making of a fictitious movie called Meet P ... |
| William Blake | ... nging for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like William Wordsworth and | believed that the technological changes that were taking place as a part o ... |
| Petrarch | In the 14th century, | and Giovanni Boccaccio led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's de ... |
| George R. R. Martin | A character in | 's A Song of Ice and Fire series is forced to perform a penance walk model ... |
| Ralph Nader | He made a donation to | 's 2008 presidential campaign. On January 30, 2009, Kilmer was chosen to b ... |
| Philip J. Klass | ... bers, along with others such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, and | joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
| 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 ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
| Franz Werfel | ... Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, | , Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... Melrose has become a popular place to shoot films. In the fall of 2009, the | movie The Town captured many key scenes in a historic bank on Main Street ... |
| André Breton | ... of 14 he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of | |
| Richard P. Gabriel | ... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by | 's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | In the 14th century, Petrarch and | led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. Petrarch w ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
| Sam Hamm | ... ay based on his story, but he declined, so the studio enlisted screenwriter | . Hamm took the liberty of re-writing Watchmens complicated ending into a ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | ... tual heroes, St. Augustine of Hippo, and also by ideas held by his teacher, | , who may have encouraged him to write it. Pico’s antagonism to astrology ... |
| Martin Gardner | Science writer | , and others, describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. Gardn ... |
| Uri Geller | ... ying, therapeutic touch, astrology, fire walking, voodoo, magical thinking, | , alternative medicine, channeling, Carlos hoax, psychic hotlines and dete ... |
| George Antheil | ... ncluded the phonographic playback of a nightingale recording. Also in 1924, | created a work titled Ballet Mécanique with instrumentation that included ... |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... tized, Broadway-ized storyline. It was followed by a movie version starring | as Charity, featuring Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Chita Rivera ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... ility required in the production of the artistic object. In conceptual art, | 's "Fountain" is among the first examples of pieces wherein the artist use ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | The Vicar of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the | musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent ... |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
| Kevin Spacey | ... so close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, and | . He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs (Operation Mad Ba ... |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet | , who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from tea ... |
| Alfred de Musset | At the age of 17, she met and was courted by | , who had earlier been taken with her sister Maria Malibran. Some sources ... |
| Prosper of Aquitaine | ... ise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the Emperor. | gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting, but gives all ... |
| George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
| Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
| Tran Anh Hung | ... with romance and organized crime. Cyclo, a 1995 film by Vietnamese director | , is centered on a cycle rickshaw driver. Tollywood films with cycle ricks ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jared Diamond | ... n of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BC. | traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Cresce ... |
| Mark Z. Danielewski | The Whalestoe Letters (2000) by cult author | is an epistolary novella which more fully develops the literary correspond ... |
| Leonardo Boff | ... nt's most famous books, A Theology of Liberation. Other noted exponents are | of Brazil, Jon Sobrino of El Salvador, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay |
| George Washington | ... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by | 's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ... |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | The term "dramaturgy" was created by the German dramatist | . From 1767-1770 he wrote and published a series of criticisms entitled th ... |
| Gervase of Canterbury | ... d Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and | 's works |
| Anne Louise Germaine Necker | ... Suzanne before the end of the year. On 22 April 1766, they had a daughter, | , who became a renowned author under the name of Madame de Staël |
| 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 ... |
| Guru Arjan Dev | ... in the fort of Agra. As punishment Khusrau Mirza was blinded, and the Sikh | |
| Richard DeVos | High-ranking Amway leaders such as | and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a p ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
| Michael Madsen | ... ane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, | , Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Cha ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
| Menander | Josephus records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following | the historian, concerning King Hiram I of Tyre (c. 965–935 BCE ) |
| Andy Warhol | ... atles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, | and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins (see photo) |
| John McCabe | Laurel said to | : "Of all the questions we're asked, the most frequent is how did we come ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
| Ronald Firbank | ... iters. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating | ), and had little success. The rejection of their great hope, The Last Day ... |
| Bette Davis | ... MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (film) | ;screams about it in All About Eve; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt a ... |
| Bob Fosse | ... is also strongly identified with her second husband, director–choreographer | , remembered as the dancer–collaborator–muse for whom he choreographed muc ... |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft | ... itory, and Spain was worried about Russian advances southwards from Alaska. | , in his multi-volume History of California, only notes that, in connectio ... |
| Abbie Hoffman | The Universal Life Church was referenced by | in his 1970 book Steal This Book, which encouraged readers to request an o ... |
| Malcolm X | ... following the murder of Scott La Rock, with the title and cover alluding to | . KRS-One became involved with the Stop the Violence Movement at this time ... |
| Guy Hamilton | His cinema début came in 1957 in | 's Manuela, and he began a career of minor roles as sinister foreign agent ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 0s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer | , as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward. It was named Deva ei ... |
| Grace Coddington | American Vogue's creative director | , then a model herself said "It was the Sixties, it was a raving time, and ... |
| Nostradamus | ... aranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of Uri Geller and | as well as reference material on other major paranormal figures. He is cur ... |
| Neil Ardley | ... a nearby lake. In 1978 he played guitar on album Harmony of the Spheres by | |
| Ronnie Barker | ... with comedians, first writing a monologue for Tommy Cooper, and later with | , who played Lord Slingsby-Craddock in the London production of Mr Whatnot ... |
| D. James Kennedy | ... t in the United States. Moser states that DeVos was a supporter of the late | , giving more than $5 million to Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. DeVos w ... |
| John Mitchel | ... Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and Nationalist journalist and politician | . Alongside English convicts, they were used to build the Royal Naval Dock ... |
| C. S. Forester | ... ictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by | . He was later the subject of films and television programs |
| Uri Geller | ... rks about the paranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of | and Nostradamus as well as reference material on other major paranormal fi ... |
| Iris Murdoch | ... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer | in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ... |
| Shakespeare | In his play Coriolanus, | references the aediles. However, they are minor characters, and their chie ... |
| Silas Weir Mitchell | ... tly known as CRPS was originally described during the American Civil War by | , who is sometimes also credited with inventing the name "causalgia." Howe ... |
| John Betjeman | ... rt or the blurbs before returning them to the library. A volume of poems by | , for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
| Declan McCullagh | Cnet Journalist | called "series of tubes" an "entirely reasonable" metaphor for the Interne ... |
| Madame Necker | ... ne Necker, who became a renowned author under the name of Madame de Staël . | encouraged her husband to try to find himself a public position. He accord ... |
| Tennessee Williams | The Two-Character Play by | has a concurrent double plot with the convention of a play within a play. ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
| Nicolae Densuşianu | ... essenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia (Pausanias, III.25,4) | (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized Achilles in the name of Aquile ... |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
| Terence Rattigan | ... to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to | 's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer |
| James Randi | In 2005, | offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ... |
| Stella Tillyard | ... ox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox Sisters, immortalised in | 's book Aristocrats, and the television series based on it |
| Heinrich Heine | ... dalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, | , Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, t ... |
| Aristotle | ... ther important work to the Western theatre tradition work is the Poetics by | (written around 335 BC). In this work Aristotle analyses tragedy. He consi ... |
| Jon Gries | ... Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, | , Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... for record album sleeve art for performers including The Rolling Stones and | . One of Bailey's most famous works depicts the Rolling Stones. It feature ... |
| Andrew L. Stone | | | | 194 |
| Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
| John R. Commons | ... hrough the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors | and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensat ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
| Hesiod | ... s companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to | . The sister and companion of the violent Ares is Eris, the goddess of dis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thucydides | ... ssion of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league. | describes how Athens's control over the League grew |
| Herbert of Bosham | ... e-Maxence, Robert of Cricklade, Alan of Tewkesbury, Benet of St Albans, and | . The other biographers, who remain anonymous, are generally given the pse ... |
| Krišjānis Barons | Latvian folk songs, named Dainas by | , presumably could be the best sources due to the need to keep rhythm whil ... |
| John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
| Cassiodorus | ... e silken tent where Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to | and Jordanes: "Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for ... |
| Herodotus | The historian | recorded (2.44) |
| Bertolt Brecht | In | 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers ... |
| Josephus | ... mmortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero. | records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following Menander the historian, concerning ... |
| Berlioz | ... being readily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, | , Verdi, and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter- ... |
| Dave Finkel | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Pamela Fryman .... executiv ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... in various Charlie Chan films. On 22 February 1945, "speaking from London, | introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave. |
| Shade, the Changing Man | ... ths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and | . He was a recurring supporting character in both Swamp Thing and The Book ... |
| Trey Callaway | In 2004, | produced a screenplay entitled "Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward" for the ... |
| Terence Rattigan | ... loane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright | , who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival. The play was transferre ... |
| Jennifer Celotta | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Dave Finkel .... supervisin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Farrell | ... year to tape a special two-part farewell episode, "Goodbye Radar." Castmate | tried to persuade Burghoff to stay on the show, citing the lacklustre care ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
| Virginia Joan Bennett | While attending law school, Kennedy met | while he was delivering a speech at Manhattanville College in October 1957 ... |
| Brett Baer | | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Jennifer Celotta .... super ... |
| Denzel Washington | ... united with director Tony Scott a third time for a supporting role opposite | in the box-office hit Déjà Vu. The song "Val Kilmer" was named after him o ... |
| Boy George | In the 1980s, | said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' rol ... |
| Harry Martinson | ... och rum) is a poem of science fiction written by the Swedish Nobel laureate | in 1956. It was published on 13 October 1956. The title comes from ancient ... |
| Robert of Torigni | ... f the events of Becket's life in the chroniclers of the time. These include | 's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph ... |
| Edward Grim | ... iography has given them names. The known biographers are John of Salisbury, | , Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fitz Stephen, G ... |
| Charlie Kaufman | Director | uses this concept often in his films. It can be seen most in the 2008 film ... |
| Andy Warhol | Pop artists like | became both noteworthy and influential through work including and possibly ... |
| Brian Azzarello | ... en" banner. Among the creators involved are writers J. Michael Straczynski, | , Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. G. Jones, Adam H ... |
| Nonnus | ... mes rescued him and Artemis tricked the Aloadae into slaying each other. In | ' Dionysiaca Ares also killed Ekhidnades, the giant son of and a great ene ... |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
| St Augustine of Hippo | ... he first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine (not to be confused with | ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a ... |
| Anthony Romero | The ACLU is led by an executive officer and a president ( | and Susan Herman, respectively, in 2011). The executive officer acts as ch ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
| Lester Lewis | .... executive producer (unknown episodes) | .... co-executive producer (unknown episodes) Carla Myres .... associate ... |
| Joseph Haydn | She also arranged instrumental works by | , Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms as songs. She was on very friendly te ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
| Kit Pedler | ... ctor as giving them the appearance of 'dead men walking'. Series consultant | also used this fear as a basis for the inspiration of classic Doctor Who m ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
| Howie Carr | ... ugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, | , and Michael Savage, as well as many local commentators, support Republic ... |
| Uri Geller | ... the focus of the organization's attention. TV celebrity and claimed psychic | , for example, was until recently in open dispute with the organization, f ... |
| Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by | . The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attemp ... |
| Queen Latifah | ... ative Tongues groups—The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, | and Monie Love—along with fellow travellers like Leaders of the New School ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... ch, New Hampshire. In the late summer and fall of 2008, various scenes from | 's film Edge of Darkness were shot on Church Street |
| John of Salisbury | ... traditional historiography has given them names. The known biographers are | , Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fi ... |
| Leo Bruce | ... ater sketch sees him meeting a ship captain who is also played by Mitchell. | parodied Hercule Poirot with the character Amer Picon in his book Case For ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... uced at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by | , with design by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Leonid Massine, and music ... |
| Okwui Enwezor | ... 2002, Pettibon participated in Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, curated by | . He also had a solo exhibition, Raymond Pettibon Plots Laid Thick, organi ... |
| Cole Porter | ... came when choreographer Michael Kidd cast her as the second female lead in | 's musical Can-Can (1953), starring French prima donna Lilo. Out-of-town r ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... reputation as "America's Dairyland." Meanwhile, conservationists including | helped reestablish the state's forests during the early 20th century, pavi ... |
| Bede | Historians since | have traditionally represented the years preceding AD 1 as "1 BC", "2 BC", ... |
| Mary Wilson | In 1983, Ross reunited with former Supremes | and Cindy Birdsong for the television special . The three performed their ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
| Sun Tzu | ... on the list of required reading for United States Army officers, and (with | and Clausewitz) the third non-American entry on the list. Van Creveld's Su ... |
| Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by | that he wrote in Yiddish and published in 1894. The musical's title stems ... |
| Richard Barre | ... ices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, | , William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly ... |
| 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 |
| Madonna | ... istory of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. | would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... hat a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community. | reiterated Gandhi's assurance to the Sikhs at the All India Congress Commi ... |
| Jordanes | ... known as the Sword of Attila, because of the Miholjanec legend and because | embellished the report of Priscus with a fairytale by describing that Atti ... |
| Brendan Sullivan | ... n October 2, 2008, denied the mistrial petition of Stevens's chief counsel, | , due to allegations of withholding evidence by prosecutors. Thus, the lat ... |
| Livy | Hannibal was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian | records the legend that just before setting off on his march to Italy he m ... |
| Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
| Darwyn Cooke | ... the creators involved are writers J. Michael Straczynski, Brian Azzarello, | , and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. G. Jones, Adam Hughes, Andy Ku ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... entre for centuries, notably during the Renaissance with scientists such as | |
| Livy | According to | (vi. 42), after the passing of the Licinian rogations in 367 BC, an extra ... |
| Noël Coward | ... , making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from | . This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because h ... |
| Karen Berger | ... selected to start the character's first run in his own comic by then editor | in 1988. Delano's run was characterised by his political satire, taking on ... |
| Glenn Beck | ... adio hosts, including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, | , Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Sav ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President, | . The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ... |
| Erik Lindegren | ... arl-Birger Blomdahl also called Aniara premiered in 1959 with a libretto by | based on Martinson's poem; it was also staged in Hamburg, Brussels and Dar ... |
| Neil Peart | All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and | , except where noted |
| Kenneth Halliwell | Orton met | at RADA in 1951 and moved into a West Hampstead flat with him and two othe ... |
| Blake Edwards | He also had a longtime working relationship with director | , starring in My Sister Eileen (1955), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The ... |
| David Hume | ... ho traced the idea back through the Principle of Laplace to the philosopher | .) CSI members argue that none of the paranormal claims have met the stric ... |
| Neil Peart | ... mitted in the 2010 documentary film that he thought bandmates Alex Lifeson, | and he were "pretty high" during the making of Caress of Steel |
| Shinichi Hoshi | ... (named after Tezuka's longtime friend, the Japanese science fiction writer | ) becomes their ally throughout the series. He is the only person who know ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gackt | ... tracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki and | sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as a way for ... |
| John Ruskin | ... primarily concerned with ideas of truth and beauty. The aesthetic theorist | , who championed what he saw as the naturalism of J. M. W. Turner, saw art ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess, | 's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ... |
| Bill Scott | ... ted television series, where she worked with her Rocky & Bullwinkle co-star | for the final time until his death in 1985 |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... ome well-known conservative radio hosts, including national figures such as | , Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, H ... |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz | ... ne, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's life (Welles and co-writer | added bits and pieces from the lives of other rich men of the time, among ... |
| Sean Hannity | ... conservative radio hosts, including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and ... |
| Hugh Laurie | In the movie Spice World, Hercule Poirot ( | ) is about to blame a weapons-packing Emma Bunton, but after she flashes h ... |
| Jerry Bock | Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by | , lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russ ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... oviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff and | took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bava ... |
| Agrippa von Nettesheim | ... ure of man" (OED). Authors whose usage predates Steiner's include occultist | , alchemist Thomas Vaughn (Anthroposophia Theomagica), and philosophers Im ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... hosted world class and award nominated exhibitions, including the works of | , Grant Wood, and the Iowa Biennial, among others |
| Scott Ritter | ... affaji, and Iraqi-American businessman to produce a film by ex-UN inspector | discrediting the weapons searches |
| Theodore Sturgeon | | , reviewing a 1964 American edition for a genre audience, declared that "M ... |
| Bette Davis | Most accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system. | had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the 1930s. De ... |
| Varina Davis | ... bout the war, beginning with biographies of major southern figures, such as | ' of her husband Jefferson Davis. Later, women began adding more of their ... |
| Marshall Berman | According to one of | 's books (Berman 1982, 16–17), modernity is periodized into three conventi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Griselda Pollock | ... ged, such as Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin and | among others. Though only originally intended as a way of understanding a ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... azz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. | summed it up by saying, "It's all music." Some critics have even stated th ... |
| George Sand | She spent many happy hours at | 's home at Nohant, with Sand and her lover Frédéric Chopin. The warmth of ... |
| Livy | ... ulation of the public markets, or what we might call "economic regulation". | suggests, perhaps incorrectly, that both Curule as well as Plebeian Aedile ... |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | ... archy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah | ; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | An early Dada-related work from 1916 by | also worked with noise, but in an almost silent way. His ready-made With H ... |
| 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. ... |
| Hesiod | In the Iliad (4.514), the Homeric Hymns, and in | 's Theogony, Athena is given the curious epithet Tritogeneia. The meaning ... |
| John McCabe | ... 3). It was founded in New York City in 1965 by Laurel and Hardy biographers | , Orson Bean, Al Kilgore, and John Municino, with the sanction of Stan Lau ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
| Varro | ... ure in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. | , Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical L ... |
| Maria Shriver | Schwarzenegger was married to | . The couple separated in 2011 after 25 years of marriage |
| Neal Boortz | ... including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, | , Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well ... |
| Joseph Stein | ... a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by | , set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (o ... |
| Plutarch | ... asury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, | indicates that many of Pericles' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as u ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Beer Hall Putsch, also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under | in Munich. In 1920, the German Workers' Party had become the National Soci ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... eir numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to | . Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from ... |
| W. Clement Stone | ... he 1960s) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America (founded by | in 1919). In 1987, that company was renamed to Aon, a Gaelic word meaning ... |
| Jim Lee | ... it back under those kinds of terms." DC Comics co-publishers Dan DiDio and | responded, "DC Comics would only revisit these iconic characters if the cr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Uri Geller | ... which occurred at a meeting where Randi was duplicating the performances of | : A professor from the University at Buffalo shouted out that Randi was a ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ipartisan calls for his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, | and John McCain, were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said ... |
| David Mercer | ... 1977), Resnais made his first film in English, with a screenplay written by | , and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and Dirk Bogarde. Th ... |
| Karen Berger | ... l in with a travelling community of environmental activists. Indeed, editor | noted on Delano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in t ... |
| William Harrison Ainsworth | ... ic interest was partly fuelled by contemporary writers, of whom the work of | was particularly influential. In he created a vivid image of underground t ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... ional figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, | , Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local co ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... pposed the Patriot Act. The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as | , George Wallace, Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liber ... |
| Charles Higham | ... ent a name, taking first Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer | records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting ... |
| Ovid | ... dons) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth. | , on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the t ... |
| Aristotle | ... aro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and | , since he believed they both used different words to express the same con ... |
| Woody Allen | ... 1988), Dream On (1993) and (1993). Verdon appeared as Alice's mother in the | movie Alice (1990) and as Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl ... |
| George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of | 's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award |
| 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 ... |
| Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
| Doreen Valiente | Although his own book had been put together with the help of | and included material from a variety of modern sources, (notably from Arad ... |
| William Lindsay Gresham | ... ound in Home's belongings after his death. According to Randi 'around 1960' | told Randi he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the So ... |
| Phil McGraw | In March 2004, TV personality | (aka Dr. Phil) pulled his “Shape Up” line of supplements off the market in ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... in Starr, Temptations David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards. A then-prepubescent | took Brown's shouts and dancing into the pop mainstream as the lead singer ... |
| Arrian | ... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to | , but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... ces, (notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of | ) it also included sections written in an antique (or mock-antique) style, ... |
| Robert L. Forward | ... m. This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist | in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high ... |
| Aeschylus | The Greek tragedian | wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title Achilleis by mode ... |
| Ada Louise Huxtable | ... crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval. | wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was "a palatial statement ... |
| Benjamin Hoff | The Te of Piglet was written by | following the publication of The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the origi ... |
| Oliver Stone | Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in | 's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which both appeared without sharing sc ... |
| Johnny Miller | ... er Jim McMahon. In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: | ('69) at the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open and Mike Weir ('92) at t ... |
| Tatian | The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by | , who calls him "the most admirable Justin," quotes a saying of his, and s ... |
| John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
| Orson Welles | ... ar cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, | as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... ience of the king." Hamlet calls this new play The Mouse-trap (a title that | later took for the long-running play The Mousetrap). In the Hamlet-based f ... |
| Julia Keller | | . 2008. Mr Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and ... |
| 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 ... |
| George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
| Rousseau | ... mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by | and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education |
| Plutarch | ... ed near Athens, once Aegina was under Athenian's power. The Greek historian | (46 AD–120 AD) also refers to an instance during the Parthenon's construct ... |
| Mike Harding | Paying tribute to Martyn, BBC Radio 2's folk presenter | said |
| Robert Caro | ... the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day. | argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells ... |
| Plato | ... molao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of | and Aristotle, since he believed they both used different words to express ... |
| Sir Thomas Malory's | ... Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. | Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important ... |
| Xie Lingyun | ... World (Shishuo xinyu). The "Three Giants of Yuanjia," Bao Zhao 鮑照 (d.466), | 謝霊運 (385–433), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 (384–456) are perhaps the most famous po ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... work for Lubin Studios, advising her fellow young Canadian, the 18-year-old | , to take her place as IMP's star |
| Trina Robbins | ... zi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, | & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, Stan Sakai, Michael Kaluta ... |
| Herodotus | By the time of | (c. 475 BCE), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2,857 km from ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
| Tina Turner | In 1996, White recorded the duet "In Your Wildest Dreams" with | . 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which Whit ... |
| François Truffaut | ... or the set design in his own productions. In his book-length interview with | , Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he wa ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as | , Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by | , postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible ... |
| Larry Semon | ... assisted star comics Billy West, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, Jimmy Aubrey, | and Charley Chase. In total, Hardy starred or co-starred in more than 250 ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
| Aristotle | ... e best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on | in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s a ... |
| James Boswell | ... f letters, who likely had Tourette syndrome as evidenced by the writings of | . Johnson wrote in 1747, and was a prolific writer, poet, and critic |
| Methodius of Olympus | ... beheaded with six other Christians in Rome for his beliefs. Hippolytus and | also mention or quote him. Eusebius of Caesarea deals with him at some len ... |
| Bo Yang | ... nder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese writer | 's book Zhongguo Diwang Huanghou Qinwang Gongzhu Shixi Lu (中國帝王皇后親王公主世系錄) ... |
| 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 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
| Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
| JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
| 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 ... |
| Amatus of Monte Cassino | ... this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and | gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south |
| Moses | ... rgin birth, the miracles of Jesus Christ, and the parting of the Red Sea by | , are not believable. For example, Randi refers to the Virgin Mary as bein ... |
| Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
| Harvey Kurtzman | ... ly after its transformation from comic book format to magazine. When editor | left in a dispute, Jaffee went with Kurtzman. Jaffee contributed to Kurtzm ... |
| Chris Rock | ... the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which White had a duet with | , called "Basketball Jones," a remake of Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jone ... |
| Fritz Lang | ... uffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he was influenced by | 's film Destiny (1921) |
| Dan Slott | Living Hell was written by | , penciled by Ryan Sook with inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Roy ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
| Rowan Williams | The current archbishop is the Most Reverend | . He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ... |
| Aristotle | ... egan by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of | 's On the Heavens |
| Katherine Jackson | ... der Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexier. | recalled her shock seeing La Toya dance in a suggestive manner in 1988 for ... |
| 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 |
| James McGee | ... out the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He also plays a significant role in | 's thriller Crow's War. Another is Fire by Sebastian Junger. Junger was on ... |
| Boy George | ... o were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band comprised | (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards) a ... |
| Lilli Palmer | ... ces and boasted an all-star cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, | as Jocasta, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Live ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist | |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred | and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... ers and values of art; it is term associated with Dadaism and attributed to | just before World War I, when he was making art from found objects. One of ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... with whom tourist attractions have been established: for example the author | who included many local features and characters in his works |
| Virginia Lee Burton | ... t Newbury and its residents were the models for Popperville, the setting of | 's children's story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. The town hall wher ... |
| Averroes | ... at he believed to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see | , Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 148 ... |
| Tacitus | ... hem, had their heads shaved at Paul's expense. Among the ancient Chatti, as | relates (Germania, 31), young men allowed their hair and beards to grow, a ... |
| John Huston | ... ly acclaimed neo-noir boxing film Fat City, directed by legendary director, | . He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opp ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
| Thomas Kyd | This dramatic device was probably first used by | in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where the play is presented before an ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e of a person who may have used obsessive–compulsive traits to advantage is | , the 18th-century English man of letters, who likely had Tourette syndrom ... |
| W. C. Handy | ... e Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Blues music was published and popularized by | , whose "Memphis Blues" of 1912 and "St. Louis Blues" of 1914 both became ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ated from the former dumping ground characterized as "a valley of ashes" in | 's The Great Gatsby. The site, known at the time as the Corona Ash Dumps, ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... the University of California, San Diego. His doctoral thesis, The Novels of | , was published in 1984 |
| William Shakespeare | ... n of Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet), with a play-within-a-play interlude. | used this device in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream ... |
| Stan Sakai | ... , Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, | , Michael Kaluta, Moebius, Rebecca Guay, Geoff Darrow, Brian Froud and Cha ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
| Bertrand R. Brinley | ... geographical inspiration for the Mad Scientists' Club series of stories by | . Portions of John Cena's music video, "Right Now", were shot in West Newb ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... . Bush in the Iowa caucus—Bush finished third, behind television evangelist | . However, Bush recovered in time to defeat Dole in the New Hampshire prim ... |
| Tertullian | ... ple. Irenaeus quotes Justin twice, and shows his influence in other places. | , in his Adversus Valentinianos, calls Justin a philosopher and martyr, an ... |
| Dave McKean | ... n Serious Earth is a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and painted by | . It was published by DC Comics in 1989. It made reference to the treatmen ... |
| William Blake | Some of the most notable illustrators of Paradise Lost included | , Gustave Doré and Henry Fuseli (1799); however, the epic's illustrators a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bashō | | visited and wrote about Iwate in the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ... |
| Francis La Flesche | ... ced back to the late 19th century, when researchers like Alice Fletcher and | studied the music of the Omaha peoples, working for the Bureau of American ... |
| William Empson | ... uperior' and that Charles Stuart was not." Others, like the literary critic | argued that "Milton deserves credit for making God wicked, since the God o ... |
| Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
| George Washington | ... bout historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, | 's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebell ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
| Charley Rogers | ... them together officially as a team and paid their wages for over 20 years. | worked closely with the three men for many years and said "It could not ha ... |
| Aristotle | ... n, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of | . But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continence) ... |
| Harvey Kurtzman | ... ew York City in the late 1930s, along with future Mad personnel Will Elder, | , John Severin and Al Feldstein |
| Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents | and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
| James Whale | Rich, shadowy photography echoed | 's expressionistic Frankenstein films, emphasizing the family's ghoulishne ... |
| Dave McKean | Black Orchid, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by | , also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-winning graphic novel introduced ... |
| William Blake | ... in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and Shelley." As the poet | famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angel ... |
| U. R. Ananthamurthy | ... arnataka announced that it had accepted a proposal by Jnanpith Award winner | to rename Bangalore to Bengaluru. On 27 September 2006, the Bruhat Bengalu ... |
| Suetonius | The Roman historians | and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium (acc ... |
| Nathan Bailey | ... is from the Greek, virtually , from "human", and "wisdom". It is listed by | (1742) as meaning "the knowledge of the nature of man" (OED). Authors whos ... |
| Heliodorus of Emesa | The Hellenistic novelist | in his Aethiopica refers to the dancing of Tyrian sailors in honor of the ... |
| Bob Fosse | ... husbands, tabloid reporter James Henaghan (married 1942, divorced 1947) and | (married 1960, his death 1987). She and Henaghan had one son, Jim Henaghan ... |
| François Truffaut | ... e MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock told French director | |
| 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 ... |
| Democritus | ... causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers | , Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Ab ... |
| Paul Jenkins | ... by From Hell artist Eddie Campbell, the series' direction was taken over by | in 1995. He had been former editor of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and oth ... |
| Charley Chase | ... omics Billy West, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, Jimmy Aubrey, Larry Semon and | . In total, Hardy starred or co-starred in more than 250 silent shorts, ab ... |
| Uri Geller | ... e international spotlight in 1972 when he publicly challenged the claims of | . Randi accused Geller of being nothing more than a charlatan and a fraud ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
| Samuel Johnson | The writer and critic | wrote that Paradise Lost shows off "[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish" ... |
| Herodotus | ... ncluding the poet Anacreon) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( | i.168). The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos; th ... |
| Anton Chekhov | In | 's The Seagull there are specific allusions to Hamlet: in the first act a ... |
| Luther | ... ts in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of | ans and Calvinists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphas ... |
| Aristotle | ... Plato, as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for | . Although he was a product of the studia humanitatis, Pico was constituti ... |
| Larry Sabato | In his book A More Perfect Constitution, Professor | elaborated on this advantage of the Electoral College, arguing to "mend it ... |
| William J. Mann | In | 's novel The Biograph Girl (2000), Mann asks the question, "What if Floren ... |
| Augustine | ... spiritual roots and traditions. He suggested Merton read The Confessions of | and The Imitation of Christ. Although Merton was surprised to hear the mon ... |
| Galen | ... t from that of his predecessor Rhazes, because he presented the doctrine of | , and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of ... |
| Valerie D'Orazio | ... h inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal. The series was edited by | . Eric Powell created the painted cover art which appeared on both the ori ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pindar | A legend preserved in | relates that Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in buildin ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... tics to be one of his best performances. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece | ;wrote that he "may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen ac ... |
| Tony Hawks | In his book and TV series One Hit Wonderland, | united with Wisdom and, along with Sir Tim Rice, released a single, "Big I ... |
| Rob Shearman | ... r playwrights, in order to concentrate on his own plays, the last one being | 's Knights in Plastic Armour in 1999; the exception being in 2002 when he ... |
| Chris Claremont | ... series was illustrated by Cockrum, and later by John Byrne, and written by | . Claremont became the series' longest-running contributor. The run met wi ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... the highest-selling album in Japan with over 7 million copies sold, whereas | became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume rema ... |
| Hippocrates | ... cause he presented the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of | , modified by the system of Aristotle. But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distin ... |
| Charles Darwin | This was the first stop the HMS Beagle made on its journey on which | would make his amazing discoveries |
| Tim Firth | ... in 1999; the exception being in 2002 when he directed the world première of | 's The Safari Party |
| Harry Solter | She was married three times. First to | (1908–1913), then to Charles Woodring (May 12, 1921–1931), and lastly to H ... |
| Bob Mosher | The show was produced by Joe Connelly and | , who were already known for creating the Leave It to Beaver television se ... |
| Calvin | ... ntroversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and | ists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural r ... |
| Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
| Janet Farrar | ... aterial from the Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians | and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much ... |
| Gregory the Great's | According to | biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was ... |
| Sophocles | The tragedian | also wrote The Lovers of Achilles, a play with Achilles as the main charac ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... ney by Will Evans and Valentine, with adaptations by Ayckbourn (Lyttelton), | 's A View From the Bridge (Cottesloe), his own A Small Family Business (Ol ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... nd Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, | , Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| Tatian | ... of Antoninus Pius (138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. | was one of his pupils. In the reign of Marcus Aurelius, after disputing wi ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... p dance form Para Para. While Avex's artists such as Every Little Thing and | became popular in 1990s, new names in the late 90s included Hikaru Utada a ... |
| Roseanne Barr | The Roseanne Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by American actress | following the end of her long-running sitcom. The show featured Roseanne i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | Pico based his ideas chiefly on Plato, as did his teacher, | , but retained a deep respect for Aristotle. Although he was a product of ... |
| Nick Cave | ... ey Cricket Ground, also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, | , John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers and others |
| August von Kotzebue | The second son of | , he was born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), then part of the Russian Em ... |
| Anacreon | ... es from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos (including the poet | ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke (Herodotus i.168). The chi ... |
| John Gower | ... aws in part on the 14th century Confessio Amantis (itself a frame story) by | and Shakespeare has the ghost of Gower "assume man's infirmities" to intro ... |
| Innocent III | ... supporting the monks and the king supporting the archbishop. Finally, Pope | ruled for the monks and ordered Walter to destroy what had been built |
| John F. Kennedy | ... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President | 's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti | ... ant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child | as the reincarnated Christ. Steiner strongly objected and considered any c ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... e and started his own school. Tatian was one of his pupils. In the reign of | , after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens, he was denounced by ... |
| Doreen Valiente | ... e Alexandrians Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of | , that much of the Gardnerian book should be published in its true form. M ... |
| Spener | ... tion. He came strongly under the influence of the pietists, particularly of | , and there was a mystic vein in his thought; but other elements of his na ... |
| Mary Rowlandson | ... the entrance to which is within Princeton. According to tradition, in 1675, | was ransomed upon Redemption Rock, now within the town of Princeton, by Ki ... |
| Barack Obama | ... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, | carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ... |
| Averroes | ... uropean universities, and eclipse the names of Rhazes, Ali ibn al-Abbas and | . His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessor Rhaze ... |
| Jastrow | ... ue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare Josephus, B. J. ii.14, § 5 | ;, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most prominent teachers of the next g ... |
| Paul Oliver | ... nted, though they can be seen as the secular counterpart of the spirituals. | has drawn attention to similarities in instruments, music and social funct ... |
| John Calvin | ... nox. It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of | which Knox had been exposed to while living in Geneva, Switzerland. In 156 ... |
| Eleanor H. Porter | ... om the main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol), or a pollyanna (from | 's book of the same name). James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uni ... |
| Henry M. Morris | ... it would be conjurable by incantations. Literal Christian interpreters like | say that the stranger was "God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His prein ... |
| René Goscinny | ... The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by | and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chaucer | working pilgrims could assemble quite a collection, as mentioned by | in his 'Canterbury Tales' |
| Ed Brubaker | The Man Who Laughs is a one-shot prestige format comic book written by | and illustrated by Doug Mahnke and Patrick Zircher, released in February 2 ... |
| Leo VI the Wise | ... nd later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their own use). Emperor | incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art (Τέ ... |
| John Aubrey | ... lton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer] | (1626-97) tell us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in ab ... |
| Leo McCarey | ... because Laurel and Hardy were the best actors. The teaming was suggested by | , who was their supervising director between 1927 and 1930; during this pe ... |
| Ptolemy | ... nce of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer | in his Geographia named the Malay Peninsula as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden P ... |
| Plato | Pico based his ideas chiefly on | , as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for Ari ... |
| Albert Uderzo | ... a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by | (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Go ... |
| Tony Dungy | The firing led to the hiring of head coach | , the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had led his forme ... |
| Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
| James Joyce | ... as Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). | 's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined ... |
| John Tasker Howard | ... s might arise from American culture, in his 1915 Music in America. In 1930, | 's Our American Music became a standard analysis, focusing on largely on c ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. | developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ... |
| Annie Besant | ... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when | , then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ... |
| Aristotle | ... and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with | (and disagrees with Hippocrates) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... ward nomination, for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 | film Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991's The Fi ... |
| Hippocrates | ... body are also covered. The Canon agrees with Aristotle (and disagrees with | ) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact which was not universally accep ... |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | ... Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination. Some sources (such as | 's) state that Kennedy offered the position to Johnson as a courtesy and d ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens ( | ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement cer ... |
| Paul Goldberger | ... other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic | to declare 1989 "the year of Pei" in The New York Times. It was also the y ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
| Milton Friedman | ... ughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, | , and Thomas Sowell |
| Mike Carey | Following Azzarello's run, writer | took over the title, following his Eisner award-winning title Lucifer, set ... |
| John Lahr | | wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title Orton hims ... |
| David Hykes | ... music by Dead Can Dance, L. Subramaniam, Ciro Hurtado, Inkuyo, Brother and | , is noticeably different from the minimalist one provided by Philip Glass ... |
| Euripides | ... in it he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by | . His treatise was one of the first documents of the literary debate that ... |
| Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri | ... gainst four southern leaders--Ali Salim al-Baidh, Haydar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, | , and Salih Munassar Al-Siyali -- for misappropriation of official funds. ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... and based on a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred | and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve you ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
| Arthur Grimble | ... part of the colony in 1919 and the Phoenix Islands were added in 1937. Sir | was a cadet administrative officer based at Tarawa (1913-1919) and became ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... ed by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a movie within a dream. | 's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who f ... |
| UCSD Pascal | ... he BASIC ROM expansion card. The language card was also required to use the | and FORTRAN 77 compilers, which were released by Apple at about the same t ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
| Conan O'Brien | Live performers such as television talk-show hosts (e.g., | , David Letterman) sometimes enhance their reputation for wit by the deliv ... |
| Daphne du Maurier | ... first American movie, set in England and based on a novel by English author | . The film starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodra ... |
| Johann Heermann | ... in the United States (on which day the achievements of Philipp Nicolai and | are also commemorated) |
| Poliziano | In 2007, the bodies of | and Pico della Mirandola were exhumed from St. Mark's Basilica in Florence ... |
| Margaret Drabble | ... arrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966). Also, Arnold Bennett: A Biography by | (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1974) |
| Josephus | ... , a Jewish client king of Rome. Ashkelon may have even been his birthplace. | states Ashkelon was not ceded to Herod the Great in 30 BC, yet he built mo ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... sful in his aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as | , Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSI ... |
| Robert Caro | ... life by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson's biographer | observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was u ... |
| Stan Laurel | | (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in U ... |
| Michael Jackson | In the beginning of the music video for the | song "Thriller", the heroine is terrorized by her monster boyfriend in wha ... |
| Philipp Nicolai | ... me Lutheran Churches in the United States (on which day the achievements of | and Johann Heermann are also commemorated) |
| Hector Berlioz | ... ounterpoint and harmony classes with Anton Reicha, the teacher of Liszt and | , and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. It was with the greatest regret that ... |
| Virginia Woolf | Contemporary critics— | in particular—perceived weaknesses in his work. To her and other Bloomsbur ... |
| Plato | ... Rhadamanthus and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to | especially for the shades of Europeans. In works of art he was represented ... |
| Doreen Valiente | High Priestess | made the claim that Gardner found the term "Book of Shadows" from a 1949 e ... |
| Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | ... by his father the Mughal Emperor Akbar, alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and | to defeat the renegade Vir Singh Deo of Bandela and capture the city of Or ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ibn Bajjah | ... dy, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl and | . He also introduced medical herbs |
| Jerry Juhl | ... he first drafts of a live-action experimental film script were written with | , which would eventually become Henson's last unproduced full-length scree ... |
| Philippe Quinault | ... at the royal press, Paris, in 1677, and illustrated by Sebastien le Clerc. | , who was a longtime family friend of the Perraults, was gaining a quick r ... |
| David O. Selznick | At the end of the 1930s, | signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when th ... |
| James I of England | ... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became | , and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ... |
| Saint Patrick | ... Hacienda San Patricio", which they named after the patron saint of Ireland, | . A relative of O'Daly, Demetrio O'Daly, succeeded Captain Ramon Power y G ... |
| A. A. Milne | Piglet is a fictional character from | 's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend among ... |
| Norman Thomas | ... rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays and | , believed that direct, militant action was the best path. Hays was the fi ... |
| Sir Thomas Malory's | ... The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as | Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histor ... |
| Pope Gregory I | ... St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by | on a mission to the English. He was accepted by King Æthelbert, on his con ... |
| Joseph McMoneagle | ... t nuclear research facility by Pat Price's (Kress 1977/1999, Targ 1996) and | , a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of ... |
| Gene Raymond | ... some heifers onto the set with name tags of Lombard, Robert Montgomery, and | , the stars of the film, to surprise the director. Hitchcock said he was 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... ew Philocles took first prize at that competition. However, in his Poetics, | considered Oedipus the King to be the tragedy best matched his prescriptio ... |
| famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
| Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
| Arthur Garfield Hays | ... w to challenge the civil rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, | and Norman Thomas, believed that direct, militant action was the best path ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. | wrote the screenplay |
| Isaac de Benserade | ... tures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet | next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ience with a left-wing libertarian and anti-capitalist utopian vision since | 's 1974 novel, The Dispossessed |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte | ... art's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, | ) and . By the age of six she was fluent in Spanish, French, English and I ... |
| Haruki Murakami | ... i, during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China. | 's 1995 novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle deals greatly with Manchukuo thro ... |
| Plato | In his dialogue Cratylus, the Greek philosopher | , 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC, gives the etymology of Athena's name, based on ... |
| James Randi | ... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, | , and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... as received two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards—for playing Willie Loman in | 's (National Theatre, 1979) and as best supporting actor in a 2003 perform ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aeschylus | In 467 BCE, Sophocles's fellow tragedian | won first prize at the City Dionysia with a trilogy about the House of Lai ... |
| Thomas Lodge | ... by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius. The first English translation, by | , appeared in 1602, with subsequent editions appearing throughout the 17th ... |
| Chris Ware | ... ted literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like | 's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant wo ... |
| William Empson | ... nterpret the poem as a genuine Christian morality tale, other critics, like | , view it as a more ambiguous work, and Milton's complex characterization ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Chatterton | In 1835, he produced a drama titled Chatterton, based on the life of | , and in which Marie Dorval starred as Kitty Bell. Chatterton is considere ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
| 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 ... |
| John Howard Lawson | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, | , Dorothy Parker, and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
| Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . Scholarly theories have been proposed about the location and its potenti ... |
| Gervase of Canterbury | ... ate to become Archbishop of York in September 1186. The medieval chronicler | said that during Henry II's reign, Walter "ruled England because Glanvill ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... presario, Fred Karno, working as a supporting actor and as an understudy of | . Laurel said of Karno "There was no one like him. He had no equal. His na ... |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | | 's 1987 film, The Last Emperor, presented a controversial portrait of Manc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Larry Niven | ... ak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, | , and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work has been cal ... |
| Tacitus | ... f this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by | ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself |
| Dorothy Parker | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson, | , and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
| Gary Oldman | ... on's diaries and on Lahr's research. Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred | as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
| Pablo Neruda | ... influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and the poet | . Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid-1950s when he began singin ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... y was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, | , Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and in ... |
| Johnny Speight | ... of mini-episodes called A Word With Alf featuring Alf and his friends. When | died in 1998, the series was cancelled at Mitchell's request |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences (a poem by | , "De profundis clamavi," is present in the hidden track "Midnight Sun") a ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by | . When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ... |
| Poul Anderson | ... ibertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, | , Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work ... |
| Dallin H. Oaks | ... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, | '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ... |
| Atahualpa Yupanqui | ... an countries; he was particularly influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, | , and the poet Pablo Neruda. Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ovid | ... Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by | . By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus (father of Achilles), ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | ... y-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and | , and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a ... |
| Sean Penn | ... ined was inspired by seeing the 2008 biographical drama film Milk, in which | portrayed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public of ... |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | ... ng the Dalai Lama, the Japanese writer D.T. Suzuki, and the Vietnamese monk | . Merton has also been the subject of |
| Rubem Alves | Principal texts | , a Brazilian theologian working at Princeton, wrote Towards a Theology of ... |
| C.B. Forgotston | ... na, New Orleans attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog | relocated to Hammond in 2006. Lawson Swearingen, a former Democratic membe ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
| Frank Oz | ... raise their children. Henson hired writer Jerry Juhl in 1961 and puppeteer | in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credited both writers with developing ... |
| Dorothy Bridges | ... . He is son of showbiz parents, actor Lloyd Bridges. and actress and writer | (née Simpson). His older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a ... |
| James Joyce | ... which reversed a ban by the Customs Department against the book Ulysses by | . The ACLU only achieved mixed results in the early years, and it was not ... |
| Stanley Baxter | ... . It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, | , and Hayward Morse |
| Victor Hugo | ... ent, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, | . Unlike his friend, Vigny retained his Royalist sympathies in politics: " ... |
| Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
| Mack Gordon | ... minated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards) Harry Warren (music), | (lyrics). See 15th Academy Awards |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... e, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from | |
| Tony Dungy | In week 16, the Colts played without coach | following the suicide of his son James earlier in the week. With the team ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
| Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler's introduction in | 's continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, ... |
| Serj Tankian | ... ed host to many world-famous musical acts including Charles Aznavour, Cher, | , Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, J ... |
| Sylvia Browne | On Larry King Live, March 6, 2001, Larry King asked | if she would take the challenge and she agreed. Then Randi appeared with B ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kathy Troccoli | ... re he wrote a number of gospel hits penned for artists such as Sandi Patty, | , Bill Gaither and Amy Grant, to the effect that some of these popular wor ... |
| Ernest Renan | Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker | , shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tré ... |
| Leonardo Boff | ... ssident priests from teaching such doctrines in the Catholic Church's name. | was suspended and others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in Sri Lanka, wa ... |
| Kevin Spacey | Actor | recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people. ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... episode of The Colbert Report aired on Jaffee's 85th birthday, and comedian | saluted the artist with a Fold-in birthday cake. The cake featured the sal ... |
| Harry Warren | ... tra Wives. This was nominated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards) | (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics). See 15th Academy Awards |
| Alexander Gradsky | The Soviet musician | created the rock opera Stadium (Стадион, Stadion) in 1985 based on the eve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stan Lee | In early 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, Creator | devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jerry Juhl | ... e time. Jane quit muppeteering to raise their children. Henson hired writer | in 1961 and puppeteer Frank Oz in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credit ... |
| Aidan Higgins | ... o Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the | novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... e de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about Paulinus of Nola). Just like | 's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perr ... |
| Daniel Handler | ... hing, and parallels a character in the main story and hints at his actions. | 's introduction in Lemony Snicket's continually introduces a new story abo ... |
| Carl Van Vechten | ... t Wood, journalist and historian William L. Shirer, writer and photographer | , and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. Alexander Lippisch. In the 1990s and 2000s, ... |
| Joe Rock | ... with; dressing room arguments between the two were common, so film producer | paid her to leave Laurel and return to her native Australia. In 1925 Laure ... |
| Thomas Rau | ... and Joachim Eble in Germany, Erik Asmussen in Sweden, Kenji Imai in Japan, | , Anton Alberts and Max van Huut in Holland, Christopher Day and Camphill ... |
| gcc | ... as added to Wine 1.1.10, in December 2008. This currently requires at least | version 4.4, and the Wine developers expect that it will take significant ... |
| Sophie Kerr | The college is known nationally as the home of the | Prize, which is awarded to the graduating senior with the most literary po ... |
| Brontë sisters | Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the | filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Miller | On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in | 's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National T ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
| William L. Shirer | ... tes, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian | , writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. A ... |
| Hodding Carter | In 1932 | founded the now-defunct Hammond Daily Courier, which he left in 1939 to mo ... |
| Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
| Paulinus of Nola | ... and wrote Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about | ). Just like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic p ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... ition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, | , and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
| Emma Thompson | In the late 1990s British actress | started to work on a screenplay, which she planned to use as the basis for ... |
| 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, ... |
| Clive Barker | ... title was revised before publication due to the contemporaneous release of | 's unrelated film of the same name |
| Eilífr Goðrúnarson | ... d in Skáldskaparmál; once for "jötunn" ("hearth-stone-Syn") in Þórsdrápa by | , and for "woman" ("Syn [woman] of soft necklace-stand [neck]") in a work ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... urces as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist | , from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and a ... |
| Rudolf Simek | | says that Syn ranks among the female goddesses whose names are recorded fr ... |
| John Sebastian | ... Joe McDonald, Tom Constanten, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Melanie, | , Mountain, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Levon Helm Band, although no ... |
| Jamie Delano | The initial creative team was writer | and artist John Ridgway, with Dave McKean supplying distinctive painted an ... |
| Ivan Turgenev | The Russian writer | based his novel Smoke (1867) in Baden-Baden, describing it as a place wher ... |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... erence to an early game of hockey on ice occurring in Halifax in that year. | , in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys ... |
| 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 ... |
| Doreen Valiente | In 1953, | joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Prie ... |
| John Desmond | In 1953, | opened the first architectural firm in Hammond. He was chief architect of ... |
| Dean Reed | ... d El Cantor (the Singer) was made in 1978. It was directed by Jara's friend | , who also played the part of Jara |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The title character in | 's The Raven famously sits upon "a Bust of Pallas" |
| LL Cool J | ... on by members of the hip-hop community, such as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, | , Eminem, Kangol Kid of UTFO, and The Notorious B.I.G.. The release of mor ... |
| Vincent Sheean | ... ican film, the European-set thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), based on | 's Personal History and produced by Walter Wanger, was nominated for Best ... |
| Alan Moore | ... ances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by | during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic ... |
| Jostein Gaarder | ... ibiki Unbalance manga, being translated and published by Del Rey/Tanoshimi. | 's books often feature this device. Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, wh ... |
| Julian Lennon | ... worldwide tour with new drummer Les Warner (who had previously played with | and Johnny Thunders). Two more official singles from the Love album follow ... |
| Arnold Palmer | ... products graced the heads of the rich and famous, including the Beatles and | , and later Princess Diana. The company also supplied uniformed organisati ... |
| Rudolf Simek | ... is another name for Mimir, and that the two survivors hide in Yggdrasill." | theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a case of reduplicati ... |
| Josephus | ... ta (Insurrectionary Synagogue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare | , B. J. ii.14, § 5; Jastrow, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most promin ... |
| Allan Burns | ... milar idea was submitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers | and Chris Hayward. This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman an ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis which had been devised by the occultist | . Gardner had gained access to these rituals in 1946, when he had purchase ... |
| James Lovelock | ... them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, SimEarth: | ’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics and World Dynamics ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... rk in 1974. Titled "An Evening With Salvador Allende", the concert featured | , Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Ochs |
| Aristophanes | In The Frogs (405 BC) by | , Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles. Aeacus lam ... |
| Ranulf de Glanvill | Walter owed his early advancement to his uncle | , who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King Henry ... |
| Sylvia Browne | ... ively challenge notorious high-profile alleged psychics and mediums such as | , Allison DuBois and John Edward with a campaign in the media |
| Leonardo | ... hat she thought of the voice, she replied 'Ah! It is a ruin, but then so is | 's Last Supper |
| Chris Hayward | ... ubmitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers Allan Burns and | . This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, who wr ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... refusal. Syn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | ; and in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theor ... |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Thomas Sowell | ... received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, Milton Friedman, and | |
| Aeschylus | ... esentation of Laius's oracle in this play differs from that found in (e.g.) | 's Oedipus trilogy produced in 467 BCE. Helaine Smith argues |
| Edmund Morris | ... he marriage was mentioned in , the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by | , who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of Cali ... |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... ic work was conducted by Wyville Thomson, John Murray, John Young Buchanan, | , and Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm. The official expedition artist was John J ... |
| Ian Ayres | ... bles such as cocaine prices. Others agreed, and some researchers, including | and John J. Donohue, claimed that the model contained significant coding e ... |
| Alan Moore | ... s the streetwise magician John Constantine, following his popularity in the | run on Swamp Thing. It has been published continuously since January 1988, ... |
| Kazuki Tomokawa | ... wrote Japanese lyrics. Takada used modern Japanese poetry as lyrics, while | made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by Bob ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and | becoming international stars. Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense o ... |
| Terry Jones | A novel, Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic written by | , is based on Adams's computer game of the same name, which in turn is bas ... |
| Steve Martin | ... comedic stagecraft, influenced other '70s post-modern comedians, including | , Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman |
| Philip José Farmer | ... s written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell. In 1975 real-world author | wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he pub ... |
| H. G. Wells | ... ence fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian | written during the period 1936-38. Throughout the book, Wells describes hi ... |
| Ovid | ... tian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, | , Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by bot ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
| Thomas Mann | ... prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim (whose daughter Katia was married to | ) from being arrested by the Gestapo |
| 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 ... |
| Xenophon | ... eir internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of | , Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch ... |
| Evelyn Waugh | ... is brief role as a casket salesman in the film adaptation of The Loved One, | 's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in Southern Californi ... |
| John Travolta | ... immediately lost the weight she gained for the role and dropped the accent. | 's mother Helen and sister Ann both appeared in minor roles in this movie. ... |
| Horace | ... on-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, | , Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized ... |
| Robert Skimin | In the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory, author | depicts Stuart surviving his wound from the battle of Yellow Tavern. After ... |
| Terri Windling | ... Susanna Clarke. Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, | , Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crill ... |
| A. E. Housman | ... ert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – | – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jenn ... |
| Marina Warner | The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author | , curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ... |
| A. A. Milne | In 1926 | wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, chapter stories about an adorable bumbling teddy be ... |
| Slavoj Žižek | ... f film theorists with psychoanalytic potential, including Jacques Lacan and | . Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this time in the Norther ... |
| George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
| Ice Cube | ... 70s funk samples; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, | and Snoop Dogg. Gangsta rap continued to exert a major presence in America ... |
| Gus Van Sant | ... Despite setbacks as a screenwriter, Ellis teamed up with acclaimed director | in 2009 to adapt the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" into a film ... |
| Averroes | ... de the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, | , Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has b ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through | ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... f this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of | . In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called ... |
| Brigitte Hamann | According to biographer | , Winifred Wagner was reported to be "disgusted" by Hitler's persecution o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger | ... pecially influenced at this time by the study of Jens Immanuel Baggesen and | , during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slagene was followed by Halte-Hulda ... |
| Sam Raimi | ... t of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by | . Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to " ... |
| James Cameron | ... what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director | 's science fiction thriller film The Terminator. Following The Terminator, ... |
| Muhammad Salih | ... ntested election. Karimov drew 86% of the vote against opposition candidate | (also spelled "Salih" or "Salikh" ), whose showing experts praised in view ... |
| Samuel Daniel | ... classical quantitative verse. Campion's theories on poetry were refuted by | in "Defence of Rhyme" (1603) |
| Juvenal | ... Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge. His editions of | , Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative |
| Jerome | ... y may been a blending of the Quo Vadis story with some information given by | in a letter |
| Grazia Deledda | The writer | won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
| John Keats | ... sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by | . His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of though ... |
| Ricky Tomlinson | ... , meetings, product launches and lectures. Past notable appearances include | , Joe Longthorne and Patrick McGuinness. Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra g ... |
| Owen Barfield | ... h not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by | (and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian wri ... |
| Zeca Afonso | ... was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries. | was a singer and composer |
| Don Rosa | Dingus McDuck, nicknamed "Dirty Dingus", was created by | for his Duck Family Tree and has not appeared in person. Dingus, who was S ... |
| Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
| Gabriel Byrne | ... opedia Americana sits on the shelves of psychotherapist Dr. Paul Weston's ( | ) home office |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
| George Washington | ... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from | to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plato | ... vine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, | , and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... kawa made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by | , wrote critically acclaimed lyrics. The Tigers was the most popular Group ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist | was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had | as its star |
| Herodotus | ... The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, | and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several cen ... |
| A. N. Wilson | The friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in | 's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007) |
| Charlie Kaufman | The movie Adaptation was presented as if it had been written by | and his fictitious brother Donald Kaufman. Both 'brothers' were nominated ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Zemeckis | ... tating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair in 2007 with | directing, utilizing the Performance capture technology pioneered in The P ... |
| Arthur Balfour | ... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister | in October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ... |
| George Stevens | ... outsiders, often "victim-heroes," - examples include the social climber in | 's A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Conf ... |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... is sometimes called Erythraea, from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida ( | i. 55), and at others Gergithia ('of Gergis') |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
| Bryan Talbot | ... Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, | , Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth ... |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | In 1933 | (1867–1957) published the first installment of the Little House on the Pra ... |
| Michael Powell | ... man for All Time), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, | . This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie R ... |
| William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | ... son – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – | – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Ke ... |
| Rowland Detrosier | ... al and no democratic control by its students was intended. In 1829, radical | led a breakaway group to form the New Mechanics' Institution in Poole Stre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Halpenny | Additionally, board games can be therapeutic. | , a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “With crime you d ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | ... lined to sixty thousand by 1509. Although population estimates vary, Father | , the “Defender of the Indians” estimated there were 6 million (6,000,000) ... |
| John Steinbeck | Working at 20th Century Fox, Hitchcock adapted a script of | 's that chronicled the experiences of the survivors of a German U-boat att ... |
| Harry Turtledove | In the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by | , Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ... |
| Thucydides | ... al affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, | , Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
| Nicholas Jarecki | Later, Ellis was approached by young screenwriter | to adapt The Informers into a film; the script they co-wrote was cut from ... |
| Martin Scorsese | In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in | 's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses | , Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris |
| Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of | , which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ... |
| Thomas Overbury | He was implicated in the murder of Sir | , but was eventually exonerated, as it was found that he had unwittingly d ... |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ... ough. John M. Stahl ended up directing the 1944 film, which was produced by | and starred Gregory Peck, among other luminaries |
| Teresa Hooley | ... thea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – | – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
| Dean Wesley Smith | ... itten in the real world: Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth, a comic, by | , who presumed that in the Star Trek universe, the holonovel Captain Proto ... |
| Bob Gregory | In a 1960s story by | and Tony Strobl Scrooge's grandfather is referred to as Titus McDuck |
| Edward Dmytryk | ... nemann's From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by antisemites in | 's The Young Lions. Later, after a disfiguring car crash in 1956, and alco ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
| Jean-Yves Tadié | ... brother and someone very much like himself..." — Marcel Proust: A Life, by | , 1996. Racine's influence can also be seen in A.S. Byatt's tetralogy ( Th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, | 's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 19 ... |
| Loren Pope | Millsaps was one of 40 schools in | 's Colleges That Change Lives |
| Galen | ... icine, and similarly to earlier Islamic writers he followed the approach of | (and Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcas ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... 1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by | , his sister and celebrated poet |
| Peter Bogdanovich | ... cted the late American actress Marion Davies in The Cat's Meow, directed by | . Derek Elley of Variety described the film as "playful and sporty," sayin ... |
| Thomas Hood | ... – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – | – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Ea ... |
| Jim Barnes | ... r Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, | and Al Watrous |
| Marcel Proust | ... ionary proportions. His work is still widely read and frequently performed. | developed a fondness for Racine at an early age, "whom he considered a bro ... |
| Patti Smith | # It Takes Time – | (With Fred Smith |
| Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
| Tommy Armour | ... atest Game Ever Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, | , Jim Barnes and Al Watrous |
| Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
| Antonin Artaud | In his essay, The Theatre and Cruelty, | claimed that 'the misdeeds of the psychological theater descended from Rac ... |
| 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 ... |
| Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
| Xenophon | ... y, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). Gergis, according to | , was a place of much strength. It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithiu ... |
| Jens Immanuel Baggesen | ... produced in 1857. He was especially influenced at this time by the study of | and Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slag ... |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... medical attention. Marches and other protests continued for several weeks. | came to Danville and spoke at High Street Baptist Church about the brutali ... |
| Hugh Lofting | In 1920 | wrote The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first of ten Doctor Dolittle books |
| John Humphrey Noyes | ... y successful communes in American history. The Oneida Community, founded by | in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 ... |
| Deborah Pratt | ... t the series, but are mostly unseen. Ziggy (voiced by co-executive producer | ) is the artificial intelligence that runs the project and attempts to ded ... |
| Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... g Alive, was released in 1983. It starred John Travolta and was directed by | . (Staying Alive was rated PG; it also predated the introduction of the PG ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – | – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt ... |
| George Washington | ... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments | , who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ... |
| Mike Mignola | ... His Horse by Susanna Clarke. Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, | , Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Rus ... |
| Victor Silvester | ... generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and | . These professionals analysed, codified, published and taught a number of ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included | and C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas |
| David Storey | ... ciate Artistic Director 1971–75, directing premiere productions of plays by | , among others |
| Richard Adams | ... ith his warhorse Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by | |
| Moses | ... int. In 1998, he lent his voice to the animated film The Prince of Egypt as | , before starring in the independent film Joe the King (1999) and playing ... |
| George Washington | ... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused | of incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ... |
| Kathy Reichs | ... spends much of her free time writing novels about a forensic anthropologist | . This mimics Reichs' own real-life second career of writing the Temperanc ... |
| Billy Bragg | ... in September 2009 to record the 1970s Clash B-side "Jail Guitar Doors" with | . The song is the namesake of a charity founded by Bragg which gives music ... |
| Hippocrates | ... similarly to earlier Islamic writers he followed the approach of Galen (and | as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, Ibn al-Nafis, ... |
| Jane Siberry | # Calling All Angels (Remix Version) – | with k.d. lan |
| P.G.T. Beauregard | ... the ancestress of many notable people, including American Civil War general | . She is a collateral relative of most of the royal families of modern Eur ... |
| William Van Horn | According to a story by | , Fergus at some point had a short marriage with an unidentified woman, wi ... |
| Laurence Housman | ... itor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873. Housman's brother | and sister also became writers |
| Stephen Hawking | ... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, | as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ... |
| Herodotus | According to | the Heraclids ruled for 22 generations during the period from 1185 BC, las ... |
| Aristotle | In astronomy, he criticized | 's view of the stars receiving their light from the Sun. Ibn Sīnā stated t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Altman | ... s second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director | 's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... name Dante first (in honour of Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet | , the critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
| Patti Smith | ... rd is featured briefly in the film , a 2008 documentary about rock musician | |
| Cormac McCarthy | ... amed for Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for | 's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adapta ... |
| Kenneth Grahame | In 1908 | wrote The Wind in the Willows from his retired position as secretary of th ... |
| Gladys Knight | ... eared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside | . At age 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerso ... |
| William Michael Rossetti | ... Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic | , and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
| Antonin Artaud | ... s also celebrated by the Cinémathèque Française, who heralded Avary as "the | of cinema" during their Cinema of Cruelty retrospective |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... 350 BCE. (cf. Phlegon, quoted in the 5th century geographical dictionary of | , under 'Gergis'). Other places claimed to have been her home. The sibylli ... |
| Jonathan Lethem | ... Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt, | , Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his li ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... else; there could be nothing new to say about him. However, as writers like | and Gustave Flaubert came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations ... |
| Don Rosa | In | 's "A Letter from Home", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the Knigh ... |
| Patrick Moore | ... laner as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, | as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Bu ... |
| Charles Kingsley | ... eigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – | – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Donna Tartt | ... He attended Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers | , Jonathan Lethem, Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom wer ... |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | ... ogramme, broadcast in late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred | as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as t ... |
| Otto Jahn | ... His tenure was from 1819 until his retirement in 1854. He was succeeded by | and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, who shared the directorship. From 1870 to 1 ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being | , Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... ce success, but eventually became a huge critical success both for director | and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Learned Hand | ... by Morris Ernst, appealed her conviction and won a reversal, in which judge | ruled that the pamphlet's main purpose was to "promote understanding" |
| John Keats | ... f Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – | – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... xophone was invented for use in both orchestras and concert bands. Composer | wrote approvingly of the new instrument in 1842. By 1846 Sax had designed, ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first (in honour of | ). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic William Micha ... |
| Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
| John Sparrow | ... d humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns. | found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe ... |
| Henry Sass | ... inter, having shown a great interest in Medieval Italian art. He studied at | 's Drawing Academy from 1841 to 1845 when he enrolled at the Antique Schoo ... |
| President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
| John McCain | ... the 226 counties in Texas to cast the majority of its votes for Republican | . McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat Barack Obama won 3 ... |
| Fallopius | ... professorship, which had become vacant by the death of his friend and pupil | |
| Charles Einstein | ... at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His half-brother was | (1926–2007), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou ... |
| Don Rosa | ... Seafoam is used as back-story. The character's story was later expanded by | , and he appears among the McDucks in heaven in The Life and Times of Scro ... |
| Susanna Clarke | ... ok was a short story entitled The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse by | . Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windli ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
| Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
| Ennodius | ... his place. Very little is known of Olybrius' policy; in his Vita Epifanius, | describes him as a pious man and that he acted accordingly. An important c ... |
| Jay McInerney | ... lis became closely associated and good friends with fellow Brat Pack writer | : the two became known as the "toxic twins". The writer became a pariah fo ... |
| Rick Riordan | Athena appears in | 's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series. Her daughter, born from her ... |
| Goscelin | ... Justus. A Vita (or Life) was written about the time of his translation, by | , but it is mainly based on information in Bede. His tomb was opened in 19 ... |
| Gustave Flaubert | ... thing new to say about him. However, as writers like Charles Baudelaire and | came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations of French literature, ... |
| Alexander Kielland | ... ire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and | . Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, ... |
| Ptolemy | Soon after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on | 's Almagest. Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the ... |
| Laurence | ... more in his lifetime. This proved true. After his death Housman's brother, | , published further poems which appeared in More Poems (1936) and Collecte ... |
| James I of England | ... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King | for a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ... |
| Carl Barks | Captain Hugh "Seafoam" McDuck first appeared in an untitled | story (known as "The Horseradish Story"), where the story of Swindle McSue ... |
| Herodotus | According to | , the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silve ... |
| Galen | ... tion of Aristotle (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of | (into terrae, lapides and metals). The four parts of Ibn Sina's classifica ... |
| Montgomery Blair | ... e her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of | , Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddau ... |
| Elizabeth Jennings | ... – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – | – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Ki ... |
| Anton Chekhov | ... ive Speech) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov (nephew of | ) |
| Jean Anouilh | ... completed filming a new work, Vous n'avez encore rien vu, an adaptation of | 's 1941 play Eurydice. It is scheduled to be released in 2012. The film ha ... |
| Ezekiel | ... rom the land and dispersed throughout the Babylonian Empire. Among them was | . Nebuchadnezzar appointed , Jehoiakim's brother, king of the reduced king ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... eator of the title android, in The Questor Tapes, written for television by | and Gene L. Coon and directed by Richard A. Colla, who, almost four years ... |
| Phlegon of Tralles | ... ions. Some genuine Sibylline verses are preserved in the Book of Marvels of | (2nd century CE) |
| John McCain | ... he national and state levels. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| John Keats | ... friendship. The painting illustrated a poem by the then still little-known | . Rossetti's own poem "The Blessed Damozel" was an imitation of Keats, so ... |
| Ibsen | ... hristiania to prepare for university. This was the same school that trained | , Lie, and Vinje |
| Vincent of Beauvais | ... fluential, having influenced later medieval chemists and alchemists such as | |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
| T. E. Hulme | ... ey – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – | – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry Ki ... |
| John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
| Patrick Dennis | ... ny Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her iconic role. | dedicated his second Auntie Mame book Around the World with Auntie Mame to ... |
| Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
| Alcuin | ... s Eadbald's actions as a repudiation of his father's pro-Frankish policies. | , a later medieval writer, wrote that Laurence was "censured by apostolic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... es, which was a significant improvement over the two-part classification of | (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of Galen (into terr ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
| J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
| Nostradamus | ... ings of sibyls and oracles were notoriously open to interpretation (compare | ) and were constantly used for both civil and cult propaganda. The Sibylli ... |
| L. Frank Baum | In 1900 | (1856–1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It has been constantly i ... |
| Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
| LL Cool J | ... s, there were popular hip hop songs, and the celebrities of the scene, like | , gained mainstream renown. Other performers experimented with politicized ... |
| Gene L. Coon | ... droid, in The Questor Tapes, written for television by Gene Roddenberry and | and directed by Richard A. Colla, who, almost four years later, again dire ... |
| Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
| Joseph Cotten | ... ie" Newton (Teresa Wright), who suspects her beloved uncle Charlie Oakley ( | ) of being a serial murderer. Critics have said that in its use of overlap ... |
| Hope Mirrlees | ... ish fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and | . It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of W ... |
| Don Rosa | According to | , Seafoam McDuck and Hugh McDuck are the same character; "Seafoam" is just ... |
| Richard Dreyfuss | ... southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of | and Rob Reiner |
| Jesse Frank Ford | ... ite for a possible nuclear waste disposal repository but was later dropped. | , founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on ... |
| André Malraux | ... snais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer | ); she was a regular member of his production team, working as assistant d ... |
| Bollandist | ... nt Veronica or Berenice, according to the "Acta Sanctorum" published by the | s (under February 4), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity ... |
| Virgil | ... alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as | , Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avic ... |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... iticism from many sources who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "co ... |
| Rob Reiner | ... attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of Richard Dreyfuss and | |
| Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
| Bob Dylan | "Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by | , released by Columbia Records on September 11, 2001. It featured backing ... |
| Brendan Sullivan Jr | ... d that Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and expensive lawyer", | ., in response to the investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversati ... |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... ry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – | – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip La ... |
| Gavin Lambert | | 's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderso ... |
| Frank Miller | The Dark Knight Returns, written by | , takes place about 10 years after Batman "retires." It depicts an "Arkham ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
| Omar Khayyám | ... owne claims that the following Persian verses are incorrectly attributed to | , and were originally written by Ibn Sīnā |
| Dante Alighieri | As early as the 14th century when | depicted him in Limbo alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Beatrix Potter | In 1902 | published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, that follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievo ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... hapter 31 of Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Ullr is referred to as a son of Sif (with a father unrecorded in survivi ... |
| John Lydgate | ... s Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – | – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Me ... |
| Florence Turner | Griffith had intended to give the part to Biograph's leading lady, | , but Lawrence managed to convince Solter and Griffith that she was the be ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sophocles | ... icles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and | . He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 he was offered ... |
| Geoffrey Perkins | ... sounding nature, but also for the fact that it had a banjo in it, which, as | recalls, Adams said would give it an "on the road, hitch-hiking feel. |
| Pierre Corneille | ... d himself compared constantly with his contemporaries, especially the great | . In his own plays, Racine sought to abandon the ornate and almost otherwo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Barks | Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
| Jay McInerney | ... ays Blair in the 1987 film adaptation of Less Than Zero. Allison Poole from | 's 1988 novel Story of My Life appears as a torture victim of Patrick's. 1 ... |
| Lorenzo Mattotti | ... Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, | , Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, ... |
| Cyprian Norwid | ... stic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, | , and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repressed Poland, some ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticized by | and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these w ... |
| Chuck Dixon | A three-part comic-book adaptation with script by | and Sean Deming and illustrated by David Wenzel was published by Eclipse C ... |
| Joshua Reynolds | ... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir | . Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ... |
| Donald Bellisario | ... 1989 to May 5, 1993, for a total of five seasons. The series was created by | , and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years ... |
| Don Rosa | Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in "The History of The Clan McDuck" by | , a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it nev ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... He had a cameo in the opening scene of , playing a driver whose passenger ( | ) has a shocking secret. In James L. Brooks's hit Broadcast News (1987), A ... |
| Aristotle | ... e critics insisted on judging him according to the traditional standards of | and his Italian commentators from which he tended to stray. Attitudes shif ... |
| Harry Solter | ... films directed by Griffith in 1908. Toward the end of 1908 Lawrence married | |
| Hannah More | ... atest refinement in Brown's landscapes. At Hampton Court, Brown encountered | in 1782 and described his "grammatical" manner in her literary terms: "'No ... |
| Jared Leto | Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced | in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains aw ... |
| Pierre Berton | Noted Canadian author | once wrote: "In so many ways the story of Tim Hortons is the essential Can ... |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... lm, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite | |
| 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 ... |
| Dennis Potter | ... nnaît la chanson (Same Old Song) (1997), his tribute to television works of | , the characters express their key emotions or private thoughts by burstin ... |
| Michelangelo | ... c approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and | and the formal training regime introduced by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Their ap ... |
| Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
| Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
| James L. Brooks | ... , playing a driver whose passenger (Dan Aykroyd) has a shocking secret. In | 's hit Broadcast News (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy A ... |
| John McCain | ... party's electors since 1912. Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican | in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33,435 votes ... |
| Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
| Dick Bruna | The Dutch artist | , creator of Miffy, has suggested that Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy (in ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... n Tagen, Stockhausen had read a biography by Satprem about the Bengali guru | (Guerreri 2009), and subsequently he also read many of the published writi ... |
| Bertrand Tavernier | ... d developed after a series of discussions Wenders had with French filmmaker | , Until the End of the World is Wenders' most ambitious film. Filmed in 15 ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... on the Roof called A Shoggoth on the Roof, which incorporates the works of | . In the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), parodies "Matchmaker" |
| Robert Lepage | ... n the April 2011 production of Die Walküre. The staging of Das Rheingold by | involved 24 identical wedges able to rotate independently on a horizontal ... |
| Alan Moore | Arkham Asylum also features in other DC Universe publications. In | 's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by ... |
| Jeanne Moreau | ... er has been filming his extended family to bring home to his blind mother ( | ) |
| Garry Wills | ... d measures as inimical as the Alien and Sedition Acts themselves. Historian | argued "Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have ... |
| Louis MacNeice | ... – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – | – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William ... |
| Andrei Bely | ... cians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, | , Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma La ... |
| Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
| Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
| Romano Scarpa | ... nastia dei paperi (History and glory of the Duck Dynasty) by Guido Martina, | , Giorgio Cavazzano and Giovan Battista Carpi, first published between Apr ... |
| Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Ellmann | ... insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside. | argues that the proofs show a man "very much in command of himself and of ... |
| John Ruskin | ... ex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art. The eminent critic | later wrote |
| Al Pacino | ... n Wings of Courage, a 3D IMAX film, and that same year, he starred opposite | and Robert De Niro in Heat, which is now considered one of the best crime/ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Don Rosa | Sir Simon McDuck is mentioned in A Letter From Home by | . According to his tombstone he lived from 1437 to 1509. He was treasurer ... |
| Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
| Pierre de Nolhac | | arrived at the Palace of Versailles in 1887 and was appointed curator of t ... |
| Andrew Marvell | ... – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – | – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin M ... |
| Dave McKean | ... erry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, | , Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston ... |
| Osama bin Laden | The media focused on a large computer simulation of a former hideout of | by Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, as well as the fact that one of their exh ... |
| Jean de La Fontaine | ... n French history. This period saw the rise of literary giants like Molière, | , Boileau, and François de La Rochefoucauld as well as Louis Le Vau's hist ... |
| Norman Thomas | ACLU leadership was split on whether to purge its leadership of communists. | , John Haynes Holmes, and Morris Ernst were anti-communists who wanted to ... |
| Giovan Battista Carpi | ... of the Duck Dynasty) by Guido Martina, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano and | , first published between April 5, 1970 and May 24, 1970 |
| Nas | ... with hardcore rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan and gangsta rappers such as | and The Notorious B.I.G coming to dominate the East Coast scene |
| Eysteinn Valdason | Three skaldic poems, Þórsdrápa, Haustlöng and a fragment by | , refer to Thor as Ullr's stepfather, confirming Snorri's information |
| Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
| Jill Eisenstadt | ... ture novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and | . In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is given ... |
| Sue Townsend | In | 's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ... |
| Richard Coppin | ... ury England and 18th-century Europe and America. Gerrard Winstanley (1648), | (1652), Jane Leade (1697), and then George de Benneville in America, taugh ... |
| Owen Barfield | ... er Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, | , Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, ... |
| Rupert N. Richardson | ... ander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America. | , the Texas historian who later served as president of Hardin-Simmons Univ ... |
| Tony DiTerlizzi | ... Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, | , Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, ... |
| William Bell Scott | ... (1849) and Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850) both portray Mary as a teenage girl. | saw Girlhood in progress in Hunt's studio and remarked on young Rossetti's ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including | 's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and ... |
| Carlo Collodi | In 1883 | wrote his puppet story, The Adventures of Pinocchio as a first Italian fan ... |
| Viktor Rydberg | In | 's idiosyncratic Teutonic Mythology Ullr is the son of Sif and Egill-Örvan ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... e greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets | , Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the o ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... Gun director Tony Scott to play Elvis in True Romance, which was written by | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | ... ndrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates | and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky Bruno Walter, and Alternative Nobe ... |
| Philip K. Dick | In | 's novel The Man in the High Castle, each character comes into interaction ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – | – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | In 1850, Rossetti met | , an important early model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Over the next ... |
| Chrissie Hynde | ... uring interviews with James, Sensible, Scabies, Glen Matlock, Don Letts and | , the programme gave some new insights into the bands and personalities ar ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... n Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – | – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masef ... |
| Matt Damon | ... delabra to air on its network. Michael Douglas is to star as Liberace, with | playing Scott Thorson, in a story centered on a relationship the two share ... |
| Leibniz | ... rs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu. | , echoing the prevailing perception in Europe until the Industrial Revolut ... |
| William Shatner | ... Chair". In the Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (2003), | is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from Fiddler. The second episode o ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... 2008 and singing "I'll Be Seeing You" during the montage. Latifah spoke at | 's memorial service in Los Angeles. She also hosted the 2010 People's Choi ... |
| Richie Unterberger | ... ago. But it is there and unignorable." When it finally saw in 1998, critic | declared the record "an important document of rock history. |
| Dion Boucicault | ... yn, New York acting as Moya, an Irish peasant girl in a one-reel version of | 's The Shaughraun |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... diptych of Smoking/No Smoking (1993): Resnais, having admired the plays of | for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... of Warner Bros.' biggest stars, Jane Wyman, with the sultry German actress | . Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including Michael W ... |
| Carl Barks | ... of Baghdad). The latter was featured in the story King Scrooge the First by | and Tony Strobl, first published in October, 1967, as the earliest known a ... |
| Harry Solter | Also at Vitagraph was a young actor, | , who was looking for 'a young, beautiful equestrian girl' to star in a fi ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... mies of the Visconti in Pisa soon removed the last judge, Nino, a friend of | , in 1288 |
| Patricia Highsmith | With the film Strangers on a Train (1951), based on the novel by | , Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached ... |
| Patti Smith | ... s asking various recording artists—Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, | , Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music t ... |
| Margit Sandemo | ... ter, no reason was given. Anders was the father of Norwegian-Swedish author | . Audun Thorsen has written a book about Bjørnson's affair; "Bjørnsons kvi ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1883 | wrote the classic pirate adventure novel Treasure Island. Traditionally co ... |
| Dennis O'Neil | Arkham Asylum first appeared in 1974, in Batman #258 by | . In this story, it is named as "Arkham Hospital", although it is not clea ... |
| George Washington | ... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor | , the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ... |
| Tom Holt | ... bers of the audience to participate as Valkyries and as Gunther's vassals). | 's 1982 humorous fantasy novel, Expecting Someone Taller, includes many of ... |
| Euripides | ... minated. The mangled Hippolyte is not brought back, as is the Hippolytus of | . The one exception to this is that Atalide stabs herself before the audie ... |
| Steven Soderbergh | ... Palm Springs during the summer of 2012. The production is to be directed by | with screenplay by Richard LaGravenese based on Thorson's book . The score ... |
| 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 ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | ... literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, | , Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repres ... |
| Richard LaGravenese | ... 2. The production is to be directed by Steven Soderbergh with screenplay by | based on Thorson's book . The score will be by |
| Robert Lansing | On October 5, Secretary of State | was the first official to propose that Marshall forcibly assume the presid ... |
| William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
| Richard Owen Cambridge | ... e compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes". | , the English poet and satirical author, declared that he hoped to die bef ... |
| Jean Anouilh | ... thus the play is commonly known as De l'importance d'être Constant, though | translated the play under the title: Il est important d'être Aimé ("" is a ... |
| Gladys Knight | ... uncle, Barry Hankerson, was an entertainment lawyer who had been married to | . As a child, Aaliyah traveled with Knight and worked with an agent in New ... |
| Mary Mapes Dodge | Also in 1865, | published Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the story of a Dutch boy who ... |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | ... the characters of Wagner's operas, and features the Ring and the Tarnhelm. | 's science-fiction space opera series The Gap Cycle also shares elements w ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... d domination per se, but he is a friend of Hastur and Cthulhu (based on the | Mythos characters). He was hired in September 2000 and he had formerly wor ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and | ) and Richard Tarnas |
| Philip K. Dick | ... , and was a science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the | short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (199 ... |
| William Allingham | ... illustration was "The Maids of Elfen-Mere" (1855), for a poem by his friend | , and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of A ... |
| Mark Crilley | ... rri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, | , Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moo ... |
| Mae West | ... hom he claimed he nearly married), skater Sonja Henie, aging Hollywood icon | , and famous transsexual Christine Jorgenson. Many publicity releases and ... |
| Boccaccio | ... ubtless intended that they should be to Spanish nearly what the novellas of | were to Italians. Some are mere anecdotes, some are romances in miniature, ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... wood. Latifah hosted the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010. She starred with | in (2012) |
| Carl Barks | ... s Scrooge McDuck's uncle. He was mentioned in "The Great Steamboat Race" by | and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa |
| Johanna Spyri | In 1880 | (1827–1901) published Heidi (1880) in Switzerland. The subtitle declared t ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | | 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ... |
| William Byrd | In 1728, | headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia ... |
| Nick Cave | ... —Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, | , Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifica ... |
| Don Rosa | ... Race" by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by | |
| Christina Rossetti | ... red, Lord Tennyson's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister | |
| Ivar Aasen | ... of the farmers at this point. Although he seems to have been supportive of | and friendly towards farmers (in the peasant-novels), he later denounced t ... |
| Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
| Richard Tarnas | ... up of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis) and | |
| Jonathan Lethem | ... nington College, which Ellis himself attended, where he met future novelist | and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's ... |
| Edwin Muir | ... Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – | – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – Geor ... |
| Doug Moench | # Issue 78, "The Day of the Sword", Roy Thomas/ | (w), Howard Chaykin (layouts) Dick Giordano/Terry Austin (a). (Origin re-d ... |
| Joseph Mundassery | ... m Chembukavu.Government Engineering College, Thrissur, is another gift from | , the controversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Educat ... |
| Jane Siberry | ... E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, | , etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifically for the music that t ... |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by | . This film was a critical and box office failure, but the soundtrack reco ... |
| Howard Chaykin | # Issue 78, "The Day of the Sword", Roy Thomas/Doug Moench (w), | (layouts) Dick Giordano/Terry Austin (a). (Origin re-drawn). (Reprint from ... |
| Brian Clemens | ... were auditioned before the show's casting director suggested that producers | and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively un ... |
| Harvey Fierstein | ... e tour in November 2009 due to torn muscles in his arms. He was replaced by | |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... iew has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by | |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
| Lars von Trier | ... ived reasonable reviews, and earned $640 thousand worldwide. Dunst stars in | 's science-fiction film Melancholia as a depressed woman at the end of the ... |
| Bill Moore | More prosaically, Clark cites | , who asserts that "the Men in Black are really government agents in disgu ... |
| Ron Sexsmith | ... Hawkwind, Half Man Half Biscuit, John Martyn, Ocean Colour Scene, The Beat, | , Suzi Quatro, Saxon, and The Beat have performed |
| Henry Newbolt | ... hn Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – | – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexa ... |
| William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
| Émile Zola | ... itional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe. He also supported | 's position in the Dreyfus affair |
| Joel Chandler Harris | In 1881 | (1845–1908) published Uncle Remus, a collection of stories narrated by the ... |
| Horace | ... l studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as | , Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acqui ... |
| Shakespeare | ... s in English, made by Thomas Shelton in 1608, but not published until 1612. | had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ... |
| Donna Tartt | ... where he met future novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers | and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of ... |
| John McCain | ... ama received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican | , who received 48.7% of the vote (487 ballots), with 83.4% of registered v ... |
| Richard Matheson | ... lm works was the music to The Omega Man, based upon the book I Am Legend by | and starring Charlton Heston. The soundtrack was not released on CD until ... |
| John Travolta | Tony Manero ( | ) is a skirt-chasing Italian American from the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn neighbo ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for | in July 2009 |
| Jill Thompson | ... e illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, | , Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael ... |
| Moses | ... tral part of the curricula of Waldorf schools, in particular the history of | and the establishment of the Land of Israel. A number of early anthroposop ... |
| 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 ... |
| Maya Angelou | Latifah was asked by | , who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the mem ... |
| Eoin Colfer | It was announced on 17 September 2008 that Artemis Fowl author | had been commissioned to write the sixth instalment entitled And Another T ... |
| William Bell Scott | In February 1857, Rossetti wrote to | |
| Larry McMurtry | Glasgow is mentioned in the novel Boone's Lick by | . The Cecil family stops journeys from Boone's Lick by wagon to meet a fla ... |
| Henry de Monfreid | ... and spearheads made of stingray stingers, used in Micronesia and elsewhere. | stated in his books that before World War II, in the Horn of Africa, whips ... |
| John Masefield | ... Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – | – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbo ... |
| Salvator Rosa | ... for in an ideal landscape, where the painterly inspiration would come from | rather than Claude Lorrain. During the nineteenth century he was widely cr ... |
| Henrik Wergeland | From his youth and forwards, Bjørnson admired | , and became a vivid spokesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In th ... |
| Paul Jenkins | ... on the book to date. Other writers who have written for the series include | , Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... he band of the same name. Kilmer memorized the lyrics to all of lead singer | 's songs prior to his audition, and sent a video of himself performing som ... |
| Oliver Parker | ... ted a version using an all black cast, set in the United States of America. | , an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, mad ... |
| Paul Chadwick | ... y William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, | , P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mu ... |
| Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
| Shintaro Tsuji | In 1962, | , founder of Sanrio, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on ... |
| Alice Meynell | ... n Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – | – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noye ... |
| Ovid | ... tly and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, | , Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high re ... |
| Ivar Aasen | ... okesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In this respect, he supported | , and joined forces in the political struggles in the 1860s and -70s. When ... |
| Louis Marshall | ... at Syracuse University, under the leadership of Syracuse University Trustee | , with the active support of Syracuse University Chancellor Day. Its found ... |
| Arthur Garfield Hays | ... on. But part of the ACLU supported Ford's right to free speech. ACLU leader | proposed a compromise (supporting the auto workers union, yet also endorsi ... |
| 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, ... |
| Julian Lennon | ... ings Castle and released the environmental charity single with her cover of | 's song "Saltwater". All the money from this single went to charity. In 19 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... recent comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham. Inspired by the works of | , and in particular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylu ... |
| David Lee Roth | ... itar player to record the parts. He eventually found former Frank Zappa and | guitar player Steve Vai, whom Coverdale had seen in the 1986 film Crossroa ... |
| George Washington | ... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads. | was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
| Julie Andrews | ... ext Broadway production was Camelot. The production starred Richard Burton, | and Robert Goulet.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few ... |
| John Ruskin | ... ch were called later the third and fourth "Mycenaean"; but these, bought by | , and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they de ... |
| Aeschylus | ... d published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, | , Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation th ... |
| Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
| John Lott | ... he authors find a slight Democratic lead in the average endorsement choice. | and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute study the coverage ... |
| William Shakespeare | As regards the unity of action, Racine differs sharply from | in excluding minor plots (compare the parallel themes of blind and unnatur ... |
| Simon Pegg | In 2008, Dunst starred alongside | in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an adaptation of the memoir of ... |
| Margaret Roper | ... hurch in Canterbury, possesses More's head, rescued by his beloved daughter | . This is sealed in the Roper family vault beneath the altar of the Nichol ... |
| P. Craig Russell | ... , Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, | , Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snelli ... |
| Dennis O'Neil | ... ular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylum was created by | and first appeared in Batman #258 (October 1974); much of its back-story w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harold Monro | ... . Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – | – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owe ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
| George Lucas | ... ng as Anakin Skywalker in the next two prequels (2002) and (2005). Director | had turned down such big names as Leonardo DiCaprio and Ryan Phillipe for ... |
| Rupert Everett | ... ted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002; it stars Colin Firth (Jack), | (Algy), Dame Judi Dench (Lady Bracknell), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Fran ... |
| Joseph Mundassery | ... s like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, | , Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individuals have changed th ... |
| Euripides | ... scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, | and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 h ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | ... amous thinkers that were faculty at the University of Bonn include the poet | , the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Jos ... |
| Rosie O'Donnell | ... y Fierstein, starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and | , was Golde. This production replaced Yente's song "The Rumor" with a song ... |
| John Lloyd | ... t episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by | . In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "1 ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... sts were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: Ronnie Hawkins and | . Other guests they admired (and in most cases had worked with before) inc ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
| Sun Tzu | ... ive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by | in The Art of War (c. 350 BC) |
| Dolly Parton | ... r his album "Duets II". In January 2012, while appearing on 106 & Park with | , to promote Joyful Noise, Latifah stated that she had been working on a n ... |
| Leslie Phillips | ... Blofeld and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, | as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as hims ... |
| Jeremy Clarkson | ... rms "Little Englanders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, | , Vanessa Feltz and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous criti ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician | independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "i ... |
| Donald Knuth | In Introduction to MMIX, | proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Flaubert | ... nd Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, | , Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, | , and Arthur Machen. Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exi ... |
| Juan Diego Solanas | ... ndry's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in | ' science fiction-romance film Upside Down co-starring Jim Sturgess. Dunst ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | In the | film Inglourious Basterds, the Nazi-Propaganda film Nation's Pride is dire ... |
| 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 ... |
| John James Audubon | ... ted States during the 19th century; outstanding early practitioners include | , as well as early Hudson River School painters such as William H. Bartlet ... |
| Robert Michael Pyle | ... tories of wildmen are found on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologist | argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: "W ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... ewbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – | – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rosset ... |
| Richard Dutcher | Kilmer was in negotiations with | (a leading director of Mormon-related films) to play the lead role in a fi ... |
| Ben Stein | ... Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former Richard Nixon speech writer | , in the role of a high school teacher, leads a class discussion about the ... |
| Michael Stoyanov | ... tian, James Morrison, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, | , Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, ... |
| Jacob Grimm | ... dern German became attached to the activities of these courts specifically. | thought that the word is identical in origin to a homophonous word for the ... |
| Virginia Woolf | Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. She translated | 's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, | , and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stanley Unwin | The comedian | moved to Long Buckby in 1940 when he got a job with the British Broadcasti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bram Stoker | ... a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula (1897) by | . Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mark James | ... out the match. Sam Torrance branded it "disgusting," while European captain | referred to it as a "bear pit" in a book recounting the event. There were ... |
| Neil Young | ... d a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and | . Two of the guests were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: R ... |
| Lynne Cheney | Several CC alumni are engaged in political careers. Its graduates include | , wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, ... |
| Michel Gondry | ... xpressed interest in playing the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in | 's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in Ju ... |
| Donald Johanson | Leakey and | were at the time considered to be the most famous palaeoanthoropologists, ... |
| Washington Irving | ... ted as meeting with the accused and having sexual intercourse with them. In | 's story "The Devil and Tom Walker" set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks ... |
| Edith Wharton | ... England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing. | 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) opens with a description of a perform ... |
| Mary Harron | ... reen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and | 's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive re ... |
| Michelangelo | ... ly Renaissance, the Sibyls were also represented in publicly available art. | fixed our image of the sibyls forever, in his powerful representations of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joel Osteen | ... political influence. In the 21st century, the televised church services of | 's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathed ... |
| Plutarch | ... ur progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age. | , the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the bl ... |
| John Cage | ... sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, Pierre Boulez befriended | , who was visiting Paris to do research on the music of . John Cage had be ... |
| Harvey Fierstein | ... iews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. Alfred Molina, and later | , starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and Rosie O'D ... |
| Tina Turner | ... med. Footage from the show was used on the Delicate Sound of Thunder video. | played here in 1990 during her Foreign Affair Tour |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... en by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and | . The story shows an ageing, maybe dying, novelist grappling with alternat ... |
| John Ruskin | ... "The Elements of Drawing", a watercolor tutorial by the English art critic | , has been out of print only once since it was first published in 1857. Co ... |
| 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. ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... ole of Steed, with two new partners, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey ( | ). It aired on ITV in the UK in 1976-1977, CTV in Canada, CBS in the Unite ... |
| Régis Wargnier | ... photographer in P. Pavlikovsky's movie The Stringer. The second role was in | 's movie East/West. Sergey played Sasha, the neighbour of an unlucky coupl ... |
| George Melly | ... chard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèsa Oulton. The prize was presented by | |
| George Peele | ... Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – | – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... 97, Brian's 1951 opera in eight scenes The Cenci, based on the 1819 play by | , was premiered in a concert performance by the Millennium Sinfonia, condu ... |
| Björn Ulvaeus | ... d radio. Subsequently, her relationship with Andersson, and friendship with | and Agnetha Fältskog led to the formation of ABBA. In 1972, after five yea ... |
| François Rabelais | ... ic number. See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl, though sometimes, e.g. for | , ten was still the proverbial number: “How know we but that she may be an ... |
| Stan Lee | ... e same name. Schwarzenegger inspired the character and co-developed it with | , who would have produced the series. Schwarzenegger would have voiced the ... |
| Hesiod | The Greek poet | , around the 8th century BCE, in his compilation of the mythological tradi ... |
| Helena Charles | ... ts and politicians from a number of political parties. Its first leader was | . Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as indepen ... |
| Sterne | ... uixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, Fielding, and | , as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flauber ... |
| 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 ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
| Edmund Campion | ... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, | named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris |
| Mary Shelley | ... im. This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by | and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel (th ... |
| Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
| Pat Robertson | ... ral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and | . Most developed their own media networks, news exposure, and political in ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... hivists". Among this group, Avary met an odd and brilliant film enthusiast, | . The two became friends, introducing each other to their favorite films |
| Giovan Battista Carpi | ... nald Duck and the Man from the West), written by Guido Martina and drawn by | |
| Nicolas Roeg | ... music had been used for films previously (most notably, parts of Hymnen in | 's Walkabout in 1971), this was the first time he had been asked to provid ... |
| 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 ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as | , who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depres ... |
| Tim Holland | ... ampionship competition in backgammon was held in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967. | was declared the winner that year and at the tournament the following year ... |
| Thomas Love Peacock | ... William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – | – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John ... |
| John Keel | ... ally and most frequently reported in the 1950s and 1960s, some researchers— | and others—have suggested similarities between Men in Black reports and ea ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
| Machiavellian | ... replacing the medieval worldview. This period saw the adoption of the very | realpolitik and the primacy of the raison d'état in international relation ... |
| Anne Rice | ... k Shadows, Mick St.John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in | 's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Mar ... |
| Fielding | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, | , and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dick ... |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet | |
| Lynn Ahrens | ... erforming a cover version of "Journey to the Past" which earned songwriters | and Stephen Flaherty a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original ... |
| Jerome Clark | ... period since modern sightings began in 1947, but according to UFO historian | , "All MIB are not necessarily garbed in dark suits. |
| Giorgio Vasari | Among Bandinelli's pupils were | and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati). His sons Clemente Bandinelli, a col ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lactantius | ... Tibur or the Greek Sibyl of Cumae is not always clear. The Christian author | had no hesitation in identifying the sibyl in question as the Tiburtine si ... |
| Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
| Van Morrison | ... (and in most cases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, | , Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamo ... |
| Bede | ... once imprisoned) represents Dinbaer; and the name of Coldingham is given by | as Coludi urbs ("town of Colud"), where Colud seems to represent the Briti ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in | 's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ... |
| Nozhat al-Majales | ... m Ibn Sina is recorded in various manuscripts and later anthologies such as | |
| Edith Kinney Gaylord | Colorado College’s | Cornerstone Arts Center, completed in 2008 and located at the intersection ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hermes Trismegistus | The tale is given in the first book of the Corpus Hermeticum by God to | after a meditation. It begins as God, by an act of will, creates the prima ... |
| Roger Lewin | ... ll it erectus) who died 1.6 million years ago at about age 9-12. Leakey and | describe the experience of this find and their interpretation of it, in th ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | Nilsson is mentioned briefly in | 's novel Anna Karenina |
| Jay McInerney | ... of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and | . He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... قيه (hikmat-al-mashriqqiyya, in Latin Philosophia Orientalis), mentioned by | , the majority of which is lost in antiquity, which according to Averroes ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the latter of which earned both him and | an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He also ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tao Yuanming | The Peach Blossom Spring, a prose written by | , describes a utopian place. The narrative goes that a fisherman from Wuli ... |
| Mark Halperin | One such allegation of misleading balance came from | , political director of ABC News. He stated in an internal e-mail message ... |
| King James I | ... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for | , it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ... |
| Mayrhofer | ... ek (hélos) ‘swamp’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, and | considers unlikely a connection with the root * ‘run, flow’ |
| Copernicus | ... sks their reputation by committing to a hypothesis. He gives the example of | , who declared that, contrary to our experience, the Earth revolves around ... |
| Moses | ... received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer returned to the theatre to play | in a Los Angeles musical production of , produced by BCBG founder Max Azri ... |
| Smollett | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of | , Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century nove ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – | – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch ... |
| Eli Roth | ... nglourious Basterds, the Nazi-Propaganda film Nation's Pride is directed by | |
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| Tama Janowitz | ... as regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included | and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark techn ... |
| Herbert Aptheker | ... Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker | and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson; however, the two speakers ca ... |
| Alfred Noyes | ... lice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – | – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Fre ... |
| Ron Joyce | Soon after Horton opened the store, he met | , a former Hamilton police constable. In 1965, Joyce took over the fledgli ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
| Teri Hatcher | ... Robert Duncan McNeill, Jason Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, | , Marcia Cross, Eriq La Salle, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Warburton, Ann ... |
| Jeff Grubb | ... blished an expanded edition, entitled the Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. | designed both editions, and Steve Winter wrote both editions. Both use the ... |
| John Milton | ... found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. | 's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Denzel Washington | ... e played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside | and Angelina Jolie |
| Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
| John Skelton | ... alter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – | – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevens ... |
| Bette Davis | De Havilland was good friends with | with whom she starred in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Private L ... |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... in 2003 but not released until 2005. Kilmer next appeared in the big budget | production, Alexander, which received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer r ... |
| Paul the Deacon | ... rius Scholasticus l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, | , vi): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Pla ... |
| Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
| Angelina Jolie | ... helma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and | |
| Martin Scorsese | The concert was directed and filmed by | . Concert footage and interviews with the band members and friends were co ... |
| Adam McKay | ... filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette, produced by Will Ferrell and | .Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlando Bloom in th ... |
| David Arquette | On June 25, 2002, in an episode of Son of the Beach, | guest-starred as Johnny Queefer in a send-off episode entitled "Saturday N ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... mposed significant electronic, vocal, and instrumental works. In late 1947, | recorded (To Have Done with the Judgment of God), an audio piece full of t ... |
| Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
| James Hilton | ... "—a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by | in his utopian novel Lost Horizon (1933). Christopher Columbus followed di ... |
| Carol Truax | ... the most famous of these being Liberace Cooks, with co-author cookbook guru | , which included "Liberace Lasagna" and "Liberace Sticky Buns". The book f ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... pop-rock band Tokio Hotel. In Asia, idols range from Japanese pop megastars | and Namie Amuro as well as Kana Nishino and Japanese music groups such as ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... 7 Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and | , in a collective work about the Vietnam war, (Far from Vietnam) |
| Will Ferrell | ... 1, Dunst finished filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette, produced by | and Adam McKay.Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlan ... |
| Bob Dylan | A famous and widely bootlegged concert by | at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 17 May 1966 was mistakenly labelle ... |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... peration of the Stars: There are two different types of magic, according to | 's Apology, completely opposite of each other. The first is γοητεια, Goëti ... |
| Eugen von Hippel | The German ophthalmologist, | first described the angiomas in the eye in 1904. Arvid Lindau described th ... |
| Evagrius Scholasticus | ... one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( | l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, Paul the Deacon, ... |
| Aleksei Balabanov | ... stival in Sochi in 1996, Sergey Bodrov became acquainted with stage manager | , who invited him to studio STV. Just in this studio, the movie Brother wa ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... s preceding films. He approached Dashiell Hammett to write the dialogue but | took over, then left over disagreements with the director. Two men casuall ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | In 2000, at the Inner Circle press dinner, mayor | spoofed John Travolta by dancing to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Giulia ... |
| Jackie Chan | ... of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star | for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I ... |
| Chuck Jones | ... Sonny with a Chance & Kappa Mikey feature a sketch show within the TV show. | 's 1953 cartoon Duck Amuck shows Daffy Duck trapped in a cartoon that an u ... |
| Don Rosa | ... is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge), but | picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in |
| Eugene O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright | . The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 w ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of | who embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ... |
| Chanakya | Perhaps the earliest-recorded instance is found in India. | (c. 350–283 BC) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political trea ... |
| William Shakespeare | The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by | (1605) |
| Don Lancaster | ... software routine to drive a common Teletype Model 33 machine. One hacker ( | ) used the game I/O to drive a LaserWriter printer |
| Jacob Bernoulli | For example, the Swiss mathematician | discovered that arises in compound interest: An account that starts at $1, ... |
| Carl Barks | ... a McDuck is one of Scrooge McDuck's two sisters. She was first mentioned in | ' 1950s sketch for a Duck Family Tree, where she was shown to have adopted ... |
| Jo Nesbø's | ... that Scorsese is attached to direct an adaptation of Norwegian crime writer | novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with Mark Kermode and S ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... h, Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached | to write the dialogue but Raymond Chandler took over, then left over disag ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ... rederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – | – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Rober ... |
| Zoroaster | Astrology—The Operation of the Moon: Hermes claims that | discovered this part of the wisdom of the whole universe, astrology, and t ... |
| Robert McNamara | ... tements from several senators and responses from then Secretary of Defense, | , about the Liberty attack. For the most part, the senators were dismayed ... |
| Mos Def | ... dates is available at the IMDb.) The movie stars Martin Freeman as Arthur, | as Ford, Sam Rockwell as President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and Zoo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Hume | ... , was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of Adam Smith, | and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that has been wri ... |
| Apostolo Zeno | In 1707, | and Pietro Pariati wrote a libretto entitled Flavio Anicio Olibrio. The st ... |
| Corliss Lamont | ... wanted to distance the ACLU from communism; opposing them were Harry Ward, | and Elizabeth Flynn who rejected any political test for ACLU leadership. A ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... ing point for longer compositions. The "Night Train" riff was first used in | 's "Happy-Go-Lucky Local", which Ellington had recycled from Johnny Hodges ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... album 'Nashville' on which Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and | appear as duet partners |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... d a political scandal. With glamorous costumes and sets, a musical score by | , and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title-role, it was seen as Resnais's most ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... ear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, | 's pamphlet Common Sense was published. Paine, who had only recently arriv ... |
| Frederick Knott | ... Kelly followed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by | . Ray Milland plays the scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to mu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Randall Wallace | ... f them being the World War II action drama With Wings as Eagles, written by | , based on a true story |
| James Whetter | ... inster parliamentary seats as well as local government ones. On 28 May 1975 | left MK to form the Cornish Nationalist Party which was campaigning for fu ... |
| Terence Feely | ... roduced in Britain in 1971, written by TV series veterans Brian Clemens and | , and directed by Leslie Philips. It starred Simon Oates as Steed, Sue Llo ... |
| Ruth Westheimer | ... Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. | appeared in episodes as themselves |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | A character in the | novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of ... |
| Aesop | ... h the story La Cigale et la Fourmi (The Cicada and the Ant) based on one of | 's fables: in it the cicada spends the summer singing while the ant stores ... |
| George Sand | ... Charles Vidor, the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), Merle Oberon (as | ), Paul Muni (as Józef Elsner), Stephen Bekassy (as Franz Liszt), and Nina ... |
| Pope Gregory I | During his reign, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to his predecessor | . Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loom ... |
| Helena Charles | ... founded as a pressure group on 6 January 1951 at a meeting held in Redruth. | was elected the organisation's first chair. At the first meeting, MK adopt ... |
| Rommel | ... d Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of Patton and | |
| Christina Rossetti | ... – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – | – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir ... |
| Bill Drummond | ... ouse on the corner of Grove Road and Roman Road, London E3. Jimmy Cauty and | of the K Foundation received media coverage for the award of the "Anti-Tur ... |
| Tom Waits | Moberly is mentioned in the | song "Black Market Baby," from the 1999 album Mule Variations |
| Herbert Hoover | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and | were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... the devil, and the black man acknowledges that he is Old Scratch. In 1932, | also used the figure of The Black Man in his tale "The Dreams in the Witch ... |
| Jörg Buttgereit | All feature-length films by | except Schramm feature a film within the film. In Nekromantik, the protago ... |
| Visual Basic | ... ) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on | . It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a fast interpreter for u ... |
| Bill Bradley | ... Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and | of New Jersey in the Senate |
| Jean de La Fontaine | The cicada has represented since classical antiquity. | began his collection of fables Les fables de La Fontaine with the story La ... |
| John Crowe Ransom | ... acock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – | – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – ... |
| Archimedes | ... two marks a set distance apart. The next construction is originally due to | , called a Neusis construction, i.e., that uses tools other than an un-mar ... |
| William Van Horn | Rumpus McFowl was created by | and introduced as a lazy and greedy cousin of Scrooge McDuck. It was soon ... |
| Laura Schlessinger | ... dia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. | , and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves |
| 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 ... |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | In | 's novel 'Vanity Fair' "Was Rebecca guilty or not?" the Vehmgerich of tho ... |
| Chris Langham | ... nstitute of Contemporary Arts in London, between 1 and 9 May 1979, starring | as Arthur Dent (Langham later returned to Hitchhiker's as Prak in the fina ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
| Karl Rove | ... finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to | and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that ... |
| David Spade | In 2003 Garrett appeared as himself in the | film . He also co-wrote and sang "Former Child Star" for the film's soundt ... |
| Billy Crystal | ... ad been made famous on Saturday Night Live during a stand-up performance by | |
| James Webb | ... of shame." Two prominent early supporters of the project, H. Ross Perot and | , withdrew their support once they saw the design. Said Webb, “I never in ... |
| Thomas Sankara | ... the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President | , to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major nati ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
| Walther Rathenau | ... lican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or | (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul. In 1926, the 27th ... |
| Frederic Prokosch | ... oyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – | – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sasso ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. President | sent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ... |
| Hippocrates | ... organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind. As | put it: "Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... f lost content'. Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of | , the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kana Nishino | ... range from Japanese pop megastars Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro as well as | and Japanese music groups such as Morning Musume, AKB48, and Perfume and J ... |
| Twain | ... s in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, | , and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina ... |
| Danny Baker | ... , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and | . Two series (totalling twenty-two editions) were broadcast during 2010 an ... |
| Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti | The son of émigré Italian scholar | and his wife Frances Polidori, Rossetti was born in London, England and or ... |
| Russell Simmons | The other production credit on Raising Hell went to Run's brother, | ; he ran Rush Artist Management, now Rush Communications, which as well as ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Sand | ... rd in Paris is his "Heroic" Polonaise, a song for Poland. The appearance of | , played by Merle Oberon, alters Chopin's life. Vidor portrays George Sand ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer. | presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Moore | ... ark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, | , Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McK ... |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | ... Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – | – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – ... |
| John Belushi | | parodied the film as "Samurai Night Fever", one of his "Samurai" sketches ... |
| Martynas Mažvydas | ... l translation in 1545; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by | was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). La ... |
| Zosimus | ... ative position, and from the first limited to a very few men. The historian | even states that in Constantine's time, the holders of the title ranked ab ... |
| Rosalind Russell | In 1947 the play was adapted for film by Dudley Nichols, starring | , Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Doug ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... Leicester Square house was the inspiration for the home of Dr Jekyll of the | novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Hunter's house had two en ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ahead with their next album, Cahoots (1971). Cahoots included tunes such as | 's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with Van Morrison), and ... |
| René Descartes | ... led anatomical study resumed, combined with the theoretical speculations of | and those who followed him. Descartes, like Galen, thought of the nervous ... |
| 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 ... |
| John R. Crawford | The Crawford rule, named after | , is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead ... |
| Carl Barks | Malcolm "Matey" McDuck appeared in the story "Back to Long Ago!" by | , in a scene where Scrooge McDuck is hypnotized into seeing events in the ... |
| Thomas Sankara | ... hting developed between moderates in the CSP and the radicals, led by Capt. | , who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. The internal political ... |
| Michael Powell | ... ra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, | , Satyajit Ray, and François Truffaut |
| Iain Banks | ... mple of a technological and libertarian socialist utopia is Scottish author | ' Culture |
| Charles Dixon | # Issue 144, "The Waiting Doom", | (w), Ernie Chan (i) |
| 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 ... |
| Haydn | ... , studying the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of | and Mozart. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising ... |
| Samuel Roth | ... en, in 1957, the Supreme Court upheld the obscenity conviction of publisher | for distributing adult magazines. As late as 1953, books such as Tropic of ... |
| Jim Marrs | In a 2004 documentary titled The Secret of Redgate by Lynda J. Cowen and | , a number of Deer Lodge residents explain about their experiences with ex ... |
| Brooke Shields | ... ebbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, | , Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and D ... |
| George Clooney | ... f the villains. Kilmer went on to do The Saint with a salary of $6 million. | replaced Kilmer as Batman in 1997's Batman & Robin |
| Gervase of Tilbury | ... a Icon (eikon) "true image" dates back to the "Otia Imperialia" (iii 25) of | (fl. 1211), who says: "Est ergo Veronica pictura Domini vera. |
| Van Morrison | ... nes such as Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with | ), and "Life Is A Carnival," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Al ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... m foreign music, today the most powerful singers and bands in the genre are | , Namie Amuro, Koda Kumi and the new popular DJ Kawasaki knowns in all the ... |
| Don Rosa | ... nts in the lives of his previous incarnations. The character was later used | . He appeared on Rosa's Duck Family Tree, and he appears among the McDucks ... |
| Lydia Cornell | ... un, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, | , Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Sch ... |
| Pauline Kael | Film critic | , wrote a gushing review of the film in The New Yorker: "The way Saturday ... |
| John Cage | ... luence of Henry Cowell in San Francisco in the late 1940s, Lou Harrison and | began composing music for junk (waste) percussion ensembles, scouring junk ... |
| William Blake | Hunter was the basis for the character "Jack Tearguts" in | 's unfinished satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal ch ... |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | ... as Mrs. Miggins. The series features rotten boroughs (or "robber buttons"), | (played by Robbie Coltrane), William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... and Sargent Shriver became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of | , and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunic ... |
| Marc Shaiman | ... singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, performing two songs written by | . She also lent her voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow, singing He ... |
| Carl Barks | ... uncle. He was mentioned in the story "A Christmas for Shacktown" (1952) by | , in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge i ... |
| Lowell Cunningham | ... tarring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as Agent K and Agent J, was based on | 's comic book about a secret organization that monitors and suppresses par ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gene Siskel | Film critic | , who listed this as one of his favorite movies, praised the film: "One mi ... |
| Steve Martin | In 2003, she starred with | in the film Bringing Down the House, which was a major success at the box ... |
| Sam Peckinpah | ... terrorised by intruders, Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and | 's TV film of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, s ... |
| Aeschylus | ... vided into three plays with themes corresponding to The Oresteia trilogy by | . In order, the three plays are titled Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Hau ... |
| Pope Gregory I | He had been sent by | as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Owsley | # Issue 195, "Blood of Ages", | /Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f) |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... rake drums, flower pots, gongs, and more. In Europe, during the late 1940s, | coined the term musique concrète to refer to the peculiar nature of sounds ... |
| Donald Johanson | ... nd The Making of Mankind (1981). Leakey had an open scientific rivalry with | during the 1980s |
| Galen | The Roman physician | also argued for the importance of the brain, and theorized in some depth a ... |
| Oswald Jacoby | The Jacoby rule, named after | , allows gammons and backgammons to count for their respective double and ... |
| Dudley Nichols | In 1947 the play was adapted for film by | , starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxi ... |
| Michael Powell | ... Voyeuristic photography has also been centrally explored in movies such as | 's Peeping Tom, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, and has appeared to c ... |
| Marguerite Duras | ... lm incomprehensible suffering. Then however in discussion with the novelist | a fusion of fiction and documentary was developed which acknowedged the im ... |
| Don Rosa | The character was later used by | , and appears in three of twelve original chapters of Rosa's The Life and ... |
| Hilary Mantel | ... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in | 's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien |
| Charlie Kaufman | ... r Spike Jonze's Adaptation. follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter | as he struggles to adapt a book into a script, while the movie features sc ... |
| Leonard Maltin | ... e lead role), he felt Kilmer had given the best interpretation. Film critic | (who heavily criticized the dark tone contained in Batman Returns) complim ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... assoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – | – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. | , meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Travolta | ... , and danced. The film rated highly with critics. It starred, among others, | (Grease), Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust), Allison Janney (Juno), James Marsd ... |
| Billy Bragg | ... while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include | and Aztec Camera. U2's The Edge has compared the Clash's inspirational eff ... |
| John Huston | ... g occasional television programs. He last appeared, in a major role, in the | film Freud the Secret Passion (1962) |
| Edmund Spenser | ... – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – | – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Char ... |
| Robert E. Howard | ... omas and Barry Windsor-Smith, and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture". She first appeared in the ... |
| Bob Dylan | In the 1960s, Japanese bands imitated The Beatles, | and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedel ... |
| Tolkien | ... Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- | English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsan ... |
| Derrick Jensen | ... and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as John Zerzan and | consider that modern technology is progressively depriving humans of their ... |
| Mark Ruffalo | ... ll begin in Spring of 2012. In January 2012, Dunst will also star alongside | and Billy Crudup in the drama film, Red Light Winter |
| Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
| Richard Wagner | ... June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was an English woman married to Siegfried Wagner, | 's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, ... |
| Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
| Matthew of Westminster | ... ica seu Vultus Domini") of ("Saint Veronica, or the Face of the Lord"), and | speaks of the imprint of the image of the Savior which is called Veronica: ... |
| Barry Windsor-Smith | ... aracter, a high fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and | , and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in Robert E. Howard's 1934 sh ... |
| Don Rosa | Locksley McDuck is mentioned in "The History of The Clan McDuck" by | , a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it nev ... |
| Hippocrates | ... ple would put silver coins in milk bottles to prolong the milk's freshness. | , the "father of medicine", wrote that silver had beneficial healing and a ... |
| Don Rosa | Molly Mallard was created by | for his Duck Family Tree and has not appeared in any stories. She was the ... |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | ... y evidence is the multi-volume History of the Indies by the Catholic priest | who observed the region where Columbus was governor. In contrast to "the m ... |
| Lyndsay | ... ces of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, | , Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
| Deborah Pratt | # Prologue (Saga Sell) – Music by Mike Post/Velton Ray Bunch, narrated by | (1:05 |
| 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 ... |
| Timothy Leary | ... murder, he jumped bail to flee to Cuba and later went to Algeria. Following | 's Weather Underground assisted prison escape, Leary stayed with Cleaver i ... |
| Henryson | ... of the great sources of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by | , Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
| Dante | ... edieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of | and other Medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristi ... |
| Eoin Colfer | In 2001, | (born 1965) published the first installment of his Artemis Fowl series in ... |
| Bollandist | It is thus designated in several medieval texts mentioned by the | s (e.g. an old Missal of Augsburg has a Mass "De S. Veronica seu Vultus Do ... |
| Stephen King | | used a fictionalized version of Hemingford in three of his stories, with t ... |
| Carl Barks | Quagmire McDuck was first mentioned by | in the story "The Heirloom Watch", published on June, 1955 |
| 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 ... |
| David C. Smith | Sonja has been featured in several novels by | and Richard L. Tierney with covers by Boris Vallejo |
| David Eagleman | ... tic ratio, computed using quantum electrodynamics. Also, the neuroscientist | noted tha |
| Galen | ... niversity of Paris, where he moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of | under the auspices of Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius) and Jean Fernel. It ... |
| Harold McGee | ... nd served with boiled meat and other vegetables as part of a boiled dinner. | has studied the development of unpleasant smells when cooking brassicas an ... |
| Martin Gardner | Not all accusations of bias are political. Science writer | has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias. He claims that t ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... In The Simpsons Movie (2007), he is portrayed as the President, and in the | movie, Demolition Man (1993, ten years before his first run for political ... |
| Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... Year at Marienbad) (1961), which he made in collaboration with the novelist | . The tantalisingly fragmented and shifting narrative presents three princ ... |
| Deborah Pratt | ... o appears in the first season episode "How the Tess Was Won"), and later by | (Bellisario's wife, as well as a co-producer and writer on the show). A sh ... |
| Erica Kane | ... earance on ABC's All My Children, in a storyline that put him on the set of | 's talk show "The Cutting Edge" |
| John Zerzan | ... n responsibility and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as | and Derrick Jensen consider that modern technology is progressively depriv ... |
| Brian Clemens | ... run, particularly between the third and fourth series, but the influence of | was felt throughout. He wrote the second episode and became the series' mo ... |
| Gray Barker | In his article, " | : My Friend, the Myth-Maker," John C. Sherwood claims that at age 18, he c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Southey | ... John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – | – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Sucklin ... |
| Daphne du Maurier | ... gement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the . | , the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as ... |
| Vickie LaMotta | ... aMotta, while accusing him of having an affair with his (Jake's) then wife, | . (In real life, this altercation was between LaMotta and his best friend ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sonia Sanchez | ... d the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. Amiri Baraka, | , Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Avotcja, Regi ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
| Walt Disney | ... Servants' Entrance (1934), which featured a combination of live action and | animation in a musical dream sequence. He played the title role in Young D ... |
| Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
| John Michael Hayes | ... ies to sway both his glamorous model-girlfriend (Kelly), which screenwriter | based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy (Wendell Corey) to his theo ... |
| Björn Ulvaeus | ... was hesitant to perform with her boyfriend Benny Andersson, his best friend | and his girlfriend, Agnetha Fältskog. Their first project together was the ... |
| Howard Chaykin | ... irst appeared in Kull and the Barbarians #3 by Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, and | , and was later redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Austin for The Savage S ... |
| John Lennon | ... chedelic rock, mod and similar genres; this was called Group Sounds (G.S.). | of The Beatles later became one of most popular Western musicians in Japan ... |
| John Cage | ... asis of noise. In remarking on Varese's contributions the American composer | stated that Varese had "established the present nature of music" and that ... |
| Ben Elton | ... appears to have a particular loathing of "Mockneys" such as Nigel Kennedy, | and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol, Peter Bazalgette and Bi ... |
| Don Rosa | ... n this story, Scrooge states that he is the last of the Clan McDuck. Though | hasn't used him in his family tree or his timelines it has been purposed t ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... tics, Le Chant du styrène. Poetry was brought to the project, literally, by | who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets |
| 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 ... |
| Joanna Lumley | The series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities as | as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, ... |
| Alexander Montgomerie | ... e. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and | |
| Joanna Russ | ... his sort were written in the 1970s; the most often studied examples include | 's The Female Man and Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Livy | According to | , the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as " ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... s of making the notation more concise. A standard convention, instigated by | in the 18th century, is to use lower case letters from the beginning of th ... |
| Roald Dahl | In 1964 | wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of Charlie Bucket's adv ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
| Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
| William Baldwin | ... ird Batman film after 1992's Batman Returns, due to "creative differences." | (who previously worked with Schumacher on Flatliners) was reported to be a ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
| Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
| Aristotle | ... sy, this time disproving not just Galen but also Mondino de Liuzzi and even | ; all three had made assumptions about the functions and structure of the ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | McCarthyism declined in late 1954 after television journalist | and others publicly chastised McCarthy. The controversies over the Bill of ... |
| J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and ... |
| Coretta Scott | ... which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. King married | , on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of H ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... f the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to | , the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The ... |
| Israel Regardie | ... balah, and the magic of Hermes along with the principles of occult science. | claims that there are many orders, who know what they do of magic from wha ... |
| Don Rosa | Downy O'Drake is Scrooge McDuck's mother. She was created by | and appears in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and on the Duck Family ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... enrietta Karop, and her husband Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of | |
| Norman Thomas | ... anti-communists from ACLU leadership. In 1953, the anti-communists, led by | and James Fly, proposed a set of resolutions that inferred guilt of person ... |
| John Lloyd | ... adder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by | . The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 198 ... |
| James Malcolm Rymer | ... r, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by | (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest). It first appeared in ... |
| Jean Cayrol | ... of the sites in long tracking shots. The accompanying narration (written by | , himself a survivor of the camps) was intentionally understated to add to ... |
| Joseph Judge | ... rding to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and editor | based on Columbus's log. Evidence in support of this remains inconclusive. ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... olden Dawn, making the policies a success. This secrecy was broken first by | , in 1905, and later by Israel Regardie himself in 1940, giving a detailed ... |
| Adam Rifkin | ... by Tarantino, and one written and directed by a third filmmaker, reportedly | . When the third filmmaker never materialized, Tarantino and Avary took th ... |
| C. S. Lewis | In 1950 | (1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... d become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, | and David Shepherd |
| Thomas Mann | ... annes Maria Verweyen were deported and died in concentration camps. In 1937 | was deprived of his honorary doctorate. His honorary degree was restored i ... |
| Joel Schumacher | In December 1993, Batman Forever director | had seen Tombstone and was most impressed with Kilmer's performance as Doc ... |
| R. S. Thomas | ... e – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – | – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Towns ... |
| Romano Scarpa | The character was created by | , and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956 |
| Ed Bullins | In 1967, Eldridge Cleaver, along with Marvin X, | and Ethna Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San F ... |
| Mary Gentle | ... r a societal construct, or a hard-wired imperative. The fictional aliens in | 's Golden Witchbreed start out as gender-neutral children and do not devel ... |
| McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Carl Barks | Gideon's existence is inconsistent with | 's view of Scrooge as presented in "The Old Castle's Secret". In this stor ... |
| Galen | ... y these topics had been taught primarily from reading classic texts, mainly | , followed by an animal dissection by a barber-surgeon whose work was dire ... |
| Anne Henderson | ... the Depression with a debt crisis and a credit crisis. According to author | of the Sydney Institute, Lyons held a steadfast belief in "the need to bal ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... sion by the fascist regime of its opponents within the region was ruthless. | , one of the founders of Italian Communist Party, was arrested and died in ... |
| Ivor Gurney | ... h's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music | ;, another most important setter of Housman (Ludlow and Teme, a work for v ... |
| Sir Edmund Hillary | ... rst accomplished in 1913 by Freda du Faur and guides Peter and Alex Graham. | made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, H ... |
| Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
| Amiri Baraka | ... a Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. | , Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago ... |
| Doug Moench | ... of the Sword", first appeared in Kull and the Barbarians #3 by Roy Thomas, | , and Howard Chaykin, and was later redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Aus ... |
| Agnès Varda | ... Le Chant du styrène); and with other film-makers (Resnais was the editor of | 's first film, La Pointe courte, and co-directed with Chris Marker Les sta ... |
| Martin Day | ... ial problems. Television researcher Andrew Pixley and authors Paul Cornell, | and Keith Topping in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Unauthorised and ... |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | ... s; the most often studied examples include Joanna Russ's The Female Man and | 's Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines. Utopias imagined by male ... |
| 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 ... |
| Felice Romani | ... Bellini's faithful and fruitful collaboration with the librettist and poet | , and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor Giovanni Battista Rub ... |
| Keith Topping | ... elevision researcher Andrew Pixley and authors Paul Cornell, Martin Day and | in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Unauthorised and Unofficial Guide ... |
| Robert Aldrich | ... (1964), as a crippled widow trapped in a lift and terrorised by intruders, | 's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of Katherine ... |
| Dylan Thomas | ... ing – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – | – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chid ... |
| Andrejs Pumpurs | #Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by | , a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. L ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by | . In the film, a reworking of Ben Hecht's story The Front Page, Russell pl ... |
| Kevin Jarre | ... ned about Kilmer's attitude in an interview to daily newspaper Le Parisien. | , the original director of Tombstone, said that Kilmer once told him, "I h ... |
| Enid Lyons | ... hes". Lyons was assisted in his campaigning by his politically active wife, | . She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husban ... |
| John Smith | ... m. Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and | , George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave soci ... |
| Jerome | ... , and therefore does not "supplement" the history to any noteworthy degree. | , in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... nclude Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), Theodore Bikel and | . Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Lipson, went on to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino | is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by | , it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, a ... |
| Woody Guthrie | ... ashi was the first who became widely recognized. Wataru Takada, inspired by | , also became popular.. They both were influenced by American folk music b ... |
| Michelangelo | ... e Sistine Chapel. Five sibyls were painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by | ; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl and the Er ... |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ... , or sexual at all — a famous early sexless example being Herland (1915) by | . Charlene Ball writes in Women's studies encyclopedia that use of specula ... |
| Corliss Lamont | ... cisions, including Lamont v. Postmaster General (in which the plaintiff was | , a former ACLU board member), which upheld fifth amendment protections an ... |
| Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
| E. Blackadder | ... 8th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. In the series, | Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the princ ... |
| Tennyson's | ... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of | Poems (1857 |
| Oliver Stone | ... as a favor. The scene, known as the "Hun Brothers" scene, was described by | as the best scene in the script. It was, however, cut from the final film ... |
| Pamela Anderson | ... ), beginning with photos from the famed Stolen Honeymoon sex tape featuring | and Tommy Lee. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female mod ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... th an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by | . Near the ending, the events of the film itself are revealed to be a movi ... |
| George Szirtes | ... ire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – | – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Fr ... |
| Sir Ernest Gowers | ... tably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and The Complete Plain Words by | . Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British English for publica ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
| Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
| Richard O'Brien | ... orld of popular music is the enduring Rocky Horror Show musical, written by | , and first performed on stage in London during 1973 |
| Robert Barr | ... Arm, an 1899 novel set in the Holy Roman Empire by British-Canadian author | |
| Loren Coleman | ... many of the sightings are hoaxes or misidentified animals. Cryptozoologists | and Diane Stocking have estimated that as many as 70 to 80 percent of sigh ... |
| David Toop | | writes of 1984 that "pundits were writing obituaries for hip hop, a passin ... |
| David Axelrod | ... -known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama | , former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and former chairma ... |
| Schwarzenegger | ... tions. Bodrov responded: The Americans make movies about the Russians where | as a policeman tears off gumbah's leg and drugs are hailing from it and be ... |
| Arthur Machen | ... th M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and | . Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exist today, most of w ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... he political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 | breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a ... |
| Blake | ... een. As Roger Fry wrote in 1916, "Rossetti more than any other artist since | may be hailed as a forerunner of the new ideas" in English Art |
| Michael Savage | ... y, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and | , as well as many local commentators, support Republican causes, while voc ... |
| Paul Cornell | ... due to financial problems. Television researcher Andrew Pixley and authors | , Martin Day and Keith Topping in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Una ... |
| Vanessa Feltz | ... nders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, Jeremy Clarkson, | and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-Ge ... |
| Horace Henry Hart | ... ity Press guidelines were originally drafted as a single broadsheet page by | and were, at the time (1893) the first guide of their type in English; the ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
| Robert E. Howard | The character was loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" (The Magic Carpet, January 1934 ... |
| Cassiodorus | Gregory Nazianzen (Oratio 4.108) and | (Variae 1.2) relate how Tyrian Heracles and the nymph Tyrus were walking a ... |
| Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
| E. B. White | In 1945 | (co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style), wrote Stuart Litt ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | In 1968 after the assassination of | , Brown released "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" following pressur ... |
| Tim Powers | ... shbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and | |
| 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- ... |
| Henry Bird | In 1882 | in his Chess History and Reminiscences estimated that there were 150 chess ... |
| Aratus | Libra is a constellation not mentioned by Eudoxus or | . In Roman mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales held by Ast ... |
| James Blaylock | William Ashbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers | and Tim Powers |
| Carolyn Parrish | ... ith "the Keystone Kops running around" by one of its parliamentary members, | . In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to Hurrica ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... oal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla (mit einziehenden Einheriern) (1880), | 's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848– ... |
| Manetho | ... straea (identified as Virgo), the goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by | (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy ... |
| Rosalind Miles | Cecil appears as a character in the novels I, Elizabeth by | , The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary charact ... |
| LL Cool J | ... in hip hop music starting 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and | . Like the hip hop preceding it, it came predominately from New York City. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pearl Poet | ... ther Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the | 's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.) |
| Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
| Alison Bechdel | ... 06, a resident of Marshall attempted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by | and Blankets by Craig Thompson removed from the Marshall Public Library. S ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... e, Irgun representatives purchased a ship, renamed Altalena (a pseudonym of | ), and weapons. The ship sailed on June 11 and arrived at the Israeli coas ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from | to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pavel Klushantsev | ... hievable in science fiction films. The pioneering work of directors such as | would be used by major motion pictures for decades to come |
| Roland Emmerich | Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in | 's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespear ... |
| Billy Crystal | ... tic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars | as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters fro ... |
| Patrick White | ... itle of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon. The Nobel Prize winning novelist | named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Craig Mathieson | ... t ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by Toby Creswell, | and John O'Donnell |
| Donald Trump | ... business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from Milton Friedman to | ... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned a thing or two ... |
| Cecil B. DeMille | ... rest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle and | . The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation w ... |
| Steve Meretzky | ... game, distributed by Infocom. It was designed by Adams and Infocom regular | and was one of Infocom's most successful games. As with many Infocom games ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... s in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of | were written by Edward de Vere. His part largely revolves around his being ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
| Nguyễn Du | ... Vietnamese writers and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably | and Hồ Xuân Hương (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
| Stanley Kubrick | ... a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's , directed by | , who assembled his own effects team (Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pe ... |
| Nazi Boni | ... rkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as | and Roger Nikiema. The 1960s saw a growth in the number of playwrights bei ... |
| Mack Sennett | ... eared with the troupe authentically. In the This Is Your Life TV tribute to | several Sennett alumni ran on stage dressed as Keystone Kops |
| Gaston Kaboré | ... ill in Ouagaoudougou). Among the best known directors from Burkina Faso are | , Idrissa Ouedraogo and Dani Kouyate. Burkina also produces popular televi ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by | in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Joha ... |
| Glenn Beck | ... mer chief of Exxon, Lee Raymond, former FOX News Host and Radio Commentator | , and Matthew K. Rose |
| Johnny Cash | Upon being cast as | in Walk the Line after Cash himself approved, Phoenix responded by buying ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
| Thomas Bartholin | In Scandinavia | and Ole Worm, the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden ... |
| Tony Robinson | ... rogramme episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and | as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different his ... |
| Bertrice Small | ... Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary character in several books by | |
| Marc Shaiman | ... performed by Harry Connick, Jr., with a big band and orchestra arranged by | . Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance |
| Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... rt medium begins in the Renaissance. The German Northern Renaissance artist | (1471–1528) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape wat ... |
| George Lucas | ... y the blockbuster success of two science fiction and fantasy films in 1977. | 's ushered in an era of fantasy films with expensive and impressive specia ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... e viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring | and George Raft. MacLaine also briefly appears in Ocean's Eleven as a drun ... |
| Boyd Rice | ... noise music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and NON (aka | ). These cassette culture releases often featured zany tape editing, stark ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
| Peter Cook | ... naged to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la | , which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the ... |
| Eliphas Lévi | ... ermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, | , Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Machen. Many Hermeti ... |
| Geminus | ... he goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and | (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy c ... |
| James Lapine | ... ania, opposite Roger Daltrey as Liszt, and by Bernadette Peters in the 1991 | film Impromptu, which last dramatized encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt ( ... |
| Hồ Xuân Hương | ... iters and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably Nguyễn Du and | (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
| Rowan Atkinson | ... ith several one-off installments. All television programme episodes starred | as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, ... |
| Shakespeare | ... fter a ship on which her parents had traveled, not after the character from | 's As You Like It. She attended Roman Catholic schools, including Marymoun ... |
| Howard Staunton | ... rvived until 1873. From February 15, 1845 onwards it faced competition from | 's column in the Illustrated London News, a column which outlived Walker's ... |
| Craig Thompson | ... mpted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Blankets by | removed from the Marshall Public Library. Supporters of the books' removal ... |
| Aristotle | Early insights in the labour theory of value appear in | ´s Politics. He developed a "theory of the value of labour", holding that ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plato | ... ent and modern ethical thinkers, particularly of Kant and Fichte, with only | and Spinoza finding favour in his eyes. He failed to discover in previous ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children. | 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally intended for an adult aud ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
| Francis Xavier Pierz | ... ly by Catholic German-Americans, who were attracted to the region by Father | . Lower Town was founded by settlers from New England and the mid-Atlantic ... |
| Philippa Gregory | ... character in the novels I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles, The Other Queen by | and is a prominent secondary character in several books by Bertrice Small |
| Moses | ... ter moved to Egypt. The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of | , who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. He leads the Children ... |
| 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 ... |
| P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ice, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace | following the 1998 embassy bombings. The U.S. and the European Union provi ... |
| Stanley Keyes | ... lectronic score to an Off-Broadway production of Dragon Slayers, written by | and directed by Brad Mays in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, ... |
| Leon Uris | ... ed when Hitchcock was unsatisfied with his score. Topaz (1969), (based on a | novel), is partly set in Cuba. Both received mixed reviews from critics |
| Augustus Hill Garland | ... ted in 1887. The new location was named Garland after U.S. Attorney General | . Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and the th ... |
| Franz Bardon | ... e the 17th century as the adjective Hermetic (as in "Hermetic writers" e.g. | ). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir Thomas B ... |
| Ron Joyce | ... al venture in hamburger restaurants. In 1967 Horton partnered with investor | , who assumed control over operations after Tim Horton died in a car crash ... |
| St Jerome | ... time Asser entered the church. Asser may have been familiar with a work by | on the meaning of Hebrew names (Jerome's given meaning for "Asser" was "bl ... |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ... ely summed up in his response, reported in his Memoirs, to the Russian poet | ’s question, in his broken English: “You atheist?” Amis replied, “It’s mor ... |
| John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
| George Sand | ... encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt (Julian Sands), Chopin (Hugh Grant), and | (Judy Davis) |
| Plutarch | ... of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although | informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the ... |
| Hermes Trismegistus | ... s beliefs based primarily upon the pseudepigraphical writings attributed to | . These beliefs have heavily influenced the Western esoteric tradition and ... |
| Evliya Çelebi | ... ebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who, according to an account written by | , made a successful manned rocket flight |
| 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 ... |
| Jerome | ... ive, and retains the form deus. "My God!" in Latin is thus mī deus!, though | 's Vulgate consistently (and in deviation from classical use) uses deus me ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bede | ... n the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deira. According to | , Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon comi ... |
| Kit Woolsey | ... ata generated from self-play. According to assessments by Bill Robertie and | , TD-Gammon's play was at or above the level of the top human players in t ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Civil rights activist, | was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 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 ... |
| Jacques Gauthier | ... graphica. However, an alternate definition proposed by scientists including | and adherents of the Phylocode system defined Aves to include only the mod ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julie Andrews | ... ld War-related themes. The first, Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman and | , displays the bitter end of the twelve-year collaboration between Hitchco ... |
| Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
| Thomas Nast | The traditional mascot of the party is the elephant. A political cartoon by | , published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the firs ... |
| Dave Filoni | According to | , supervising director of the animated television series , the look of the ... |
| Edward Moxon | ... ing Arthur and the Weeping Queens, one of two illustrations by Rossetti for | 's illustrated edition of Tennyson's Poems (1857 |
| Rob Reiner | ... a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by | . It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows ... |
| Venantius Fortunatus | ... e Goths by the historian Jordanes dating from 551. Then follows a remark by | in his description of his travels from Ravenna to Tours (565-571) in which ... |
| Brad Mays | ... dway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by | in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, which was re-staged with ... |
| George Washington | ... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen. | at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ... |
| Toby Creswell | ... Diesel and Dust ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by | , Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, | of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ... |
| John James Audubon | ... life illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as | , and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with waterc ... |
| Enid Blyton | ... ry in a sequel or to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. | and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series ... |
| Ferdowsi | In the 11th century Shahnameh, the Persian poet | credits Burzoe with the invention of the tables game nard in the 6th centu ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... on for P. D. James' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her | series. The last words of the poem "On Wenlock Edge" are used by Audrey R. ... |
| Colin Wilson | ... and literary and social opinions were on display ranging over books such as | ’s The Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praise ... |
| Tom Tykwer | The Wachowskis are collaborating with | on Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of David Mitchell's novel of the same name, ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
| Jacob Bernoulli | In real analysis, Bernoulli's inequality (named after | ) is an inequality that approximates exponentiations of 1 + x |
| Ian Miller | ... " that had the same impact as his adult-oriented films. British illustrator | and comic book artist Mike Ploog were hired to contribute backgrounds and ... |
| John Lloyd | ... a parody of Batman with Baldrick as the counterpart of Robin (suggested by | ). This idea eventually came to surface as part of the Comic Relief sketch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Washington Irving | ... the Columbia. The account of his explorations in the west was published by | in 1838.). John C. Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engin ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... the author to continue the story in a sequel or to launch a series, such as | 's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ende ... |
| Rosalind Russell | ... g at local clubs, such as Ciro's and Mocambo's, for Hollywood stars such as | , Clark Gable, Gloria Swanson, and Shirley Temple. He did not always play ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... eme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe) along with Bruce Willis, | and Demi Moore. Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the busines ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
| Thomas Browne | ... anz Bardon). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir | in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divi ... |
| Jordanes | ... tion (east of the Swabians) is in the History of the Goths by the historian | dating from 551. Then follows a remark by Venantius Fortunatus in his desc ... |
| Steven Spielberg | That same year, | 's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressiv ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... nterfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator | |
| Donald Spoto | ... sually against his new films, although some critics, such as Robin Wood and | , contend that Marnie (1964) is first-class Hitchcock, and some have argue ... |
| Nguyễn Du | ... rst six lines of Truyện Kiều, an epic narrative poem by the celebrated poet | , ), which is often considered the most significant work of Vietnamese lit ... |
| Bede | Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in | 's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves ... |
| Thucydides | ... , Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, | , and Xenophon |
| Duke Ellington | ... , for example, on Bix Beiderbecke's piano playing. And it is also true that | adopted and reinterpreted some harmonic devices in European contemporary m ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring | , Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson. Burghley (spelled Burleigh in the film) ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including | , Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which describe ... |
| Ian Fleming | Amis became associated with | 's James Bond novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he ... |
| Saxo Grammaticus | ... e was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by | , the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigne ... |
| Jake Thackray | ... ttist Artie Shaw (nominated for a Grierson award); one on singer/songwriter | ; a BBC Four programme about British experimental music of the 1960s and 7 ... |
| Christiane Fellbaum | ... lowing members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: George Armitage Miller, | , Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and Benjamin R. Haskell. W ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
| Gerald Gardner | After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claim ... |
| Ibn Khaldun | ... (including Joseph Schumpeter) have traced back the concept even further to | , who in his Muqaddimah (1377), described labour as the source of value, n ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 President | signed the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ... |
| Jerome | ... n of Jeremiah also includes the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah. | 's says he excluded them: "And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is ne ... |
| Robert Bork | ... the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General | . Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he consi ... |
| Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
| William Empson | ... e Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or | ’s Milton’s God (inclined to agree with). Amis’s opinions on books and peo ... |
| George Washington | ... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. While | and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ... |
| Sophocles | ... tus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, | , Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Artie Shaw | ... s of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of clarinettist | (nominated for a Grierson award); one on singer/songwriter Jake Thackray; ... |
| Vivian Stanshall | ... ugh his behaviour was outrageous, it was in the humorous vein as his friend | , of the Bonzo Dog Band claimed. Moon produced Stanshall's version of Terr ... |
| Jacques Brel | ... d documentaries about British views on eschatology, the Belgian chansonnier | , the musical partnership of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, and the ... |
| Yoshitaka Amano | ... remixed soundtrack, added full motion video sequences, and art galleries of | 's illustrations. Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls is, like Final Fanta ... |
| JF Buddeus | ... superintendent. He studied at Leipzig and Jena, amongst his teachers being | , whose only daughter he married. He published in 1716 a work, Historia cr ... |
| Mikhail Frunze | ... year old orphan boy who they named Petya. They also adopted the children of | , following his death in 1925. During Stalin's rule they lived in the at t ... |
| Sidney Hook | ... umber of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, | , and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a terrorist, rig ... |
| Philip Heselton | ... buck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as | and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grime ... |
| Pausanias | ... the, was reported to be of the family of Noah. The 2nd-century AD traveller | , pausing at to enumerate four sibyls, mentions the "Palestinian Sibyl" wh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Richardson | ... e, Assistant Secretary of State Rick Indefurth and American U.N. Ambassador | flew to northern Afghanistan and tried to convince the leadership of the U ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... se of non-diegetic jazz was another modernist innovation, such as jazz star | 's score for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
| Doreen Valiente | ... nately as "Old Dorothy". Gardner's statements were interpreted by his pupil | as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
| Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
| Ptolemy | ... are sometimes called Ptolemaic aspects since they were defined and used by | in the 1st Century, AD. These aspects are the conjunction (approx. 0-10°), ... |
| Philippa Pearce | ... telage is shaken off. In the classic British novels Tom's Midnight Garden ( | , 1958) and Jessamy (Barbara Sleigh, 1967), for example, the responsibilit ... |
| Byron Preiss | In 1993, DC Comics, in conjunction with | Visual Publications, published a three-part comic book adaptation of the n ... |
| Peter O'Donnell | ... lood and breath,/ they give a man a taste for death" supplies the title for | 's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration f ... |
| Varro | ... tius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of | , 1st century BC) these ten sibyls were those in the following list. Of th ... |
| Robert M. La Follette | ... ry was also notable for the emergence of progressive politics championed by | . Between 1901 and 1914, Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin created the ... |
| Billy Crystal | The story begins in 1977. Harry Burns ( | ) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) finish college at the University of Chicag ... |
| Xenophon | ... vid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and | |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
| Romany Society | ... t to hostage families. He is also president of Emmaus UK, and patron of the | |
| Ward Churchill | American Indian Movement of Colorado leader and activist | takes this argument further, contending that the mythologizing and celebra ... |
| Leo Ruickbie | ... ion from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes. Ronald Hutton and | have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been involved in Gardn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... ings and live and tape performances by a wide variety of figures, including | and William S. Burroughs |
| Clare Hollingworth | ... ruiting tactics amongst Displaced Persons (DP) in the camps across Germany: | , the Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman correspondent in Jerusalem during 1 ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... tered the mainstream in the middle of the 1960s, when the singer-songwriter | began his career. Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes The B ... |
| 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 ... |
| Naevius | | names the Cimmerian Sibyl in his books of the Punic War and Piso in his an ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... school. It was here that he first encountered the works of Swiss modernist, | . His discovery of the drawings of the Palace of the Soviets in a foreign ... |
| Julian Rathbone | Tostig features in the novels The Last English King (2000), by | (where he is depicted as Edward the Confessor's catamite), Harold, The Las ... |
| Nigel Short | ... appears daily in The Times and Sunday Times. Ex-world championship finalist | wrote each Sunday for The Daily Telegraph (taken over by the daily chess c ... |
| Barbara Sleigh | ... British novels Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce, 1958) and Jessamy ( | , 1967), for example, the responsibility is enhanced by isolating the chil ... |
| Hesiod | ... isitor to these "dells of Parnassus", at the end of the eighth century, was | , who was shown the omphalos |
| Kirk Cameron | At the end of the 1980s, actor | became a major teen idol teenage heartthrob. Cameron was best known for hi ... |
| Catharine Parr Traill | ... Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer | |
| Luther | ... theca theologica (1757–1765); Bibliotheca patristica (1770); his edition of | 's works in 24 vols. (1740–1752); Historische und theologische Einleitung ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... tial election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates | and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 a ... |
| Pamela Des Barres | ... he wheel of the car. However, Keith never recovered from feelings of guilt. | , a with whom Moon had had an ongoing relationship over the course of thre ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
| Plato | ... asis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied Spinoza and | , both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted to Kant, ... |
| Raymond Keene | | 's column appears daily in The Times and Sunday Times. Ex-world championsh ... |
| Ole Worm | In Scandinavia Thomas Bartholin and | , the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden were the fir ... |
| John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
| Ioan Gruffudd | ... he struggle against the slave trade, directed by Michael Apted and starring | was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Parliament' ... |
| 2Pac | # "Call It What You Want" (featuring: | , Money-B |
| John Lennon | ... , the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, | and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as di ... |
| Terry George | ... ruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village (2004), a disillusioned cameraman in | 's Hotel Rwanda (2004), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 (2004) |
| Olof von Dalin | ... tic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian Ludvig Holberg and Swedish | . During the later half of the 18th century the Icelandic Sagas were still ... |
| Sara Douglass | ... Gold, by Ray Bryant, and God's Concubine book 2 of The Troy Game series by | , The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy |
| W. H. Auden | ... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by | . Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film Song Without End, opposite | as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madonna | ... enced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including | , La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, and Little Boots. They have been sampled a ... |
| Livy | According to | , after the conflict the Sabine and Rome states merged, and the Sabine kin ... |
| Thomas Hodgskin | ... or and the value of the product, the "Ricardian socialists" — Charles Hall, | , John Gray, and John Francis Bray — applied Ricardo's theory to develop t ... |
| R. J. Rummel | ... mately 1.7 million, which was about 21 percent of the country's population. | , an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million ... |
| Campanella | ... writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, | and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a w ... |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... ssian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the patriot | |
| 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 ... |
| Jacob Grimm | ... word for "east". It has been connected to the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre by | in his Deutsche Mythologie |
| 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 ... |
| Ludvig Holberg | ... me more rational and pragmatic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian | and Swedish Olof von Dalin. During the later half of the 18th century the ... |
| Moses | The Torah, or "Instruction", is also known as the "Five Books" of | , thus Chumash from Hebrew meaning "fivesome", and Pentateuch from Greek m ... |
| John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... onally renowned filmmakers in the Greek diaspora such as the Greek-American | |
| Johannes Kepler | ... he traditional minor aspects, introduced by the famed astronomer/astrologer | in the 16th Century AD, were long considered to be of relatively secondary ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... popular artist came in 1973 with the film Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, by | . However the album received very little critical acclaim. This had not be ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
| Porphyry | ... egistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and | are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
| George Clooney | ... e village is also mentioned in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou starring | in a lead role. There's a street sign reading "Satartia — 7 miles" in one ... |
| Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
| Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
| Bill Gates | On March 6, 1988 Alan Cooper showed | his shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dynamically. March 20 ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... man and Diana Rigg later co-starred in Bond films. The New Avengers regular | had, prior to that series, appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty' ... |
| Richard Curtis | The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by | and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally ... |
| Thomas Hughes | ... e a common device for this, beginning with Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by | and F.W. Farrar's Eric, or, Little by Little, although the framework had b ... |
| David Mitchell's | ... chowskis are collaborating with Tom Tykwer on Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of | novel of the same name, for Warner Bros. Pictures. Tykwer and The Wachowsk ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... tt returned to acting, appearing in a small role as Bob Sheldon in the 1983 | film The Outsiders. In 1985 he starred in Shaker Run as a mechanic and in ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... re based upon the series circulated during the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s, with | at one point being considered a front-runner for the role of Steed. Ultima ... |
| Susie Dent | ... intended to name his new band 'Mad Dog'. According to Oxford lexicographer | , Moon and Entwistle were speculating with Page about the possible formati ... |
| Tertullian | ... ch's mention of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and | , Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
| Sophocles | ... alism. But, being a Christian, he can no longer assume, as did Æschylus and | , that God is merciless in leading men to a doom which they do not foresee ... |
| Rowan Atkinson | ... er was the first series of Blackadder and was written by Richard Curtis and | , and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally aired on BBC1 from ... |
| Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, | , Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen F ... |
| William Blake | ... Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith. | published several books of hand tinted engraved poetry, illustrations to D ... |
| Euripides | ... est of Egypt. The mother of the Libyan Sibyl was Lamia, meaning "devourer". | mentions the Libyan Sibyl in the prologue to his tragedy Lamia |
| Euripides | As already in the works of | , the gods have become symbolic. Venus represents the unquenchable force o ... |
| Aeschylus | ... nstitutions of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include | , Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodot ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... thologies The Rattle Bag (1982) and The School Bag (1987) (both edited with | ). Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the F ... |
| Aristotle | ... of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, | , Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, ... |
| Clive James | ... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to | , Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ... |
| Trina Schart Hyman | ... controversy about The Fortune Tellers (1993), a picture book illustrated by | . Some felt that the story was European in origin and therefore inappropri ... |
| Hierocles | ... eonia existed, according to Pliny the Elder (Natural History book v:30) and | |
| Iamblichus | ... of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, | , and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
| Frank Collin | In 1977, a small group of American Nazis, led by | , applied to the town of Skokie, Illinois for permission to hold a demonst ... |
| Statius | ... (the river of lamentation) and Phlegethon (the river of fire). According to | , it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. Ovid wrote ... |
| William Strachey | ... (William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is thought to have been inspired by | 's account of this shipwreck.) The island was claimed for the English Crow ... |
| Woody Allen | ... model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by | for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained ... |
| Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
| Werner Herzog | ... ar cabin. Phoenix then realized that the man was famed German film director | . While Herzog helped Phoenix out of the wreckage by breaking the back win ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | Thus, in Racine the hamartia, which the thirteenth chapter of | ’s Poetics had declared a characteristic of tragedy, is not merely an acti ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ylan of The Wallflowers ranked London Calling above the work of his father, | , as the record that “changed his life”. Bands identified with the garage ... |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | According to | , many Roman historians (including Porcius Cato and Gaius Sempronius) rega ... |
| Bragi Boddason | ... tree among both gods and men. A quote from a work by the 9th century skald | is presented that confirms the description |
| Peter Hitchens | ... mien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, | , Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. T ... |
| Euripides | ... le include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, | , Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, ... |
| Fritz Lang | ... ures and matte paintings could be used to depict worlds that never existed. | 's film Metropolis was an early special effects spectacular, with innovati ... |
| Ovid | ... g to Statius, it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. | wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, wher ... |
| Hugh Hefner | ... ckers. Cigarette, liquor and car companies began to sponsor tournaments and | held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. Backgammon clubs were form ... |
| Archibald Cox | ... of the regular Justice Department hierarchy. In May 1973, Richardson named | to the position |
| Geoffrey Perkins | ... on by Simon & Schuster's Audioworks in the mid-1980s. Both were produced by | and featured cover artwork by Hipgnosis |
| Lactantius | Many Christian writers, including | , Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... n the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by (Tim McInnerny), with | playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the | screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in th ... |
| Herodotus | ... Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, | , Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, S ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ities who attended Brown's public and/or private memorial services included | , Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... 15-piece 'big band', who performed a jazz repertoire covering Glenn Miller, | and Count Basie; her vocal idols being Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. In 1 ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
| Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... shields, as if they were shingles. Snorri then quotes a stanza by the skald | (c. 900). As he continues, Gangleri sees a man in the doorway of the hall ... |
| Pausanias | ... s, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke 2.7.8) gives the name Agelaus, and | (2.21.3) names Tyrsenus son of Heracles by "the Lydian woman. |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
| Virgil | ... e waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. In the Aeneid, | writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the ... |
| Kathy Burke | ... ey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, | , Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (to ... |
| Sarah Fielding | ... tle by Little, although the framework had been explored as early as 1749 by | in The Governess, or The Little Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer ... |
| Hesiod | ... on of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often associated. | 's Theogony identifies her as the daughter of Eris ("strife"), and the sis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Livy | ... nt of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, | , Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thuc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Giordano Bruno | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, | , Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered ... |
| James I | ... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for both | and Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ... |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little | with her family, aunt Polly Melona Ingalls and uncle Henry Odin Quiner wit ... |
| Osama bin Laden | Analysts believe | ordered the assassination to help his Taliban protectors and ensure he wou ... |
| Tacitus | ... refer to the area they invaded as Boihaemum, the earliest mention being in | ' Germania 28 (written at the end of the 1st century AD). The name appears ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ally Sheedy | ... ll, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and | . They starred in many coming of age films together in some fashion and be ... |
| Dennis Potter | ... Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter. Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by | , takes its title from "Into My Heart an Air That Kills" from A Shropshire ... |
| Ovid | ... ria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, | , Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and X ... |
| Seneca the Younger | ... it simply an error of judgment (as when Deianira, in the Hercules Furens of | , kills her husband when intending to win back his love); it is a flaw of ... |
| John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
| Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
| Malcolm X | ... rican community in 1949 and regularly interviewed civil rights leaders like | and aired live broadcasts from conferences of the NAACP. Influential WQHT, ... |
| Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
| Bart Veldkamp | ... is countryman Ådne Søndrål) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater | ) |
| Sofia Coppola | ... eron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in | 's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... umbia River High School in Vancouver, Murray made a number of remarks about | , as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, | , Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegis ... |
| Martin Amis | # | , a novelist, twice married: first in 1984 (divorced) to Antonia Phillips, ... |
| Pindar | ... ogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, | , Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Vegetius | ... Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and De Re Militari ("On military matters") by | . Taktike Theoria examined Greek military tactics, and was most influentia ... |
| Orson Welles | ... ges in novel ways and create new illusions. One early showcase for Dunn was | ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu (and some of Gregg Toland's ... |
| Edmund Goulding | ... Fontaine and Alexis Smith. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola and directed by | |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelist | from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children |
| Plato | ... Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, | , Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Richard Aldington | | – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ttle Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the | stories (1876 and 1885) once Aunt Polly's ineffectual tutelage is shaken o ... |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... ding Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and | considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
| Lars von Trier | ... st Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for her performance in | 's Melancholia |
| Ice Cube | ... ial services included Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, | , Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jess ... |
| Le Corbusier | Influenced from an early age by the Swiss modernist, | , Tange gained international recognition in 1949 when he won the competiti ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Blake | ... antic movement. Its major exponents in English included the artist and poet | and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord By ... |
| Pausanias | ... iodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, | , Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Sam Shepard | ... bout Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite | in 1983's The Right Stuff. He has appeared in small roles in a number of o ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... r exponents in English included the artist and poet William Blake and poets | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley ... |
| K. M. Briggs | One version, from Shropshire, recounted by | in her book A Dictionary of Fairies, refers to Will the Smith. Will is a w ... |
| Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
| Loretta Lynn | ... ts for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about | , and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in ... |
| Dorothy Straight | ... Brown was published while Pamela Brown herself was still only 17 years old. | 's How the World Began and S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders are more recent exa ... |
| François Truffaut | ... rançois and Andrej." This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu, | , and Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Bernstein | ... ns. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and | uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break-in, and attempts t ... |
| Kenneth Allott | Richard Aldington – | – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver ... |
| Emilio Estevez | ... k, the whole group collectively and separately became teen idols. They were | , Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
| Tony Robinson | ... o entwined with their servant, all from the Baldrick family line (played by | ). Each generation acts as the dogsbody to his respective Blackadder. They ... |
| Douglas Hyde | Dr | Park, with a capacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Associatio ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, | celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ... |
| Ernest Lehman | ... iller, The Short Night, collaborating with screenwriters James Costigan and | . Despite some preliminary work, the story was never filmed. This was due ... |
| 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 ... |
| Matthew Arnold | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – | – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire ... |
| Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
| Willie Aames | ... ll), on the ABC series The Odd Couple, a part that previously was played by | |
| Gene Siskel | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from | and Roger Ebert on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News T ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... sh included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed t ... |
| Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
| James Costigan | ... a projected spy thriller, The Short Night, collaborating with screenwriters | and Ernest Lehman. Despite some preliminary work, the story was never film ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... tion of the face of the individual in question—for example, a caricature of | might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of George W. Bush mi ... |
| Plato | Like Heraclitus, | speaks of only one Sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to ni ... |
| John McCain | ... idential election, 60.2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican | , while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3.22 percent of ... |
| August Derleth | ... brief (and only) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be. | developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lo ... |
| Nikolaos Mantzaros | ... χολή), established in 1815. Prominent representatives of this genre include | , Spyridon Xyndas, Spyridon Samaras and Pavlos Carrer. Manolis Kalomiris i ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... ets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and | . The movement stressed the importance of "nature" in art and language, in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plato | ... , so they would not remember their past lives. The Myth of Er at the end of | 's Republic tells of the dead arriving at the "plain of Lethe", through wh ... |
| Patti Smith | ... before evolving into mainstream New Wave. Other major acts include Blondie, | and Television. In the 1980s some punk fans and bands became disillusioned ... |
| 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 ... |
| W. H. Auden | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – | – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... ties did lead to the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of | 's The Age of Reason. Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Keats | ... d poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed the importanc ... |
| Sir Edward Hyde | ... g as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to | , whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon. The ruined c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
| Chuck Norris | Some episodes of the | television series Walker, Texas Ranger were filmed in Garland, as well as ... |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | Alfonso was the subject for | 's novel Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), in which is narrated ... |
| Jack Higgins | ... en most dangerous areas in France with flashbacks to her growing up. Author | wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who ha ... |
| John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | Phoenix will make his return to acting in the upcoming | film The Master |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... he charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of | ) and the printing routines by Paul Funk (founder of Funk Software) |
| James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
| Clive Barker | ... arvel Comics' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid (created by horror novelist | ) in 1993 as well as writing for EPIC Comics "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" a ... |
| Hermes Trismegistus | The predominant literary form is the dialogue: | instructs a perplexed disciple on some point of hidden wisdom |
| W. S. Di Piero | ... times; the Anglo-Saxon influences in his work and study are strong. Critic | noted "Whatever the occasion, childhood, farm life, politics and culture i ... |
| Lactantius | ... rtine Sibyl, probably Etruscan in origin, added by the Romans. According to | ' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of Va ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... uildings (about 5,000), including those on the quays, are from this period. | found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add Antwerp, a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to | . The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ... |
| Adam Osborne | ... 1985 largely in the C language, followed by VP-Planner, which was backed by | . These were able to not only read 1-2-3 files, but also execute many or m ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... ew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – | – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Ruper ... |
| Jules Verne | ... His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), a whimsical parody of | 's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
| Mark Twain | ... y and the rest of the black community fled the town. This incident prompted | to write the essay The United States of Lyncherdom. A 2007 PBS documentary ... |
| Idrissa Ouedraogo | ... ougou). Among the best known directors from Burkina Faso are Gaston Kaboré, | and Dani Kouyate. Burkina also produces popular television series such as ... |
| Shaun Cassidy | ... gia: the legacy of bubblegum pop. Performers in this category would include | , Leif Garrett, Donny Osmond, Tony DeFranco, and The Bay City Rollers. Eve ... |
| Mike Judge | ... d television series King of the Hill was created by former Garland resident | , who used elements of Garland as an inspiration for its setting — the fic ... |
| Yoshitaka Amano | The game's characters and title logo were designed by | , and the scenario was written by freelance writer Kenji Terada, based on ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Betjeman | ... th Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – | – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Rober ... |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
| Karen Black | ... er lover Bruce Dern making a living from her phoney powers. William Devane, | and Cathleen Nesbitt co-starred. It was the only Hitchcock film scored by ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
| Woody Allen | ... t. At the age of eight years old she made her film debut in a minor role in | 's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anth ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving President | in the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip | campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to bot ... |
| Stanley Coren | ... epts of "intelligence" and "obedience" in discussions of canine brainpower. | 's survey of canine obedience trainers, published in the book The Intellig ... |
| Ray Bradbury | ... mocks the aspects of time traveling such as the grandfather paradox and the | short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and a ... |
| Ben Elton | ... is and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and | . The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000 the fourth series, Blacka ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
| Henry Bellamann | The Fulton area owns national acclaim to a novel written by | , who was born in Fulton in 1882, raised there and attended college there. ... |
| Maria Shriver | On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist | , niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. ... |
| John McCain | ... l election, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and | and Sarah Palin 46% |
| John McCain | ... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years | received 55.2% of the county's vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election ... |
| Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... eferenced in the phrase "visiting Odin" in a work by the 10th century skald | describing that, upon his death, King Vanlandi went to Valhalla |
| Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph is a 1924 novel by | . It tells how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who even ... |
| Larry Niven | ... e fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author | . It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... on after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as | 's daughter. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in "Dark Page", the seventh epis ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
| Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
| Peter Handke | ... laimed angels seemed to dwell in Rilke's poetry. The director also employed | , who wrote much of the dialogue, the poetic narrations, and the film's re ... |
| Elias Ashmole | ... reated the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported by | in The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Gart ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
| James Ellroy | ... aken from a work in Housman's More Poems. The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by | takes its title from Housman's poem "Reveille", and a line from Housman's ... |
| John McCain | In the Presidential election of 2008, the party's nominees were Senator | , of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice Presi ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... iod, rarely play cuts from the teen idols of the era, with the exception of | , who began his career as a teen idol but whose career eventually evolved ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on | 's La Belle et la Bête). It represents the angels' point of view in monoch ... |
| Anne Rice | The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in , a 1994 film based on | 's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daugh ... |
| Basil Dean | The novel was adapted into a play by Kennedy and | |
| Pope Innocent III | Finally, in 1212, through the mediation of | , a crusade was called against the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Ara ... |
| Sophocles | ... gods indifferent to its sufferings and aspirations. In the Œdipus Tyrannus | 's hero becomes gradually aware of the terrible fact that, however hard hi ... |
| Laurence Binyon | ... . Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – | – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Rober ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of | 's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ... |
| Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
| Robert Browning | ... tjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – | – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Har ... |
| Edmund Spenser | In The Faerie Queene (first published in 1590) | wrote of the river |
| Sun Tzu | Assassination for military purposes has long been espoused – | , writing around 500 BC, argued in favor of using assassination in his boo ... |
| Gary Hart | ... aid he too would have ordered the invasion. Indeed Mondale attacked Senator | , his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, as isolationist and we ... |
| John Milton | ... e hath been affirmed by Inhabitants thereabout reporting triall made of it. | (c. 1562–1647) described the river a |
| Marcel Schwob | ... Roi au masque d'or" ("The king in the gold mask"), a short story written by | —a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde—was published in 1893 while ... |
| Michael Barrier | ... esult as a "typical 1967 limited-animation theatrical". Animation historian | called the film "an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people wh ... |
| Michael Drayton | In Poly-Olbion (first published in 1612) the poet | described the journey taken by the River Thames to the sea |
| Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
| Will Ferrell | ... as he could not bring him to Los Angeles for the move to The Tonight Show. | made a surprise visit as George W. Bush, which quickly devolved into Ferre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope Gregory I | ... pitone, a leader of the Barbaricinos (people of Barbagia). According to the | 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (t ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – | – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Possible influences may include | 's "The Masque of the Red Death". Its synopsis is similar to Chambers's im ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
| Stan Lee | Marvel Feature #4 was reprinted in the book The Superhero Women edited by | . Red Sonja was featured arching among many of Marvel Comics's female char ... |
| John Carpenter | ... tember 1993, when he was 12. The following year he acquired a minor role in | 's In the Mouth of Madness. From 1995 through 1999, he appeared in several ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Between 1835 and 1848 | (1805–1875) of Denmark published his beloved fairy tales: The Little Merma ... |
| Robert La Follette | ... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated by | and his sons, originally of the Republican Party, but later of the revived ... |
| Nathaniel Benchley | ... rge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), | (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edmund Blunden | ... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – | – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( | ). General Melchett (Stephen Fry) rallies his troops from a French château ... |
| Erasmus | ... h century and further restored in the late twentieth century. A memorial to | lies inside the Münster. The City Hall from the 16th century is located on ... |
| Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... esse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, | , 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public an ... |
| Lewis Mumford | ... e traditional, supply-oriented interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. | has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the Early M ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Vanbrugh | ... ton Court. Under George I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of | . Under George II and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took plac ... |
| John Canaparius | ... much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot | may have written a life of Saint Adalbert. Later, Bruno entered a monaster ... |
| Lloyd Corrigan | ... ny television appearances. He starred from 1953–1955 with Phyllis Avery and | in the CBS sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley in the role of a college English and l ... |
| William Blake | ... Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – | – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali, and Hastur from | : specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta th ... |
| John Travolta | ... urday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring | as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
| Henry Kissinger | ... professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State | predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a ... |
| John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
| Pierre Corneille | ... eived from Cardinal Richelieu eventually secured their complete triumph and | , who had not conformed to them in his earlier plays, did so from the time ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
| LL Cool J | ... , MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, | , Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among ot ... |
| Oliver Stone | After several delays, director | finally started production on the film The Doors, based on the band of the ... |
| Tomie dePaola | ... The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" here. The title was based on a book by | and was narrated by Harold Littlebird (born 1951). Santa Fe's Dominic C. A ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
| James J. Montague | ... ics, and all of Pulitzer's Sunday staff as well. Another prominent hire was | , who came from the Portland Oregonian and started his well-known "More Tr ... |
| Dann Thomas | # Issue 192, "On the Road of Kings", Roy Thomas/ | (w), Tony DeZuniga (a) |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... rooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – | – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donal ... |
| Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
| Brendan Behan | ... but from the continent, led by playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and | . Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, r ... |
| Thomas Campion | ... lunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – | – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – Jo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rush Limbaugh | During the 2004 trial regarding allegations of | 's drug abuse, the ACLU argued that his privacy should not have been compr ... |
| Herodotus | ... nection has been a long-standing subject of conjecture. The Greek historian | stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem ... |
| Jack Pickersgill | ... inisterial portfolios as the ministers responsible themselves. To that end, | (a minister in St-Laurent's cabinet) said as prime minister St-Laurent had ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | Rossetti's wife | died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, shortly after giving birth to a s ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in | 's novel War and Peace. As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei, on ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgil | ... historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in | 's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemno ... |
| George Washington | ... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy for | during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ... |
| Aristotle's | Some of Zeno's nine surviving paradoxes (preserved in | Physic |
| Kenneth Johnson | ... Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading | 's script for the pilot episode he was persuaded to change his mind (and a ... |
| André Gide | ... ghe and his friend, the famous French writer (and later Nobel Prize winner) | who informed Marthe Verhaeren of the death of her husband |
| Robert W. Chambers | The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by | and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fi ... |
| Robert Bloomfield | ... er Pope (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713) | (1766–1823) writes the following lines about the Mole Valley in his 1806 p ... |
| Christopher Hussey | ... a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's which predated | 's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque (1927). Dorothy Stroud wro ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
| Gregory I | ... The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope | to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carr ... |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | ... sed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 which was awarded to his friend, | |
| Fritz Lang | ... luential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores such as | 's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) which were accompani ... |
| Reyner Banham | For | , Tange was a prime exemplar of the use of Brutalist architecture. His use ... |
| Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karen Black | ... film, 1976's Family Plot. In the same film, the diamond smuggler played by | could also fit that role, as she wears a long blonde wig in various scenes ... |
| Andy Richter | Former sidekick | joined O'Brien onstage for two segments, watching clips and reminiscing ab ... |
| Marie-Luise Gothein | ... ggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in | 's which predated Christopher Hussey's positive account of Brown in The Pi ... |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... that the HPV vaccine causes "mental retardation", conservative commentator | said "Michele Bachmann, she might have blown it today. Well, not blown it ... |
| Plato's | ... lar that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on | Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradox ... |
| Robert Burns | ... Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – | – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge ... |
| Hal Kanter | The film was adapted by Williams and | and directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa ... |
| Alexander Pope | In a similar vein, | (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713 |
| Julie Andrews | ... ry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and | , was a huge hit in New York and London. The partnership won the Tony Awar ... |
| Woody Allen | ... , neurotic New Yorkers"; James characterized it as "the sitcom version of a | film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable ... |
| Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye | ... y theoreticians of the New Learning (Jean de La Taille) and other writers ( | and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Ric ... |
| Spinoza | ... ce more emphasis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied | and Plato, both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted ... |
| Ron Paul | Among the first Republicans elected was fiscally conservative | to the U.S. House of Representatives. He became known for opposition to th ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... s led an international coalition invaded Afghanistan, the base of terrorist | . This invasion led to the toppling of the Taliban regime. After a surpris ... |
| Chris Morris | ... scribes Lewis-Smith as having been "almost entirely eclipsed by the rise of | , who tends to occupy similar ground". Morris (then working in BBC Radio B ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... Theatre at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Kilmer turned down a role in | 's 1983 film, The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. That sam ... |
| Dave Gibbons | ... twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist | , and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during ... |
| Bonnie Hunt | ... of the dice. She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams, | , and David Alan Grier. The movie grossed $262 million worldwide. That yea ... |
| Graham Chapman | In a bar about 1975, he asked | and Bernard McKenna to do a "treatment" for a "mad movie". They asked a th ... |
| Tennessee Williams | The Rose Tattoo is a | play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was re ... |
| Sam Torrance | ... plaining about the behavior of the American galleries throughout the match. | branded it "disgusting," while European captain Mark James referred to it ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ude the late Herb Brooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late | ; Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler ... |
| Alan Moore | Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer | , artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was publishe ... |
| Robert Conquest | ... – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – | – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
| Parmenides | ... on about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher | was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument. But in ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... xus style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as | and Pierre Henry |
| Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
| Thomas Heggen | Mister Roberts is a 1946 novel written by | |
| Jean de La Taille | ... e were in fact read into the Poetics by theoreticians of the New Learning ( | ) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The s ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | ... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, | , Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ... |
| Reza Deghati | ... nture Magazine, along with photographs by the renowned Iranian photographer | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... which embodies many of the educational and philosophical tenets espoused by | - and Maria and 's Practical Education: The History of Harry and Lucy (178 ... |
| Favorinus | ... rtius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing | , says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achil ... |
| Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
| C. Cornelius Gallus | ... ns as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides. | was advancing from Paraetonium; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, w ... |
| Euripides | ... tragedy. Æschylus's The Eumenides has two settings and in The Suppliants of | it is sometimes impossible to tell where the action is taking place at all ... |
| Adam of Bremen | ... described by German monks: Helmold in the manuscript Chronicon Slavorum and | in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. The Polabian language surviv ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... s (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Clift starred with Lee Remick in | 's Wild River in 1960. In 1958, he turned down what became Dean Martin's r ... |
| Hartley Coleridge | ... ning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – | – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lew ... |
| Ken Follett | ... d movies have been made about Ahmad Shah Massoud. Massoud is the subject of | 's Lie Down With Lions, a novel about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Claude Jade | ... tchcock's last blonde heroine was—years after Dany Robin and her "daughter" | in Topaz—Barbara Harris as a phony psychic turned amateur sleuth in his fi ... |
| Chris Van Allsburg | In 1995, she appeared in the fantasy movie Jumanji, loosely based on | 's 1981 book of the same name. The story is about a supernatural and omino ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred | as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins. The series ... |
| Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by | , the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's ma ... |
| Chuck Norris | ... status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever while | was coincidentally sponsoring Huckabee. Stephen Colbert made the claim tha ... |
| Thomas Day | ... ch of English literature." Popular examples of this growing branch included | 's The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-9) - which embodies many of th ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... e butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by | as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and ... |
| Oliver North | In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel | , whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fift ... |
| Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
| Sam Torrance | ... o one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player | has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line whi ... |
| Alexander Trocchi | ... D. H. Lawrence Memorial. Another novelist who lived for a while in Taos was | |
| Alexander Pushkin | From 1830 to 1834 Russian poet | published his Russian folklore-based fairy tales in verse: The Tale of the ... |
| Alan Jay Lerner | ... t for theater performers, producers, managers, and directors. There, he met | in 1942. Their first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conno ... |
| Virgil | ... . More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to | |
| Wil Wheaton | ... e Takei, Walter Koenig, her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, | and many Trekkies |
| Michael Drayton | ... avidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – | – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – ... |
| Woody Allen | Evan Rachel Wood's character, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, in the | fictional film Whatever Works is from Eden, Mississippi |
| Alice B. Toklas | The Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, named after San Francisco-born author | , was formed on Valentine's Day 1972 at the offices of the Society for Ind ... |
| George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
| Herodotus | ... 85); Hyde may have been the name of the district where Sardis stood. Later, | (Histories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their ... |
| George Clooney | ... te, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by | . In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical fi ... |
| 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." ... |
| Plato | ... in detail. More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from | to Virgil |
| Keith Allen | Lewis-Smith is currently writer and Executive Producer for | 's documentaries for Channel 4, which have so far included Little Lady Fau ... |
| John McCain | ... column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for | . In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board |
| Ernest Dowson | ... J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – | – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – Jam ... |
| John McCain | ... sh received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 | received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum and both had significan ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... s played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred | as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was direc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Koenig | ... es. More than 250 people attended including Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, | , her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton and many ... |
| John Lennon | ... se of sound collage, credited to Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by | with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was tryi ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Because | saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
| Jean Mairet | ... ng (Jean de La Taille) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and | ). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Richelieu eventual ... |
| Gavin Lambert | ... re he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist | ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics; and Magdalen College, ... |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | According to the doctrine of The New Church, as explained by | , there is no such thing as substitutionary atonement. Swedenborg's accoun ... |
| Richard L. Tierney | Sonja has been featured in several novels by David C. Smith and | with covers by Boris Vallejo |
| Samuel Johnson | ... cation within Britain. Largely, modern British spelling was standardised in | 's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), although previous writers ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
| Donald Davie | ... terton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – | – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Law ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joachim Fest | ... ed these notes out, and returned to them after his release. He was aided by | . The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (P ... |
| Otto Erich Hartleben | ... The composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version (translated by | ) of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music |
| Guido van Rossum | ... tors of Python, became part of the company in the year 2000. Python founder | left Zope Corp in 2003 |
| Machiavellian | Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless | politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaiss ... |
| 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- ... |
| John McCain | ... presidential election, 61.33% of Wheeler County voters voted for Republican | , while 34.61% voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 4.06% of voters either ... |
| Brian Clevinger | ... ed Fantasy of Captain N". 8-Bit Theater, a sprite-based webcomic created by | parodying the game, has become very popular in the gaming community since ... |
| Jean Elliot | ... – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – | – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Rober ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... n the county has voted for the non-Republican only two times. The first was | 's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. ... |
| Charles Perrault | ... st picture book published specifically for children. Also during this time, | (1628–1703) laid the foundations of the fairy tale in France. His stories ... |
| Gavin Lambert | ... g for the influential Sequence magazine (1947–52), which he co-founded with | and Karel Reisz; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Si ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... the "Monteagle Grade." There is also a song called "Monteagle Mountain" by | on the album Boom Chicka Boom |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... e Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), | , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investig ... |
| Gerald Gardner | ... al calendar, as they desired more frequent celebrations. Their High Priest, | , was away visiting the Isle of Man at the time, but he did not object whe ... |
| Dennis Sharp | ... tional attention. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, | , Bruno Zevi, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Erns ... |
| Georgi Markov | ... case of state-sponsored assassination, poisoning can be more easily denied. | , a Bulgarian dissident was assassinated by ricin poisoning. A tiny pellet ... |
| William Gilpin | ... oung man or woman of the time. In the late 18th century, the English cleric | wrote a series of hugely popular books describing his "picturesque" journe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruno Zevi | ... on. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, | , Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ion ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... al Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor | , with the support of 16 other states, sued the Federal Government and the ... |
| Yoshitaka Amano | Warrior of Light, based on | 's design of the lead character, and Garland are the respective hero and v ... |
| John McCain | ... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. While | received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-close ... |
| Joey Smallwood | ... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premier | negotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation |
| Mark Twain | ... ls (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
| Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
| Jerome | ... ntly used to today, most notably the Synod of Hippo in AD 393. Also c. 400, | produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible (see Vulgate), the canon ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
| E. Howard Hunt | # | (R) ‘security consultant,’ convicted of burglary |
| Jorge Glusberg | ... leri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, | , Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ionel Schein |
| Oberon Zell-Ravenheart | ... ism with psychic training and instruction in the Martian language. In 1968, | (then Tim Zell) founded the Church of All Worlds, a Neopagan religious org ... |
| Adrian Edmondson | ... who had appeared in the final episode of the first series as "Mad Gerald"), | , Nigel Planer, Mark Arden, Stephen Frost, Chris Barrie and Jeremy Hardy. ... |
| Pausanias | In | , Description of Greece, the first Sibyl at Delphi mentioned ("the former" ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by | and starring Toshirō Mifune |
| Jim Morrison | ... Kilmer is best known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, | in Oliver Stone's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a st ... |
| Robert Bloch | ... on (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), | , H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur ... |
| Mae West | He impersonated a camp fashion designer in Sextette (1978), starring | |
| Joachim Fest | Even his editorial aide, | , noted in later editions of Inside the Third Reich that much of what Spee ... |
| Euripides | ... ean traditions is obvious: if Andromaque had been Pyrrhus's mistress (as in | ), why should she refuse to marry him? Racine, like Homer, conceives her a ... |
| Lawrence Durrell | ... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – | – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in | 's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appeara ... |
| Aristophanes | ... minent historical figures in antiquity are referenced in other works (e.g., | mocking Socrates in his plays), but as he could not find any such referenc ... |
| Ovid | ... eus slew Lycaon and his fifty sons. Other sources, including the Roman poet | , claim instead that Lycaon’s punishment was transformation into a wolf, a ... |
| William Rotsler | ... some cases, the X ratings were applied by reviewers or film scholars, e.g. | , who wrote "The XXX-rating means hard-core, the XX-rating is for simulati ... |
| H. G. Wells | ... in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, | (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M ... |
| John McCain | ... ote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican | won 51% to Democrat Barack Obama's 46% and each of the three state row off ... |
| Gus Van Sant | ... itive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in | 's To Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublem ... |
| Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
| Madonna | ... pop music, it earned them their best reactions yet, drawing comparisons to | 's album Ray of Light (1998) as well as other female groups such as All Sa ... |
| Philo | In Of the Special Laws, Book 1, the Jewish philosopher | (20 BC - AD 50) gives six reasons for the practice of circumcision |
| Gitta Sereny | ... om prison, and some of the things said in these interviews, like those with | , contradicted with both his court testimony and memoirs |
| Jomini | General Baron | , one of the leading military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a n ... |
| Walter Francis White | Black was close friends with | , the black executive secretary of the NAACP who would help assuage critic ... |
| Euripides | ... (III 8) between maternal love and a reluctance to marry Pyrrhus must (as in | ) be paramount. And so Astyanax is brought back to life |
| Ben Elton | | 's arrival after the first series heralded the more frequent recruitment o ... |
| Benedict XVI | ... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name | . Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ... |
| Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui | ... ument at all, but a philosophical document influenced by Emerich de Vattel, | , and Samuel Pufendorf. Historian David Armitage has argued that the Decla ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. ... |
| Apuleius | ... s of Bidpai, Hitopadesha and Vikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by | and Metamorphoses by Ovid extend the depths of framing to several degrees. ... |
| Carrie Fisher | ... friends, they set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie ( | ) and Jess (Bruno Kirby). The four go to a restaurant, where Marie and Jes ... |
| Kevin Spacey | ... d not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star | . She later explained: "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was m ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... jor stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of Ornette Coleman and | . In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Ph ... |
| Garry Wills | ... luence of republicanism rather than Locke's classical liberalism. Historian | argued that Jefferson was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, partic ... |
| Aristotle | ... ustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of Plato and | . At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich ... |
| Chomsky | Herman and | (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ... |
| John Varley | ... the important and highly talented contemporaries of Turner and Girtin were | , John Sell Cotman, Anthony Copley Fielding, Samuel Palmer, William Havell ... |
| James I of England | ... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King | . However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ... |
| Polyaenus | In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician | describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roy Fuller | ... rrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – | – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – ... |
| Tommy Steele | Likewise, | , The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were teen idols, especially during th ... |
| William Blake | ... ich oral tradition of storytelling for children and adults. But by the time | 's Songs of Innocence was published in 1789, books written specifically fo ... |
| Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
| Aristotle | The philosopher | points out the ways in which tragedy differs from epic poetry |
| Ovid | ... ikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by Apuleius and Metamorphoses by | extend the depths of framing to several degrees. Another early example is ... |
| Alan Jay Lerner | ... 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist | on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and , with book and lyr ... |
| Kevin Spacey | ... rade. He then attended Chatsworth High School—where his classmates included | and Mare Winningham—as well as the Hollywood Professional School. At the a ... |
| Orson Welles | ... ry was a source of inspiration for the development of the lead character in | ' film Citizen Kane. His mansion, Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, Californ ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
| Thomas J. Farnham | ... ioneers to traverse most of the Oregon Trail. The men were initially led by | and called themselves the Oregon Dragoons. They carried a large flag embla ... |
| Bourdieu | Thinkers such as Althusser, Foucault or | theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Althusser, the ... |
| James Elroy Flecker | ... wson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – | – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville ... |
| Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader | , later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ... |
| Seneca the Younger | Phèdre differs from Euripides's Hippolytus and | 's Phædra in the very important respect that, taking the character of Aric ... |
| Curtis Strange | ... have been hosted in 2001) still read "The 2001 Ryder Cup", and U.S. captain | deliberately referred to his team as "The 2001 Ryder Cup Team" in his spee ... |
| Thucydides | ... ss 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2011 | , a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king ... |
| Plato | ... Johann Augustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of | and Aristotle. At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant a ... |
| George Washington | ... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide to | during the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ... |
| John Huston | He then co-starred in | 's The Misfits (1961), which was both Marilyn Monroe's and Clark Gable's l ... |
| Jack Nicklaus | With the United States and Great Britain all tied at 15.5 each, | led Tony Jacklin by the score of 1 up as they played the 17th hole. Jackli ... |
| Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
| Gerald Gardner | ... anuary 1880 – 12 January 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
| Shirley Jackson | Some notable writers whose works were used in the collection include | (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), R ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in | 's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to | (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles |
| Michael Booth | Osaka is known for its food, both in Japan and abroad. Author | and food critic François Simon of Le Figaro have both suggested that Osaka ... |
| Virgil | ... dra in the very important respect that, taking the character of Aricie from | , Racine introduces the jealousy motive. Despite the fact that Hippolyte, ... |
| Shūgorō Yamamoto | The story is largely based on | 's short story "Peaceful Days" (日日平安 Nichinichi hei-an). Originally Sanjur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Crichton | She appeared in | 's 1973 sci-fi western, Westworld as a prostitute |
| William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jeffry D. Wert | ... c images, although the latter seems to have been more deliberately crafted. | wrote about Stuart |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... eata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg|Beata Beatrix (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: | |
| Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
| Ruth Plumly Thompson | ... times a series will outlive its author; when Baum died, his publisher hired | to write more Oz books. The Nancy Drew series and others were written by s ... |
| Frank Miller | ... Watchmen as a "revisionary superhero narrative." He considers Watchmen and | 's to be "the first instances ... of [a] new kind of comic book ... a firs ... |
| Arthur Robison | ... earned him work as an extra at the British International Pictures studio on | 's 1929 production of The Informer. While he was working on The Informer h ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ... |
| Thomas Gray | ... Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – | – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E ... |
| Bede | ... nothing else is known of his history or background. The medieval chronicler | says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed with | as leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably ... |
| Frank Miller | ... dividual issues were collected and sold in trade paperback form. Along with | 's 1986 mini-series, Watchmen was marketed as a "graphic novel", a term wh ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... died, outside the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room, which was co-owned by | at the time. Joaquin's call to 911 to save his brother was recorded and re ... |
| Ovid | ... t least one son born to Omphale and Heracles: Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and | (Heroides 9.54) mention a son Lamos, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke ... |
| Merlin Stone | Another interpretation, by art historian | , suggests the use of venom rather than ethylene. She indicates that when ... |
| Parmenides's | ... een devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 - 430 BC) to support | doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our sense ... |
| Pindar | ... the first to introduce gymnastic competition. The ancient Greek lyric poet | records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two ins ... |
| Euripides | ... rmer à l'idée que nous avons maintenant de cette princesse”. Astyanax, whom | describes (in The Trojan Women and the Andromache) as having been thrown f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Max Marcin | ... k. He was given the role of second lead, in a production of Sam Shipman and | 's The Woman in Room 13. Despite being released from the play after five w ... |
| Jessie Benton Frémont | ... California and Oregon. His explorations were written up by him and his wife | and were widely published. The first "decent" map of California and Oregon ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
| Pete Townshend | ... f-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet." In the words of | , "The production of our [The Who's] records has got nothing to do with so ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... rned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, | , and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (2000) has been r ... |
| Jane Porter | ... arry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and | and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
| René Descartes | ... een subject and object corresponds to the distinction, in the philosophy of | , between thought and extension. Descartes believed that thought (subjecti ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | President of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General | , instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ... |
| Konrad Adenauer | ... drich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Sam ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plutarch | ... inspiration. However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by | , who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, | and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish sto ... |
| Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walt Disney | Along with | , Hitchcock was among the first prominent motion picture producers to full ... |
| 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 ... |
| Euripides | ... cters and, above all, to present the old stories in a modern light. Whereas | , in his Iphigenia in Aulis, only averts the heroine's death by causing Ar ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... e, and has earned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, | , Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (200 ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... ation. In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of | 's Jurassic Park were retrained in the use of computer input devices. By 1 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. | , an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ... |
| Charles Gounod | The series used a curious little tune by the French composer | (1818–1893), the composer of the 1859 opera Faust, as the theme for his te ... |
| Pope Pius II | ... Catholics and Utraquists. It would only last for a short period of time, as | declared the Basel Compacts to be invalid in 1462 |
| Sofia Coppola | In | 's independent film The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst played the role of t ... |
| David Hume | ... an consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to | 's radical skepticism. The idealists' starting point was Hume's conclusion ... |
| R. L. Stine | ... r to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and | have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series will outlive its ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sebastian Shaw | ... s used in the 2004 DVD release of , where he was inserted in place of actor | as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial c ... |
| Gary Player | ... the charity had raised £1.5 million. Dalglish often competes in the annual | Invitational Tournament, a charity golfing event which raises money for ch ... |
| Rosanne Cash | ... , Leanne Womack, The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jakob Dylan, and | , amongst others |
| Jack Nicklaus | ... ange to include continental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between | and the Earl of Derby, who was serving as the President of the Professiona ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President | (dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ... |
| François Truffaut | ... 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and | , were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's films as artistic wo ... |
| Ellery Queen | Mystery author | can also be considered a "fictional artist" of sorts, though the proverbia ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | In December 1952, he composed a Konkrete Etüde, realized in | 's Paris musique concrète studio. In March 1953, he moved to the NWDR stud ... |
| Ptolemy | During the Roman period, the geographer | noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following peoples, from north to ... |
| Rob Reiner | ... ket. I do have platonic (women) friends, but not best, best, best friends." | initially envisioned actress Susan Dey for the role of Sally Albright. Whe ... |
| Spike Lee | ... Day. It has been said that a biographical film is in the works about Brown | ;has signed on to direct, with Brian Grazer producing and Jez and John-Hen ... |
| John Lennon | ... Revolver. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by | . The track included looped tape effects. For the track Paul McCartney sup ... |
| Thomas Malory | ... ories which became popular among children were written in the 15th Century. | 's Morte d'Arthur (1486) and the tales of Robin Hood (c. 1450) were not wr ... |
| Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... ounded by colonists from Lydia led by Tyrrhenus, brother of Lydus. However, | was skeptical of this story, pointing out that the Etruscan language and c ... |
| Pietro Bembo | ... cesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet | . Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual , the sister of Alfonso, ... |
| Ralph Hodgson | ... Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – | – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – He ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by | , which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel |
| Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
| William Shatner | ... BC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man. | corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at ... |
| Blind Harry | ... pic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by | . Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Ja ... |
| Éric Rohmer | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially | , Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and pr ... |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher | |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... ief stint, Norman Fell. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, and | were often referred to as the "Rat Pack Mascots". The post-Bogart version ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... no singularities appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties | and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities are ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... . MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred (1932) starring | |
| George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
| Baruch Spinoza | ... In the process, they became the first non-religious Biblical scholars since | in his Theologico-Political Treatise |
| Lisa Scottoline | ... rk), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstine (editor-in-chief of Time) and | (author of legal thrillers) |
| Elia Kazan | ... oncert music," the 1950s saw the rise of the modernist film score. Director | was open to the idea of jazz influences and dissonant scoring and worked w ... |
| 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. ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kathy Reichs | ... e of Québec. Brennan has made at least one other reference to the real-life | most notably by stating in the series pilot that the closest other forensi ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
| Neil Peart | ... ble rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, | , Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
| Oberon Zell-Ravenheart | In 1968, Tim Zell (now | ) and others formed a neo-pagan religious organization called the Church o ... |
| Claude Chabrol | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, | and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and | used global techniques to prove that singularities are generic |
| Lorne Michaels | ... his family, the Max Weinberg 7, David Letterman, Joel Godard, Jay Leno, and | , as well as a final assurance that he would not "grow up" as he moved to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Heine | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, | , Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Aug ... |
| Saddam | ... ts pedestal. The pro-Chávez website Aporrea wrote: "Just like the statue of | in Baghdad, that of Columbus the tyrant also fell this October 12, 2004 in ... |
| James I | ... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became | , was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ... |
| Stesichorus | ... m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of | onwards. As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of st ... |
| Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Escape was filmed in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by | , starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay w ... |
| Ellen Glasgow | ... s extensive and sometimes troubled past. The works of Pulitzer Prize winner | often dealt with social inequalities and the role of women in her culture. ... |
| Slavoj Žižek | ... Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slovenian philosopher | ; the attempt to view history as a process without a subject garnered symp ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... er, Paganini also became close friends with composers Gioachino Rossini and | . Rossini and Paganini met in Bologna in the summer of 1818. In January 18 ... |
| Bill Hader | ... f a hearse winding through a foggy landscape and cemetery, and the voice of | as Vincent Price in place of Joel Godard |
| Jonathan Demme | ... Hours fits in well with popular low-budget "cult" films of the 1980s, e.g. | 's Something Wild and Alex Cox's Repo Man |
| James Branch Cabell | ... ities and the role of women in her culture. Glasgow's peer and close friend | wrote extensively about the changing position of gentry in the Reconstruct ... |
| Hipparchus | ... oman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer | of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a disc ... |
| Pausanias | He was a son of Talaus and Lysimache. | calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls her Eurynome. He was one of ... |
| Rod Serling | ... Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and | 's Night Gallery |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... is autobiography, “In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of | 's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confir ... |
| Milton | ... acred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As | says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on | by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ... |
| Russell Grant | ... omedian Jim Davidson, tennis player/TV presenter Sue Barker, and astrologer | also originate from the area |
| Paul Tillich | ... has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, Hastings Rashdall and | . It remains the most popular view of atonement among liberal Christians. ... |
| Hesiod | ... o as a god capable of bringing disease and propitiated as a god of healing. | identifies Paeon as a separate god, and in later poetry Paeon is invoked i ... |
| Victor Anderson | ... e in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with | , founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest ... |
| Romano Scarpa | ... talian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for | . He made stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scroo ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | | (1588–1679) defined power as a man's "present means, to obtain some future ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor | |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... ay visit Hægstad Gård which contains woodcarvings, scenes from Peer Gynt by | , and in Geiranger the new Norwegian Fjord Centre shows local history and ... |
| Jim Jarmusch | ... Tarantino, Jane Lynch, Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, | , Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steven Pinker | ... are common in discussions of homosexuality, environmentalism and veganism. | has described two logical fallacies. "The naturalistic fallacy is the idea ... |
| Ian Dury | ... come to prominence in the British pub rock scene of the mid-1970s, such as | , Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood; and according to All ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | In the 17th century | collected the current evidence to conclude outright that Moses could not h ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... tionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of | that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. ... |
| Harold Lamb | ... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, | , Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ... |
| George Sanders | ... ar. The car he jumps into happens to have in it Carol and Scott ffolliott ( | ), another reporter, who explains that the capital letter in his surname w ... |
| Baruch Spinoza | ... not have written the bulk of the Torah. Shortly afterwards the philosopher | published a unified critical analysis, arguing that the problematic passag ... |
| Charlotte Auerbach | ... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist | . Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ... |
| Peter Jackson | In | 's , Frodo and his companions arrive at Bree almost immediately after they ... |
| 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 ... |
| Talbot Mundy | ... ." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, | ," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years later |
| Judith Butler | ... ion has been popularised and adapted by the feminist philosopher and critic | ; the concept of Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slo ... |
| Edward Granville Browne | ... overy of numerous compounds and chemicals including kerosene, among others. | considers him as "probably the greatest and most original of all the physi ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | ... chel Foucault (1926–1984), who, following the Italian political philosopher | (1469–1527), sees power as "a complex strategic situation in a given socie ... |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... venth birthday, he "had gotten The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars" by | , books which "opened up a complete new world for me." In a time before co ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... to artifacts from Kents Cavern, other local archaeology, information about | , and a replica old farmhouse interior, the museum has galleries dedicated ... |
| Malcolm X | ... ivists felt it presented an inaccurate, sanitized pageant of racial harmony | ;called it the "Farce on Washington," and the Nation of Islam forbade its ... |
| Milton Friedman | While | described The General Theory as "a great book", he argues that its implici ... |
| 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 ... |
| Annie Dillard | Norman Mailer's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and | 's novel The Maytrees are primarily based in Provincetown |
| Aeschylus | The Greek poet | who took part in the Battle of Salamis, commented on the power of the paea ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | ... s of bolstering the power of capitalism and of the nation-state. Drawing on | in The Prince, and trying to understand why there had been no Communist re ... |
| 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 ... |
| Miyamoto Musashi | ... ar in Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai's anthropomorphic-rabbit samurai based upon | and in the Artemis Fowl series of children's books |
| John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
| Ibn al-Nadim | Razi studied medicine under Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari, however, | indicates that he studied philosophy under al-Bakhi, who had travelled muc ... |
| 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 |
| Plato | ... wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost. | writes somewhat mockingly that there may have been a rational explanation ... |
| Lucian | From Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. | and Apuleius give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the gr ... |
| Lydia Lunch | ... ncluded, from the UK, The Fall, and from the US, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, | , Elliott Sharp, Swans, the Ordinaires and Arto Lindsay. This was followed ... |
| Ibn al-Nadim | ... zi allegedly returned to Rey where he gathered many students around him. As | relates in Fihrist, Razi was then a Shaikh (title given to one entitled to ... |
| Sam Harris | ... some extent. Proponents of this view, such as the author and neuroscientist | , see morality as a budding science. This view is critical of Moore's "sim ... |
| William Styron | ... uction era, and challenged its moral code with Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. | approached history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Soph ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ar the Erginos River in Thrace. There she was wrapped in a cloud and raped. | wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost |
| 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". ... |
| Stan Sakai | ... a series of novels by Greg Rucka. Bodyguards also appear in Usagi Yojimbo, | 's anthropomorphic-rabbit samurai based upon Miyamoto Musashi and in the A ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Dovey | ... tralian athlete Decima Norman, who won five gold medals in track and field. | , the future wife of the former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, f ... |
| Byron Erickson | ... he epic Disney fantasy comic World of the Dragonlords, which was written by | |
| 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 ... |
| Greg Rucka | ... nal bodyguard who acts as narrator and protagonist in a series of novels by | . Bodyguards also appear in Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai's anthropomorphic-ra ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | In the Marxist tradition, the Italian writer | elaborated the role of cultural hegemony in ideology as a means of bolster ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stanley Kubrick | ... riginal score written by the film composer. One of the most famous cases is | 's , where Kubrick opted for existing recordings of classical works, inclu ... |
| Peter Abelard | ... ity during the Middle Ages and is most often associated in that period with | . Since the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel ... |
| Jennifer Crusie | ... ite of the kind of hypocrisy that is typically attributed to women". Writer | interprets this as Cordelia's "lack of depth" becoming "her strength". She ... |
| Bob Black | ... ards mysticism, occultism, and irrationalism. Bey did not respond publicly. | wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy after Leftism |
| Adolf Hitler | ... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle. | , then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ... |
| Gus Van Sant | ... l García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, | , and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in th ... |
| Hyginus | ... s a son of Talaus and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and | calls her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iph ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ion, yet survive and revive after water absorption. A. Carl Leopold, son of | , began studying this capability at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant ... |
| James Whale | ... ne More River (a film version of Galsworthy's Over the River) was filmed by | in 1934. The film starred Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most f ... |
| Paul Scarron | ... hands. In 1649 he painted the Vision of St Paul (Louvre) for the comic poet | , and in 1651 the Holy Family (Louvre) for the duc de Créquy. Year by year ... |
| Keith Dowding | ... se power relationships. One rational choice definition of power is given by | in his book Power |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of | and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Cross | ... Jones. The performer Usher lives in the same Roswell neighborhood. Comedian | lived in Roswell during his childhood in the 1970s and early 1980s Former ... |
| Chris Claremont | According to George Pérez in a Wizard magazine interview in 1994, | suggested that Superman of Earth-One dies in the final battle with the Ant ... |
| John Wycliffe | ... i-clericalism and England had already given rise to the Lollard movement of | , which played an important part in inspiring the Hussites in Bohemia. Lol ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... ntly. In December 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met | , who would remain a lifelong friend |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
| Aristotle | ... viding his time between Oxford and Paris, and helped introduce the study of | . He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived ... |
| Hume's | ... related to (and even confused with) the is–ought problem, which comes from | Treatise |
| Pindar | The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and | . Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hyacinthia), ... |
| Rudolph Grey | ... h night three to five acts performed, including Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, | , Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day, Off Beach and others |
| Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... O'Brien accused his show of being the sole cause of presidential candidate | 's status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever wh ... |
| Gordon Lyon | ... proxy is a forwarding proxy server that is accessible by any Internet user. | estimates there are "hundreds of thousands" of open proxies on the Interne ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... med on 5 July, presciently foreshadowing the celebrated radio broadcasts of | |
| Bacchylides | The most famous paeans are those of | and Pindar. Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hy ... |
| Richard Bartle | ... that the online female persona has a number of positive social attributes. | , author of Designing Virtual Worlds, classified multiplayer RPG-players i ... |
| Zsuzsanna Budapest | ... with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with | , a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca |
| Johann Gottfried Herder | The term nationalism was coined by | (nationalismus) during the late 1770s. Precisely where and when nationalis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ben Hecht | ... at the Germans would begin bombing London at any time. To accommodate this, | was called in to write the epilogue of the film, the scene in the radio st ... |
| Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
| Paul Krugman | ... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, | , Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ... |
| Edwin Newman | Among those worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, | and Irving R. Levine, who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ssic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of | . "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was th ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors | and Neil Gaiman |
| Zoroaster | ... original temple of Mithras was a natural cave, containing fountains, which | found in the mountains of Persia. To Zoroaster, this cave was an image of ... |
| Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
| Pliny | ... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to | ) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ... |
| Richard D. Wolff | Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists | and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a ... |
| Erwin Rommel | Protests followed from Generalfeldmarschall | ; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges; and the Vichy government ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... cluding 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by | and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East an ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... eciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as | , his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best ... |
| Charles Shaar Murray | ... ame musical scene; the term was also used in that sense by music journalist | in his comments about The Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... r the show, remarked that in his 12 years of working for Late Night, U2 and | were the "dream artists" he'd tried, but never succeeded in getting. The b ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... tured their own takes on space suit design. Science fiction authors such as | contributed to the development of fictional space suit concepts |
| Michael Jackson | ... often voiced that she was inspired by a number of performers. These include | , Stevie Wonder, Sade, En Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Prince, Naughty by ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... on of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by | , who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertrand Tavernier | ... y one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in | 's jazz movie Round Midnight |
| David Greenwalt | ... ent role as the damsel in distress. Angel co-creator and executive producer | describes Cordelia in her Buffy years as "a somewhat shallow, somewhat vai ... |
| Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
| Douglas LePan | | , an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote |
| Tina Turner | ... Prince, dance-pop star Michael Jackson, and a wave of female vocalists like | and Whitney Houston. Michael Jackson and Prince has been described as the ... |
| David O. Selznick | ... satisfied with, by which time Hitchcock was in the U.S. under contract with | and available to direct this film on a loan-out. Hitchcock, who enjoyed no ... |
| Bill Finger | ... , just two issues after the characters' debut by artist Bob Kane and writer | , Fox wrote the first of his several tales of the Batman, introducing an e ... |
| Vitruvius | ... of drawing the complex geometry was devised by the ancient Roman architect | from classical buildings and structures |
| J. I. Packer | ... cal understandings of the atonement need not conflict'. Reformed theologian | , for example, although he maintains that 'penal substitution is the mains ... |
| Steven Lukes | ... enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found in | Power: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Th ... |
| Jonathan Miller | ... nd fractured scenery to represent the twists of fate reflected in the plot. | , in a 1986 production for the 49th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, transferre ... |
| Vincent Sheean | Producer Walter Wanger bought the rights to journalist | 's memoir Personal History in 1935, but after several adaptations proved u ... |
| Donald Davidson | ... t-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of | they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alain Badiou | ... students became eminent intellectuals in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: | , Étienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière in philosophy, Pierre Macherey in l ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, | and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919 |
| Osama bin Laden | Already long time affiliates of Al-Qaeda, Hazmi and Mihdhar were chosen by | as respected jihadists due to their extensive fighting experience for an a ... |
| Billy Wilder | Mulholland Drive has been compared with | 's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), another tale about broken dr ... |
| Andrew Davies | ... TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by | , and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Ma ... |
| Jane Lynch | ... director Darren Aronofsky. Prior honorees have included Quentin Tarantino, | , Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd H ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... arose in the 1980s, with the funk-influenced singer Prince, dance-pop star | , and a wave of female vocalists like Tina Turner and Whitney Houston. Mic ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... ss Vera Farmiga and director Darren Aronofsky. Prior honorees have included | , Jane Lynch, Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarm ... |
| Chip Berlet | | , writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), identified Horowitz' ... |
| John James Audubon | ... ere commissioned for books. Among the most famous of these bird artists was | , whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success ... |
| Thackeray's | Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in | work The Virginians. Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Drya ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... roducing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 19 ... |
| Ricky Tomlinson | ... uction company. The company financed and produced Stepdad in 2007, starring | and Chris Bisson among others; it was entered into the Cannes Film Festiva ... |
| George Washington | ... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies. | , who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ... |
| Salman Rushdie | ... into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer | . A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built s ... |
| Queen Latifah | ... thing of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and | putting their own interpretation on the music |
| Robert Fourer | ... y Steven Chu and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by | , David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. Also in 1985, Bel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sylvain Lazarus | Eventually, a was organized in France at the University of Paris VIII by | on May 27, 1992. The general title was Politique et philosophie dans l'oeu ... |
| Darren Aronofsky | ... de film. Among the honorees for 2011 were actress Vera Farmiga and director | . Prior honorees have included Quentin Tarantino, Jane Lynch, Gael García ... |
| Marc Galanter | ... y, Massimo Introvigne, John Hall, Lorne Dawson, Anson Shupe, Gordon Melton, | , (amongst other scholars researching NRMs) have argued and established to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gramsci | ... these he added a third 'critical' dimension which built upon insights from | and Althusser |
| Saddam Hussein | All United Nations attempts to intervene as mediators were rebuffed. Under | , Baathist Iraq claimed the entire waterway up to the Iranian shore as its ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
| Appian | ... ween Mithridates and the pirates is also mentioned by the ancient historian | . The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that Pompey settled ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... g area for use in the 2009 film Public Enemies featuring Christian Bale and | |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and | , support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ... |
| Spencer W. Kimball | ... place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by President of the Church | |
| Michael Sprinker | ... de at the "Althusserian Legacy" Conference organized at SUNY Stony Brook by | . The proceedings of this conference were published in September 1992 as t ... |
| David Garrick | ... al further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and | 's library of 1,000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient s recogni ... |
| Richard Dawkins | "Viruses of the Mind" (1993) is an article by | using memetics and analogies with biological and computer viruses, and wit ... |
| Milton's | Dryads are mentioned in | Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. Keats ... |
| George Washington | ... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as | , Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ... |
| Aeschylus | ... murderous crimes by fruitlessly drawing water in pitchers with open bases. | wrote a now lost satyr play called Amymore about the seduction of Amymore ... |
| Man Ray | ... man One). In 1924, in collaboration with Dudley Murphy, George Antheil, and | , Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influenced film, Bal ... |
| Elliot Goldenthal | ... David Arnold with Nicholas Dodd; Basil Poledouris with Greig McRitchie; and | with Robert Elhai. Others have become orchestrators-for-hire, and work wit ... |
| Jon Cryer | ... episodes of the comedy Two and a Half Men which stars his Hot Shots co-star | and formerly Charlie Sheen. Stiles also made short guest appearances on Mu ... |
| Caesar | ... re classics. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by | , and the month of August is named after him. Augustus' enlightened rule r ... |
| Joseph Xavier Saintine | ... Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and | , which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality. It was fir ... |
| John Skelton | In 1507 the poet | (1460–1529) wrote of two destructive fires in his Lament for the City of N ... |
| George Pérez | ... evenue-generating comic book series. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , | 's relaunching of Wonder Woman in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboo ... |
| Ice Cube | ... ich marked the first collaboration of Arabian Prince, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre and | . Mexican rapper Krazy-Dee co-wrote "Panic Zone," which was originally cal ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... one's music along with a larger portion of royalty profits. Artists such as | , Aimee Mann, Prince, Public Enemy, BKBravo (Kua and Rafi), among others, ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... cords label, owned by music publisher/impresario Irving Mills (who was also | 's manager) |
| Wonder Woman | ... eries. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of | in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Ste ... |
| Lord Byron | ... y carefully analyzed the whole" of the latter text. D'Israeli also mentions | 's (1788–1824) praise for Piers Plowman |
| Steven S. DeKnight | ... appears in heavenly white as she becomes the voice of reason and morality. | , who wrote and directed the episode, felt this was a brilliant role-rever ... |
| Zhuge Liang | ... ted practical systems of governance and administration, such as Cao Cao and | in the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of the Eastern Jin, ... |
| Ion Antonescu | ... rman Hungarian government, as well as the pro-German Romanian Government of | allowed Germany to enlist the German population in Nazi sponsored organiza ... |
| Pope Pius II | In 1459 | endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterda ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Sometimes credited with the greatest development in parachutes since | , the American Domina Jalbert invented the Parafoil which had sectioned ce ... |
| Zoroaster | ... aimed that he [Jesus] was created like the rest of humanity." and "Mani and | contradicted Moses, Jesus and Muhammad regarding the Eternal One, the comi ... |
| Alexander Tolush | ... t, Romania, finishing tied 4th–5th with 12/19, an event won by his trainer, | , and where he defeated Vasily Smyslov who would challenge for the World C ... |
| Celia Fiennes | Thomas Fuller in his The Worthies of England described the City in 1662 as: | (1662–1741) visited Norwich in 1698 and described it a |
| Duke Ellington | ... and large forms initially pioneered by such artists as Louis Armstrong and | . In the 2000s, straight-ahead jazz continues to appeal to a core group of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Year 24 Group | is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the | . She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, bei ... |
| Ernest Newman | ... sickened by the cheapness and emptiness" of Puccini's music. Veteran critic | , while acknowledging the "enormously difficult business of boiling [Sardo ... |
| Persius | ... tor J.H.Mozley it literally means "Persean", referring to Perses the son of | and ; this Perses being the ancestor of the Persians according to Greek le ... |
| Paul | ... istian life as continual intercourse with God. His favourite idea was Saint | `s "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?" (I Corinthians 6:19) and h ... |
| Tomislav Ladan | ... of Croatian linguists, specifically Radoslav Katičić, Dalibor Brozović, and | , consider the appropriate name to be "Bosniak" rather than "Bosnian" whil ... |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | ... st drew wide attention in 1947 at age ten, when he defeated Soviet champion | in a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad. His early coach was Vladimir Za ... |
| George Antheil | ... 'Inhumaine (The Inhuman One). In 1924, in collaboration with Dudley Murphy, | , and Man Ray, Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influen ... |
| Toshihiko Izutsu | ... yed Hossein Nasr, and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, | , Henry Corbin and others. He was editor of Sophia Perennis, the Journal o ... |
| Plutarch | The Greek biographer | (46 - 127 AD) says that "secret mysteries... of Mithras" were practiced by ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cao Cao | ... that advocated practical systems of governance and administration, such as | and Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of ... |
| Wyatt Tee Walker | ... frican Americans. Many of its tactics of "Project C" were developed by Rev. | , Executive Director of SCLC from 1960–64. Based on actions in Birmingham, ... |
| Joseph Cotten | ... as adapted to the radio program Academy Award Theater on July 24, 1946 with | starring |
| E. M. Forster | ... lloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova. | would later write in contrition: "How we all used to underestimate her" |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | In the 1830s, French political thinker and historian | identified one of the key characteristics of America that would later make ... |
| Daniel Defoe | The author, | (who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Wes ... |
| Van Morrison | ... , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and | . However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
| Statius | The Thebaid (c.80 AD) an epic poem by | , pictures Mithras in a cave, wrestling with something that has horns. The ... |
| Robert M. La Follette | ... l Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator | of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party |
| George Washington | ... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election, | was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ... |
| Beatrix Potter | ... s. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, | , King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit tha ... |
| Jonathan Ross | ... theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. Roger Ebert and | seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to overanalyze the m ... |
| Ice Cube | ... oth formerly members of the World Class Wreckin' Cru, as DJs and producers. | was added to the roster after he had started out as a rapper for the group ... |
| Tigran Petrosian | Spassky defeated | in 1969 to become World Champion, then lost the title in the Fischer–Spass ... |
| Douglas Adams | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by | is referenced several times in Crowley's bad memories of the 14th Century. ... |
| Brian Blessed | ... teran stage of their careers, were also recruited for roles. These included | , Peter Cook, John Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Pad ... |
| Robert M. La Follette | Senator | , who had left the Republican Party and formed his own political party, th ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... udes Der Ring des Nibelungen. It is a manga version of the opera written by | |
| Ouyang Xiu | ... family of the princess' husband). The Song dynasty statesman and historian | has noted that paper playing cards arose in connection to an earlier devel ... |
| John Stow | ... d, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends | and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, ... |
| Peter Cook | ... their careers, were also recruited for roles. These included Brian Blessed, | , John Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Paddick, Frank ... |
| Hesiod | - | , Theogony 28 |
| Richard Overy | ... by the brutal treatment of the German civilians and tried to protect them. | cites an approximate total 7. 5 million evacuated, migrated, or expelled G ... |
| Isaac D'Israeli | ... reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and | (1766–1848) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had "very caref ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... e atomic layer at a time. In 1969, the UNIX operating system was created by | and Ken Thompson. From 1969 to 1971, Aaron Marcus, the first graphic desig ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... uses being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and | . In her novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia War ... |
| Adam Sandler | ... da. The guests for these episodes were all Canadians (with the exception of | ), and included such stars as Jim Carrey and Mike Myers. As the show was t ... |
| John Hughes | ... ch as Valley Girl, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club. | , a director of several of these films, was enthralled with British New Wa ... |
| John | ... as a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers, | and Charles. An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the ... |
| Régis Debray | ... terary criticism and Nicos Poulantzas in sociology. The prominent Guevarist | also studied under Althusser, as did the aforementioned Derrida (with whom ... |
| Paracelsus | ... wed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and | later taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to ... |
| Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... ophical views were later criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as | and Avicenna in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
| George Stevens, Jr. | Stevens is the father of television and film writer-producer-director | (who was named the first CEO and director of the American Film Institute), ... |
| Amédée Ozenfant | They also share traits with the work of Le Corbusier and | who together had founded Purism, a style intended as a rational, mathemati ... |
| Allan Pinkerton | ... d named the town Dundee in honor of his Scottish hometown. In 1843 Scotsman | , later the renowned detective, set up business as a cooper. The town was ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... f the world. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President | , who was familiar with Bermuda, having made numerous personal visits. The ... |
| Steven Hassan | ... r in the West and was largely superseded by exit counseling. Exit counselor | promotes what he calls the "BITE" model in his book (2000). The BITE model ... |
| Wang Dulu | ... a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist | . The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping |
| Agatha Christie | ... Enery's hypothesis. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them | , Beatrix Potter, King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed wi ... |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... ica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by | (1514–1564) |
| Sheldon Mayer | In the pages of All-Star Comics #3, under the direction of editor | and with artists including E. E. Hibbard, Fox created the first superhero ... |
| Paul Bahn | Along with fellow Archaeologist | , Renfrew has come up with the 'Renfrew and Bahns indicator of Religion an ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during | 's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Undergro ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... to other projects. The film was removed from IMDB. There was a rumour that | was originally cast as Crowley and Robin Williams as Aziraphale. However N ... |
| Edmund Gosse | ... her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, | and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with ... |
| Marc Connelly | ... e of The Bells of St. Mary's was shown in 1959, starring Claudette Colbert, | , Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Myers, Robert Preston and Charle ... |
| Ice Cube | The original lineup consisted of Arabian Prince, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, | , and MC Ren; Arabian Prince embarked on a solo career in 1989 and Ice Cub ... |
| Steve Martin | The | and John Candy comedy, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, was partially filmed ... |
| John Belushi | ... s. Elwood Blues (as played by Dan Aykroyd) explains that his brother Jake ( | ) was in prison for holding up a gas station, and then says "He pulled tha ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... most important trading-partner: Great Britain. (It is from this period that | took his subject, when he created his famous poem Terje Vigen.) It was sou ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
| Patrick Whitefield | — | , How to make a forest garden p16 |
| Bob Dylan | ... lapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, | , Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's comm ... |
| Peter Cook | ... ersion of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. | , comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the great indus ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
| Clive Anderson | Stiles took part in the regular practice of mocking host | on the UK series, though he did so with less frequency than others. By con ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
| David Hume | ... pted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories. For instance, | famously regarded Space and Time as nothing more than psychological facts ... |
| Bob Clark | He was a frequent interviewer with | on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 bu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rick Riordan | In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by | , there is a dryad named Juniper who is the girlfriend of Grover Underwood |
| Alex Jones | ... Endgame. According to Dave Mustaine, the name "Endgame" is an homage to the | documentary of the same name |
| Kathleen Taylor | ... ing the subject from the perspective of neuroscience and social psychology, | suggests that manipulation of the prefrontal cortex activates "brainwashin ... |
| Murray Bookchin | In , | included Bey's work in what he called "lifestyle anarchism", which he crit ... |
| Nikolai Gogol | ... 77, Rimsky-Korsakov thought increasingly about the short story May Night by | . The story had long been a favorite of his, and his wife Nadezhda had enc ... |
| George Washington | ... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by | ), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ... |
| Leo McCarey | The film was written by | and Dudley Nichols, and directed by McCarey. The film was produced by McCa ... |
| Lytton Strachey | ... ly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. Keynes, together with writer | , had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the influential Cambridge Apostl ... |
| Norman Geisler | ... elation to its writings. In their book A General Introduction to the Bible, | and William Nix wrote: "The process of inspiration is a mystery of the pro ... |
| Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
| Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet | uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conju ... |
| Justin Theroux | ... bilities for a lot of different roles, so it was a beautiful full package." | also met Lynch directly from his airplane. After a long flight with little ... |
| Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... d the Last, a short play, was adapted as 21 Days, starring Vivien Leigh and | |
| Jacques-François Ancelot | ... ts libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by | and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel ... |
| Marilyn Manson | ... des world-famous stars, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, The Black Eyed Peas, | and Placebo |
| George Lakoff | ... lated by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by | and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience ... |
| John Ruskin | ... er compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, | , and the Fabians |
| Charles Kingsley | ... (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), | , Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous c ... |
| Manuel Quimper | In 1790, | of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancou ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... m Camden uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and | is the first to use Mole in his poem Poly-Olbion published in 1613. The Ox ... |
| Moses | Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular being "American | ," (alternatively the "Modern Moses" or the "Mormon Moses") because, like ... |
| René Descartes | ... nds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects. Some, like | , have thought that this is so (this view is known as dualism, and functio ... |
| Tertullian | ... in the Caesares of Julian the Apostate refers to "commandments of Mithras". | , in his treatise 'On the Military Crown' records that Mithraists in the a ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... tioned in the classic comedy The Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (as played by | ) explains that his brother Jake (John Belushi) was in prison for holding ... |
| Terry Gilliam | A film, directed by | , was planned. As of 2002 Gilliam still hoped to make the film with its al ... |
| Dudley Nichols | The film was written by Leo McCarey and | , and directed by McCarey. The film was produced by McCarey's production c ... |
| Agatha Christie | Famous former residents of Torbay include authors | (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), ... |
| Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... st famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator | (1900–1944, Mort pour la France) |
| Terry Pratchett | while | has said |
| John Calvin | ... f Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the Christian Religion – | 's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at Basel in March ... |
| Neil Young | ... of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, | , Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... of his novel Good Omens "is in the works from Terry Jones." with a link to | 's webpage confirming the news |
| Javier Cercas | Spanish writer | uses Urbana as the geographical background for two of his novels ("La velo ... |
| Vasily Smyslov | ... t age eighteen, he tied for 3rd–6th places with 11½/19, after joint winners | and Efim Geller, which was sufficient to qualify him for the Gothenburg In ... |
| Vida Dutton Scudder | ... ry—in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies. Four years later | compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, J ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... e UNIX operating system (also developed at Bell Laboratories by Ritchie and | ). Additionally, the AWK programming language was designed and implemented ... |
| Hamish MacInnes | Well known residents include | , inventor of the McInnes Stretcher, and Jimmy Savile, TV personality and ... |
| Terry Jones | ... ry 2011, it was reported that a television adaptation may be produced, with | and Gavin Scott being "in talks" to write the series |
| Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay. | wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ... |
| Maud Gonne | ... eanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by Arthur Griffith and | in what was the most popular and most violent of the European pro-Boer mov ... |
| Thomas MacDonagh | ... ton St and saw Thomas MacDonagh in full uniform. He offered his services to | and was appointed second-in-command at the Jacob's factory. MacBride, afte ... |
| Brian Kernighan | ... language was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and | of Bell Laboratories |
| Efim Geller | ... tied for 3rd–6th places with 11½/19, after joint winners Vasily Smyslov and | , which was sufficient to qualify him for the Gothenburg Interzonal later ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ty. The County Seat found its home in Mineola on July 13, 1900, as Governor | laid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by | before the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ... |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... ida Dutton Scudder compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of | , John Ruskin, and the Fabians |
| Gil Scott-Heron | ... lectic blend of poetry, jazz-funk and soul was practiced by such artists as | and The Last Poets, and featured critical political and social commentary ... |
| Brian Blessed | ... nd is depicted as a big, red-haired, bearded man (somewhat resembling actor | ; Gaiman has mentioned that he would like Blessed to play Destruction in t ... |
| Robert E. Howard | :For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). For the god in | 's Conan series, see Derketo (Conan |
| Aristotle | Category came into use with | 's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, p ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the sense of "ascendant" and "observation of the ascendant" is in use since | (Tetrabiblos 33, 75) |
| Jerome | ... books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in AD 382. He commissioned Saint | to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Gree ... |
| Vasily Smyslov | ... 12/19, an event won by his trainer, Alexander Tolush, and where he defeated | who would challenge for the World Championship the following year. He was ... |
| Eric S. Raymond | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by | on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux ke ... |
| 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. ... |
| Bede | ... of Wessex, who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession. | writes that after Wulfhere became king: "Free under their own king, they [ ... |
| Richard Powers | University of Illinois English Professor and National Book Award winner | set his novel Galatea 2.2 at the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute for A ... |
| Jerome K. Jerome | ... y writers and music hall comics for many years in the late 19th century. In | 's book Three Men in a Boat no one at Waterloo knows the wanted train's pl ... |
| Augustine | ... prevalent estimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon | , Turibius of Astorga, Leo the Great and Orosius (who quotes a fragment of ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... the Bell Laboratories as part of the personal computing revolution. In 1970 | developed the compiled C programming language as a replacement for the int ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe by | and Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tobias Smollett | Sarah died, in the words of | , "immensely rich and very little regretted, either by her own family or t ... |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | In Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, | wrote extensively while visiting Risør in 1783, including the following re ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
| George Orwell | In his classic essay on the topic | distinguishes nationalism from patriotism, which he defines as devotion to ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... ion and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | In the 16th century, scientist and artist | compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr. James Lind, a physic ... |
| Jeffrey Tucker | ... dy seem quaint even to the baby boomers who grew up with them." Conversely, | of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has argued that "The whole scene — which ... |
| Mikhail Tal | ... iet final, URS-ch24 at Moscow, Spassky finished tied 4th–5th with 13/21, as | won the first of his six Soviet titles, which began his ascent to the worl ... |
| Samson Raphaelson | ... comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by | based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete. The music score was by A ... |
| John A. Widtsoe | ... seph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle | and herself a leading expert in home economics. Other descendants include ... |
| Peter Hofschröer | Historian | has written that Wellington and Blücher met at Genappe around 22:00, signi ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... e British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. | 's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and T. S. El ... |
| Philip K. Dick | "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a short story by | first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966 ... |
| Penelope Spheeris | In June 1988, Megadeth appeared in | ' documentary film, . The documentary chronicled the Los Angeles heavy met ... |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud | ... fe is briefly explored in Wings of Courage, an IMAX film by French director | |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, | , Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. M ... |
| William Shatner | ... Gene Evans. In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and | in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western serie ... |
| Scriblerus Club | Arbuthnot was one of the founding members of the | , and was regarded by the other wits of the group as the funniest, but he ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... iversity of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, | , Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, it ... |
| Ernst Lubitsch | Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by | . The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Le ... |
| Hippocrates | ... nerative components), suggesting the existence of nutrients. Around 400 BC, | said, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. |
| Vyacheslav Ivanov | The Russian poet and philosopher | elaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary ... |
| Nunnally Johnson | ... ars Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall and Anne Baxter. The movie was adapted by | from the novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. It was directed by Irving ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy. | stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ... |
| Lord Beaverbrook | On 15 May the Minister of Aircraft Production, | , ordered that resources should be concentrated on the production of five ... |
| Stan Lee | ... in a two-hour pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the | and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book of the same name. Its success (coupled wi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nevil Shute | ... he movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by | . It was directed by Irving Pichel |
| Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
| Alan Wenkus | ... was researched and written by filmmaker S. Leigh Savidge and radio veteran | , who worked closely with Eazy-E's widow, Tomica Woods-Wright. Wright, Ice ... |
| David Bronstein | Spassky tied for first place at Moscow 1959 on 7/11, with Smyslov and | . He nearly won the title at the next Soviet final, URS-ch26 at Tbilisi 19 ... |
| Robert Rodriguez | In May 2007, director | entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film a live actio ... |
| William Gillette | ... d was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside | , the original Holmes. "It was like tidings from heaven", Chaplin recalled ... |
| 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 ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... inia Woolf's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and | would discuss religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle ... |
| David Axelrod | Rahm Emanuel worked for the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, | as campaign strategist, William Daley as chief strategist, and as a campai ... |
| Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury | James I’s ambassador to Paris, | , who presented his credentials to Louis XIII in 1619, remarked on Louis’ ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
| Yuri Averbakh | ... the Interzonal, and a draw would have ensured a share of fourth place with | , with qualification possible via a playoff |
| Edmund Waller | ... enerall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), and | 's poem, Battle of the Summer Islands (1645) |
| Susa Young Gates | ... honri Young, best-selling novelist Orson Scott Card, women's right activist | , NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and Richard Whitehead Young, U.S. ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
| Edmund Bolton | ... e texts. Perhaps it refers to Rogers' 1561 edition which put them together. | argued for the language of the court as the appropriate language for writi ... |
| Michael Korda | ... e, divorce, and her long struggle with manic depression. In Curtain (1991), | 's novel based on the marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Gielg ... |
| Taylor Branch | ... onounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. According to biographer | , King's autopsy revealed that though only 39 years old, he had the heart ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, starring | . In the film, the hero, renamed Quaid, actually travels to Mars, but the ... |
| Mark Taimanov | ... URS-ch23, held in Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with | and Yuri Averbakh, but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champ ... |
| Orson Scott Card | ... cs. Other descendants include sculptor Mahonri Young, best-selling novelist | , women's right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve ... |
| Jack Kirby | ... r pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and | Marvel comic book of the same name. Its success (coupled with some theatri ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from | 's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ... |
| Christopher Nolan | ... poser Hans Zimmer was asked to write music in this way in 2010 for director | 's film Inception; composer Gustavo Santaolalla did the same thing when he ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Garaudy | ... -Stalinisation". For many Marxists—including the PCF's leading theoretician | and the pre-eminent existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recover ... |
| Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | on The Colbert Report made a comment about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
| Hyginus | ... grew up to become Semiramis, the Assyrian queen. In another story, told by | , an egg fell from the sky into the Euphrates, was rolled onto land by fis ... |
| Seth Rogen | ... edy My Mother's Curse the green light to begin shooting, with Streisand and | playing mother and son. Anne Fletcher is slated to direct the project with ... |
| Malcolm X | Earl Little Sr., the father of | , was born in Reynolds on July 29, 1890. Former Lieutenant Governor of Geo ... |
| John Weever | ... well as its judgment and invention. He gives the author as Robert Langland. | (1631) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan (1652). Buchanan ... |
| Robert E. Cox | ... ine ran a regular column called "Gleanings for ATMs" edited by Earle Brown, | & Roger Sinnott. The ready supply of surplus optical components after Worl ... |
| Jeff Cooper | ... he Scout Rifle is a class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by | in the early 1980s |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... PCF's leading theoretician Roger Garaudy and the pre-eminent existentialist | —this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of Marx's thought, and the ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ncil's decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio of 21 November 1964, and | 's encyclical, Ut Unum Sint of 25 May 1995 |
| Laurence Olivier | ... pression. In Curtain (1991), Michael Korda's novel based on the marriage of | and Vivien Leigh, Gielgud becomes Philip Chagrin |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... , Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. Presidential candidate | was on his way to Indianapolis for a campaign rally when he was informed o ... |
| Terence Davies | ... n directors such as Chinese auteur Tian Zhuangzhuang, and British filmmaker | , both of whom ranked it among their ten favorite films |
| Yuri Averbakh | ... Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with Mark Taimanov and | , but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion. Spassky then ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... ury. While Rimsky-Korsakov's style was based on those of Glinka, Balakirev, | and Franz Liszt, he "transmitted this style directly to two generations of ... |
| Stanley Tucci | From the world of entertainment, actor | , actresses Mindy Cohn and Jennifer Lopez, television host David Horowitz, ... |
| Igor Bondarevsky | ... iners, from the volatile attacker Alexander Tolush to the calmer strategist | . This proved the key to his resurgence. He won his first of two USSR Cham ... |
| Paul of Tarsus | ... Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by | and Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–107 AD), then given more consideration by t ... |
| Ashley Montagu | According to | , "The Mongoloid skull has proceeded further than in any other people. |
| David Fury | ... on track', but Sarah Michelle Gellar had other obligations. Writer/director | explains that since "we couldn't get Sarah" the episode was instead writte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eric Bogosian | ... gh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly and | and directed by Taylor Hackford |
| Lorne Michaels | ... nne Fletcher is slated to direct the project with a script by Dan Fogelman. | and John Goldwyn will produce it with Evan Goldberg. Executive producers i ... |
| John Calvin | ... thousand French Protestants fled the country during this time, most notably | , who settled in Geneva |
| Madonna | ... to these types of pacts. Several artists such as Paramore, Maino, and even | have signed such types of deals |
| Rudolfo Anaya | ... pared to Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include | , Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
| Hans Herbjørnsrud | ... orway's excellent organist Kåre Nordstoga, the internationally known author | who was born in Heddal, and the Hardanger fiddlemaker Olav Gunnarsson Hell ... |
| Peter Singer | ... benefit that individual. Another prominent position is that of philosopher | , who argues that there are no grounds to include a being's species in con ... |
| Alexander Tolush | Spassky decided upon a switch in trainers, from the volatile attacker | to the calmer strategist Igor Bondarevsky. This proved the key to his resu ... |
| Warren Beatty | Half a century later, | made the 1981 film Reds, based on the life of John Reed. Beatty starred as ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was | 's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ... |
| Piers Anthony | ... g from a dream. A novelization of the film (ISBN 0-380-70874-4), written by | , was published the year before the film was released |
| Carter administration | ... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution the | moved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Fischer | ... where he shared first place, ahead of Bronstein, at Mar del Plata 1960 with | on 13½/15, defeating Fischer in their first career meeting |
| José Antonio Villarreal | ... es's "Yo Soy Joaquin" is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while | 's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano/a novel. The nove ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow, who lived not far from Saint-Exupéry and who met ... |
| Stan Laurel | ... r seen here." The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe—which also included | of later Laurel and Hardy fame—returned to England in June 1912. Chaplin r ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist | many years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ... |
| Henry Miller | ... hoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably | , Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman |
| Gregory of Tours | ... populania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of | , on the etymological link between the words "Basque" and "Gascon" – both ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... Bradstreet (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. | (1688–1744) owned a copy of Rogers' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Wooden | ... utors, one referee, and one team, will enter the Hall on September 7, 2012. | , Lenny Wilkens, and have each been inducted as both player and coach (Woo ... |
| Julius Epstein | ... dialogue, causing confusion among other actors, and infuriated the writer, | , who was called upon to rewrite scenes at her whim. Davis later explained ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out by | in 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... re portrayed in the novel Murder in Coweta County. The film version starred | , Andy Griffith, and June Carter |
| Orson Welles | ... rom films such as Luchino Visconti's Senso and his Il Gattopardo as well as | 's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La Prise de pou ... |
| Stephen Oppenheimer | ... ted was disturbing to many Eurocentric nineteenth century anthropologists." | claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist Stephen ... |
| Mack Sennett | ... Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913. His boss was | , who initially expressed concern that the 24-year-old looked too young. C ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... sta" music scene had however fallen out of the spotlight since the death of | in 1996, and it was only after Dr. Dre's successful patronage of Eminem an ... |
| Andy Griffith | ... in the novel Murder in Coweta County. The film version starred Johnny Cash, | , and June Carter |
| Peder Claussøn Friis | ... rims could find food and shelter. In speaking of this route, Gjerset quotes | as writing |
| F. Van Wyck Mason | ... made Bermuda their home, or have had homes here, including A.J. Cronin and | , who wrote on Bermudian subjects |
| Len Wiseman | ... Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel will star in the film directed by | |
| Stuart Lake | ... nfight was relatively unknown to the American public until 1931 when author | published what has since been determined to be a largely fictionalized bio ... |
| Sandra Cisneros | ... Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, | , Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, De ... |
| Tertullian | ... 00–165). Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of | (c. 160–225), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after b ... |
| Richard Grossinger | ... races are explained in terms of being the most extreme pedomorphic humans." | claimed, "The intuition that advanced human development was pedomorphic ra ... |
| Xǔ Shèn | ... 水 (water), may be wholly pictorial in origin. In 100 CE, the famed scholar | in the Hàn Dynasty classified characters into six categories, namely picto ... |
| Shigeru Egami | ... ght to Tokyo from Okinawa by Gichin Funakoshi in 1922. One of his students, | introduced modifications designed to incorporate the values of traditional ... |
| George Pérez | ... r-old continuity. The series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by | (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and Jerry Ordwa ... |
| Madonna | ... Herb Alpert's A&M Records, now owned by Universal Music Group). Similarly, | 's Maverick Records (started by Madonna with her manager and another partn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marv Wolfman | ... 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity. The series was written by | and illustrated by George Pérez (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo ... |
| J. B. S. Haldane | The geneticist | wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ... |
| Gichin Funakoshi | ... in karate(空手, empty hand), which had been brought to Tokyo from Okinawa by | in 1922. One of his students, Shigeru Egami introduced modifications desig ... |
| Stephen King | In the book by | , Eddie Dean remembers hearing an audiobook version of The Lord of the Rin ... |
| Jerry Ordway | ... George Pérez (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and | (who shared inking/embellishing chores). The series removed the concept of ... |
| Frederick the Great | ... for promotion to Major. Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which | granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ... |
| Voltaire | ... rial visitor to Earth had already been used by the philosopher and satirist | in his story Micromégas of 1752—a classic work in French literature which ... |
| Tom Regan | ... s have moral rights (animal rights) is a philosophical position proposed by | , among others, who argues that animals are beings with beliefs and desire ... |
| Ashley Montagu | ... eoteny, "Asians", not whites, are "clearly" the most neotenized human race. | mirrored this statement when he stated that the "Mongoloid skull, whether ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Bree is a fictional village in | 's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... is mentioned in the Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by | . In 1021, King Olaf laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovr ... |
| Oscar Zeta Acosta | ... nt writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, | , John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto ... |
| Nick Cave | ... ic scene which had sprung up in Melbourne came The Boys Next Door featuring | . The Boys Next Door would eventually become The Birthday Party |
| Tigran Petrosian | ... iet final, URS-ch26 at Tbilisi 1959, finishing half a point behind champion | , in equal second place with Tal, on 12½/19. Soon after Spassky notched a ... |
| Steve Allen | ... . Next to the door were framed pictures of Letterman, Carson, Jack Paar and | , each of whose groundbreaking late-night shows originated from studio 6A ... |
| Saint Patrick | ... w lost) biography about this saint, a unique collection of traditions about | , as well as a section describing events in the North of England in the si ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581, | granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ... |
| Machiavelli | ... of the Courtier) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while | cast a jaundiced eye on "la verita effetuale delle cose"the actual truth o ... |
| Guénonist | ... ring the Islamic Revolution. In the 1980s, his ideas evolved from a kind of | neo-traditionalism to a synthesis of anarchism and Situationist ideas with ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | | objected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ... |
| Stephen King | The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by | , published for the mass market by Viking in 1987. Previously, it was publ ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from | 's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ... |
| Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by | . The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King nove ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sergei Vasilyev | The 1958 Soviet film , directed by the highly regarded | , also featured roles for Reed and Bryant |
| Evan Goldberg | ... cript by Dan Fogelman. Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn will produce it with | . Executive producers include Streisand, Rogen, Fogelman, and David Elliso ... |
| Gary Soto | ... Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, | , Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... ented by the US-based Shakespeare Guild. Past winners include Ian McKellen, | , Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and Judi Denc |
| Jonathan Edwards | ... on his own, reaching out to people who normally did not attend church. Like | , he developed a style of preaching that elicited emotional responses from ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... m was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and | 's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical rec ... |
| Frederick the Great | During the lifetime of | , Blücher was unable to return to the army, but after the king's death in ... |
| Mabel Normand | ... directors. During the filming of his tenth picture he clashed with director | , and was almost released from his contract. Sennett kept him on, however, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ana Castillo | ... a, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, | , Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Viktor Korchnoi | ... next Soviet final, URS-ch27 at Leningrad, with 10/19, as fellow Leningrader | scored his first Soviet title victory. Spassky travelled to Argentina, whe ... |
| Jason Gould | ... tt Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, | , who would go on to star as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides. Her ... |
| Kevin J. Anderson | ... ba's palace is also the main setting in Tales From Jabba's Palace edited by | , as well as a playable area in the video games and . The palace was origi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Robinson | Gielgud is referenced in | 's 1986 cult film Withnail and I. In an early scene in which Withnail is c ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of | 's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | ... role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by legendary Japanese director | |
| Jeff Vintar | Syfy is developing an adaptation of Eyes of the Dragon. Michael Taylor and | will pen the script, with Taylor and Bill Haber as executive producers |
| John Rechy | ... Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, | , Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alici ... |
| Gaston Bachelard | ... r, properly Marxist texts, borrowing a term from the philosopher of science | . His essay "Marxism and Humanism" is a strong statement of anti-humanism ... |
| 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 ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... l of multiple causality in political situations (an idea closely related to | 's concept of ) |
| John Dryden | ... iers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and | .) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually n ... |
| Rob Corddry | ... e sister, Stacy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, | , H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, ... |
| Frank Darabont | | has secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel. He said that h ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... . He proposes to teach people to lie well. Similar lists and systems are in | 's Peri Bathos and John Gay and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Als ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
| Borislav Ivkov | ... passky won at Belgrade 1964 with an undefeated 13/17, ahead of Korchnoi and | . He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as Nikolai Krogius won |
| Catullus | ... poetry; for example, Homer incorporated Nightingales into his Odyssey, and | used a sparrow as an erotic symbol in his Catullus 2. The relationship bet ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. | believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ... |
| H. Jon Benjamin | ... cy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, | , Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and A ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ... cked soldiers during World War I. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet | . He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition ... |
| Gildas | ... redate the Historia. It was clearly a historical battle, being described by | , who does not mention the name of the Britons' leader (he does, however, ... |
| Peter David | ... by Kevin Smith) and the final Supergirl story arc, "Many Happy Returns" (by | ), revealed that the Spectre (Hal Jordan) is aware of the Crisis on Infini ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts. | saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ... |
| Michael Azerrad | ... radio interview for a 20th anniversary special edition, with liner notes by | |
| Edmund Spenser | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached | , Michael Drayton, John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations ... |
| John Gay | ... lie well. Similar lists and systems are in Alexander Pope's Peri Bathos and | and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Also in 1713, Arbuthnot was mad ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator | and directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aunt of | (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and w ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Mamet | ... ite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter and directed by American playwright | ; Gielgud died mere weeks after production was completed at the age of 96 ... |
| Ellie Kemper | ... comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, | , Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly als ... |
| Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... tal agencies that administer a jurisdiction's prisons and parole system" in | , editor, Black's Law Dictionary, 9th ed., West Group, 2009, ISBN 0-314-19 ... |
| Kevin Murphy | ... its neighboring suburb Oak Park, former Mystery Science Theater 3000 actor | grew up in River Forest. Famed radio commentator Paul Harvey also resided ... |
| René Descartes | ... as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, | , who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because the ... |
| Nikolai Krogius | ... of Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov. He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as | won |
| Denis de Rougemont | ... untryman. Included among the reviewers was Consuelo's Swiss writer paramour | , who also modeled for a painting of the Little Prince lying on his stomac ... |
| Michael Drayton | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, | , John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, ... |
| James Komack | ... s Miyoshi Umeki, who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, | (one of the series' producers) as Norman Tinker (Tom's pseudo-hippie, quir ... |
| Hippocrates | ... decline or loss of senses and movement, numbness", a term used by Homer and | . Narcosis produces a state similar to alcohol intoxication or nitrous oxi ... |
| John Broome | ... with a radically overhauled Flash character by writers Robert Kanigher and | with penciler Carmine Infantino |
| 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 ... |
| Ashley Montagu | | notes the following neotenous traits in women relative to men: more delica ... |
| John Wesley | ... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman | and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ... |
| Bobby Moynihan | ... h as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, | , Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently app ... |
| John Milton | ... ey's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, | , and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear all ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... rovided him with a house. It was this house that hosted the meetings of the | , which had as its members Harley (now Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vico ... |
| Phillis Wheatley | Whitefield is remembered as one of the first to preach to the enslaved. | wrote a poem in his memory after he died. In an age when crossing the Atla ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benjamin of Tudela | In 1170, | visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St.Abram de Bron. ... |
| Samuel Wesley (the Younger) | ... he younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman | , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel ... |
| Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of | 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which led to the use of the term as a ... |
| Newton | Following the classical dynamics of | and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ... |
| Justin Theroux | Adam Kesher ( | ) is established in the first portion of the film as a "vaguely arrogant", ... |
| Ernest Renan | ... ntity is not ethnicity. This civic concept of nationalism is exemplified by | in his lecture in 1882 "What is a Nation?", where he defined the nation as ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... 558. Russell Cave was declared a National Monument in May 1961 by President | . The Monument consists of of land donated by the National Geographic Soci ... |
| Miguel Najdorf | ... of 14.5/20. Spassky shared 2nd–3rd at Havana 1962 with 16/21, behind winner | . He placed joint 5th–6th at Yerevan 1962, URS-ch30, with 11.5/19. At Leni ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of | , he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given m ... |
| Euler | Following the classical dynamics of Newton and | , the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally ap ... |
| Allan W. Eckert | ... Revolutionary War. This story, popularized in historical novels written by | in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama cele ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow. The couple also stayed in Quebec, Canada for fiv ... |
| Casiri | ... patron, al-Mansour. Abulfaraj (Historia Compendosia Dynastiarum, p.291) and | claim that the cause was eating beans. Another attributes the cause of his ... |
| Edwin Justus Mayer | The movie was adapted by | and Bess Meredyth from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by Clar ... |
| Walt Whitman | ... r the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or | |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that U.S. Senator | of New York had just been shot. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaot ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... dez de Avilés sighted land on August 28, 1565. As this was the feast day of | , the territory was named San Agustín. The Spanish sailed through the St. ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... Though Reid proclaimed he was a soldier of God (Allah) under the command of | , Judge Young declared: Reid reportedly demonstrated a lack of remorse and ... |
| Bess Meredyth | The movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and | from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by Clarence Brown |
| Woody Allen | Along with directors | and Francis Ford Coppola, in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend | , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ... |
| Clarence Brown | ... Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by | |
| Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, John Westbrook provi ... |
| Ernest Renan | ... with liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. | and John Stuart Mill are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. L ... |
| Edward Sheldon | ... movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the play by | . It was directed by Clarence Brown |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Along with directors Woody Allen and | , in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments in the portmanteau film ... |
| David Axelrod | ... t proper procedures were always followed," Daley admitted a few days later. | , a Democratic political consultant whose clients included Daley, contribu ... |
| Ingmar Bergman | ... es characterized film-making in Germany. The movies of the Swedish director | reached a new level of expression in motion pictures like Cries and Whispe ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
| Alex de Waal | ... ed for the 1983–5 famine, this figure has been challenged by famine scholar | . In a major study, de Waal criticized the United Nations for being "remar ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... lotic elite. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. In 1947 | , the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became ... |
| Amy Poehler | ... ent episodes. Several years before joining the cast of Saturday Night Live, | often appeared as a regular in many sketches, though she was best remember ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tertullian | The Christian apologist | wrote that as a prelude to the Mithraic initiation ceremony, the initiate ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... es of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. Ernest Renan and | are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. Liberal nationalists o ... |
| Roseanne Barr | ... nced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, Madonna and | . Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character on stage with St ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of | 's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ... |
| Harry Reasoner | ... irst with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, | . He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular ad ... |
| William Prynne | ... nother ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, | , possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different ... |
| Peter Jackson | In | 's films (2002) and (2003), Treebeard is a combination of a large animatro ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... 978 in the famous Camp David Accords after negotiations hosted by president | . In accordance with the treaty, Israeli forces withdrew gradually from Si ... |
| Ernest Renan | ... nationalism. Membership of the civic nation is considered voluntary, as in | 's "daily referendum" formulation in What is a Nation?. Civic-national ide ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | In 1738 | published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of ga ... |
| Didymus of Alexandria | ... ks, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from | and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete). In the work, t ... |
| Hippocratic | ... imes into Latin and other European languages. Its lack of dogmatism and its | reliance on clinical observation show Razi's medical methods. For example |
| Ernest Renan | ... e because they regarded it as a diabolical imitation of their own religion. | , in 1882, set forth a vivid depiction of two rival religions: "if the gro ... |
| Lessing | ... aelis, he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of | , Carsten Niebuhr, and many foreign scholars |
| Rob Riggle | ... essed teenage sister, Stacy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, | , Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, ... |
| 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 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... of a prominent game show, an excerpt from the Count from Sesame Street, or | 's remark that walking is a good form of exercise |
| Victor Hugo | ... nken main road and then routed. , note 18 An episode famously used later by | in Les Miserables. The sunken lane acted as a trap which funnelled the fli ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
| Frank Borman | ... Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 ( | , Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
| Julius Schwartz | ... bly the "real world" and used to explain how real-life DC staffers (such as | ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth. If something ... |
| John Wesley | In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike | , was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ... |
| John Milton | ... thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly | , and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts ... |
| Robert Crumb | ... ings, and even a similar Keep On Truckin' figure later to be made famous by | . His characters were frequently seen chasing butterflies; when asked why ... |
| John Ostrander | ... ven his own series, this time written by writer and former theology student | , who chose to re-examine the Spectre in his aspects as both the embodied ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leo Strauss | ... elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian economist Ludwi ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on | 's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... lioz's treatise on orchestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, | , Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Ni ... |
| Martin Luther | ... nvader. They found this in the teaching of the Protestant reformers such as | . The spread of Protestantism in the country was aided by its large ethnic ... |
| Leonard Woolf | Virginia Woolf's husband | said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, "there is something of Lyt ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nipsey Russell | ... as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, | , Abe Vigoda, James Lipton, Bob Saget and William Preston as the character ... |
| Tino Villanueva | The Chicano poet and writer | traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a th ... |
| Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
| Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio after | made a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy" |
| Paul Schrader | ... al Hollywood, Scorsese made a major return to personal film-making with the | -scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on Nikos Kazantzaki ... |
| Efim Geller | ... riumphing in the last game to win 6–4 (+4 =4 −2). Also at Riga, he defeated | with mating attacks, winning by 5½–2½ (+3 =5 −0). Then, in his Candidates' ... |
| 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 ... |
| Susan Seidelman | ... Freddy, Thurston Moore, Richard Kern, Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, | , Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn, and Nick Zedd. The soundtrack includes ... |
| John McCain | The trending Republican has continued since 2004. In 2008 | won the county with 67.7% of the vote. In 2010 Republican gubernatorial ca ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... rge Birthday present, which provoked tremendous approval. He also read from | 's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years |
| Deborah Tannen | ... e would object to their classification as "self-help" literature, as with " | 's denial of the self-help role of her books" so as to maintain her academ ... |
| Steven Spielberg | In another notable example, the finale of | 's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was edited to match the music of his long-ti ... |
| Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
| Bruce Jay Friedman | Also in 1973, he starred in Steambath, a play by author | , on PBS with Valerie Perrine and Jose Perez |
| Samuel Pepys | ... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification. | owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ... |
| Mark Richard | ... he screen adaption of the short story The Ice at the Bottom of the World by | , and it was to be directed by Kimberly Peirce and produced by Theron's co ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... the U.S. Between 1977 and 1979, it became more mainstream, as Kenny Rogers, | , Willie Nelson and Allman Brothers Band all scored hits which reached bot ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... rist. He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of | 's Amazing Stories |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
| Osama bin Laden | | held Hazmi and Mihdhar in high respect, with their experience fighting dur ... |
| Marv Wolfman | ... originally conceived to be a celebration of DC's 50th anniversary; however, | and Len Wein saw it as a chance to clean up DC's rather convoluted continu ... |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... chestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio ... |
| Stephen of Ripon | ... in 675. Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother, Æthelred. | 's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud mind, and insatia ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the Paul Schrader-scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on | 's controversial 1960 book, it retold the life of Christ in human rather t ... |
| Mikhail Tal | ... mines who will challenge the reigning world champion for the title) against | the legendary tactician (Tbilisi 1965), Spassky often managed to steer pla ... |
| Michael Holroyd | ... iration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out. | describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewi ... |
| Leonard J. Arrington | ... e Mountain Meadows massacre, which took place in Washington County in 1857. | reports that Brigham Young received a rider at his office on the same day. ... |
| James Lipton | ... Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, Nipsey Russell, Abe Vigoda, | , Bob Saget and William Preston as the character, Carl 'Oldy' Olsen, also ... |
| Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... obert Straker wrote that Mann had been “crucified by crusading sectarians.” | lamented “what seems the fatal waste of labor and life at Antioch.” Mann’s ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
| Sallust | ... id to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author | , which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian |
| Yehudi Menuhin | ... acking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by Eugène Ysaÿe. | , on the other hand, suggested that this might have been the result of his ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... from Alan Bennett's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years. | 's friendship with Gielgud was peppered with barely acknowledged competiti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lewis Arquette | ... the role; he had retired from acting and was replaced in a single scene by | . |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... chael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in | ' The Self-Condemned. In Wyndham Lewis' novel The Apes of God, he is seen ... |
| Burroughs | ... and of course the old standbys - Merritt I always particularly liked - and | . |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... A's talent agency—which represented most of the industry's biggest names—by | 's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent age ... |
| Tim Conway | In 1975, he co-starred with | and Don Knotts in the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang, which was well ... |
| Graham Parker | ... tense, aggressive energy of punk" such as Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and | . In the U.S., the first New Wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated w ... |
| George Whitefield | ... joined in 1729 soon becoming its leader and moulding it to his own notions. | also joined this group. After graduating with a Masters' in classical lang ... |
| Ibn Battuta | ... ulers encouraged. But even in the 14th century, the North African traveller | visiting Qatif around 1331, found it inhabited by Arabs whom he described ... |
| John Bunyan | ... edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, John Milton, and | , but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear allusions to Piers P ... |
| Vasily Smyslov | ... al the same year. At Amsterdam, he tied for 1st–4th places, along with Tal, | , and Bent Larsen, on 17/23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... e inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis' The Self-Condemned. In | ' novel The Apes of God, he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, ... |
| Meja Mwangi | ... ce, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and | . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini (1981), ... |
| Sheridan Morley | ... onstage, whispering "Come on, John darling, they won't boo me." Biographer | writes that while Gielgud never denied being homosexual, he always tried t ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... oldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to | 's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture |
| Barack Obama | In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for | , visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by | 's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ... |
| Jim Jarmusch | ... he East Village. Filmmakers included: Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, James Nares, | , Vivienne Dick, Scott B and Beth B, and Seth Tillett, and led to the Cine ... |
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | ... ountry. As a consequence, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as | and Meja Mwangi. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's literary works include Caitani Muthar ... |
| Matt Besser | ... er, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, | , Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sket ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | The tower story is repeated and embellished by | in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, sayin ... |
| Bent Larsen | ... Amsterdam, he tied for 1st–4th places, along with Tal, Vasily Smyslov, and | , on 17/23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and Lajos Portisch, t ... |
| Sergio Leone | ... composer Philip Glass's music. Similarly, the relationship between director | and composer Ennio Morricone was such that the finale of The Good, the Bad ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... to the Chatahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, President | made a campaign whistle stop in Dunwoody along the way to Roswell, Georgia |
| Nicholas de Jongh | ... e 'Gielgud case' of 1953, above, was dramatised by critic turned playwright | in the play Plague Over England and performed at the Finborough, a small L ... |
| György Lukács | ... uenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, | and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by ... |
| Max Horkheimer | Weber has influenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, | , György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought wer ... |
| Thomas Parnell | ... Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vicount Bolingbroke), Pope, Gay, Swift, and | . According to all the members of the Club, Arbuthnot was the one who cont ... |
| Andrew Daly | ... min, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and | also frequently appeared as sketch actors on the show for several years. T ... |
| Don Tapscott | ... g of new patterns of thought and feeling. As business strategy communicator | puts it, "The design industry is something done to us. I'm proposing we ea ... |
| Bede | ... itain from northwestern Europe, starting in the early 5th century. The monk | , who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended fr ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of Antoninus Pius and under | . By this time all the key elements of the mysteries were in place |
| Alan Moore | ... with the tagline that "the DC Universe will never be the same." Along with | 's Watchmen and Frank Miller's , it contributed to the commercial and crea ... |
| Duarte Barbosa | ... ersian Gulf. Reputedly, the first Portuguese traveller to visit Bahrain was | in 1485 |
| Albert Einstein | ... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was | 's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906 |
| Borislav Ivkov | ... h Tal, Vasily Smyslov, and Bent Larsen, on 17/23, with all four, along with | and Lajos Portisch, thus qualifying for the newly created Candidates' Matc ... |
| Noël Coward | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, | and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always been a popular ... |
| Michael Jackson | Along with the 1987 | music video "Bad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to t ... |
| Diego Durán | ... ifferent city wards and markets – often accompanied by large-scale betting. | , an early Spanish chronicler, said that "these wretches... sold their chi ... |
| Robert Byrd | Image:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senator | of West Virgini |
| Scott Crary | In 2004, | made a documentary, Kill Your Idols, including such No Wave bands as Suici ... |
| Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
| Abraham Fraunce | ... edge of the poem is indirect. Francis Meres later repeated Webbe's remarks. | mentions Piers Plowman, but he merely repeats the identifying features pri ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
| Walker Percy | The self-help world has become the target of parodies. | 's odd genre-busting Lost in the Cosmos has been described as "a parody of ... |
| Robert Smigel | ... s. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (created and voiced by original head writer | ) began as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce B ... |
| Paul Keres | ... inct advantage in beating many top grandmasters. In the 1965 cycle, he beat | at Riga 1965 with careful strategy, triumphing in the last game to win 6–4 ... |
| Kevin Smith | The 2001 Green Arrow story "Quiver" (written by | ) and the final Supergirl story arc, "Many Happy Returns" (by Peter David) ... |
| Fred Schepisi | ... of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the | movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly ... |
| Stanley Morgan | Nassau is also heavily featured in the novel Tobin in Paradise by | . The story is centered around the visit by the main character, Russ Tobin ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Silver Spurs Arena has been host to many acts, ranging from Hilary Duff and | to an annual rodeo event. Jehovah's Witnesses also use The Silver Spurs Ar ... |
| Paracelsus | ... nd's oldest university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, | , Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzs ... |
| Hitler | ... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-born | was vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ... |
| Robert Rossen | ... ad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to the much admired | film The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman. Although typically visually assu ... |
| Mikołaj Rej | ... ng most important Protestants of the Commonwealth, there are such names, as | , Marcin Czechowic, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny |
| Brockhaus | Lieber presented the idea of an American encyclopedia, based on | ' Conversations-Lexikon, to Carey, Lea & Carey of Philadelphia in January ... |
| Michelangelo | ... orkshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of Benvenuto Cellini and | ; and recounts that |
| Barack Obama | ... t headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and | ), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, un ... |
| Mickey Deans | ... nhagen during March 1969. She married her fifth and final husband, musician | , at Chelsea Register Office, London, on March 15, 1969, her divorce from ... |
| Derek Jarman | ... Baldwin and Mel Ramsden), sculpture/printing artist Victor Burgin, painter | , painter Stephen McKenna and sculptor Bill Woodrow |
| Frank S. Nugent | | of The New York Times called it, "a grand adventure film, magnificently st ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... e and a lover of hers, took Fuentes' statement literally and suggested that | wrote Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote, both claims which are considere ... |
| Ovid | ... no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the first century BC. | in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the ... |
| Gene Hackman | On January 13, 2012, actor | was struck by a pickup truck while riding his bicycle in Islamorada |
| Benvenuto Cellini | ... upil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of | and Michelangelo; and recounts that |
| John Hughes | ... f Universal Pictures. Tanen was behind Universal hits such as Animal House, | 's Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club |
| Jon Halliday | Jung Chang and | claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the Long Ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | ... e for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by John Pope-Hennessy | , a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven b ... |
| Polly Adler | ... involved in prostitution. In her memoirs, well-known New York society madam | scoffed at the idea of Luciano being part of an extensive prostitution rin ... |
| Gordon Lightfoot | ... edwagon's "Take It on the Run", The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", | 's "Carefree Highway", and Gin Blossoms' "Follow You Down" |
| Nick Park | ... gory, with six Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is | 's Wallace and Gromit with two wins so far |
| Samuel Pepys | ... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and | . However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ... |
| Hiroshi Ōnogi | ... Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as Macross screenwriter | and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they had a Mobile Suit Gun ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... arty. In 2012, he went on record on Fox News as supporting the candidacy of | for the Republican Presidential Nomination. In the same interview, he also ... |
| Charles Goren | ... ard American" was the label given to the bridge bidding system developed by | in the 1940s. This system was the first to employ the point-count method t ... |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... l-known televangelists began during this period, most notably Oral Roberts, | , Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson. Most devel ... |
| H. Emilie Cady | ... t when people do this, they experience a more fulfilling and abundant life. | 's 1896 book Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Chr ... |
| Barack Obama | ... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently | . The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ... |
| John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... fically aimed at regulating animal testing. The legislation was promoted by | , who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on v ... |
| John Cage | Stockhausen, along with | , is one of the few avant-garde composers to have succeeded in penetrating ... |
| Pliny | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, | , Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ... |
| Piotr Skarga | ... ing the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa, who was under strong influence of | and other Jesuits. After the Deluge, and other wars of the mid-17th centur ... |
| Jung Chang | | and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to esca ... |
| Aeschylus | ... amous religious events of the ancient Greek religion, and the birthplace of | , one of the three great tragedians of antiquity. Today Eleusina is a majo ... |
| Laura Z. Hobson | ... ct, Crossfire, which was also released the same year. The film was based on | 's 1947 novel of the same name |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay | ... g But My Own." Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, | , Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize wa ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Kirby | In 1998, he was posthumously awarded a Harvey Award and entered into the | Hall of Fame; a year later, he was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of ... |
| Wagner | ... portant characters, events, ideas or objects, an idea often associated with | 's use of leitmotif. These may be played in different variations depending ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... , he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici, a sculptor friend of | . Among his earliest works was a Saint Jerome in wax, made for Giuliano de ... |
| Junji Ito | Spirals was also the source of material for Japanese horror manga artist | for his manga Uzumaki about a town obsessed with spirals, which was adapte ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with Mary Pickford, | and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape the growing power c ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, | , and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... : Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director ( | ). The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the s ... |
| Josephus | ... Simon, Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to | , John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand t ... |
| Michael Wilson | ... writing duo, with Jim Taylor, or writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. | also won twice, but because he was blacklisted the second award was given ... |
| Bacchylides | ... rces, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets (Ibycus, | ) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative name for Atre ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... 1919, Chaplin co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape ... |
| Sidney Buchman | ... and, on January 12, 1937, reshot scenes involving the High Lama written by | , who declined screen credit for his work, which placed more emphasis on t ... |
| Jimmy Swaggart | On October 11, 1991 | was pulled over into an Indio gas station off Indio Blvd. Swaggart was wit ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... Ricky Martin were born in the city. Other notable residents include writers | and Tomas Blanco, award-winning actors Raúl Juliá and Benicio del Toro, an ... |
| Ibycus | ... ent sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( | , Bacchylides) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative ... |
| Alcuin | ... as quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, Bede, | - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus ... |
| Dion Fortune | In | 's novel The Winged Bull, the main character invokes the name of Iacchus w ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... ater in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. Jill Scott, | , Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wonder made guest ... |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
| Kevin Smith | ... Thing (where he meets Matthew Cable). Morpheus also appears briefly during | 's run on Green Arrow in a flashback showing him in Alexander Burgess' bas ... |
| Robert Burton | The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from | , whose The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) treats the subject from both a li ... |
| Christopher Morley | ... hen it moved to CBS in 1934. In 1935, it became the Socony Sketchbook, with | and the Johnny Green orchestra |
| Bede | ... mmar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, | , Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanu ... |
| Jules Verne | ... the San Diego ComiCon in 1978. In 1982, at Skycon II, he was awarded the " | Award for Life-time achievement. |
| Rick Veitch | ... ant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a | -authored issue of Swamp Thing (where he meets Matthew Cable). Morpheus al ... |
| Erich von Falkenhayn | ... of surprise; they did not expect such a big attack by the British. General | , agitated by the additional losses in one sector of the Somme front, sack ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius. | and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ... |
| Alvin Sargent | ... (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, | , and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Mary Baker Eddy | ... studying spiritual healing, and being influenced by Emma Curtis Hopkins and | (the founder of Christian Science) |
| Persius | ... ero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and | |
| Irving Thalberg | ... went to the Mayer Company on Mission Road to meet with the Vice-President, | . Shearer was momentarily thrown by their confused introduction, but soon ... |
| Bob Odenkirk | ... of several now-prolific comics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, | , Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his positio ... |
| Constantine VII | ... Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future | , Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have becom ... |
| Vin Scully | ... again in 1956 – was inducted as a manager having never managed the Dodgers. | is permanently honored in the Hall's "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit as a resu ... |
| Robert Smigel | ... e show the writing staff consisted of several now-prolific comics including | as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamat ... |
| Jackie Chan | ... s of kickboxing were introduced in 1993, based on 1980s Seidokaikan karate. | and Jet Li are prominent movie figures who have been responsible for promo ... |
| Emma Curtis Hopkins | ... sulted in the Fillmores studying spiritual healing, and being influenced by | and Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science) |
| Fulton J. Sheen | ... broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Another television preacher of note was | , who successfully switched to television in 1951 after two decades of pop ... |
| Livy | ... ence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, | and Persius |
| Leo VI the Wise | ... isfavor after Photios' dismissal in 886 and retired to a monastery. Emperor | retrieved him from the monastery and made him mystikos, a dignity designat ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... e is also reflected in works of literature. For example, he is mentioned in | 's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in Th ... |
| Mario Puzo | ... Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, | , Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Myrtle Fillmore | ... ounded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and | (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she be ... |
| 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 ... |
| John James Audubon | ... squirrels," probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s, | and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Qua ... |
| Adam Sandler | ... ds of thousands of people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like | and Madonna |
| Michael Choniates | ... nae. The town was the birthplace of the Byzantine Greek writers Nicetas and | |
| Jack Wyrtzen | ... began in the 1930s, it did not become widespread until after World War II. | and Percy Crawford switched to TV broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Anot ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... nclude: George Seaton, Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), | , Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Ovid | ... m, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, | , Livy and Persius |
| Sarah, Duchess of York | ... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales and | were seen in the polo clubs |
| George Lucas | ... I and III, which brought in Star Wars fans from around the world, including | . Also, Indianapolis hosted Super Bowl 46 in 2012, bringing hudreds of tho ... |
| Robert J. Serling | ... President's Plane Is Missing (1973, a made-for-television production of the | novel of the same name), Nashville (1975), Close Encounters of the Third K ... |
| Porphyry | ... ppers wrote the nominative form of the god's name as "Mithras". However, in | 's Greek text De Abstinentia («Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων»), there is a reference ... |
| Isabella Rossellini | He was married to actress | from 1979 to their divorce in 1983. He then married producer Barbara De Fi ... |
| Robert Bolt | ... 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, | (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, ... |
| Herodotus | ... death Darius I of Persia succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian | , Darius wanted to know more about Asia. He wished to know where the "Indu ... |
| Statius | ... ext to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, | , Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Jimmy Carter | The act jump-started the peace process. United States President | invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ... |
| Micky Moody | ... ake. At this time, the band was made up of David Coverdale, Bernie Marsden, | , Neil Murray and drummer David "Duck" Dowle with keyboardist Brian Johnst ... |
| Paula Deen | ... s interested in performing on Dancing with the Stars, on the condition that | also appear |
| Rex Stout | ... is the imagined assassin of Medgar Evers, was published in The New Yorker. | used the event as a plot device in his civil rights-themed mystery A Right ... |
| George Seaton | ... ecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: | , Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppol ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... tational son from the scene. Louis attended a lunch with Haile Selassie and | . The conversation turned to fossils and Haile wanted to know why none had ... |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | The first person to win twice in this category is | , who won the award in two consecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win ... |
| Julia Cameron | ... raine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer | in 1976; they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who is an actres ... |
| Otis Ferguson | Less enthusiastic was | , who in his review for National Board of Review Magazine observed, "This ... |
| Thomas Churchyard | ... rted by the contemporary proliferation of texts that responded to it; e.g.: | 's. The poem's obscure record may have had something to do with Crowley's ... |
| Sallust | ... l, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, | , Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Fulton J. Sheen | ... o Pulpit on NBC received 4,000 letters weekly and Roman Catholic archbishop | received between 3,000–6,000 letters weekly. The total radio audience for ... |
| Julius J. Epstein | Philip G. Epstein and | were the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Gol ... |
| John Stow | ... me from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions. In 1580 | attributed Piers Plowman to "John Malvern," a name that surfaces again wit ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Black Speech is a fictional language created by | |
| Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | ... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by | , who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... on Billboard's charts for that year were Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel" | ;, "I Walk the Line"; and Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| Albert Einstein | The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. | wrote |
| Mack David | ... The Trouble with Harry (1955, "Flagging the Train to Tuscaloosa"; words by | ); Never Love a Stranger (1958, score); The Pusher (1960, score); Clean an ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... 1983, he made his second onscreen appearance with fellow theatrical knights | and Ralph Richardson (following Olivier's own Richard III) in a television ... |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... ædia Britannicas Great Books of the Western World, while the Russian author | called it "the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking". It is in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philostephanus | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny, | ) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally it was imagined ... |
| Pete Townshend | According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, | once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera " ... |
| Jon Glaser | ... s, Fan-tastic Guy, Clive Clemmons, Frankenstein, Ira, Slipnut Brian, etc.), | (Segue Sam, Pubes, Awareness Del, Wrist Hulk, Ahole Ronald, Gorton's Fishe ... |
| Rosalynn Carter | ... is work with the parade, Gacy met and was photographed with then First Lady | on May 6, 1978. Rosalynn Carter signed one photo: "To John Gacy. Best wish ... |
| Charles Mackay | ... evous spirit that makes noises unexplainable except by supernatural causes. | , in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), ... |
| Sally Field | ... the 1978 film Hooper which starred Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, and | , and 1981's appearance in The Cannonball Run. In 1980, he had a cameo in ... |
| David Samuels | ... tion to legally (State level only) grow up to 99 plants in Humboldt County. | of The New Yorker describes the county as "the heartland of high-grade mar ... |
| Whoopi Goldberg | ... th and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and Alec Baldwin, respectively | ;played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens, Jr. |
| 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 ... |
| Michael A. Stackpole | ... quadron" (rather, the "Red Squadron" designation is used). The , written by | and published by Dark Horse Comics, were the first works of Star Wars lite ... |
| Samuel Wesley | ... nglish leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet | , the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clerg ... |
| Richard Rodgers | ... a castle to collect a debt and is mistaken for a baron. Featuring songs by | and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help o ... |
| Ingmar Bergman | ... they saw the films or not." He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, | , Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his car ... |
| Brian Stack | ... hole Guy, Bulletproof Legs Guy, Adrian "Raisin" Foster, S&M Lincoln, etc.), | (Hannigan the Traveling Salesman, Artie Kendall the Ghost Crooner, The Int ... |
| Philip G. Epstein | ... e the first to win for adapting their own work, for The Life of Emile Zola. | and Julius J. Epstein were the first siblings to win in this category, for ... |
| Maya Angelou | In March 2008 | stated that she planned to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Ch ... |
| G. Stanley Hall | ... July 1892 at Clark University by a group of 26 men. Its first president was | . There are currently 56 divisions in the APA, and it is affiliated with 6 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed | ) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ... |
| Matt Hoverman | ... Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, | , author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
| 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 ... |
| Tommy Blacha | ... omics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., | and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his position as head writer of the sho ... |
| Mary Tyler Peabody | ... st 1, 1832; His grief over her death never fully subsided. He later married | |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | ... have covered his songs, including Sammy Davis, Jr. Irish singer-songwriter | and American singer-songwriters like John Mellencamp an |
| Victoria Moran | ... Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author | , Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
| Dino Stamatopoulos | ... obert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and | . Smigel left his position as head writer of the show in 1995 to pen sever ... |
| 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 |
| Axayacatl | ... 16th century Spanish missionary and historian, tells that the Aztec emperor | played Xihuitlemoc, the leader of Xochimilco, wagering his annual income a ... |
| Alec Baldwin | ... on in federal court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and | , respectively; Whoopi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed b ... |
| Oprah Winfrey | ... President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by | . In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon Secada and Diana Ross gave musical performa ... |
| Louis C.K. | ... w-prolific comics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, | , Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his position as head wr ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... censed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, | , Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
| Alexander Payne | ... Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | also won twice, but as part of either a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, or w ... |
| George Friedman | ... Peace Treaty, the first ever between Israel and an Arab state. According to | , the war gave the Israelis increased respect for the Egyptian military an ... |
| Satyajit Ray | ... ince, whether they saw the films or not." He has also cited filmmakers like | , Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major infl ... |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( | ) |
| James Agee | ... ights has been praised for its mixture of comedy and sentimentality. Critic | , for example, wrote in Life magazine in 1949 that the final scene in City ... |
| Rob Reiner | The 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by | , tells the story of the 1994 retrial of Beckwith, in which prosecutor DeL ... |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino | ... nly one episode out of the 43 episode will not be dubbed, at the request of | . Bandai will release the TV series in two sets in summer of 2011. The fir ... |
| Larry McMurtry | ... with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | is the only person who has won (for Brokeback Mountain) for adapting someo ... |
| Moses | ... rew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to | and describes the construction of the menorah as follows |
| Richard Wagner | ... lowing Olivier's own Richard III) in a television miniseries about composer | . In 1996 he played a wizard in the TV adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. G ... |
| Richard M. Sudhalter | ... r suggested something new and significant in jazz, according to biographers | and Philip R. Evans |
| Chuck Norris | ... ction stars with martial arts background, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and | |
| Ann Hui | Anshan was the birthplace of | (born 1947), a Hong Kong-based film director, one of the most critically a ... |
| Bette Davis | ... encies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, | , and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... um's year-long delay and unsuccessful release, Lou Reed's relationship with | grew tense until Reed finally fired Warhol as manager in favor of Steve Se ... |
| Wally Amos | ... ll known persons affiliated with Unity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, | , Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schne ... |
| Denis Piramus | ... d his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. A contemporary of Marie, the English poet | , mentions in his Life of Saint Edmund the King, written in around 1180, t ... |
| Bill Gates | ... oele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was designed by Greg Norman. | was married on the 12th hole tee-box at The Challenge at Manele |
| Ernst Lubitsch | ... r the studio. She was rewarded for this consistent success by being cast in | 's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, her first prestige production, wi ... |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
| Andy Blitz | ... nsy the half-man/half-pansy, Joe's Bartender, Todd the Tiny Guy, etc.), and | (Awful Ballgame Chanter, Vin Diesel's brother Leonard Diesel, Slipnut Andy ... |
| Ruth Warrick | ... ity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, Wally Amos, Licensed Unity Teacher | , Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, aut ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | ... reed with that paper's editorial criticisms of Wisconsin Republican Senator | for his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. Through Capital Newspap ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... alow of Mary Pickford at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, | , Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Dolores del Río, Gloria Swanson and D.W. ... |
| Jack Nicklaus | ... ons resort. "The Challenge at Manele" borders the ocean and was designed by | . "The Experience at Koele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was d ... |
| Mario Puzo | ... third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men. | is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two sep ... |
| Harold C. Schonberg | American music critic and journalist | wrote that the operas "open up a delightful new world, the world of the Ru ... |
| Kevin Dorff | ... , Wrist Hulk, Ahole Ronald, Gorton's Fisherman, Jeremy, Slipnut Jon, etc.), | (Coked-up Werewolf, Jesus Christ, Mansy the half-man/half-pansy, Joe's Bar ... |
| John Lydgate | ... ngland" as a possible alternative, and Henry Peacham attributed the poem to | in 1622. Except for Crowley and Francis Meres (who simply cribs Webbe) Wil ... |
| Lorenz Hart | ... a debt and is mistaken for a baron. Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and | , it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwrite ... |
| Henry Peacham | ... 4. Wood also supplied "Robertus de Langland" as a possible alternative, and | attributed the poem to John Lydgate in 1622. Except for Crowley and Franci ... |
| James Goldman | ... J. Epstein were the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. | and William Goldman are the first pair of siblings to win for separate fil ... |
| Bruce Lee | ... eached the peak of its popularity largely in part due to its greatest icon, | |
| Moses | ... ancient lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by | in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Pickford | On 29 March 1929 at the bungalow of | at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, N ... |
| Samuel Wesley | Charles Wesley was the son of Susanna Wesley and | . He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where his father was rect ... |
| Luis Muñoz Marín | ... ned and approved the conditions established by . On July 25, 1952, Governor | proclaimed that the Constitution of Puerto Rico was in effect |
| Johnny Cash | ... rmers retained popularity, however, such as the long-standing cultural icon | . The Bakersfield sound began in the mid to late 1950s when performers lik ... |
| William Goldman | ... e first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Goldman and | are the first pair of siblings to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Et ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... ted to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author | |
| Frederick II | ... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor | against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both | 's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the A ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... teristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, | , in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to th ... |
| Donald Crisp | Lost Horizon was adapted as a radio play starring Ronald Colman and | for the September 15, 1941 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater. Colman reprised ... |
| Niki Caro | Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film directed by | , based on the novel of the same name by Witi Ihimaera. The film stars Kei ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... d LP released in the US, "Happy Jack", their primary composer and guitarist | , is said to have "an interest in Stockhausen". Rick Wright and Roger Wate ... |
| Peter Jackson | ... Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting categories. | and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win in this category, for |
| William Wordsworth | ... Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – | – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Rydz-Śmigły | ... ken (one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal | ) |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | ... criticized the battlefield prowess of his opponent North Vietnamese General | . "Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary," Westmoreland told cor ... |
| Geoffrey S. Fletcher | ... n and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win in this category, for . | is the only African American to win in this category (for ); Fletcher is t ... |
| Tammy Bruce | ... ommitted suicide on April 7, 1982, following a break-up with her assistant, | |
| William Langland | It is now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by | , about whom little is known. This attribution of the poem to Langland res ... |
| Dante | ... or's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions. | was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing ... |
| Fran Walsh | Peter Jackson and | are the only married couple to win in this category, for |
| Witi Ihimaera | ... 02 drama film directed by Niki Caro, based on the novel of the same name by | . The film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a 12-year-ol ... |
| Leslie Halliwell | ... lt the film made no sense without the scene, and in later years film critic | described the missing 12 minutes as "vital. |
| 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 ... |
| Emma Thompson | ... k has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, Terms of Endearment. | is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
| Luis de Molina | ... 3–1546), Domingo de Soto (1494–1560), Martin de Azpilcueta (1491–1586), and | (1535–1600). Themes also existed in writers from the German historical sch ... |
| Charles Q. Murphy | ... atifah starred alongside Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, | , Jill Marie Jones, and Faizon Love. In 2008, Latifah appeared in the crim ... |
| Marcel Lefebvre | ... er, almost immediately a lightning rod for conservative attacks. Archbishop | cited this document as one of the fundamental reasons for his difficulties ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chomsky | | initially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ... |
| John Huston | ... the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and | have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting categories |
| Ptolemy's | ... o lived in the vicinity at that time. The town also appears as Mattiacum in | Geographia (2.10). The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Ge ... |
| George Washington | ... zation of the U.S. federal government upon the 1787 Constitution, President | wrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... 40, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from | . By that time, the town was mainly known for its able craftsmen: ceramist ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the | (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and A ... |
| George Crile III | ... ocumentary, shown on January 23, 1982, and prepared largely by CBS producer | , alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated Vie ... |
| Chris Rock | ... "one of the best rap songs ever crafted." The album was later ranked #21 on | 's list of the Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time. In September 2010 "Spott ... |
| Billy Bob Thornton | Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners | and John Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting ca ... |
| Matilda Betham | In 1816, the English poet | wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets, The Lay ... |
| Alicia Gaspar de Alba | ... n Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, | and Gloria Anzaldua |
| Erskine Caldwell | The author | was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist Lewis Grizzard grew up i ... |
| John Paul II | ... he limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and | continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of ove ... |
| Aristotle | ... The most noted of these was the Italian Ridolfo di Fioravante, nicknamed " | " because of his extraordinary knowledge, who built several cathedrals and ... |
| Sylvester Stallone | Cleve Dean - World Arm Wrestling Champion featured in | 's 1987 movie, Over the Top |
| Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
| Max Weinberg | ... as he played all of his comedy and commentary directly to the audience and | instead of towards Richter |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister | — on July 4, 1943 |
| Herman Rosenblat | ... e that satirized the recent scandal over a fake Holocaust memoir written by | . Since 2010 Terry Bradshaw has been hosting television shows produced by ... |
| John Wycliffe | ... hip was attributed by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to | and Geoffrey Chaucer, amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-centu ... |
| Galen | ... 304–258 BCE) were among the first to perform experiments on living animals. | , a physician in 2nd-century Rome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known ... |
| Bruce Lee | ... edia interest in the Chinese fighting systems, influenced by martial artist | . Jeet Kune Do, the system he founded, has its roots in Wing Chun, western ... |
| Steven Spielberg | In 1997, | shot various scenes for the film Amistad at Mystic Seaport |
| S. Parkes Cadman | ... f their popularity. One of the first ministers to use radio extensively was | , beginning in 1923. By 1928, Cadman had a weekly Sunday afternoon radio b ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... aphy of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. | noted to Joseph Spence that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... o celebrate this death. To honor the date that both Miguel de Cervantes and | died, UNESCO established April 23 as the International Day of the Book. Ho ... |
| Lafcadio Hearn | ... s considerably smaller than the Heike biwa (平家琵琶) played by the biwa hōshi. | related in his book "Mimi-nashi Hoichi" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese g ... |
| Aristotelian | ... during the 15th century, giving the Italian Renaissance a major boost. The | philosophical tradition was nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost ... |
| D. H. Lawrence | ... er. Among them were Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author | and his wife, Frieda von Richthofen. Artist Dorothy Brett came to Taos in ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to John Wycliffe and | , amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-century persons regarded ... |
| Andy Behrman | In Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by | , he describes his experience of mania as "the most perfect prescription g ... |
| Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | ... o the vacation course in African Studies. Doke supported the appointment of | as member of the staff, as he believed a native speaker was essential for ... |
| Lewis Grizzard | ... e author Erskine Caldwell was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist | grew up in the town |
| John F. Kennedy | In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President | 's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and | |
| George Berkeley | ... foundation of Isaac Newton's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of | , author of The Analys |
| Martin Luther | Although | personally believed and taught resurrection of the dead in combination wit ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... d down the opportunity and decided to pursue a career in acting. Stars like | agreed to appear on Late Night, which boosted audience awareness. Even Let ... |
| Ossie Davis | ... from style to living life to the fullest from his wise chauffeur Marshall ( | ). Joe purchases four top-of-the-line, handcrafted, waterproof steamer tru ... |
| Dagoberto Gilb | ... Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, | , Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Gloria Anzaldua |
| Peggy Noonan | Hart has called herself a fan of | and Ronald Reagan. Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – | – Andrew Youn |
| Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
| Aristotle | ... g are found in the writings of the Greeks in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. | (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) were among the ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... of prosperity and a determination to defeat the Axis powers. Prime Minister | and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were determined not to repeat the mist ... |
| Daniel Silva | ... er Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Tony Hillerman and | . Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don H ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... ub (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and | 's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scribl ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... rab Emirates. The sense of regional uncertainty was further heightened when | 's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 Persian Gulf War |
| Carol Ann Duffy | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate | who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ... |
| Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda | ... continuation of it by an unknown writer, who masqueraded under the name of | . Cervantes produced his own continuation, or Second Part, of Don Quixote, ... |
| Enki Bilal | ... Steve Zissou as did the Emmy winning 2005 TV film The Girl in the Café. In | 's Immortel (Ad Vitam) the song "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" is used. ... |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino | ... ume DVD set. There was no Japanese audio track included, apparently because | felt that the original mono mix was in too poor of a condition to use. How ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ramón Novarro | ... on tire of her "good girl" image, and took the advice of friend and co-star | to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell. There she took a se ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | ... best the other in a ruthless competition, was integrated into the works of | . The dark view of human nature also fit well with the Puritan view of the ... |
| Ma Jun | Environmental campaigners such as | have warned of the danger that water pollution poses to Chinese society. A ... |
| 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 ... |
| Max Weinberg | The show's house band was The Max Weinberg 7, led by drummer | , who also served as a sounding board for O'Brien on the show (more so aft ... |
| June Havoc | At the magazine, Phil is assigned a secretary, Elaine Wales ( | ), who reveals that she too is Jewish. She changed her name in order to ge ... |
| Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
| Wes Anderson | ... in the TV series 24 with "Ný batterí", and with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, | used "Starálfur" in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as did the Emmy win ... |
| Anthony Thwaite | ... Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – | – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – Jo ... |
| Richard Donner | ... oductions would add this to their upcoming projects with the possibility of | directing or Jackman himself making his directing debut |
| Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
| Anne Moody | ... ors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and | . In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, New York as p ... |
| Michael Markowitz | ... asky Csupo. In later years, the show running duties went to David Misch and | . Creator and Executive Producer, Everett Peck, was with the show for its ... |
| Peter Greenaway | ... e to satisfy his life's ambition by immortalising his Prospero on screen in | 's extremely offbeat version of The Tempest, a film called Prospero's Book ... |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and | . The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot (Gable), his wife (L ... |
| Richard Cohen | ... imes columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist | , sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, military author Jo ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... the Goths. According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor | battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortr ... |
| Melody Maker | ... red material recorded during the period 1979 to 1981 for British radio BBC. | dubbed the album "a perfect and classic nostalgia trip into the world of g ... |
| Howard Hawks | Test Pilot was written by | , Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The scr ... |
| Mahatma Gandhi | ... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with | . When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democrat | in the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ... |
| Gene Laufenberg | ... tive Producer, Everett Peck, was with the show for its entire run. Producer | was with the show for most of its run. Scott Wilk and Todd Yvega created o ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Lee Mahin | Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, | , Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The screenplay was largely based on an or ... |
| Soleil Moon Frye | ... campaign for Gain detergent with former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch co-star | |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... c March, was one of the most successful films of its year. An adaptation of | 's four hour experimental Strange Interlude (1932), which also starred Cla ... |
| 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. ... |
| Marc Seguin | ... riginal innovator of multiple fire-tubes is unclear, between Stephenson and | . It is known than Seguin visited Stephenson to observe Locomotion and tha ... |
| Robert Smigel | ... he show's humor also had a streak of biting sarcasm and irony. According to | , who served as head writer in 1993, the show's comedic approach was to fo ... |
| Francis Thompson | ... tes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – | – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner ... |
| Madonna | ... a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and | |
| Eudora Welty | ... rialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: | , James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers Col ... |
| John Bolitho | ... one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole) and, until his death in 2005, | in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, j ... |
| Mike Myers | ... cters, who were fans of less flamboyant hard rock and heavy metal. However, | insisted that the song fit the scene |
| 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 ... |
| Aeschylus | This story is the major plot line of | 's trilogy The Oresteia |
| Plato | | in his dialogue The Statesman tells a "famous tale" that "the sun and the ... |
| Barack Obama | ... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until | won about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ... |
| Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini | ... A few days before he signed, together with the President of Atomium Culture | , the European Manifesto of Atomium Culture |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgil | ... gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus." | , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specificall ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Walker | ... pi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, | and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, ... |
| Bobby Jones | ... odge. This lodge was well known and many celebrities stayed there including | , Babe Ruth and William Jennings Bryan |
| John Steinbeck | ... en is a 1939 film based on the novella of the same title by American author | . It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickfor ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Jenkin | ... n the first elections to the European Parliament, Mebyon Kernow's candidate | was able to attract almost ten percent of the vote in the Cornwall seat. M ... |
| Ritchie Calder | ... its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee were | , journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, King ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... n the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars | , Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele ... |
| Allan Jones | ... peratic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance". The newspaper's critic | heard only a "superficially impressive pastiche" of operatic styles |
| St. Paul | It does not appear that | had visited this city when he wrote his Epistle to the Colossians (, ), si ... |
| Galen | ... of vivisection, so did criticism and controversy. In 1655, the advocate of | ic physiology Edmund O'Meara said that "the miserable torture of vivisecti ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
| Barack Obama | ... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a | Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November |
| W. C. Fields | Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, | as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock ... |
| William Caxton | The most conspicuous omissions from | 's press were the Bible and Piers Plowman. Both may have been avoided for ... |
| Domingo de Soto | ... anish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria (1480 or 1483–1546), | (1494–1560), Martin de Azpilcueta (1491–1586), and Luis de Molina (1535–16 ... |
| Jean Chrétien | Although | was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and Bill ... |
| Earle Birney | ... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet | edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ... |
| James Cameron | ... he other members of its executive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist | , Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestl ... |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... r is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author | . An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones ... |
| Bob Dylan | The murder and subsequent trials caused an uproar. Musician | wrote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about Evers and his assass ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... osted many music concerts including David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, U2 and | |
| John MacArthur | ... criticism from other Christian ministers. For example, well-known preacher | published a number of articles in December 2009 that were highly critical ... |
| Chidiock Tichborne | ... homas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – | – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Roche ... |
| Merrill Denison | ... an affairs. Canadian historian Frank Underhill, quoting Canadian playwright | summed it up: "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas C ... |
| Jean Bodin | ... g Italy's Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, | , Colbert and other physiocrats precursors; and the Spanish School of Sala ... |
| Frank Wead | Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, | and Waldemar Young. The screenplay was largely based on an original story ... |
| Oprah Winfrey | ... al apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, | , and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
| Kate Hudson | The Campaign's General Secretary is | |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
| Duchamp | ... the Turner Prize is Turner", and concluding that it "should be re-named The | Award for the destruction of artistic integrity." The Guardian announced t ... |
| Zack de la Rocha | ... Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 | ;, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist; and Los ... |
| Pāṇini | Since the time of | , at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of ... |
| Alexander Ossovsky | ... Konstanty Gorski. Other students included the music critic and musicologist | , and the composer Lazare Saminsky |
| D. H. Lawrence | Inspired by the area and artists, | (1885–1930) painted while in Taos, signing his work "Lorenzo"; Nine of his ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... uter. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as | (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... ngs, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, Oprah Winfrey, and | are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
| Michael Moorcock | The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author | and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels |
| Walt Disney | ... one Gingold, with whom he shared the song "I Remember It Well", and several | films. The success of Gigi prompted Hollywood to give him an Academy Honor ... |
| Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski | ... f the Commonwealth, there are such names, as Mikołaj Rej, Marcin Czechowic, | and Symon Budny |
| Noam Chomsky | The formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by | , and also their classification as a special type of formal grammar (which ... |
| Sir Paul Hasluck | ... New South Wales in 1972. He was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1974. | was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
| Pliny | ... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger. | tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ... |
| Peter Collier | ... matter. In the spring of 1985, however, Horowitz and longtime collaborator | wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled, Goodbye to All That. Th ... |
| 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 |
| Peter Collier | In May 1989, Horowitz, Ronald Radosh, and | travelled to Poland for a conference in Kraków calling for the end of Comm ... |
| Vin Scully | | has called Dodgers games since 1950. His longtime partners were Jerry Dogg ... |
| Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
| Madonna | ... ls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest. At the prize ceremony, | gave him the prize and said, "At a time when political correctness is valu ... |
| Frederick II | ... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor | , and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ... |
| Louella Parsons | ... the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, | and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI |
| Marcel Pagnol | ... the drama Fanny with Leslie Caron and Charles Boyer, an updated version of | 's "Marseilles Trilogy." In 1962, he filmed Panic Button; (not released un ... |
| A. O. Scott | ... ell as some surreal scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative. | of The New York Times writes that while some might consider the plot an "o ... |
| Whoopi Goldberg | In the 1996 comedy "The Associate", | plays a business woman, Laurel Ayers, who creates a business associate, Ro ... |
| Michael de la Bédoyère | ... e Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, | , Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A.S.Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victo ... |
| Ruth Montgomery | ... columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, Louella Parsons and | , were carried by UPI |
| Saddam | ... as an “anti-American radical” who “routinely repeats the propaganda of the | regime” and, along with all of the 99 other professors in his book, , Horo ... |
| Ralph W. Sockman | ... 1930s include (years of radio broadcast shown): Bob Jones, Sr. (1927–1962), | (1928–1962), G. E. Lowman (1930–1965), The Lutheran Hour (1930–present), a ... |
| Cristina Ferrare | ... armon, on 31 May 1969 and divorced in 1972. His third marriage was to model | (with whom he had a daughter on 15 November 1977), ending in divorce in 19 ... |
| 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 |
| Barack Obama | ... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat | in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ... |
| Robert E. Sherwood | ... d an unusual role in the dark comedy Idiot's Delight, adapted from the 1936 | play. It was the last of Shearer's three films with Clark Gable, after A F ... |
| Orson Welles | ... Mycroft. This series was co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company. | appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem |
| Sulpicius Severus | ... contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler | , who characterized him (Chronica II.46) as noble and rich, a layman who h ... |
| Alane Ferguson | In the novel The Christopher Killer by | , the main setting is in Silverton |
| Eric Idle | ... Pythons' stay are said to include the owner, Donald Sinclair, having thrown | 's suitcase out of the window thinking it was a bomb. Cleese later describ ... |
| Helen Keller | ... ate complete with research laboratories, working with deaf people—including | —and continued to invent. Baddeck would be the site of his experiments wit ... |
| Lionel Barrymore | Jim loses his job with Drake ( | ) and takes a job with another outfit, flying a very experimental plane. A ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. M. Coetzee | ... Glass's Waiting for the Barbarians, written by University of Texas alumnus | ). The Austin Symphony Orchestra performs a range of classical, pop and fa ... |
| Douglas Day | ... ital, which Lowry was in the process of rewriting as a complete novel. With | , Lowry's first biographer, Lowry's widow also completed and edited the no ... |
| Joseph Spence | ... e difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. Alexander Pope noted to | that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play with, and even burn, hi ... |
| Seán MacEntee | ... change was the retirement of such political heavyweights as James Ryan and | , with Lynch taking over from the former as Minister for Finance. This app ... |
| John Belushi | ... Dylan, James Taylor and others). He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and | in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. Two of his earliest ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... t was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, | , Derek Jacobi, and Simon Russell Beale |
| Ira Gershwin | ... n the city. Theatrical composers and lyricists like the brothers George and | created a uniquely American theatrical style that used American vernacular ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | On May 20, 1927, at 7:52 a.m., | started his historic flight from nearby Roosevelt Field. Thirty-three hour ... |
| Richard Wagner | In March 1889, Angelo Neumann's traveling " | Theater" visited Saint Petersburg, giving four cycles of Der Ring des Nibe ... |
| George Tibbles | My Three Sons was created by | and produced by Don Fedderson Productions throughout the show's run, with ... |
| Johannes Theodor Baargeld | ... artistic pursuits in the years to come. Also in 1919 Ernst, social activist | , and a number of their friends and colleagues founded the Cologne Dada gr ... |
| Lewis Milestone | ... duced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by | . It was nominated for four Oscars. The musical score was by American comp ... |
| Robert Schuller | ... sed church services of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and | 's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, continue to attract larg ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... wer was an issue-free, feel-good animated cartoon with a soundtrack song by | called I Like Ike. For the first time the candidates' personal medical his ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... have lived after Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 AD), whom he mentions, and before | and Sopater (c. 500 AD), who quote him. His work makes no mention of Neopl ... |
| Chevy Chase | ... parodies (of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others). He was featured alongside | and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. Tw ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... rial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about | and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
| Mike Wallace | | interviewed Westmoreland for the CBS special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietna ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... of Lowry's final work in progress, La Mordida, and his screen adaptation of | 's Tender Is the Night have also been published |
| Gregory of Tours | ... his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings (see | ). He was an ascetic mystic and regarded the Christian life as continual i ... |
| Paul Bartel | ... accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by | . In this period there were also several directorial projects that never g ... |
| Cao Cao | ... histication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier Cao Zhi, son of | , is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His style and deep ... |
| Renan | ... uvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jésus (1872), a counterblast to | 's Vie de Jésus |
| Eudora Welty's | ... dom Singers paid tribute to Evers in the haunting "Ballad of Medgar Evers." | short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From," in which the speaker is the ... |
| Jonathan Edwards | ... undaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became part of Connecticut. | preached his famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Enfi ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... er Smokey Robinson, to help the group land an audition for Motown executive | , who had already proven himself a capable songwriter. Robinson liked the ... |
| Jordanes | ... ar (Isl. Gotar, OEng. Gotenas); on the other, however, the Gothic historian | wrote that the Goths came originally from Dacia to the island of Scandza. ... |
| Howard Thurman | Civil rights leader, theologian, and educator | was an early influence on King. A classmate of King's father at Morehouse ... |
| Aristeas of Marmora | ... s the father of Greek hero Orpheus by the muse Calliope, and once-patron of | , taking the role given in legend to Apollo, with whom he is often confuse ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Montaigne | ... lue, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led | to exclaim that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a do ... |
| Peter Collier | (co-authored with | |
| Metastasio | ... Alessandro Scarlatti was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet | produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Ca ... |
| Barack Obama | ... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. President | announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Arlott | ... cademics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians. Its sponsors included | , Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britt ... |
| David Charles Manners | ... writer Isabella Beeton, comedian Norman Wisdom, author and charity-founder | , snooker player Jimmy White and football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme ... |
| 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 ... |
| Janis Ian | ... ukah/Solstice/New Year's songs including actor Jeff Daniels, Grammy-winners | and Julie Gold, and the Guitar Man Of Central Park David Ippolito |
| Andy Warhol | ... lly sing lead with the band at the instigation of their mentor and manager, | . Nico sang lead on three of the album's tracks—"Femme Fatale", "All Tomor ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
| Cao Zhi | ... ge, as their sophistication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier | , son of Cao Cao, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His ... |
| Michael Weller | ... h one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in | 's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Was ... |
| Madonna | ... a Culture Minister (Kim Howells) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour ( | ) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech ... |
| John Cleese | ... aying in Torquay at the Gleneagles Hotel with the Python team in 1971, that | found inspiration (and the setting although not the actual film location) ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ant field workers in California during the Great Depression—George Milton ( | ), an intelligent and quick-witted man, and Lennie Small (Lon Chaney, Jr.) ... |
| Émile Littré | ... ed the election of agnostic intellectuals. Dupanloup resigned in 1875 after | , an agnostic, was elected to the Academy |
| Christopher Ruddy | ... avid Horowitz Freedom Center, edits FrontPage Magazine, and also writes for | 's NewsMax. Horowitz has also founded the organization , whose self-stated ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... urope, Man Ray's early paintings display facets of cubism. Upon befriending | who was interested in showing movement in static paintings, his works begi ... |
| Peter King | # | , football columnist for Sports Illustrated and author |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... lodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films." | is another admirer of the film |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotelian | ... unt &c. He poked fun at the arrogance of the work and Woodward's misguided, | insistence that what is theoretically attractive must be actually true. In ... |
| Florida Friebus | ... nd Through the Looking-Glass. It also drew heavily from Eva LeGallienne and | 's then-recent stage adaptation |
| Victor Saville | ... des of his life. His early important film roles included Inigo Jollifant in | 's The Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent ... |
| Justin Theroux | ... e nightmare to collapse in fright. A Hollywood director named Adam Kesher ( | ) has his film commandeered by apparent mobsters, who insist he cast an un ... |
| Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
| Britney Spears | ... lming Next to You, starring alongside Adrian Grenier. Hart asked her friend | to do a remix of her song "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and add it to the movie's ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham. | granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
| Trevor Huddleston | ... Gollancz, Dr I.Grunfeld, E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. | , Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, D ... |
| Norman Finkelstein | According to political scientist | transfer was considered as an acceptable solution to the problems of ethni ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
| Jerry Lewis | ... ishing debut before the Hollywood film world of the team of Dean Martin and | |
| Lee Miller | ... ntal films. In 1929 he began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer | |
| Gil Kane | ... on of the new Atom, who debuted in Showcase #34 (Sep-Oct, 1961) with art by | three years after his creation of sci-fi hero Adam Strange, who debuted in ... |
| Saint Paul the Apostle | ... esarem"(1625), (a reference to an appeal against Jewish persecution made by | ). See Acts 25:10–12 (NRSV translation): "Paul said, 'I am appealing to th ... |
| Umberto Eco | ... the life of a Byzantine girl during the carnage and falls in love with her. | 's novel Baudolino begins shortly after the Sack of Constantinople |
| John Keats | ... Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by | . In the 20th century, much of the counterculture of modernism was fueled ... |
| Mr. Fox | ... Ploweman unto Christe was "first set forth by Tindal, since, exemplified by | ." Since the language of this text is similar to that of Piers Plowman, Fu ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... Big Bang singularity exist in the universe. The hypothesis was conceived by | in 1969. Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronol ... |
| Ovid | ... fish — which again is intended to explain the Syrian abstinence from fish. | in his Metamorphoses (5.331) relates that Venus took the form of a fish to ... |
| Andy Richter | O'Brien's Late Night debuted on September 13, 1993, with | chosen as O'Brien's sidekick. The premiere episode featured John Goodman ( ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | In the late-fourteenth century, at broadly the same time that | included The Franklin's Tale, itself a Breton lai, in his Canterbury Tales ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... about such topics for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as | , Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, J ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chuck Jones | ... form and shooting scores of takes until he had the shot he wanted. Animator | , who lived near Charlie Chaplin's Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nelson Algren | ... for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, | , William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Poul Anderson | The Fourth Crusade is depicted in | 's novel There Will Be Time from the point of view of a 20th Century time- ... |
| Hubert Selby, Jr. | ... Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and | , saw no reason why the content in their works couldn't translate well to ... |
| Haydn | ... life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since | or Mozart. More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s ... |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor | ... ch Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal | had held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Coun ... |
| Nikolai Gogol | ... rtunity—to write for the Imperial Theaters and to compose an opera based on | 's short story Christmas Eve, a work on which Tchaikovsky had based his op ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ber 2 on the UK charts when sung by Nat King Cole in the 1950s. It was also | 's favourite song. "This Is My Song", written and composed by Chaplin for ... |
| Paul Schrader | ... marked the start of a series of collaborations between Scorsese and writer | , whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer a ... |
| Roger Penrose | The hypothesis was first formulated by | in 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way. In a sense it is ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, | , Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
| Sotion | ... ion is somewhat dubious and appears to be drawn from the lost doxography of | . The biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clito ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... ed of little worth to Maria Theresa. The peace was initially broken by King | , who invaded Silesia. Soon other powers began to exploit Austria's weakne ... |
| Charles Bennett | ... was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, | , Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Laws ... |
| Paul Morley | According to critic | , "The Gang spliced the ferocious precision of Dr. Feelgood's working-clas ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population. | became an assistant to Ball in 1804 and later described his administration ... |
| Porphyry | ... evidence from the mithraeum itself. He reminds us that the Platonic writer | wrote in the 3rd century AD that the cave-like temple Mithraea depicted "a ... |
| Giambattista Marino | After two abortive attempts to reach Rome, he fell in with | , the court poet to Marie de Medici, at Lyon. Marino employed him on illus ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... , E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Sir | , Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir C ... |
| Benjamin Disraeli | ... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), | in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ... |
| Newton | ... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of | . At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ... |
| Howard Stern | ... peared in a commercial for Ocean Spray. She also served as an intern on the | radio show |
| Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda | ... the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) known under the pseudonym | . Avellaneda had referred to Cervantes as an "old and one-handed" man |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, | , and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in their works coul ... |
| James Joyce | ... rk on the art of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as | , Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud ... |
| Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
| 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 ... |
| Judith Tarr | The second volume of | 's trilogy The Hound and the Falcon - titled The Golden Horn - also depict ... |
| Gertrude Stein | ... of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, | , Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his ca ... |
| Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
| Valentin Conrart | ... lzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with Jean Chapelain, | and others |
| King James I | English (and Scottish) monarch | granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... live and make movies. The 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival included | , Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, and Rickie Lee Jones.Austin has been the location ... |
| John Patrick Shanley | ... e Versus the Volcano is a 1990 romantic comedy film written and directed by | and starring Tom Hanks and—in three roles—Meg Ryan. The film is writer Sha ... |
| 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, ... |
| Martin Short | Along with | , Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
| Terrence Malick | The 1973 | film Badlands as well as the 1974 film Mr. Majestyk starring Charles Brons ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ch as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and | posed for his camera |
| Ruth Jones | ... Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, | , Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser, Alun Armst ... |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | ... entions both Malvern and Langland as author names. Thomas Dudley, father of | (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. Alexander ... |
| Orson Welles | ... , George, Duke of Clarence to Olivier's Richard III (1955), and Henry IV to | ' Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1966). A brief glimpse of his Hamlet fro ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... f the film, however, upset the House Un-American Activities Committee, with | , Darryl Zanuck, John Garfield, and Anne Revere all being called to testif ... |
| Joan Harrison | ... large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, | , Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Mai ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings. American musician | is a descendant |
| Adam of Bremen | ... he Elbe. The list includes the Nortabtrezi (Obotrites) - with 53 civitates. | referred to them as the Reregi because of their lucrative trade emporium R ... |
| Orhan Pamuk | ... nd did not or could not do enough for God in this world. The Turkish writer | , in the book , further elaborates on the added meaning hüzün has acquired ... |
| Robert W. Ford | ... effectively organize and resist their imprisonment. British radio operator | and British army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subject ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... om Chateau de Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with | , Valentin Conrart and others |
| Frank S. Nugent | When the film was first released | , the film critic of The New York Times praised the film and the acting, w ... |
| Justin Theroux | ... o-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring | , Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed ... |
| Galileo Galilei | Lyrical references in this passage include Scaramouche, the fandango, | , Figaro and Bismillah, as rival factions fight over the narrator's soul. ... |
| Harry Shearer | Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and | , Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the season on NBC's S ... |
| Paul Tillich | ... dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of | and Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his disser ... |
| William Langland | ... ers Plowman) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by | . It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections calle ... |
| Xenophon | ... early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by | , the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great |
| Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Max Allan Collins | In one of | ' first stories as the strip's writer, the gangster known as "Big Boy," wh ... |
| Julius Schwartz | ... ng Comics Code Authority body. In partial response to this shift, DC editor | began a widespread reinvention/revival of many Golden Age heroes, and "Fox ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... antic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring | and—in three roles—Meg Ryan. The film is writer Shanley's directorial debu ... |
| Salvian | ... wers threatened the authority of the church when the bishops Instantius and | were won over by his eloquence and his severely ascetic example |
| Hippocrates | ... own fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, Charles Dickens, | , and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, but cleverly ... |
| Robert Smigel | ... originality and quality of the comedy, however, led by original head writer | , was widely praised. Although O'Brien benefited by comparison from the qu ... |
| Billy Crystal | Along with Martin Short, | and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the ... |
| Pope Gregory I | ... as born into a Roman senatorial family and was a great-great-grandfather of | . He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope S ... |
| Berry Gordy | In 1969, Motown Records impresario | , tipped off about a mad musical scientist engaged in mysterious works, vi ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, and occurs in | , and in a lemma to the Greek Anthology. He is also referred to as "Laerte ... |
| Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
| Favell Lee Mortimer | The use of phonics in American education dates at least to the work of | , whose works using phonics includes the early flashcard set Reading Disen ... |
| Kazimieras Būga | ... be reconstructed as Mindaugas or Mindaugis. In 1909 the Lithuanian linguist | published a research paper supporting the suffix -as, which has since been ... |
| Hrabanus Maurus | ... elm, Bede, Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by | of Fulda and Servatus Lupus of Ferrières. About a thousand manuscripts exi ... |
| Gareth Edwards | Barbarians: Tries: | , Fergus Slattery, John Bevan, J P R Williams; Conversions: Phil Bennett ( ... |
| John Cassavetes | ... and one of the editors on the documentary Woodstock and met actor-director | , who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor. Scorsese is al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andy Richter | ... m Central and 12:37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, | served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the sho ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ond World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons. German dictator | had a personal hatred of the cartoonist. It is, therefore, not surprising ... |
| Aeneas Tacticus | ... nse and varied: Arrow firing machines (katapaltai) are briefly mentioned by | in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC. An extant inscription ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... le biographical works of literary figures, such as those of Virginia Woolf, | , and J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | ... pictures including Cross Creek (1983) and Doc Hollywood (1991). The home of | , where she wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek, is in nearby Cross Creek. ... |
| David S. Ward | ... in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter | , the story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brother ... |
| Jean Meschinot | ... ue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of | . Ideas of reflection and the workings of imagination are blended in the t ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... their second album Queen II. The photo, inspired by a photograph of actress | , was the band's favourite image of themselves. The video then fades into ... |
| Walter Burley | ... Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic. From the statements of | (a 14th-century monk) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". However | argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ... |
| Porphyry | The philosopher | (3rd-4th century AD) gives an account of the origins of the Mysteries in h ... |
| Val Gielgud | Gielgud's brother | became the head of BBC Radio Production in 1928, and John made his radio d ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... role of "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, modelled on German dictator | , who was only four days his junior and sported a similar moustache. The f ... |
| Moses | ... nting the Sabbath. It is also said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by | on Mount Horeb |
| Russell Tovey | ... ndy Serkis, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, | , Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, St ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and | all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ... |
| Ľudovít Štúr | ... the 150th birthdays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival | and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, ... |
| Jules Verne | ... ong his output was the modern novelisation of the Irwin Allen production of | 's Five Weeks in a Balloon, two books in the "Llarn" series; five books ab ... |
| Estêvão Cacella | Circa 1627, during the first war with Tibet, Portuguese Jesuits | and João Cabral were the first recorded Europeans to visit Bhutan on their ... |
| TobyMac | ... d Randy Stonehill in 1970; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper | , who described Norman as "socially relevant, spiritually significant and ... |
| J. B. Priestley | On 2 November 1957, the New Statesman magazine published an article by | on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan fo ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... nalism, Chauvinism", in The Review of Politics 7.4, (October 1945), p. 457, | , the political theorist, describes the concept |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... ha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as | , James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who t ... |
| Théophile de Viau | In 1612, he met | when de Viau's troupe visited Angoulême, and fled from home with the troup ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | A famous allegorical engraving by | is entitled Melencolia I. This engraving portrays melancholia as the state ... |
| Ayn Rand | In | 's novel Atlas Shrugged, the protagonist's secret hideaway was in a beauti ... |
| Jozef Miloslav Hurban | ... ays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival Ľudovít Štúr and | , the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, and the twentieth annive ... |
| Jim Henson | ... c music soundtracks for some early experimental films by Muppets impresario | |
| Thomas Paine | ... rst kind of mainstream popular music. These included "The Liberty Tree", by | . Cheaply printed as broadsheets, early patriotic songs spread across the ... |
| Koji Suzuki | Both films are based on | 's novel Ring and focus on a mysterious cursed videotape that contains a s ... |
| Andy Warhol | Edward Ruscha, and | |
| George Sanders | ... ld War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, | , Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn |
| Jacques Feyder | ... adapted by Frances Marion, translated by Walter Hasenclever and directed by | , also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, and Salka Viertel |
| 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 ... |
| Max Weinberg | ... ow's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer | |
| Émile Zola | ... g distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and | , whose realist and naturalist novels were now exceeding the popularity of ... |
| Walter Hasenclever | ... so released in 1930. This film was adapted by Frances Marion, translated by | and directed by Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans ... |
| Lee Miller | Together with | , who was his photography assistant and lover, Man Ray reinvented the phot ... |
| James Joyce | ... laubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of | , Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also ins ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
| Martynas Mažvydas | ... cabulary used in the first book printed in the Lithuanian language in 1547, | 's Catechism. The majority of loan words in the 20th century arrived from ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in | 's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus (1198–1280), and | (1214–1294) |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Samuelson | ... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed, | , writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ... |
| William Julius Wilson | Rustin's analysis was supported by the later research by | . Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... ille, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, | , and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-cen ... |
| Alisa Kwitney | ... n set in the Dreaming, most notably a series of the same name (chief author | ) |
| 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 ... |
| John Sayles | ... had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and | launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining ... |
| Victor Bockris | ... l Tomorrow's Parties" was written by Reed at Warhol's request (as stated in | and Gerard Malanga's Velvet Underground biography Up-Tight: The Velvet Und ... |
| Martin Luther | ... lwig went on to study at the University of Wittenberg where as a student of | and Philip Melanchthon he earned the academic degree of Magister, in 1552 ... |
| Epicurus | ... the view that he was an Epicurean, is the fact that he passionately defends | . Book 10, which discusses Epicurus, is of high quality, and contains thre ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... eved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer. In 1967, Motown president | renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cin ... |
| Amber Tamblyn | 16-year old Katie Embry ( | ) and 17-year old Becca Kotler (Rachael Bella) discuss a supposedly cursed ... |
| Hesiod | ... cause most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her. In Theogony, | described her as |
| James Cameron | ... r Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, | , and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese ... |
| Skeeter Davis | ... rk "licks". Leading artists in this genre included Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, | , The Browns, and Eddy Arnold. The "slip note" piano style of session musi ... |
| Sidney Blumenthal | ... co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by | in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. Accor ... |
| Alan Caillou | ... Lord) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge. The voice of English actor | is dubbed for MacMurray's as Lord Douglas. The plot centers around Lord Do ... |
| Theophrastus | ... biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, | and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. ... |
| Pauline Kael | Championed by influential movie critic | , Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By no ... |
| David Lavender | Telluride native | related his experiences working at the Camp Bird Mine in the 1930s in his ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... some of which date back to the 17th century. During the Revolutionary War, | passed through Farmington on several occasions and referred to the town as ... |
| Bob Merrill | In 1957, a musical version by | , called New Girl in Town, opened on Broadway |
| Maturin Murray Ballou | Ballou married Ruth Washburn; children included | |
| Chaucer's | ... critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with | Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Age ... |
| James Thomson (B.V.) | ... dron. The image in turn inspired a passage in The City of Dreadful Night by | , and, a few years later, a sonnet by |
| Douglas Hyde | The first President, | lived in the residential quarters on the first floor of the main building. ... |
| Gustave Flaubert | ... ; Taine found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, | found within it "neither truth nor greatness", the Goncourts lambasted its ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... evsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina Braschi, and | . The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Hon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Salka Viertel | ... Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, and | |
| Pratibha Parmar. | ... egan on Beauty in Truth, a documentary film about Walker's life directed by | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... on-fiction also became a popular topic. Irreverence and satire, typified in | 's Breakfast of Champions, were common literary elements. The horror genre ... |
| Bruce Lee | According to | , martial arts also have the nature of an art, since there is emotional co ... |
| Gilles Deleuze | | , the twentieth century French philosopher, compared voting for political ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These provisions were later used by | to subvert the rest of the constitution and institute rule by decree, allo ... |
| Robert Benchley | ... atures Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and | , along with Edmund Gwenn |
| Johannes de Sacrobosco | ... stronomy. In July 1662, he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of | , De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial so ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat | with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes |
| Pausanias | ... arents. Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx (according to | , who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father). Echidna was a dr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Apollonius | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of Herodian and | . The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve numerous fragm ... |
| Stephen King | ... mmon literary elements. The horror genre also emerged, and by the late '70s | had become one of the most popular genre novelists |
| E. Nesbit | ... isused platforms hosted a theatrical performance of The Railway Children by | . The audience is seated either side of the actual railway track. The show ... |
| Samuel Fuller | ... yle, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, | , and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much enco ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in | 's poem, "Sonnet To Science. |
| Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | ... daptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The celebrity chef and TV presenter | has his River Cottage H.Q. at a farm in the Axe valley. He has since purch ... |
| William Safire | The development was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but | , a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his m ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
| Herodian | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of | and Apollonius. The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve ... |
| Walter William Skeat | ... rface of the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to | , the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from th ... |
| Bruce Cockburn | A Humanitarian Award was inaugurated in 2006. | was the first artist to be given this honour |
| 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 ... |
| Andy Serkis | ... by Andrew Davies, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, | , Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell ... |
| Hero of Alexandria | ... of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor | (fl. 1st c. AD), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... opics. Certain songs were written by Reed as observations of the members of | 's "Factory Superstars". "Femme Fatale" in particular was written about Ed ... |
| George Washington | ... rmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial support to General | 's army |
| Salvian | ... arian leaders with banishment. Consequently, the three bishops, Instantius, | us and Priscillian, went in person to Rome, to present their case before D ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... e also held at the National Stadium from 1987 until 1996, they included U2, | , The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi and R.E.M. The last music con ... |
| Ronald Radosh | In May 1989, Horowitz, | , and Peter Collier travelled to Poland for a conference in Kraków calling ... |
| Jeremy Taylor | ... choly Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and | , whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectiv ... |
| John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
| Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
| Michael J. Fox | The film Doc Hollywood starring | (based on the book What, Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman, M.D.), was filmed ... |
| 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, ... |
| Thomas Browne | ... Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir | , and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Ho ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... vel direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early | . (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, ... |
| Jimmy Fallon | ... ave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. | began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009 |
| Julius Scheiner | ... eath the misnomer Johann Christian Doppler was introduced by the astronomer | . Scheiner's mistake has since been copied by many |
| Scott Adams | ... gement Handbook (ISBN 0-88730-788-4) is the second Dilbert business book by | , published in 1997. Written from the point of view of his unscrupulous al ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... lessness, and/or an acceptance of one's own negative qualities, as it is by | |
| Bill Gates | ... t's INS to the Bettman Archive. Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder | 's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of U ... |
| W. W. Skeat | All modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of | . Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only t ... |
| Ben Hecht | ... f writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, | , James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and B ... |
| Alois Senefelder | Lithography is a technique invented in 1798 by | and based on the chemical repulsion of oil and water |
| John F. Kennedy | ... n Victoria and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents | , Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of | , Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Historia Augusta | ... of Mithras, although both works are now lost. According to the 4th century | , the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became o ... |
| Varro | ... wise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and | . But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to ... |
| Reginald Pole | ... ed only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century, | was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it wa ... |
| William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | ... a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander’s son, | established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at Port Royal, Nova Sc ... |
| Cato | ... uld otherwise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, | and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, ... |
| Epicurus | ... eophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with | . The Socratic school, with its various branches, is classed with the Ioni ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Gale | ... out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to | , one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing ... |
| Emlyn Williams | ... of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured | as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude (the p ... |
| Steven Lukes | In Power: A radical view (1974) | outlines two dimensions through which power had been theorised in the earl ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. B. Priestley | ... t James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, | and Joseph Rotblat |
| Thomas Pynchon | ... Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in | 's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49. The Pynchon novel features "The Scope" ... |
| Peter De Vries | ... w the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and | , who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade. Rac ... |
| James Hilton | ... Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, | , John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, ... |
| Jerome | ... explains the charge of Manichaeism some levelled against Priscillian (even | , for his talk of the sordes nuptiarum, had been similarly accused, and to ... |
| Edward Bishop Elliott | AD 70. | , in the Horae Apocalypticae (1862), argues that John wrote the book in ex ... |
| David Hume | Adam Smith and | were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A number of schola ... |
| Charles Fillmore | It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by | (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been c ... |
| Virgil | ... ucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are | , and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, ... |
| Adam of Bremen | ... be and being a collective term including the Geats, and this is the case in | 's work where the Geats (Goths) appear both as a proper nation and as part ... |
| Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
| Scott Adams | ... ert principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation by Dilbert cartoonist | stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competen ... |
| Vincenzo Giustiniani | ... 630–32, Louvre); Cardinal de Richelieu, who commissioned various Bacchanals | ;, for whom he painted the Massacre of the Innocents (uncertain early date ... |
| Terence | ... ut the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to him, | , Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Li ... |
| Sophocles | ... s described as being named Iacchos at Eleusis, where he "brings salvation". | , in the Paean in the play Antigone, names the god of the Mysteries at Ele ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. | had suggested using a modified Redstone rocket (see: Juno I) while the Air ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
| Loretta Lynn | ... "hard country" artists emerged during this period and dominated the genre: | , Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, and Sonny James among them |
| John Howard Lawson | ... y, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, | , John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Bench ... |
| Karel Lamač | ... a as Little Dorrit and Mathias Wieman as Arthur Clennam. It was directed by | . The fourth, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring Alec G ... |
| Archilochus | From indirect evidence, the scytale was first mentioned by the Greek poet | , who lived in the 7th century BC. Other Greek and Roman writers during th ... |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ... ters during the following centuries also mentioned it, but it was not until | (middle of the 3rd century BC) that a clear indication of its use as a cry ... |
| John Updike | ... novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. | emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience al ... |
| John Dickson Carr | ... ond [sic]. I have every book he ever wrote. The other is the mystery writer | , whose style I admire tremendously... and of course the old standbys - Me ... |
| Francis X. Bushman | ... d of feminine interest as Tess Trueheart; and FBI Director Clive Anderson ( | and others) is the same kind of avuncular superior as Chief Brandon |
| Nonnus | ... Eleusis as both Bacchos (Dionysus) and Iacchos. The 4th or 5th century poet | describes the Athenian celebrations given to the first Dionysus Zagreus so ... |
| 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 |
| Axayacatl | Cuitláhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler | and a younger brother of Moctezuma II, the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. ... |
| John Lee Mahin | ... Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, | , Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, a ... |
| Plautus | ... om he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, | ; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
| Reese Schonfeld | ... ecutives later helped Ted Turner create CNN, with its first two presidents, | and Burt Reinhardt, coming from UPITN ranks |
| Marv Wolfman | ... of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, written by Crisis writer | , with art by Paul Ryan and Bob McLeod. It took place during and after Cri ... |
| Horace | ... quently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, | , Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Plutarch | ... device appeared. A description of how it operated is not known from before | (50-120 AD) |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... ience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of | and Morris Wright. With the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increa ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Another ad, featuring | drawing the Mona Lisa as she eats a Caramilk has won a Clio award |
| Richard Maibaum | ... Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, | , and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the onl ... |
| Debra Byrne | ... , Olivia Newton-John, Ross D. Wylie, The News, Max Merritt and the Meteors, | , Rose Tattoo, The Reels, The Saints, Sebastian Hardie, Lash, William Shak ... |
| Douglas Hyde | ... of President of Ireland was created in 1937. In 1938, the first President, | lived there temporarily while plans were made to build a new presidential ... |
| Carolyn Arends | ... for several months learning the craft of songwriting; Canadian CCM musician | . Songwriter Bob Hartman, credits Norman and his 1972 song "Why Should the ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... ossils, was subtropical, and supported an environment lush with vegetation. | suggests that Antarctica, "provided a clement and ratite-friendly land bri ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | The genus name Glycine was originally introduced by | (1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ... |
| George Washington | ... after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The town was named after | , who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the Ame ... |
| Jerome | ... ed with Priscillian at Trier, was noted as a poet worthy of the ancients by | |
| Jeff Daniels | ... writers singing Christmas/Hanukah/Solstice/New Year's songs including actor | , Grammy-winners Janis Ian and Julie Gold, and the Guitar Man Of Central P ... |
| Dana Carvey | ... an and Late Night. Aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both | and Garry Shandling declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer Lorn ... |
| 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, ... |
| Stanley Kubrick | After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version of Judge Dredd, | head-hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the ce ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Childish | ... 4, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Rapture. Elsewhere, the Oblivians from Memphis, | and The Buff Medways from Britain, The (International) Noise Conspiracy fr ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... e his father, but Ernst's marriage to Luise was short-lived. In 1921 he met | , who became a close lifelong friend. Éluard bought two of Ernst's paintin ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japanese director | 's film Yojimbo depicts a samurai bodyguard in Japan |
| Helen Thomas | White House reporter | became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferen ... |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of | . King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ... |
| Skeat | ... g.) There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it. | believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text ... |
| André Breton | ... ar later the two collaborated on Les malheurs des immortels, and then, with | whom Ernst met in 1921, on the magazine Litterature. In 1922, unable to se ... |
| Cassiodorus | ... the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. According to | , he taught Latin at Constantinople |
| Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
| Garry Shandling | ... t. Aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both Dana Carvey and | declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was broug ... |
| Hippocrates | ... larly determined by the dominant humor in a particular person. According to | , melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which ... |
| Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
| Dale Wasserman | ... eography by George Balanchine, an American musicalMan of La Mancha (1965)by | , Mitch Leigh, and Joe Darion. which was made into a film in 1972, directe ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Pérez | ... mics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in | 's Wonder Woman #11 (December 1987) — what relation this figure, an old ma ... |
| Vincent Sheean | ... and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on | 's political memoir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purc ... |
| György Lukács | ... g Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and | . Weber also remained active in Verein and the Evangelical Social Congress ... |
| Henry of Huntingdon | ... Biedanheafde. It is not known where this battle was, or who was the victor. | , a 12th-century historian who had access to versions of the Anglo-Saxon C ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | , Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hoppe ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hussein Ibish | While Horowitz was on the Riz Khan television show with | , he was reported by Ibish to have published on his Frontpage Mag website: ... |
| James I | ... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession of | in 1406 |
| Apuleius | ... m Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. Lucian and | give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the great cities wi ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... tee" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by | . Von Braun's Group was referred to as the "Working Group on Vehicular Pro ... |
| Ennius | ... ragments from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including | , Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quot ... |
| Cristina Ferrare | According to his autobiography, both DeLorean and ex-wife | became born-again Christians following the entrapment controversy. DeLorea ... |
| Erich Segal | ... early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with | 's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respe ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... in 1963, and it and the Delaware Turnpike were both dedicated by President | . The highway extended from the northern Baltimore city limits to the Dela ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... om there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: | , Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palm ... |
| Joe Darion | ... American musicalMan of La Mancha (1965)by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, and | . which was made into a film in 1972, directed by Arthur Hiller, and a son ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brian De Palma | ... ends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, | , George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced ... |
| Betty Friedan | ... opted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism; second-wave feminist | is a notable example. Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite se ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eustache Deschamps | ... rt poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of | , "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in Geor ... |
| Pacuvius | ... from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including Ennius, | , Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most fr ... |
| Jane Alexander | ... aby to term and adopted a child named Samara (Daveigh Chase). Dr. Grasnik ( | ) recounts that Anna soon complained about gruesome visions that only happ ... |
| Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
| Aristophanes | The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by | , where the Mystae (mystics) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, ... |
| George Lucas | ... fluential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, | , and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to R ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According to | the craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ... |
| Jackie Chan | In the film Shanghai Noon martial arts and cinema star | plays the role of an Imperial Guard of China on a mission to America to he ... |
| Michael Foot | ... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, | , Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
| Saul Bellow | ... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as | and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ... |
| Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
| Denzel Washington | In the film Man on Fire, John Creasy ( | ) is a burnt-out ex-CIA officer and counter-insurgency operative who grudg ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... rats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and | . It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro. During ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and | plays |
| Kingsley Martin | ... Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, | , J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
| John Cage | ... the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young, | and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of p ... |
| Lorne Michaels | ... arvey and Garry Shandling declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer | was brought in to develop the new show and comedians Jon Stewart, Drew Car ... |
| Gareth Edwards | ... as the venue for what is considered to be "the greatest try ever scored" by | for the Barbarians against the New Zealand All Blacks in what is also call ... |
| Georges Chastellain | ... champs, "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in | 's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century ... |
| Melody Maker | ... "post-rock" before using it in Mojo, previously using it in music newspaper | . He also said he later found the term to not be of his own creation, sayi ... |
| Conan O'Brien | Late Night with Conan O'Brien an American late-night talk show hosted by | that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured ... |
| Aristotle | ... the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, | , and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, a ... |
| Euripides | In the Heracleidae of | , Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Her ... |
| Martin Luther | Before Calvin developed a systematic theology of Augustinian Protestantism, | asserted that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of sin from t ... |
| William Hazlitt | ... who also take a less critical approach to the character of Othello such as | saying that "the nature of the Moor is noble... but his blood is of the mo ... |
| Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | ... Florida and mentions de León looking for them there; his account influenced | ' history of the Spanish in the New World. Fontaneda had spent seventeen y ... |
| Plato's | Platonic idealism usually refers to | theory of forms or doctrine of ideas |
| Nehru | ... ile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and 31 December 1953. Prime Minister | of India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when he prop ... |
| Plutarch | ... ere is no evidence as to the stringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. | says that Olympus and Terpander used but three strings to accompany their ... |
| Nicholson Baker | Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of | 's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project wa ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
| John Wesley | The Methodist Church, founded by | , upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ... |
| James Ellroy | ... It had a number of photographs and recently was reissued with a foreword by | , the author of LA Confidential |
| Emile Chautard | ... e keeper Mrs. Haggerty (Louise Closser Hale), French officer Major Lenard ( | ), and a mysterious Eurasian, Henry Chang (Warner Oland) |
| Clarence Brown | Another adaptation by Frances Marion was released in 1930 directed by | , starring Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion and Marie Dress ... |
| Robert Zemeckis | ... a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata for director | , although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made The Polar Express a ... |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | ... during Wright’s time. One of the major works that influenced Native Son was | ’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel was published in 1852 and was not only th ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
| François Truffaut | Interviewed in 1966 by | , Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story |
| John Denver | ... music. It started with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, | , Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | ... ould have trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage. | cites Cesare's dependence on the good will of the Papacy, under the contro ... |
| Nelly Sachs | ... Literature. He was the first German-born author to receive this award since | in 1966. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he ... |
| Ibn Bajjah | The first planetary model without any epicycles was that of | (Avempace) in 12th century Andalusian Spain, but epicycles were not elimin ... |
| Martin McDonagh | The Cripple of Inishmaan by | is a play set on the Aran Islands at the time of the filming of Man of Ara ... |
| Plato | ... that truth is an abstraction. In other words, we are urged to believe that | 's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external ... |
| Terpander | ... ringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. Plutarch says that Olympus and | used but three strings to accompany their recitation. As the four strings ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Calvin | ... lt of his sin by imputation. Redemption by Jesus Christ is the only remedy. | defined original sin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion as follow ... |
| Herodotus | Since | , Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set. In th ... |
| Alfonso the Chaste | In 1177, | went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ... |
| John Battelle | ... cknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by , a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student. | , co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that th ... |
| Su Song | ... l hour, the device was also a striking clock. The famous clock tower of the | built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement wi ... |
| Plato | ... . With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, | , Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, ... |
| Glenn Beck | ... kshop telling our impressionable youth what to think." in an act 'spoofing' | |
| Livy | ... Antiochus IV was pressured by the Roman Republic to withdraw. According to | , "Popilius...placed in [Antiochus'] hand the tablets on which was written ... |
| Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
| Harold Bloom | ... rthering his control over the characters . A. C. Bradley, and more recently | , have been major advocates of this interpretation. Other critics, most no ... |
| John Cage | Many of the later 20th-century composers, such as | , John Corigliano and Steve Reich, used modernist and minimalist technique ... |
| Frances Marion | Another adaptation by | was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Cha ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... s the sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as | 's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dy ... |
| J. Michael Straczynski | He was the only person other than | to write a Babylon 5 script in the last three seasons, contributing the se ... |
| Jordanes | ... andinavia) from Götaland (Gothland) in southern Sweden. The Roman historian | refers to an Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in Scandza, as part of his de ... |
| Louise Closser Hale | ... r Eric Baum (Gustav von Seyffertitz), boarding house keeper Mrs. Haggerty ( | ), French officer Major Lenard (Emile Chautard), and a mysterious Eurasian ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... ees are Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Past awardees are composers such as | and performers such as Carol Channing. The 2010 award will go to |
| Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
| Lorenz Hart | ... ry that the actual translator, uncredited, was Rodgers' first major partner | . The Theatre Guild presented it in New York City in 1921, with Joseph Sch ... |
| George Washington | ... ildings are located; and Washington Street, which was named after President | . The street-numbering system centers not on the Circle, but rather one bl ... |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... scene of the film depicting Buckaroo's test run of the latter-day Jet Car. | plays Buckaroo Banzai's mother, Sandra Banzai |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from | ). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ... |
| Edward Rowe Snow | ... ppeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian | in 1951. In this book he states he was given this set of symbols by Revere ... |
| Francisco López de Gómara | ... ally inspired to generate favor in the courts. A similar account appears in | 's Historia General de las Indias of 1551. In the Memoir of Hernando D'Esc ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | His advice and work influenced | , a friend of the Hammerstein family from childhood. Sondheim has attribut ... |
| Albert Hackett | ... on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or short story. | and Frances Goodrich wrote the screenplay |
| Max Eastman | ... position than theirs. In 1913 he joined the staff of The Masses, edited by | and his sister Crystal. To this publication Jack contributed more than 50 ... |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury | ... The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander | , advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | An interpretation of | 's notion of original sin was strongly affirmed by the Protestant Reformer ... |
| Frances Goodrich | ... ick and Nora, but not a particular novel or short story. Albert Hackett and | wrote the screenplay |
| Dave McKean | ... ere. He cowrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend | for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localized English language ... |
| Bradley King | In 1923 Anna Christie was adapted by | for a film and directed by John Griffith Wray and Thomas H. Ince with star ... |
| Patty Duke | ... ony to present the Honorary Juvenile Award. The following year, 16 year-old | starred in The Miracle Worker and in 1963, was nominated for and won the A ... |
| Chris Claremont | Its first issues were written by longstanding X-Men writer | and drawn and co-plotted by Jim Lee. Retailers pre-ordered this book at 8 ... |
| Anna May Wong | Among the other passengers are fellow coaster Hui Fei ( | ), zealous missionary Mr. Carmichael (Lawrence Grant), inveterate gambler ... |
| Euripides | If | ' tragedy, Protesilaos, had survived, his name would be more familiar toda ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | The film's story was written by | , based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or sho ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ters news agency. The photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with | , an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a post ... |
| Rowan Williams | ... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ... |
| Bernard of Clairvaux | Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, | and Nicholas Gorranus all made passing references to 'chastity belts' with ... |
| Aristophanes | ... dicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus." | mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, re ... |
| Stephanie Morgenstern | ... nako's seiyū is Rika Fukami. In the English-language dub, Mina is voiced by | (the original and R seasons and movies) and Emilie-Claire Barlow (S and Su ... |
| Frank Herbert | ... adimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by | . He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent ... |
| Twyla Tharp | In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer | , scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel f ... |
| Robert Zemeckis | He cowrote the script for | 's Beowulf with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive fo ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences. | describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ... |
| Maxwell Anderson | ... ng and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of | 's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne as Elizabeth and Lunt as the Earl of ... |
| Jerry Bock | ... y in New York City is the Administrator of the award. The 2009 awardees are | and Sheldon Harnick. Past awardees are composers such as Stephen Sondheim ... |
| Thomas H. Ince | ... s adapted by Bradley King for a film and directed by John Griffith Wray and | with stars Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion and Eugenie Be ... |
| Joseph Scaliger | The Julian day number is based on the Julian Period proposed by | in 1583, at the time of the Gregorian calendar reform, but it is the multi ... |
| John Calvin | ... o's notion of original sin was strongly affirmed by the Protestant Reformer | . Calvin believed that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of s ... |
| Ernest Vajda | The movie was adapted by | (screenplay) and Claudine West (continuity) and was directed by Sidney Fra ... |
| William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
| Peadar O'Donnell | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included | , Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler |
| Jim Lee | ... en by longstanding X-Men writer Chris Claremont and drawn and co-plotted by | . Retailers pre-ordered this book at 8 million copies, but probably sold c ... |
| Merrill Edward Gates | # | , 1890—189 |
| Herodotus | ... e same time. With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, | , Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laë ... |
| Milton Friedman | David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and | . His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and m ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... Metrical Dindsenchas in which the Dagda fights a giant octopus. Mythologist | also makes parallels to the slaying of Leviathan by YHWH, about which YHWH ... |
| Paul Schrader | ... ker, cinematographers Michael Ballhaus and Robert Richardson, screenwriters | Mardik Martin, and John Logan, costume designer Sandy Powell, production d ... |
| Charlie Carlson | Author | claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society c ... |
| John de Courcy Ireland | ... n the same year, a branch of CND was also set in the Republic of Ireland by | , and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to su ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... and the play was a success, running 300 performances. A 1940 revival, with | and Ingrid Bergman was seen by both Hammerstein and Rodgers. Glazer, in in ... |
| Alan Marshall | ... . S. Van Dyke and also featured Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, | , and Penny Singleton |
| Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... lway, which also links Florence with Rome. The station is located at Piazza | , in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli, about southwest of the city ... |
| Ferenc Molnár | The Guardsman is a 1931 film based on the play Testőr by | . It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It ope ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... kroyd as the stiff Joe Friday (the original Detective Friday's nephew), and | as his partner Pep Streebeck. The film contrasted the terse, clipped chara ... |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... nd's lush landscape has a strong bearing on its economy and culture. Author | drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setti ... |
| James I | ... n 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards | ) from the Duke of Albany, placed the youthful prince in the safe-custody ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jerome | ... al School of Alexandria is the oldest catechetical school in the world. St. | records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark ... |
| G. S. Viereck | ... could not understand the nature of God in an interview published in 1930 in | 's book Glimpses of the Great explaining: "I'm not an atheist. I don't thi ... |
| Harry Morgan | ... edic effect. Beyond Aykroyd's effective imitation of Webb's Joe Friday (and | 's small role reprising his earlier role as Bill Gannon, now a captain and ... |
| Saxo Grammaticus | ... person. In his Gesta Danorum (book 13), the Danish 12th century chronicler | noted that the Geats had no say in the election of the king, only the Swed ... |
| Ricki Lake | ... tured on the series Gameshow Marathon, hosted by talk show host and actress | . This version combined aspects of the Barker and Davidson versions with t ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... e striking example of similar placental and marsupial forms is described by | in The Blind Watchmaker as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... s longevity. It is a frequently used plot device in age regression stories. | used the Fountain in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" to demonstrate that posi ... |
| Dicaearchus | ... rk on the Pythagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples | , Aristoxenus, and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. Th ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... e only major city in which rioting did not occur. Many credit the speech by | , who was in town campaigning for President that night, for helping to cal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Myers | ... h the exception of Adam Sandler), and included such stars as Jim Carrey and | . As the show was taped at a theater, unlike the trip to L.A., the set bui ... |
| Josephus | ... n dynasty is the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian | , (37–shortly after 100 CE). Josephus' account is the only primary source ... |
| Eugenio Montale | ... re, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including | , Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. ... |
| Thamyris | ... Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like Musaeus, and | were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of extensive Gree ... |
| Thomas Killigrew | ... Cassio; Walter Clun won fame for his Iago. Soon after, on 8 December 1660, | 's new King's Company acted the play at their Vere Street theatre, with Ma ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | Anna Christie is a play in four acts by | . It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921 ... |
| Shigesato Itoi | ... latter considered an official translation of its title. It was designed by | , who also developed its predecessor, the Japan-exclusive Mother. EarthBou ... |
| Jacob Grimm | ... r fairy tales. This was notably attempted by the Brothers Grimm, especially | in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with the compilation of the K ... |
| 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 ... |
| Italo Calvino | ... other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, | , Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third pag ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ghassan Kanafani | ... ur civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman | was a response to the PFLP's involvement in masterminding the latter attac ... |
| Euler | ... stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and | ). A special case of Fermat's theorem may have been known much earlier by ... |
| A. J. P. Taylor | ... her prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, | , Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Rus ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
| Mel Brooks' | The term lent itself to several "in" jokes: in | s film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot poi ... |
| Satyajit Ray | ... ard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, | , and François Truffaut |
| John D. Winters | ... nd the task of holding the cadets in class hopeless. According to historian | of Louisiana Tech University |
| William Luther Pierce | ... ocks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter (a 1989 novel by | , the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance) and ... |
| François Truffaut | ... , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and | |
| Nelson Algren | Native Son was the original title of Chicago writer | 's first novel Somebody in Boots, based on a piece of doggerel about the f ... |
| Lattice C | The company also sold the | compiler for the Sinclair QL and the Atari ST and range of other languages ... |
| Guillermo del Toro | ... or Warner Independent. Don Murphy and Susan Montford are the producers, and | is the film's executive producer |
| Aristoxenus | ... hagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples Dicaearchus, | , and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. These writers, ... |
| Tim Powers | ... n Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and | featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo ad ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elias Lönnrot | ... y the Brothers Grimm, especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and | with the compilation of the Kalevala. The work of the Brothers Grimm influ ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... purchase Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (the Lockheed bribery scandals). Although | tried to stop the details from making their way to the Japanese government ... |
| Rosanne Cash | ... & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle; Dolly Parton | ;and Linda Ronstadt moved country further towards rock influence |
| Musaeus | ... r, modern day Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like | , and Thamyris were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of ... |
| Ralph Nader | ... rebel" corporate businessman with his trendy dress style and casual banter. | 's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, criticized a number of De ... |
| Frank Capra | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, ... |
| Iamblichus | ... and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, and | for the biographical details. Aristotle had written a separate work on the ... |
| Charles Spurgeon | ... its, and public entertainment. The new site was also the location of one of | 's famous sermons, without amplification, before a crowd of 23,654 people ... |
| Thomas Malory | ... th the "Carduel" of the French romances. However, in the late 15th century, | created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in hi ... |
| Frantz Fanon | ... e wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." | discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay L'Experience Vecue du Noir, or "T ... |
| Dostoyevsky | ... biography was now fully developed and mature. He was greatly influenced by | , whose novels Strachey had been reading and reviewing as they appeared in ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... 2 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars | , Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Fu ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, | , Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, S ... |
| Ptolemy | ... f the ecliptic. Hipparchus probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. | describes his instrument in the Syntaxis (book v. chap. i). It consisted o ... |
| Pindar | ... g her cheeks in mourning him, and games were organised there in his honour, | noted. The tomb of Protesilaus at Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese is doc ... |
| Samuel Ferguson | ... Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and | |
| Augustine of Hippo | Catholic interpretation goes back to | , who taught that the tree should be understood both symbolically and as a ... |
| Paul the Deacon | ... artel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and | , the historian of the Lombards |
| 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 ... |
| Brian McCann | ... he audience watched a montage of highlights from the show, and staff writer | greeted the audience (this task was formerly undertaken by head writer Mik ... |
| Ferenc Molnár | ... stein II (book and lyrics). The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from | 's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coast ... |
| Werner Herzog | ... m many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, | , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, an ... |
| James I | During the 15th century | consigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... alf of the century, race relations deteriorated. Even so, on the night that | was assassinated, Indianapolis was the only major city in which rioting di ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... ends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, | , Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François T ... |
| Fabian Nicieza | ... cters from The New Mutants, led by Cable; it was written by Rob Liefeld and | . Internal friction soon split the X-books' creative teams. In a controver ... |
| Pope Pius II | The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of | (1458–1464) |
| Orson Welles | ... is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures | ;directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and Tim Po ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hesychius | ... nyi (and Robert Graves) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from | ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, "utterly pure") was ... |
| Anna May Wong | ... ef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, | , and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by ... |
| Teri Hatcher | ... ased on 6 February 2009, with Henry Selick directing and Dakota Fanning and | in the leading voice-actor roles |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... . Bowie also would say later: "he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image." | , in the Rolling Stone magazine edition for their List of 100 Greatest Sin ... |
| Alfonso X of Castile | ... clopaedia Britannica on Astronomy during the 1960s, in a discussion of King | 's interest in astronomy during the 13th century. (Alfonso is credited wit ... |
| Dino Buzzati | The Italian novelist | was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian write ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | ... ng Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, | , David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François Truffaut |
| Brothers Grimm | ... n mythology from folklore or fairy tales. This was notably attempted by the | , especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with ... |
| Phillip Knightley | According to historian | , "The remaining years of Sir John Kerr's life were miserable ones. He was ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... ersions had been made, by an eclectic mix of artists including Cilla Black, | , Tose Proeski, The Mamas and the Papas and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Jo ... |
| Pindar | ... of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna ( | , Pythian Ode 1.19–20; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed sc ... |
| Paul Green | It was adapted for the stage by Wright and | , with some conflict between the authors affecting the project. The initia ... |
| Diogenes Laërtius | ... tus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on | , Porphyry, and Iamblichus for the biographical details. Aristotle had wri ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
| George Washington | ... st of the Mississippi River. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of | , and Thomas Jefferson planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The ... |
| Uriah Smith | Early Adventists Pioneers (such as George Storrs and | ) tended to de-emphasise the morally corrupt nature inherited from Adam, w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... and sometimes written to be played by amateurs. The concept was inspired by | . An example of this is his Trauermusik (Funeral Music), written in Januar ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... "Runes") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by | for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. The initia ... |
| Samuel Pepys | At the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660, | saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ... |
| 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 |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
| Ferenc Molnár | | 's Hungarian-language drama, Liliom, premiered in Budapest in 1909. The au ... |
| Steven Berkoff | ... ected by Pantelis Voulgaris and starred Victoria Haralabidou, Damien Lewis, | and Kosta Sommer |
| James I | ... anor. The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, before | assigned it to his son, the future Charles I |
| Frank Oz | ... children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by | . Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary ... |
| Aeschylus | ... saries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna (Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.19–20 | ;, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed scratches and goads the whole len ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... hinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President | ’s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a mean ... |
| Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
| Ingmar Bergman | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including | , Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, ... |
| Hipparchus | ... ably used a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic. | probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. Ptolemy describes his ins ... |
| Oriana Fallaci | ... tellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, | and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to ... |
| William Caxton | ... popular over the centuries, though it was rejected by Malory's own editor, | , who preferred a Welsh location |
| Van Morrison | ... & roll. He broke open the door for everyone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and | weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan. |
| David E. Talbert | ... United States Africa Command, The New York Times columnist William Rhoden, | , who is a playwright, TV producer and entrepreneur and Zaina Adamu, video ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited | (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor of the armillary sphere. The name of this d ... |
| Ruth White | ... is group consisted mostly of opponents of the Bahá'í administration such as | and Mirza Ahmad Sohrab |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | Guest married actress | in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend Rob Reiner. They have two adopt ... |
| D. H. Pennington | ... r Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, | , Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had previously opposed B ... |
| Virginia Stephen | ... s Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell, and they, together with sisters Vanessa and | (later Bell and Woolf respectively), eventually formed the Bloomsbury grou ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
| Ted Okuda | ... g of the dozens of Chaplin films and alternate versions can be found in the | -David Maska book Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tra ... |
| Charles Lever | ... ical and cultural milieu"; guests at their salon included Sheridan le Fanu, | , George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson |
| 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 ... |
| Ian Roberts | ... e, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, | , Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sketch actors on ... |
| Aristotelian | ... e Renaissance's revival of classical learning and thought. A revolt against | logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence ... |
| Basava | ... opments took place in present day Karnataka inspired by three philosophers, | , Madhvacharya and Ramanuja |
| M. K. Asante, Jr. | ... ulty currently teaching at Morgan State University include author/filmmaker | , gerontologist Gaynell Simpson, and scholar Raymond Winbush who directs t ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... in fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's | . By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, h ... |
| Pausanias | ... od" status. She did, however, have followers, the Iasides ("sons of Iaso"). | (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attic ... |
| Matt Walsh | ... y, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, | and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sketch actors on the show for ... |
| Rob Reiner | ... married actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend | . They have two adopted children: The Hon. Anne (born 1986) and The Hon. T ... |
| Norman Newell | ... as that of teen idol Adam Faith: Faith was assigned to the label in 1959 by | , an EMI A&R man "without portfolio". Treading a path similar to other Bri ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... eryone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and Van Morrison weren't so weird — even | . |
| Kirkvaag | ... portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy trio | , Lystad and Mjøen, which went on to win the "Special Prize of the City of ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... have the magic touch, staging a disappointing revival of Twelfth Night with | and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of Macbeth with Ralph ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
| Petra Kelly | During her 1984 visit to Australia, West German Greens parliamentarian | urged that the various Greens groups in Australia develop a national ident ... |
| Brian McCann | ... frequently appeared in sketches on the show. Among the most prolific were: | (Preparation H Raymond, FedEx Pope, The Loser, Airsick Moth, Jerry Butters ... |
| George Tibbles | To keep the show's title plausible, the show's head writer, | , fashioned a three-part story arc in which an orphaned friend of youngest ... |
| Hipparchus | The Greek astronomer | (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | ... rew his Notizie, in which he consciously intended to build upon the Vite of | ; Baldinucci's was the first art history to trace the lives and work of ar ... |
| Plutarch | ... Professor Barry Powell has suggested she was Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess. | , in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, rep ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... inst the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister | (himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding) and Sté ... |
| William Gibson | In 2000, Cunningham and cyberpunk author | began work on the script for Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer. However, bec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Pater | ... lvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, | and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable ... |
| Terry Pratchett | In a collaboration with author | (best known for his series of Discworld novels), Gaiman's first novel Good ... |
| Tertullian | ... 4th century seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in | De Corona Militis xi, "Apud hunc [sc. Christum] tam miles est pagan ... |
| Harry Enfield | ... nd guest appearance on Room 101. He has also been a comedy screenwriter for | |
| Laurence Olivier | ... chose to ‘blacken up’ include Ralph Richardson (1937), John Gielgud (1961), | (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black Ame ... |
| Alec Baldwin | ... 3). Daniel Day-Lewis, who had become very reclusive to the Hollywood scene, | , Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Emily Mortimer, John C. Reilly, Frank Sivero, an ... |
| Verne Lundquist | ... to become an NFL game analyst in 1984, where he and play-by-play announcer | had the top rated programs. Prior to his full-time work for them, he serve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Shearer | ... ichael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, | , Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. and Fred Willard. Guest and Levy write ... |
| Aristotle | ... lian Physics was not designed with these sorts of calculations in mind, and | 's philosophy regarding the heavens was entirely at odds with the concept ... |
| Herbert Read | ... Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir | , Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. W ... |
| Robert Osborne | ... him in any way. Critics, however, generally were favorable toward the film. | , who introduced showings of the movie on Turner Classic Movies, was quite ... |
| John Calvin | ... ginal sin was popular among Protestant reformers, such as Martin Luther and | , and also, within Roman Catholicism, in the Jansenist movement, but this ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s chief court was in Caerleon in Wales; this was the king's primary base in | 's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature. Chrétien depicts A ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Keck | ... l number of species known to over 250. The genus was extensively revised by | between 1932 and 1957; in 1946 the American Penstemon Society was formed t ... |
| Hara Takashi | ... kai political party . He was appointed to the same office by Prime Minister | in 1918. In 1920, Takahashi's title was elevated to viscount (shishaku). A ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... rrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President | , United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nat ... |
| Robert Altman | ... mpus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He is tied with | and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best direc ... |
| President Truman | In July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphed | on the lynching of four African Americans in Georgia, demanding that the f ... |
| Jonathan Demme | ... nse in 1984. Byrne added "Loco de Amor" (Crazy for Love) with Celia Cruz to | 's 1986 film Something Wild |
| Zheng He | ... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiral | of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ... |
| Martin Luther | ... formulation of original sin was popular among Protestant reformers, such as | and John Calvin, and also, within Roman Catholicism, in the Jansenist move ... |
| Plutarch | ... erial era. Roman historians dated the city's foundation from 758 to 728 BC. | says Romulus was fifty-three at his death; his reckoning gives the twins' ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ata that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in | 's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his ... |
| Porphyry | ... agoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Both Iamblichus and | give detailed accounts of the organisation of the school, although the pri ... |
| Williamson affair | For instance, during the | , Monsignor Robert Wister publicly declared that the negationist comments ... |
| 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 ... |
| Boris Bittker | Tax law professor | and his co-authors have stated |
| Jane Lynch | ... These include Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, | , John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. a ... |
| Erlend Loe | ... theory was also used in the Norwegian book Organisten (The Organ Player) by | and Petter Amundsen. It has also been asserted that the pit may have been ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... Arafat established relationships with a variety of world leaders, including | and Idi Amin. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... n. In this position, two of Bancroft's appointees were Orestes Brownson and | . In 1844, he was the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Massach ... |
| Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman | In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters | got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which en ... |
| William Faulkner | ... minations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of | 's Intruder in the Dust |
| Nick Lane | from:1999 till:2012 color:sub text: | —trombon |
| Alan Moore | ... atman R.I.P. It is titled "" a play off of the classic Superman story "" by | . He also contributed a twelve-page Metamorpho story drawn by Mike Allred ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... rancis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of | 's plays. Author and researcher Mark Finnan elaborated upon this theory. T ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | ... usel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and | (book and lyrics). The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc ... |
| Michael de Larrabeiti | The Wombles are vitriolically parodied in The Borrible Trilogy by | as the Rumbles, the upper-class, rodent-like enemies of the working-class ... |
| Plutarch | ... us; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by | in his vita of Theseus (20.3-.5). According to the myth that was current a ... |
| Patrick Bateson | ... g Sheldrake's prediction. In an independent analysis of the data, biologist | agreed with Rose that the results ran counter to the prediction of morphic ... |
| Henri Murger | ... y Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by | . The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... Shepard gives the film much well-needed heft. He is the center of gravity". | wrote, "The movie has the happy, excited spirit of a fanfare, and it's ast ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... Twain; Brooks & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle | ;; Rosanne Cash and Linda Ronstadt moved country further towards rock infl ... |
| Richard Rodgers | Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of | (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The work premiered in ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ter. CORE was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of | . It was modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against Br ... |
| Manna Dey | ... ajans and kirtans have been recorded by well known singers in India such as | Anuradha Paudwal and Anup Jalota |
| Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla, | writes about several battles between Norwegians and Geats. He wrote that i ... |
| Steven Rose | In 1990 neurobiologist | experimented jointly with Sheldrake to test the hypothesis of morphic reso ... |
| Ibn Khaldun | ... to have said: "There is no way for two (leaders) together at any one time" | the famous 14th century Muslim scholar, economist and historian said |
| George Washington | ... colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel | |
| Robert Ross | Wilde spent mid-1897 with | in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | , based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with Laurence Fishburne opposite | 's Iago. In the past, Othello would often have been portrayed by a white a ... |
| Ian MacDonald | Personnel as given by Mark Lewisohn and | |
| William Taubman | ... hysicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer | , African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, ... |
| James Merrill's | ... within each other. A particularly ingenious example of nested narratives is | 1974 modernist poem "Lost in Translation" |
| Robert Z. Leonard | ... lda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by | , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was ... |
| Ovid | ... the results in his favor. In the disputes that followed, Remus was killed. | has Romulus invent the festival of Lemuria to appease Remus' resentful gho ... |
| Luigi Illica | ... hème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by | and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. ... |
| Tad Williams | ... featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, | , and others |
| Robert Browning | Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem by | from his 1876 collection, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper. It ... |
| Jeffrey Archer | ... n Time editions (13 as of September 2010). In one he made an open attack on | , who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, Mary Archer, was a f ... |
| John Calvin | Reformers Martin Luther and | equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even ... |
| Zelda Sears | ... orcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and | , based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert ... |
| Varro | ... ation between Aeneas and Dido. Servius in his commentary (4.682; 5.4) cites | (1st century BC ) for a version in which Dido's sister Anna killed herself ... |
| Laurence Fishburne | ... production casting a black actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with | opposite Kenneth Branagh's Iago. In the past, Othello would often have bee ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... herry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958), Five Finger Exercise (1959), | 's comedy Half Way Up a Tree (1967), and Private Lives (1972). Gielgud won ... |
| Steven Rose | ... nconsciously, or to other conspecifics. A neuroscientist and memory expert, | , has been critical of this view. A major reason for the criticism is that ... |
| John Kenrick | ... significantly cut—as was the 1950 London cast recording. Theatre historian | notes that a number of songs had to be abridged to fit the 78 format, but ... |
| Orson Welles | ... ween the authors affecting the project. The initial production, directed by | and with Canada Lee as Bigger opened at the St. James Theatre on March 24, ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | ... n of literature, including Andreas Capellanus, who served in her court, and | . She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library. A d ... |
| Gene Wolfe | ... on anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, | , Tad Williams, and others |
| Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
| Galileo Galilei | ... ns was entirely at odds with the concept of heliocentrism. It was not until | observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, and the phases of Venus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sidonius Apollinaris | ... d in Spain, considered the year 457 the third of Avitus' reign; furthermore | tells about a failed coup d'etat in Gaul, organised by one Marcellus and p ... |
| Miles Malleson | ... yn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, | , Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicho ... |
| Xenophanes | ... ent places at one and the same time. With the exception of a few remarks by | , Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly de ... |
| Robert Stevenson | ... cated there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including | 's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist Ross ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was | (1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ... |
| J. Hudson Taylor | #A Retrospect by Protestant Christian missionary | (1832–1905), which documented how he founded the China Inland Mission (ren ... |
| John Meehan | The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, | and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was dire ... |
| Andreas Capellanus | ... of the Albigensian Crusade. She was also a patron of literature, including | , who served in her court, and Chrétien de Troyes. She was literate in Fre ... |
| Eugene Levy | His frequent writing partner is | . Together, Levy, Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loo ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian, | , drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ... |
| Surdas | # Tulsidas or | # Marathi Abhangs on Lord Pandurang |
| Owen Gingerich | ... rate for its day and was still in use at the time of Copernicus and Kepler. | describes a planetary conjunction that occurred in 1504 that was apparentl ... |
| Tulsidas | # | or Surda |
| David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
| John Dryden | ... nd Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder, | , to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly ... |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | ... ert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and | . Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, vi ... |
| Jayadeva | # | Ashtapadi (Geeta Govindam |
| Pauline Kael | ... too ambitious, facetious and hip for its own box-office good". Film critic | wrote, "I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and ... |
| Théodore Barrière | ... ly called a novel, it has no unified plot. Like the 1849 play by Murger and | , the opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mim ... |
| John D. Winters | ... General Nathaniel P. Banks who occupied Opelousas found what the historian | describes as "a beautiful town boasting several churches, a fine convent, ... |
| Jimmy Fallon | ... inal "Scrambled Eggs" version of the song, plus additional new lyrics, with | and The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon |
| James V. Kern | ... n followed by former actor-turned-director Gene Reynolds from 1962 to 1964. | , an experienced Hollywood television director who had previously helmed t ... |
| Purandara Dasa | # | # Sadasiva Brahmendr |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | ... dtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on | 's The Last Emperor, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. I ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... the critical failure of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, | said, "I sympathize with people who didn't like the MacGuffin (the crystal ... |
| Hesiod | In | and most other accounts, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... connection for travelers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as | , James Madison and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times tr ... |
| General Foch | ... pval Ridge but Haig would not agree to this and Joffre then referred him to | to settle the matter. Foch remembers that Haig was "upset with his losses. ... |
| Johannes Kepler | ... ope had on astronomy came quickly and were both controversial and profound. | was able to formulate his famous three laws of planetary motion, which des ... |
| Stephen Merchant | In the fifth season of The Ricky Gervais Show, | compared Ricky Gervais to a Womble while discussing Ricky's experiences as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n (it did so until 1925). The astronomical day had begun at noon ever since | chose to begin the days in his astronomical periods at noon. He chose noon ... |
| Stephen Hawking | In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against | that the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ... |
| Gene Reynolds | ... ins for one season and was in turn followed by former actor-turned-director | from 1962 to 1964. James V. Kern, an experienced Hollywood television dire ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wu Ming | Examples in literature include the television set in | 's novel 5 |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life, | argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ... |
| William Gibson | and the container in | 's Spook Country |
| Plutarch | ... was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by | in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scip ... |
| Ricky Gervais | In the fifth season of The Ricky Gervais Show, Stephen Merchant compared | to a Womble while discussing Ricky's experiences as an unemployed artist i ... |
| Compton Mackenzie | ... ley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir | , the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis ... |
| Henri Murger | According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on | 's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying ... |
| Plato | ... , or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on | , and through him, all of Western philosophy |
| Hara Takashi | ... served in this post in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake, | , and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was Japan's chief ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... p Fiction and Ronin, and the mineral unobtainium in Avatar (2009). The 2011 | film initially focuses on a mysterious notebook taken from the main charac ... |
| Bretzner | ... lmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail, an earlier work by | , who later complained loudly and publicly about the theft |
| Sarah Palin | ... had finished. In another, he suggested that USA vice-presidential candidate | was rare among politicians in being good-looking; the laughter from the au ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of | , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ... |
| Saul Williams | Bigger Thomas is mentioned in one of the lyrical hooks of "The Ritual" in | 's The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust |
| Ronald F. Maxwell | Burnside was portrayed by Alex Hyde-White in | 's 2003 film Gods and Generals, which includes the Battle of Fredericksbur ... |
| Rihanna | ... nds. Hip-hop artists commonly sample 1980s synthpop and R&B artists such as | have also embraced that subgenre |
| Ilan Stavans | ... rd, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar | , novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pu ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... OKeh label, artists like Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer, | , Miff Mole, and other major artists who recorded for OKeh. These records ... |
| Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, | , prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in ... |
| Edward Bunker | Native Son is mentioned in | 's 1981 novel Little Boy Blue as being read by the main character, Alex Ha ... |
| Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... s still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and | among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, ... |
| Akka Mahadevi | ... n dance and music, and the 12th century Vachana poet and Lingayatism mystic | 's devotion to the bhakti movement is well known. Temple dancers (Devadasi ... |
| Luis Muñoz Marín | ... il 1985, when then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón decided to name it after | , Puerto Rico's first democratically elected governor |
| Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
| Chrétien de Troyes | The castle is mentioned for the first time in | ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it do ... |
| Xenophon | ... his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. | , who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminond ... |
| James I | ... nts and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of | through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain |
| Ahmat Taboye | ... apha, Antoine Bangui and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, | , published his to further knowledge of Chad's literature internationally ... |
| Cassiodorus | ... mpire. The term "Visigoth", however, was an invention of the sixth century. | , a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term "Visigo ... |
| Pausanias | ... arried Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to | , Amythaon is the father of Bias and Melampus. Their mother was Idomene, d ... |
| Mary Church Terrell | ... re Paul Robeson, D.C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. | , Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hugh ... |
| Percival Everett | A large section of | 's Erasure (1999) contains a parody, entitled "Fuck," of Native Son |
| Lemony Snicket | ... Boris Max, is woven into the plot of The Penultimate Peril, a 2005 book by | . "Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famo ... |
| Diego de Torres Vargas | ... Coat of Arms of the City. The orange color was based and taken from Father | ' text and it reads : "Escudo de armas dado a Puerto Rico por los Reyes Ca ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... of baptizing infants, guilty of no actual personal sin, was given by Saint | , not all of whose ideas on original sin have been adopted by the Catholic ... |
| Koulsy Lamko | ... renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, Baba Moustapha, Antoine Bangui and | . In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ahmat Taboye, published his to furt ... |
| Jeffry D. Wert | ... y accepting when told that the command would otherwise go to Joseph Hooker. | described Burnside's relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up ... |
| Chuck Austen | ... the meantime, Ultimate X-Men was launched, set in Marvel's revised imprint. | also began his controversial run on Uncanny X-Men |
| Thucydides | ... ed by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of | 's History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) is an opera, with music and libretto by | |
| Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... l and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form. According to | , "What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the thea ... |
| Baroness Emmuska Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by | , set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolut ... |
| Ramon Muntaner | ... d "Awake sword, kill, kill, Aragon, Aragon..." as referred to by chronicler | . Christian Almogavers were incorporated and increasing its share. Eventua ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... lage (real or fictitious) featured in the 1770 poem The Deserted Village by | . Originally part of Cumberland County, the town became county seat of And ... |
| Bruce Catton | ... relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up his military career: | summarized Burnside |
| Isaac Newton | ... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action which | had published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... o the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher | used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Sha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Girolamo Fracastoro | ... appeared in 1898. It may have been inspired by the non-Ptolemaic system of | , who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by Eudoxus of Cnidu ... |
| Zosimus | ... s were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. In support of this, Wolfram cites | as referring to a group of "Scythians" north of the Danube who were called ... |
| Subcomandante Marcos | ... 's supporters association, was evoked in a Saint Patrick's Day message from | of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and has been remembered as a ... |
| Michael McKean | ... y group, which appear across several films. These include Catherine O'Hara, | , Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shear ... |
| Arthur Ashe | ... orce. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and | . Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langs ... |
| Norman Thomas | ... Disillusioned, Rustin began working with members of the Socialist Party of | , particularly, A. Philip Randolph, the head of the Brotherhood of Sleepin ... |
| Francis Meynell | ... Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir | , Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, ... |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... sm in his books. He sold millions of copies in the Soviet Union alone. When | was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll' ... |
| Robert Altman | ... aracters), in depicting the chaotic Douglas household, a full decade before | was credited with innovating such aural realism in feature films such as M ... |
| George Washington | When the American Revolutionary War began, | was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ... |
| Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
| George Lucas | ... the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of , writer and director | describes R2-D2 as "the main driving force of the movie ... what you say i ... |
| Antoine Bangui | ... st internationally renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, Baba Moustapha, | and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ahmat Taboye, publi ... |
| Xenophon | ... iod of Greek history from 411–362 BC is primarily attested by the historian | , who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Luis Muñoz Marín | ... neously the gubernatorial mansion La Fortaleza, where Puerto Rican governor | resided, and the United States Federal Court House which is located close ... |
| James Whitcomb Riley | ... the highest point was Crown Hill Cemetery (the tomb of famed Hoosier writer | ) with an elevation of . The lowest point in Indianapolis lies at the Mari ... |
| Orson Welles | ... ), John Gielgud (1961), Laurence Olivier (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and | . Ground-breaking black American actor Paul Robeson played the role from 1 ... |
| Matthew Fox (priest) | With | |
| Peter Atkins | ... e University of East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston, | , Richard Wiseman and the Royal Societ |
| 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 ... |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... te is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring | as Banzai's mother) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... out before the resolution was passed. As they exited, they were taunted by | who told them "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; yo ... |
| Gregory of Tours | ... ions to the basilica of Saint Julian in Avernia, his homeland. According to | , Avitus died during the journey; according to other sources, he was kille ... |
| Baba Moustapha | ... on. Among the most internationally renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, | , Antoine Bangui and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ah ... |
| John Ruskin | ... sing philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and | . After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and so ... |
| Carol Ann Duffy | ... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, | . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, | , and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta ... |
| Cornelius Nepos | ... viving (and possibly abridged) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author | from the first century BC, in the absence of Plutarch's, this becomes a ma ... |
| Angus MacPhail | ... and for Dick Cavett's interview. According to author Ken Mogg, screenwriter | , a friend of Hitchcock, may have originally coined the term |
| Catherine O'Hara | ... d a loose repertory group, which appear across several films. These include | , Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higg ... |
| Hunter Davies | The song's composition is unusually well documented as | was present and described the writing process in the Beatles' official bio ... |
| Salman Rushdie | ... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist | , who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ... |
| Elisabeth Beresford | ... ycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author | , originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. Althoug ... |
| Eleanor Bron | Cook expanded television comedy with | , John Bird and John Fortune. His first regular television spot was on Gra ... |
| Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... own tone row, meaning that the tone rows act rather like the leitmotifs in | 's operas |
| Tulsidas | ... tion are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and | are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, Gorakhanathi, ... |
| Christoph Friedrich Bretzner | ... ngspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by | with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie. The plot concerns the attempt of t ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ng and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received by | in June 13. Hitler told Kung that "I understand that people in China think ... |
| 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 ... |
| Surdas | ... idasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, | and Tulsidas are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, ... |
| Frederick Maurice | ... battle. In compiling his biography of General Rawlinson, Major-General Sir | was supplied by the Reichsarchiv with a figure of 164,055 for the German k ... |
| 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 ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena | ... ancis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with | as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christian ... |
| Plato | ... as to his definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by | and Aristotle is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. He ... |
| Herodotus | ... recounted across the world for thousands of years, appearing in writings by | , the Alexander romance, and the stories of Prester John. Stories of a sim ... |
| Alan Moore | ... pany. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, | , Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
| Henry Fielding | ... atchmen with tax moneys, beginning the shift to government control. In 1749 | began organizing a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow ... |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | ... his books gaining him a religious fatwa for Rushdie's death from Ayatollah | which ultimately resulted in United Kingdom and Iran breaking diplomatic t ... |
| Kabir | Bhajans by | , Mirabai, Surdas, Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. ... |
| Aristotle | ... definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by Plato and | is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. Heraclitus state ... |
| Gottlieb Stephanie | ... The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by | . The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his serv ... |
| Todd McFarlane | In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by | to write a single issue of Spawn, a popular title at the newly created Ima ... |
| Richard Ellmann | ... he library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology. | argues that Wilde's poem "" was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to e ... |
| Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | ... cience and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, | , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Chris ... |
| Surdas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, | , Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of ... |
| Pius II | ... of the town: it was built by Cardinal Albornoz (1367) and added to by Popes | and Paul III. The smaller of the two was built much earlier, in the Roman ... |
| Johann Mattheson | ... mberg musical tradition, who had been at one time a pupil of Johann Staden. | , whose Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (Hamburg, 1740) is one of the most imp ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by | , head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ... |
| Dave Sim | ... his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and | each write a single issue |
| Ridgely Torrence | ... esbyterian Hospital. Robeson then gave his theatrical debut as Simon in the | play about Simon of Cyrene. After a year of courtship, Essie and Robeson m ... |
| Gottlieb Stephanie | The inspector of the Nationalsingspiel was | . When the 25-year-old Mozart arrived in Vienna in 1781, seeking professio ... |
| Marianus Scotus | ... pon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. The same is true of | 's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. Some manusc ... |
| 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: ".. ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... o the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which | was presented the Iron Cross (First Class) on recommendation from his supe ... |
| Kabir | ... well known singers. Kabir refers to his body as a chadar, a sheet of cloth. | is the best-known exponent of Nirguni bhajan, which celebrate a formless ( ... |
| Hyginus | ... as grandson of the eponymous Phylacos, he was the leader of the Phylaceans. | surmised that he was originally known as Iolaus—not to be confused with Io ... |
| Tulsidas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, Surdas, | and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of their works ... |
| Brian Crozier | ... 61, "a private sector operational intelligence agency" said by its founder, | , to be funded by "rich individuals and a few private companies". It is sa ... |
| Elisabeth Beresford | | was a freelance ghost writer and children's book author. She was born in P ... |
| Seth Green | ... pearance, playing himself, in the film The Italian Job (2003). In the film, | 's character accused Fanning of stealing Napster from him while he was tak ... |
| Edward Bond | ... Albee (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), | (Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), ... |
| Janna | The Hoysala court supported scholars such as | , Rudrabhatta, Harihara and his nephew Raghavanka, whose works are endurin ... |
| Pausanias | ... first man who dared to leap ashore when the Greek fleet touched the Troad, | recalled, quoting "the author of the epic called the Cypria". An oracle ha ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... don, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American | . Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on "those wonderful Berlin c ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... 8. This conception of God influenced New England transcendentalists such as | . The term was popularized by Charles Hartshorne in his development of pro ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new president | and the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ... |
| Francesco Redi | ... hrough their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, Song Ci, | , Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doctor Hermann Rein ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), | (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gi ... |
| James Hepburn | ... ish language and American culture in a private school run by the missionary | (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University, and went abroad with a son of ... |
| Pedro Almodóvar | ... in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by Spanish director | . She began doing casting calls for an agent, but was rejected multiple ti ... |
| Benjamin Constant | ... sias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, | and Alessandro Manzoni |
| William Shakespeare | ... s On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played | ), David Storey (Home), and Harold Pinter (No Man's Land), the latter two ... |
| Rudrabhatta | ... title "Emperor among poets" (Kavichakravarthi) from King Veera Ballala II. | , a Smartist Brahmin, was the earliest well-known Brahminical writer whose ... |
| Lorna Luft | ... re married on June 8, 1952, in Hollister, California. Garland gave birth to | , herself a future actress and singer, on November 21, 1952, and to Joey L ... |
| Murray Bookchin | ... ironmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as Rachel Carson and | had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previo ... |
| Rachel Carson | ... rmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as | and Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at t ... |
| Desmond Tutu | ... statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, | , F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled wi ... |
| Bede | The sole source of original information about Cædmon's life and work is | 's Historia ecclesiastica. According to Bede, Cædmon was a lay brother who ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... ed as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor/musician | 's musical talents. He often plays and sings show tunes and popular songs ... |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
| Anastasius Bibliothecarius | ... s in manuscripts that predate the Chronicon. The one most commonly cited is | (d. 886), a compiler of Liber Pontificalis, who was a contemporary of the ... |
| Hall, Manly Palmer | ... 31151131*Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.* | , The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , *Herodotus, The Histories* * ... |
| Steve Coll | ... ny sources, notably Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, and Ghost Wars by | |
| Ptolemy | ... d by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by | of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. I ... |
| Kabir | ... the kirtan or song in the Haridasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, | , Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and Tulsidas are notable composers. Tradit ... |
| Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
| Blaise Pascal | ... to the latter movement of Jansenism and the Port-Royal theologians such as | |
| Harold Pinter | ... ngo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), and | (No Man's Land), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph R ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... th the title mimicking the controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics | , who wrote The God Delusion. [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldra ... |
| Rob Pike | Bruce Ellis did the code and | did the design. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, demonstrating ... |
| Herodotus | | mentions a fountain containing a very special kind of water located in the ... |
| Hugh Whitemore | ... uke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in | 's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell |
| Ibn Khurradadhbih | ... re with 3 strings, sounded by a horse tail hair bow. The Persian geographer | (d. 911) of the 9th century, in his lexicographical discussion of instrume ... |
| Michael Pillsbury | ... IA was not doing enough to support the Mujahideen in the Soviet Afghan war. | , Vincent Cannistraro, and others put enormous bureaucratic pressure on th ... |
| Plutarch | ... lly to learn information concerning the secret or mystic cults of the gods. | asserted in his book On Isis and Osiris that during his visit to Egypt, Py ... |
| Joss Whedon | ... duced called Astonishing X-Men, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator | , following Morrison's departure. Another X-Book titled took its place foc ... |
| Ovid | ... s master, claiming that Odysseus' violence was not unwarranted by the gods. | mentions the "cruel" Medon as one of the suitors; he is also included on t ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with | , who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way ... |
| Jeffrey Archer | ... Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of | . With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's ... |
| Said Aburish | ... Palestinian territories within the PLO command and according to biographer | , had "impressive knowledge of local conditions" in the Israeli-occupied t ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | Wilde was the sole literary signatory of | 's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) a ... |
| Ethan Mordden | ... also used to introduce the characters and situation to the audience. Author | described the effectiveness of this opening |
| Lactantius | ... ary and political events, to the neglect of cultural and religious matters. | ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns o ... |
| Ed Harris | ... nd mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including John Glenn ( | ) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) of the Uni ... |
| Frank Herbert | In the Dune series, | tells the story of Leto, Paul and Leto II of House Atreides, the enemies o ... |
| John Webster | ... ts in 1963. Among his non-Shakespearean Renaissance roles, his Ferdinand in | 's The Duchess of Malfi was well-known |
| 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 ... |
| Badrachala Bhakta Ramdas | # | # Purandara Das |
| Gloria Steinem | ... brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight. | , Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, ... |
| Nick Cave | The 1980s saw a breakthrough in the independence of Australian rock— | said that before the 80s, "Australia still needed America or England to te ... |
| Marco Polo | ... for China popularized in Europe by the account of the 13th-century explorer | . The first recorded use in English dates from 1555. The Persian word is, ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both | and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... World War), the entire remaining Baltic German community was repatriated by | to areas Nazi Germany had invaded in western Poland (especially in the War ... |
| Ron Moody | ... tured on record in 1964 with Jay Robinson as Iago and on video in 1981 with | as Iago. The 1982 Broadway staging starred James Earl Jones as Othello and ... |
| Richard Ellmann | ... of estranging himself from his family. A precocious seventeen year old, by | 's account, he was "...so young and yet so knowing, was determined to sedu ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... ted States. Whilst there, he met the American composers George Gershwin and | and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. He also developed an interest in act ... |
| Raghavanka | ... (poems in blank verse) in praise of Lord Virupaksha (a form of Lord Shiva). | was the first to introduce the Shatpadi metre into Kannada literature in h ... |
| Ernest Hemingway | In 1928 | and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth ... |
| Bill Walsh | ... s television's longest running (live-action) family sitcom. Disney producer | often mused on whether the concept of the show was inspired by the movie T ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... reen is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and | appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Nig ... |
| Betty Friedan | Gloria Steinem, | , Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, El ... |
| Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
| 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 ... |
| William of Ockham | ... ed in long theological debates with other noted figures of the age, such as | and |
| Wagnerian | ... uses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used | leitmotifs (short musical statements) to identify characters, objects and ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... conomies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from | and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments ... |
| Edward Albee | ... gud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by | (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edwa ... |
| Oscar Micheaux | ... and negotiated his first movie appearance in a silent race film directed by | , |
| Jean Chrétien | ... in Quebec in support of Canadian unity. As well, the Liberal government of | passed party financing legislation that resulted in the Bloc receiving mil ... |
| Ptolemy | It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer | , although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apo ... |
| Brian Inglis | ... rception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as Arthur Koestler, | and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... , with service to New York JFK, where passengers were welcomed by the mayor | |
| Michael G. Vickers | ... ing". Their increasingly successful Afghanistan strategy, formed largely by | , was based on a broad mix of weapons, tactics, and logistics, not a 'silv ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... erences to the female Pope abound in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. | wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of Adam of U ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to | , who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ... |
| Jack Vance | The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by | , first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a centra ... |
| Harlan Ellison | ... Clarion's 1971 anthology; another short story, "Childfinder," was bought by | for the never-published collection The Last Dangerous Visions. (Like other ... |
| John James Audubon | ... . The average weight of these pigeons was 340–400 grams (12–14 oz) and, per | 's account, length was 42 cm (16.5 in) in males and 38 cm (15 in) in femal ... |
| Vasari | ... the Baroque period. Patronised by the Medici, he aspired to become the new | by renewing and expanding his biographies of artists, to which Baldinucci ... |
| Herman Melville | ... 90s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to | ’s Moby-Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s p ... |
| Brian Herbert | ... to the original Atreides of the Trojan War. In one of the prequel novels by | and Kevin J. Anderson, the Play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Calada ... |
| Elizabeth Holtzman | ... edan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, | , amongst many others, led the movement for women's equality |
| Song Ci | ... ations. Through their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, | , Francesco Redi, Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doc ... |
| Franz Xaver Niemetschek | The anecdote originally appeared in an early biography of Mozart by | . Its authenticity is not accepted by all scholars |
| Craig Kyle | ... crossover between X-Force and Cable series entitled Messiah War, written by | and Chris Yost, commenced in March 2009 and served as a second part in the ... |
| John Cornwell | ... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of | , "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ... |
| Bartolomeo Platina | ... eminated and believed. Joan was used as an exemplum in Dominican preaching. | , the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Ponti ... |
| Xenophanes | ... ythagoreans. Heraclitus stated that he was a man of extensive learning; and | claimed that he believed in the transmigration of souls. Xenophanes mentio ... |
| Michael Backman | In 2009, The Age suspended its columnist | after one of his columns condemned Israeli tourists as greedy and badly be ... |
| Hipparchus | ... een developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and | of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost t ... |
| Barack Obama | ... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush and | of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ... |
| Kevin J. Anderson | ... reides of the Trojan War. In one of the prequel novels by Brian Herbert and | , the Play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Caladan, during the reign o ... |
| Nellie Melba | ... ally produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with | as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mar ... |
| Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff | ... ivine punishment, with Hitler as an instrument in a greater plan, was Rabbi | . When Rav Kook died in 1935, Risikoff—with "a presentiment of the catastr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerry Anderson | ... e and Dud. Other sketches included "Superthunderstingcar", a send-up of the | marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentarie ... |
| 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, ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... ntheism was a major force in the Unitarian church for a long time, based on | 's concept of the Oversoul. This survives today as the panentheistic relig ... |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... Ab Urbe Condita and several Greek-language histories of Rome: these include | 's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch ... |
| Aldhelm | ... omposition of a large of vernacular religious poetry. In contrast to Saints | and Dunstan, Cædmon’s poetry is said to have been exclusively religious. B ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... lations included English and American poetry and a masterpiece in rendering | 's epic, Peer Gynt, into Icelandic. Einar Benediktsson was buried at Icela ... |
| Oliver Postgate | ... eries (of the same name) and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of | and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a 'cult classic' from the go ... |
| Robert Sherard | ... him to move to Paris between February and mid-May 1883. Whilst there he met | , whom he entertained constantly. "We are dining on the Duchess tonight", ... |
| Zheng He | ... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of | (Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ... |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... rchive interviews with Bonnie Langford, David Tomlinson and writer/director | |
| 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 ... |
| Rav Kook | ... s an instrument in a greater plan, was Rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff. When | died in 1935, Risikoff—with "a presentiment of the catastrophe" yet to com ... |
| Harry Morgan | ... e role of Joe Friday's partner: Bill Gannon, played by movie and TV veteran | , a lifelong friend of Webb. Morgan in 1949 had a voice role as rooming ho ... |
| Plutarch | ... icarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and | 's early 2nd century Life of Romulus. These accounts provide the broad lit ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
| Tam Dalyell | The West Lothian question is often said to have been raised by | , then member of Parliament for the former West Lothian constituency, in h ... |
| Jordanes | ... ere referred to as Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by | and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gau ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... tion) of the leader of the cymeks who gave himself the pseudonym Agamemnon. | 's short story, "The Purloined Letter", makes reference to Atreus and Thye ... |
| Constance Lloyd | In London, he had been introduced to | in 1881, daughter of Horace Lloyd, a wealthy Queen's Counsel. She happened ... |
| Baba Bulleh Shah | ... nirguna) divinity, encouraging listeners to shed dogma and look at reality. | is another and the Bauls of Bengal have developed from these roots. The Si ... |
| David Lee Roth | ... ". He was replaced by bassist James LoMenzo, who had previously worked with | , White Lion, and Black Label Society. On March 16, 2006, the new Megadeth ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
| Richard Rubenstein | Prof. | 's original piece on this issue, "After Auschwitz", held that the only int ... |
| Frederik Pohl | | reported that Vance had "pretty carefully" worked out his extrapolation, b ... |
| Aristarchus of Samos | ... the ground seems still and steady underfoot. Some Greek astronomers (e.g., | ) speculated that the planets (Earth included) orbited the Sun, but the op ... |
| John Cleese | ... f the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. | was a cast member |
| Julius Caesar | ... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between | and Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ... |
| David Langford | ... en brilliantly", but that his prose sometimes seemed uneven and artificial. | cited Vance's "engaging speculation", but concluded that the protagonist " ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shelley's | ... is also used metaphorically to refer to the work or skill of a poet, as in | "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is" or Byron's "I wish to tune my qu ... |
| Ronald Skirth | ... ho Wouldn't Fight, featuring the stories of conscientious objectors such as | , was aired on 10 November 2008. He also presented one episode of the BBC' ... |
| Caroline Kennedy | In a column assessing | 's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in ea ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... earch in Black Culture. In December, he acquired the lead role of Jim in an | production of All God's Chillun Got Wings, whose plot culminated in Jim sy ... |
| 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 ... |
| Broad, William J. | ====References==* | , New York : Penguin, 2006. ISBN 1-59-420081-5.*Burkert, Walter, Greek Rel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... 1990–91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat supported | 's invasion of Kuwait and opposed the US-led coalition attack on Iraq. He ... |
| John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
| Andrew Jaspan | In 2004 Gawenda was succeeded as editor by British journalist | . Jaspan aroused controversy by initially not appearing to know that The A ... |
| K. Eric Drexler | | later took the Feynman concept of a billion tiny factories and added the i ... |
| Alison Stewart | Partial List | , Ira Glass, Mary Louise Kelly, Tony Co |
| Arrigo Boito | ... e character: in Meyer Lutz' Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), | 's Mefistofele (1868), Klaus Mann's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto W ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... auch shelved his work for a few years while he wrote New York, New York for | and other un-produced screenplays |
| Mary Louise Kelly | Alison Stewart, Ira Glass, | , Tony Co |
| Lawrence Langner | ... roduce. Hammerstein and Rodgers met weekly in 1943 with Theresa Helburn and | of the Theatre Guild, producers of the blockbuster musical, who together f ... |
| Ira Flatow | 1991-Present: | - Science Frida |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... eved its main goals, lost much passion with the murders of the Reverend Dr. | and Senator Bobby Kennedy, and backed into the shadows, largely to make wa ... |
| Robert Kirkman | ... res as the base of operations of the sadistic Governor and his followers in | 's zombie-themed comic series The Walking Dead. However, it is possible th ... |
| Trevor N. Dupuy | ... and keep up its defensive positions, to the surprise of many. According to | , the Israelis, Soviets and Americans overestimated the vulnerability of t ... |
| Isobel Armstrong | ... ce centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor | , the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their ... |
| Neal Conan | 2001-Present: | 1991-Present: Ira Flatow - Science Frida |
| Tom Hanks | On 20 July 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell ( | ) hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on tele ... |
| Ray Suarez | 1993-1999: | 2000-2001: Juan William |
| Augustine | Among his friends were | , Jerome, and Paulinus. Jerome speaks of him as a man of great holiness wh ... |
| Károly Kisfaludy | He was born at Szücsi and was first published in | 's Aurora, a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837. He also contribut ... |
| Bismarck's | ... ts who founded St. Ignatius College were exiles from Germany, forced out by | Kulturkampf. They brought with them the traditional structure of the Jesui ... |
| Neil Simon | In 1985, Harrelson married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright | , in Tijuana. The two intended to divorce the following day, but the store ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. President | stated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ... |
| Juan Williams | 2000-2001: | 2001-Present: Neal Cona |
| Walt Disney | ... the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952. | 's Silly Symphonies and Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry was the category's m ... |
| Ptolemy | The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in | (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th centu ... |
| Ernst Lubitsch | ... w Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). He collaborated with film director | . He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade (1930 ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both | and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ... |
| Iamblichus | ... ing, "He spoke (agor-) the truth no less than did the Pythian (Pyth-)," and | tells the story that the Pythia prophesied that his pregnant mother would ... |
| Jim Cramer | Commentator | has expressed concern about short selling and started a petition calling f ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in | , Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ... |
| John Calvin | ... 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, | and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther' ... |
| Ennius | | (fl. 180s BC) refers to Romulus as a divinity without reference to Quirinu ... |
| Jerome | Among his friends were Augustine, | , and Paulinus. Jerome speaks of him as a man of great holiness who was ri ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... t the time to name towns after the birthplace of prominent British men. The | 'connection' led to the naming of 67 streets after Shakespearian character ... |
| Walt Disney | ... ed by the other nominees for that year. This category is notable for giving | 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 1 ... |
| Iamblichus | ... who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one." Neoplatonists such as | attempted to reconcile this perspective by adding another hypostasis above ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al Sherman | ... the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" with words and music by Al Lewis and | , plus "A New Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). He collaborated with ... |
| Coretta Scott King | ... ited the leadership position of the civil rights movement from her husband, | , as leader of the black movement, called for an end to all discrimination ... |
| Chris Mitchell | ... later in the year without explanation, to the amusement of The Australian's | , who called the about-face "a bit embarrassing" |
| Klaus Mann | ... opheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868), | 's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes |
| Bob Dylan | ... n the Mesabi Range in Hibbing; Robert Allen Zimmerman, later to be known as | , was raised in Hibbing. His song "North Country Blues" is about the decli ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... the 1980s: "Lady" by Kenny Rogers, from the late fall of 1980; "9 to 5" by | , "I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbitt (these two back-to-back at the t ... |
| Martin Luther | ... mation was the 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by | , John Calvin and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 post ... |
| John, Jr. | ... paquiddick incident, and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and | ; all but Ted's were fatal) |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President | . Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ... |
| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen | ... Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians | and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs |
| Edward Dowden | ... lassical schools, set him with scholars such as R.Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, | and his tutor, J.P. Mahaffy who inspired his interest in Greek literature. ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and | before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ... |
| James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ... |
| Alexander Afanasyev | ... eglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian | , the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the English ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | Kung was an early supporter of | , and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... songs originally recorded by artists like Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Miller, and | (from whom the album mainly got its inspiration). Session guitarist Bruce ... |
| Pausanias | ... pire it was quite obscured by the restored cities of Corinth and Patrae; in | ' age (A.D. 150) it was almost desolate. In Byzantine times it became a bi ... |
| Rajnarayan Basu | ... e pro-Western Indian intellectuals of the age, including Navin Chandra Roy, | , Debendranath Tagore and Hemendranath Tagore all of whom were actively in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Morris | ... Christmas. Unscripted interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist | were recorded in late 1993 and broadcast as Why Bother? on BBC Radio 3, on ... |
| Michael Leunig | ... ng editorial cartoonists, notably Les Tanner, Bruce Petty, Ron Tandberg and | |
| The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | ... erica. These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy | , which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mo ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U.S. President | 's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the Brit ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored by | in his novel |
| Ben Lilly | ... dden commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter | . The portrait was exhibited by the National Academy of Design before bein ... |
| Ira Flatow | ... ded John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams. Each Friday | hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from science and technology. ... |
| Alfred de Vigny | ... y among nineteenth-century French Romantics, poet, playwright, and novelist | created a French translation of Othello, titled Le More de Venise, which p ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... rd by Woolson, and the aircraft was a Stinson SM1B, X7654. Later that year, | flew the same aircraft. In 1929, it was flown nonstop from Detroit to Lang ... |
| Margaret Whitlam | ... Jim McClelland and Joe Riordan. Kerr's wife Alison was a fellow student of | during university days. Whitlam seems to have believed that, because of Ke ... |
| Paul Ferrier | ... 898 at the Théâtre des Nations. The production used a French translation by | and starred Julia Guiraudon as Mimì, Jeanne Tiphaine as Musetta, Adolphe M ... |
| Paul Émile de Puydt | ... hy" was invented and the concept proposed by a Belgian political economist, | in an article called "Panarchy" published in 1860. The word "panarchy" has ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan E. Nourse | ... mic processes or by direct apposition. According to the volume The Body, by | , the islets are "busily manufacturing their hormone and generally disrega ... |
| Carl Jung | ... oposed as the theory of the collective unconscious by renowned psychiatrist | . According to Sheldrake, the theory of "morphic fields" might provide an ... |
| Jim Cairns | ... the sacking of two senior ministers, Rex Connor and Deputy Prime Minister, | . The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, decided to use the Senate ... |
| Theodore Beza | ... iography of his father, The Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D. (1866); and | , the Counsellor of the French Reformation (1899). He died in New York cit ... |
| Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
| Frederick Nolan | ... merstein conceived the graduation scene that ends the musical. According to | in his book on the team's works: "From that scene the song "You'll Never W ... |
| John Hockenberry | 1991-1992: | 1993-1999: Ray Suare |
| Nellie Melba | ... ropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with | as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, G ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... lection of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, | and Edward M. Kennedy, soon all held prominent positions in the federal go ... |
| Joseph Jacobs | ... the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman | |
| Andy Warhol | ... t passed during the decade. Many celebrities, including Freddie Mercury and | , also "came out" during this decade, bringing gay culture further into th ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d (1500–1750), holds the world's largest collection of the printed works of | , as well as collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Frederick II | ... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site. | regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ... |
| Agathias of Myrina | ... rocopius' work was written after Procopius' death by the poet and historian | |
| Elia Kazan | ... vinced Weller to do the film. The actor says that he based his character on | , Jacques Cousteau, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
| Mao Zedong | ... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under | had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fernández | The United States supports the | administration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract ... |
| Mike Shinoda | ... sful audition with Linkin Park, who were then called "Xero". Bennington and | , the band’s other vocalist, made significant progress together, but faile ... |
| Neil Peart | ... these songs feel like a faster tempo than anything we’ve ever done before." | of the Canadian rock band Rush plays drums on three songs on the album, "S ... |
| Plato | ... ad, he studied at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied | with Arnold Heeren; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck; Arabic, ... |
| Plotinus | Neoplatonism is polytheistic and panentheistic. | taught that there was an ineffable transcendent "God" (The One) of which s ... |
| Jørgen Moe | ... e Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and | , and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs |
| Debendranath Tagore | ... ian intellectuals of the age, including Navin Chandra Roy, Rajnarayan Basu, | and Hemendranath Tagore all of whom were actively involved in the Brahmo S ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author | in his 1942 story Waldo |
| Clive Anderson Talks Back | On 17 December 1993, Cook appeared on | as four characters – biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, footb ... |
| Jim Dale | ... uch as Humphrey Lyttelton, the Vipers Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, | , Keith Kelly, Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, the Temperance Seven, Laur ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... k-to-back at the top in early 1981); and "Islands in the Stream", a duet by | and Kenny Rogers in 1983, a pop-country crossover hit written by Barry, Ro ... |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... matical characteristics of a wide range of shells from Helix to Spirula and | described the mathematics of univalve shells. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... Not Ashamed, Step Up to the Microphone, Devotion, and more. Then soap star | began her music career in the late 1980s and released The Loco-Motion whic ... |
| Herodotus | | , Isocrates, and other early writers all agree that Pythagoras was born on ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... ur-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, | and Dudley Moore |
| Brian Herbert | ... a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson. The character is brought back as a ghola in the Her ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | When | was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his ne ... |
| Alan Moore | In | 's graphic novel , Bertie appears in the segment "What Ho, Gods of the Aby ... |
| John Lennon | ... s" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by | and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea ... |
| Hypatia | ... as c. 414, because he appears to have been unaware of the violent death of | |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Kaufman | ... ere not satisfied with Goldman's take on the book. They approached director | who shared their dissatisfaction with the existing script. Kaufman began w ... |
| Kevin J. Anderson | ... ter in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert and | . The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert/Anderson sequels ... |
| Plato | ... res Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of | (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscri ... |
| Dolly Parton | During the mid-1970s, | , a highly successful mainstream country artist since the late '60s, mount ... |
| William Goldman | ... outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to Tom Wolfe's book, hiring | to write the screenplay. Goldman's adaptation focused on the astronauts, e ... |
| Tansu Çiller | ... bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Turkish Prime Minister | at the White House. Prior to addressing the nation, President Clinton want ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jonathan Miller | ... own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with | , Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore |
| Hubert Butler | ... ers of the Irish CND included Peadar O'Donnell, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and | |
| Wagnerian | Budden describes Tosca as the most | of Puccini's scores, in its use of musical leitmotifs. Unlike Wagner, Pucc ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, | , Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
| Robin McKinley | Jones' works are also compared to those of | and Neil Gaiman. She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... h civil disobedience racial segregation on interstate busing. He recognized | 's leadership, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Co ... |
| Lindsay Anderson | ... fter some initial reluctance. The march was the subject of a documentary by | , . Thereafter, CND organised annual Easter marches starting at Aldermasto ... |
| F. L. Lucas's | ... hology (VII.141) on Protesilaus by Antiphilus of Byzantium in turn inspired | poem 'The Elms of Protesilaus' (1927) |
| Rufus of Ephesus | ... 335–280 BC), a Greek anatomist and surgeon. Only a few hundred years later, | , another Greek anatomist, gave the pancreas its name. The term "pancreas" ... |
| James M. McPherson | ... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historian | wrote |
| Dan Aykroyd | In 1987, a comedy movie version of Dragnet appeared starring | as the stiff Joe Friday (the original Detective Friday's nephew), and Tom ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roland Emmerich | ... or comedy Zombieland, and is to reprise his role in its upcoming sequel. In | 's 2012, he played Charlie Frost, a man who warns of the end of the world. ... |
| Martin of Opava | ... est prominence when it appeared in the third recension (edited revision) of | 's Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum later in the 13th century. This ver ... |
| Hesiod | | narrates Typhon's birth in this poem |
| Bram Stoker | ... Florence Balcombe, a childhood sweetheart. She, however, became engaged to | and they married in 1878. Wilde was disappointed but stoic: he wrote to he ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bret Harte | ... of the February 26, 1860 massacre of the Wiyot people that was recorded by | , then living in Union, now called Arcata. Between 60 and 200 Wiyot men, w ... |
| Richard Wagner's | In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of | opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, con ... |
| Pierre de Marivaux | ... character from Harlequin. They appeared together in a number of comedies by | including L'Île des esclaves |
| King Diamond | ... ist James MacDonough of Iced Earth and guitarist Glen Drover of Eidolon and | . While in rehearsal for the tour, drummer Nick Menza parted ways with the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... n honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife | , but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies (his previous one ... |
| Ed Harris | On 11 April 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz ( | ) gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for launch. As ... |
| Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | | met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the F ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Davidson's | A colourful description of a visit to the Crystal Palace was described in | poem 'The Crystal Palace' published in 1909 |
| Horace | ... for the Tauchnitz series (1860–1869). New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and | were also due to him. It is worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated ... |
| Hypatia | ... ascinating interest. His scientific interests are attested by his letter to | , in which occurs the earliest known reference to a hydrometer, and by a w ... |
| Joss Whedon | Cordelia Chase is a fictional character created by | for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; she also appeared on B ... |
| Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas | ... mization of knowledge" was first used and proposed by the Malaysian scholar | in his book "Islam and Secularism" ISBN 983-99628-6-8 (first published in ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena Praying | ... Room 2001, has many scene by scene parallels with Andrea di Bartolo's 1393 | |
| Amanda Palmer | Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer | . The couple publicly announced that they were dating in June 2009, announ ... |
| Pausanias | ... reds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by | |
| Pausanias | ... erritory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia. The king-list given by | comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. T ... |
| Ayelet Waldman | ... married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers | and Michael Chabon |
| 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, ... |
| Monroe E. Dodd | The Southern Baptist clergyman | began his long ministry in Fulton early in the 20th century |
| Murray Rothbard | ... trian School economist, libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist founder | |
| Arnold Palmer | ... he original brewer of Rolling Rock beer), Saint Vincent College, and golfer | . It was the childhood home of Fred Rogers, children's television personal ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... the 16th century. The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of | though paradoxically undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace; as a result ... |
| Baruch Spinoza | Panentheism later blossomed with the philosophy of | . Spinoza claimed that "Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Cesare Borgia briefly employed | as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503. Cesare and Leona ... |
| Aristoxenus | ... ate source gives his mother's name as Pythais. As to the date of his birth, | stated that Pythagoras left Samos in the reign of Polycrates, at the age o ... |
| Terry Southern | ... who played the romantic interest "Penny Priddy", describes the film as "if | had written Star Wars. None of the characters are quite what they should b ... |
| Walter Pater | Wilde did not meet | until his third year, but had been enthralled by his Studies in the Histor ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Nobbs | ... n 1960. His hero was fellow Footlights writer and Cambridge magazine writer | |
| Isaac Bonewits | ... hand and contemporary traditions of indigenous folk religion on the other. | introduces a terminology to make this distinction |
| Philip Henry | ... from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." | records that moments after the execution, a moan was heard from the assemb ... |
| Carly Simon | ... lling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, | , Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, The Eagles, America, Chicago, Th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Judith Levine | ... oung people’s sexual behavior by instilling fear, shame, and guilt." Author | has argued that there might be a natural tendency of abstinence educators ... |
| John Cleese | It is believed that the first person to say "shit" on British TV was | of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... ion in the operetta Dédé. He met the American composers George Gershwin and | and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. The same year he met Yvonne Vallée, ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including | , Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ... |
| Newton | ... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics – | 's Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ... |
| Frank Capra | Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by | . The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same t ... |
| Robert Riskin | ... 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by | is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton |
| Daniel Defoe | His work as therapist caught the attention of | , whose youngest daughter Sophia he married in 1729 |
| John Ruskin | ... ater gave Wilde his sense of almost flippant devotion to art, though it was | who gave him a purpose for it. Ruskin despaired at the self-validating aes ... |
| 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 |
| James Hilton | ... screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by | |
| Bryce Dallas Howard | ... r. Jean Speegle Howard appears as Lovell's mother Blanch. Cheryl Howard and | appear in uncredited cameos. Horror film director Roger Corman appears as ... |
| Josephus | ... 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian | (37–c. 100 CE), after Antiochus IV's successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egyp ... |
| Peter Cook | ... Nigel Dempster, with the former taking the magazine's majority shareholder, | , out for lunch in an attempt to dissuade him from appointing Hislop. Cook ... |
| Roald Hoffmann | ... sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by William Lipscomb and | for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | | had at least one strong connection with the Bass, as his cousin, David Ste ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and | . Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ... |
| Stephen Merchant | ... he chant when answering a telephone call from his friend "The Oggmonster" ( | ) |
| Kristen Wiig | ... the rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha ( | ), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious, and who are hosts of a Ni ... |
| Ovid | ... re firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, | , Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic ex ... |
| Aeschylus | ... uary that was dedicated to Apollo during the classical period. According to | in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and ... |
| Chaucer's | ... s within stories, and even within some of these, more stories are narrated. | The Canterbury Tales is also a frame story |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | ... sensible Camelot; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers | , Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city ... |
| Paul of Tarsus | ... hat sexual abstinence is the norm outside of that. But for married couples, | wrote that they should not deprive each other, except for a short time for ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher | , Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), regular featured columnist ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ion Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that tells of the life of | , and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century ... |
| Bede | | tells of Æthelfrith's great successes over the Britons, while also noting ... |
| Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
| Virgil | ... s that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. | 's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter |
| Carl Linnaeus | In his 18th century work Systema Naturae, | coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... nklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, the Commodores, Jerry Lee Lewis and even | , are funky influences on the music. One of the most influential tracks in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... and early 50s after the second world war, the man where "The Buck Stopped" | was president of the United States, and the baby boomer generation was evo ... |
| Robert Nozick | ... have criticized Objectivist ethics. In the essay "On the Randian Argument", | , while sympathetic to Rand's political conclusions, is particularly criti ... |
| Agatha Christie | Torquay was the home of the writer | , who lived most of her life there. The town contains an "Agatha Christie ... |
| Doctor Watson | In the Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes' assistant | , Watson never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "Th ... |
| Nennius | ... ives in numerous recensions, in manuscripts from the 11th century or later. | is commonly ascribed to be its author, since the the preface is written in ... |
| Harvey Pekar | ... Rogers and reedsmith Jimmy Giuffre which was freely improvised. Jazz critic | has also pointed out that one of Django Reinhardt's recorded improvisation ... |
| Brian May | ... arly songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, Ringo Starr, Elton John and | called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee saw Do ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
| John Calvin | ... inal differences—first between Luther and Zwingli, later between Luther and | —consequently resulting in the establishment of different and rival Protes ... |
| Martianus Capella | In the cosmological schema of | , Fons is located in the second of 16 celestial regions, with Jupiter, Qui ... |
| James Berardinelli | ... point, Lynch had so wonderfully succeeded in creating genuine involvement." | also criticized it, saying: "Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug ou ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
| John Wycliffe | Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included | and Jan Hus, who likewise had attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Churc ... |
| Frank Capra | ... al and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints. | 's Why We Fight (1942–1944) series was a newsreel series in the United Sta ... |
| Alan Moore | ... he League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the graphic novels of that title by | and Kevin O'Neill and make a more significant appearance in The Black Doss ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | In 1921 the economist | published a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ... |
| 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 ... |
| Catullus | ... standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, | and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at t ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, although | preferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ... |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by | set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence mo ... |
| Virgil | ... consistent with the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by | in the Aeneid |
| Posidonius | ... d to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of | and Strabo. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologic ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
| Aristotle's | ... BC), but only occurred in the fifth century. The standard account, found in | Athenian Constitution 22.3, attributes the establishment to Cleisthenes, a ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed | that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... to bring him into line and do what needs to be done." Richards, along with | , tried unsuccessfully to persuade Jagger to appear in , alongside Depp an ... |
| William Warde Fowler | ... d to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. | observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to | in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ... |
| David Quammen | ... name for the bird, dodô, is taken from the internationally used word dodo. | considered the idea that dodo was an approximation of the bird's own call, ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e was invited to perform at the White House concert series before President | . When Mick held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line "Come on, bab ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... her intellectuals. Many of his correspondents became his friends, including | , Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Che ... |
| John Dunning | ... r). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by | as "a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring." (Dunning, 2 ... |
| Virgil | ... meter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as | , Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a clas ... |
| John Denver | ... od Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, | , The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wi ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... ee jazz movement coalesced around such important (and disparate) figures as | , Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of | . Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ... |
| Will Forte | ... " Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" ( | also appears as a waiter at the beginning of the sketch, but does not do a ... |
| T. H. White | ... 0 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on | 's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King. The musical w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Luther | ... from the Catholic Church, was a main cause for the Protestant Reformation. | 's spiritual predecessors included John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who likewise ... |
| Diogenes Laërtius | The many anecdotes about Democritus, especially in | , attest to his disinterest, modesty, and simplicity, and show that he liv ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to | , with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ... |
| Callimachus | ... beit rare), but such violations are exceedingly rare in a later author like | |
| Althouse | ... web site RotoWire.com. There is a strong community of local blogs including | , dane101, and The Critical Badger |
| Gladys Knight | ... k or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald, | & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, t ... |
| Aquinas | ... lic theology was well integrated with scientific knowledge from the time of | to the time of Galileo, and that too was a deliberate program. Critics sug ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pausanias | ... e portion of the preceding layers, including the Troy of the Homeric Iliad. | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book Description of Greece ... |
| Will Ferrell | In 2008, Harrelson appeared in several films, among them the | basketball comedy Semi-Pro and the Will Smith stark drama Seven Pounds |
| George Carlin | ... Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV", a comedy routine by American Comedian | . In the United States, although the use of the word is censored on broadc ... |
| Lydia Koidula | ... stonian anthem was strictly forbidden. Throughout the years of prohibition, | 's poem, Mu isamaa on minu arm, with a melody by Gustav Ernesaks served as ... |
| Yaron Brook | ... ing to specific, objectively defined laws. Objectivists Leonard Peikoff and | have since expressed support for other government functions |
| Compton Mackenzie | ... took possession of Villa San Michele. This was described by Scottish author | in his diaries |
| Albert Lutuli | ... g's work was cited by and served as an inspiration for South African leader | , another black Nobel Peace prize winner who fought for racial justice in ... |
| Ennius | ... t example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of | , which established the dactylic hexameter as the standard for later Latin ... |
| Galileo | ... ntegrated with scientific knowledge from the time of Aquinas to the time of | , and that too was a deliberate program. Critics suggest that this also de ... |
| Livy | The principal source of traditions relating to Hersilia is | , I.11 |
| Michael Fleisher | ... he 12-page "The Wrath of ... the Spectre" in issue #431 (Feb. 1974). writer | , and artist Jim Aparo, he produced 10 stories through issue #440 (July 19 ... |
| Conan O'Brien | ... ed the claims. When asked about the hoax in a September 2006 interview with | , Walken said he was amused; and when asked to come up with a campaign slo ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... e envelope?" It was presented to him by his longtime friends and colleagues | , Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas. The Departed also received the A ... |
| Lucretius | ... ter as the standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as | , Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and ... |
| Jean Shepherd | ... nce was made to Griffith, Indiana. The movie was based on a book written by | . Shepherd, who was born and raised in northwest Indiana, used his hometow ... |
| Plutarch | ... Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by | to have spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable captivity. His ... |
| Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
| Nicolas Roeg | ... also had an intermittent acting career, most notably in Donald Cammell and | 's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He co ... |
| Ken Ludwig | In Moon Over Buffalo, the stage play by | , the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by Frank Capra as the Scar ... |
| Livy | ... mulus, the founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both | and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded ... |
| David Hume | ... nstance of begging the question. Nozick also argues that Rand's solution to | 's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory. In response, philosophers Do ... |
| Alan Jay Lerner | ... a High Middle Ages palace. It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by | and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of t ... |
| Edward Bellamy | ... y type in the United States, with a circulation around 500,000. His brother | is the noted author of the socialist utopian novels Looking Backward (1888 ... |
| Matt Damon | ... Departed, based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs. Along with | , Leonardo Di Caprio, The Departed was Scorsese's first collaboration with ... |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | The French symbolist | 's famous masterpiece L'après-midi d'un faune (published in 1876) describe ... |
| Plato | ... as friends with Hippocrates. He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but | does not mention him and Democritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came t ... |
| Tony Hendra | ... and Onions" (The Rutles), "Magical Misery Tour" (National Lampoon featuring | ). Some were by obscure artists whose names were subject to misinterpretat ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... strong negative impact on the salmon population, and in 1908 U.S. President | observed that the salmon runs were but a fraction of what they had been 25 ... |
| Robert McNamara | He often privately cursed the Vietnam War, and in a conversation with | , Johnson assailed "the bunch of commies" running The New York Times for t ... |
| William Cowper | ... re the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend, | (1731–1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish which ... |
| Frank Capra | ... stage play by Ken Ludwig, the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by | as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In The Desert Song, the heroic "Red Shadow" has ... |
| Plutarch | ... e founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both Livy and | ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, ... |
| Barbara Olson | ... hijackers set the flight's autopilot heading for Washington, D.C. Passenger | called her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and re ... |
| Kenneth Anger | ... alian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He composed an improvised soundtrack for | 's film Invocation Of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969. He ... |
| Robert Frost | ... ock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and | . Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of Englis ... |
| Thomas S. Monson | ... is organized under a Board of Trustees, with the President of the Church ( | as of 2012) as chairman. This board consists of the same people as the Chu ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came to Athens and no one knew me." | placed him among the pre-Socratic natural philosophers |
| Jane Francesca Wilde | ... College, Dublin) the second of three children born to Sir William Wilde and | , two years behind William ("Willie"). Jane Wilde, under the pseudonym "Sp ... |
| Graham Chapman | ... hon comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for | |
| Mark Twain | ... d about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, | wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few month ... |
| Hesiod | so that the crop will be full and strong. In the Theogony of | she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harm ... |
| James Branch Cabell | ... ger, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, | , Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Ru ... |
| Frank Lawrence Owsley | Historian | argued that the Confederacy "died of states' rights." The central governme ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... Canadian prime minister "Jean Poutine". The then-prime minister's name was | , and he had not endorsed Bush — it is standard practice for the Canadian ... |
| Victorien Sardou | The French playwright | wrote more than 70 plays, almost all of them successful, and none of them ... |
| Ron Shelton | ... n the comedy EDtv. Also in 1999, he appeared as boxer Vince Boudreau in the | film Play It to the Bone |
| John F. Kennedy | ... e word "Camelot" is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of | , as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and m ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet. | 's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, " ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
| Nasir-i-Khusraw | ... ebron's version, it found its most famous expression. The Persian traveller | who visited Hebron in 1047 records in his Safarnama tha |
| Hella Wuolijoki | ... adical friends, including a future politician and SDKL member of parliament | , and, with their help, was hidden in the hold of a freighter. On the 13th ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... ctor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of | ", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion ... |
| Hippocrates | ... He also praises Anaxagoras. Diogenes Laertius says that he was friends with | . He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but Plato does not mention hi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | Donegan experienced another late renaissance when in 2000 he appeared on | 's album The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast 1998, a critically acclaim ... |
| Garry Kasparov | In 2003 Deep Junior played a six-game match against | that resulted in a 3-3 tie. It won a 2006 match with Teimour Radjabov |
| Shari Lewis | ... uists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, | , Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson |
| Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
| 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 ... |
| Dennis Lehane | ... on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by | , began in Massachusetts in March 2008 |
| John Bunyan | ... e still supported two Dissenting chapels. Notable local Dissenters included | , of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... You", "What Goes On", "Eleanor Rigby", "Etcetera" (a 1968 song intended for | ), and "The Long and Winding Road" |
| Calixa Lavallée | ... of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony | ;wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed ... |
| Frank Wedekind | ... a by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from | 's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... ole was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of | 's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman (although he is heard singing a so ... |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... early 1880s Sardou began a collaboration with the immensely popular actress | , whom he provided with a series of historical melodramas. He reached his ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... "Jet Airliner" exists in which the word "shit" is faded out. Likewise, the | song "Hurricane" has a line about having no idea "what kind of shit was ab ... |
| Johannes Semper | ... ic's anthem was composed by Gustav Ernesaks, and the lyrics were written by | . It and the Karelo-Finnish SSR anthem were the only ones not to mention t ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, | , Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lo ... |
| Jake Hooker | ... rize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, | , Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
| Virgil | ... l poetry. The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and | 's Aeneid |
| Thomas Pynchon | ... Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon by | Emerson’s works include |
| Matt Wayne | ... team up with the League to face Darkseid's invasion of Earth by Parademons. | stated that he consciously tried to round up the original 13 Legion of Doo ... |
| Jordan Galland | ... ain collaberated with friend Jordan Galland, as he contributed the score to | s 2012 film "", and he appears as the character "Electric Death. |
| Victor Hugo | The Emperor's erudition amazed Friedrich Nietzsche when both met. | told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus A ... |
| Erwin Rommel's | ... ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills; during the initial phase of | move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ran ... |
| Doug Moench | ... fourth solo series and second self-titled comic, the Spectre, under writer | , Corrigan became the central figure in this story of an occult-oriented p ... |
| Archimedes | ... writings regarding levers date from the 3rd century BC and were provided by | . "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth with a lever" is a ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... s presented to him by his longtime friends and colleagues Steven Spielberg, | , and George Lucas. The Departed also received the Academy Award for the B ... |
| Fredrik Pacius | ... of Estonian independence in 1991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by | with lyrics by Johann Voldemar Jannsen has been restored |
| Rimbaud | ... had participated in the Commune (Courbet was its quasi-minister of culture, | and Pissarro were active propagandists) or were sympathetic to it. The fer ... |
| Plutarch | ... e of his occasional absence to ravage the defenceless part of his kingdom ( | , Pyrrhus, 7 if.); at length, the combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and ... |
| Joseph F. Smith | ... counts of two visions, one from Joseph Smith and the other from his nephew, | in 1918. The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in | 's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, | , Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ... |
| Addison Emery Verrill | ... cting them and figuring out Verrill's mistakes" (quoted in Schram, p. 126). | had been an earlier expert in invertebrate classification |
| Plutarch's | From | 'Lives' |
| Amy Poehler | ... ohn (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine ( | ) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
| John Wycliffe | ... church. The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from | at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague. The R ... |
| Gildas | ... A. VIII), but no one now seriously advocates this document to be penned by | , the near contemporary of Arthur |
| Jeff Rovin | ... onality" programmed onto them. Of these systems, the Odyssey² was listed by | as being the third in total of sales, and one of the seven major video gam ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... e expansion of federal gun regulations came as a response to the murders of | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| C. S. Lewis | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of | , J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, M ... |
| George Lucas | ... longtime friends and colleagues Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and | . The Departed also received the Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture ... |
| Johann Voldemar Jannsen | ... 991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by Fredrik Pacius with lyrics by | has been restored |
| Archimedes | This is the law of the lever, which was proven by | using geometric reasoning. It shows that if the distance a from the fulcru ... |
| 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 ... |
| Victorien Sardou | ... iered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on | 's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece s ... |
| Samuel Smiles | ... roper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement;" but it was | (1812–1904) who published the first self-consciously personal-development ... |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | ... ry 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins. | was inaugurated as first president on February 22, 1876 |
| Bruce Marshall | Scottish writer | used Bass Rock as the miraculous destination of the "Garden of Eden", a da ... |
| Jean Chrétien | By 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline, and in 1964 | submitted a private member's bill to change the name of the airline from T ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Augustine | ... t a deity can pose a question to which the deity would not know the answer. | , in his City of God, argued, instead, that God could not do anything that ... |
| Samuel R. Delany | ... of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, | , Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Ge ... |
| Michael Holroyd | ... roup), it was not widely publicised until the late 1960s, in a biography by | . He had an unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington. She lov ... |
| James E. Talmage | In 1930, a small volume edited by Apostle | titled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ... |
| Billy Dee Williams | ... ay production, I Have a Dream, was directed by Robert Greenwald and starred | as King. In spring of 2006, a stage play Passages of Martin Luther King ab ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... y 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and | all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of Soul music with a greater empha ... |
| Angelica Balabanoff | ... s of the revolution deserved their fate. However, he suggested that she see | , a critic of the current situation, indicating he wanted Goldman to hear ... |
| Madonna | ... f people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like Adam Sandler and | |
| Alan Moore | ... became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as | , Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Th ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, | , Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He l ... |
| Mark Ruffalo | In December 2007, actors | , Max von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams joined the cast, mark ... |
| Joe Abercrombie | ... brief but important notes, while a great-grandson of the poet is the author | |
| Fred Armisen | ... xine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan ( | ), a gay relative for whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in black and r ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
| Philip Henry Gosse | ... Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by | , in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", Go ... |
| Pliny the Younger | ... cle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by | and seen by Pausanias |
| Michael Moorcock | ... wis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, | , Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. ... |
| Walt Disney | Modern viewers also remember Lukas for his role as Professor Aronnax in | 's classic 1954 film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tibor R. Machan | ... n (1995). Surveys such as On Ayn Rand by Allan Gotthelf (1999), Ayn Rand by | (2000), and Objectivism in One Lesson by Andrew Bernstein (2009) provide b ... |
| Callimachus | ... g "grandmother", and she is often portrayed as being extremely ancient (cf. | , Iamb 4.52, fr. 194) |
| Hesiod | Within classical antiquity, | 's Works and Days "opens with moral remonstrances, hammered home in every ... |
| Lydia Lunch | ... ct inspiration from both free jazz and punk. Examples of this style include | 's Queen of Siam, the work of James Chance and the Contortions, who mixed ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... t his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends (he had a relationship with | , who also was part of the Bloomsbury group), it was not widely publicised ... |
| Bernard White | The New Dragnet starred Jeff Osterhage and | as the detectives, and Don Stroud as Capt. Lussen. The show lasted two sea ... |
| Plutarch | Additionally, according to | 's essay on the meaning of the "E at Delphi"--the only literary source for ... |
| Alan Moore | ... to be guarding an entrance to Hell in a Swamp Thing Annual story by writer | . Then, in the conclusion to Moore's "American Gothic" serial in the regul ... |
| Harlan Ellison | ... James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, | , Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fa ... |
| David A. Embury | The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in | 's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks |
| Theophrastus | ... ticularly mentions the Egyptian mathematicians, whose knowledge he praises. | , too, spoke of him as a man who had seen many countries. During his trave ... |
| Harry Turtledove | ... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by | |
| Emma Goldman | ... feelings about the revolution were now ambiguous: on the one hand, he told | , who had recently arrived aboard Buford and especially complained about t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | . It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work ... |
| Robert Stanley Weir | ... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. | wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ... |
| Luigi Illica | ... osca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by | and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 Ja ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by | published i |
| Adolphe-Basile Routhier | ... setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir | . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906 |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... ant of Aeneas. This work was also the "single most important source used by | in creating his Historia Regum Britanniae", and via the enormous popularit ... |
| Mary Renault | Thalestris is also the name of a character in | 's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological ... |
| Jules Verne | ... his role as Professor Aronnax in Walt Disney's classic 1954 film version of | 's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. By that time, however, he was, at age 63, ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Combe | For some, | 's "Constitution[1828], in the way that it advocated personal responsibili ... |
| Edmund Wilson | ... uctures in multicellular organisms. Books around 1900 from Valentin Häcker, | and Oscar Hertwig still referred to cellular organs |
| Laurence Olivier | ... yday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier." | said that Gielgud's performance in The School for Scandal was "the best li ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Hader | ... n order of appearance, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley ( | ); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg ... |
| Ken MacLeod | In Dark Light (the middle of the Engines of Light trilogy) by | , a character says |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by | , which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... or Razzie Award. After that film's success, Harrelson played Mickey Knox in | 's Natural Born Killers and Dr. Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino fil ... |
| Frank Miller | ... ane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, | , and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
| Leon Trotsky | Jack was close to the inner circle of the new government. He met | and was introduced to Lenin during a break of the Constituent Assembly on ... |
| Don Nigro | In | 's satirical comedy Paganini (1995), the great violinist seeks vainly for ... |
| Martin Luther | ... e protests against the corruption emanating from Rome began in earnest when | , an Augustinian monk at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... t, an amazingly strong showing for such a challenger. Four days later, Sen. | of New York entered the race. Internal polling by Johnson's campaign in Wi ... |
| Ron Goulart | ... uary 9, 1954) and Mel Keefer (Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955). Comics historian | in his book The Funnies states the frequent turnover of artists on the str ... |
| Karin Spaink | ... , and Dennis Erlich (California). Internationally, raids took place against | (The Netherlands) and Zenon Panoussis (Sweden). In addition to filing laws ... |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Scott Carpenter | ... ered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were | , Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and ... |
| Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated film version of The Lord of the Rings, the Nazgûl hack an ... |
| Cecil B. DeMille | ... year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of | as a director |
| Jack Webb | Dragnet was created and produced by | , who starred as the terse Sergeant Joe Friday. Webb had starred in a few ... |
| Darwin | 230 years before | 's theory of evolution, the appearance of the dodo and the red rail led Pe ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
| Jonathan Tisch | ... Inc; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Jeff Kindler, Former CEO of Pfizer | ;, CEO of Loews Hotels; Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of DuPont; and Andy Fastow, ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Yesterday", however, has also been criticised for being mundane and mawkish | ;had a marked dislike for the song, stating that "If you go into the Libra ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... pace Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by | |
| 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 ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
| Priscillian | ... bility that a cult of James was instituted to supplant the Galician cult of | (executed in 385) who was widely venerated across the north of Iberia as a ... |
| Julius Schwartz | In the mid-1950s and 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, DC Comics editor | had the Spectre revived and returned to the role of an avenging undead spi ... |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | In Blue Mars, the conclusion of | 's Mars Trilogy, the Martian government's lower house is selected by sorti ... |
| Baz Luhrmann | | produced the opera for Opera Australia in 1990 with modernized supertitle ... |
| John Lennon | ... many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by | . Donegan's "Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" single was number one ... |
| Richard T. Ely | ... classical scholars Basil Gildersleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist | ; and the chemist Ira Remsen, who became the second president of the unive ... |
| Della Reese | ... y songwriter Bobby Worth for the 1959 pop song "Don't You Know?", a hit for | . The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist ... |
| Alec Baldwin | ... ebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and | ), an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members |
| 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 ... |
| John Singleton | As of September 2011, | was selected as director. Ice Cube and Singleton previously collaborated o ... |
| Quintus Smyrnaeus | According to | , Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse (the hor ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... onopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of | by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment ... |
| Roman Polanski | ... xy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it." Director | urged Kinski to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and c ... |
| Theophilus Cibber | ... s of Aesop's Fables. These, according to the short life of him published by | , were 'generally confessed to have exceeded whatever hath been done befor ... |
| Rob Pike | ... rom the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by | . It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was inf ... |
| Boucher | Groff Conklin described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". | and McComas praised it as "easily the most plausible, carefully detailed p ... |
| Eugene McCarthy | ... ed to run against a sitting president of the Democratic party. Only Senator | of Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampsh ... |
| Frank Hurley | Also during this period | 's documentary film, South (1919), about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expe ... |
| V. S. Pritchett | ... se. The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist | for publication by the Metropolitan Opera Association |
| Jancis Robinson | | notes that Chianti is sometimes called the "Bordeaux of Italy". The flexib ... |
| Jack Webb | Actor and producer | 's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved ... |
| Joan D. Vinge | ... ant. The "demarchy" in this society is actually more of a direct democracy. | also uses demarchy in the sense of electronic direct democracy in her 1978 ... |
| Lorna Luft | ... accidental drug overdose at the age of 47, leaving children Liza Minnelli, | , and Joey Luft |
| 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 ... |
| Camilo Castelo Branco | ... hur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, | and James Cooley Fletcher |
| Hector Boece | | offers the following description (original spelling) |
| Sam Merwin, Jr. | ... 1947 under the title "Grow Old with Me" for Startling Stories, whose editor | had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the m ... |
| Andy Samberg | ... y (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott ( | ) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a po ... |
| Judge Lindsey | ... the Immaculate Conception which was completed in 1911. Margaret worked with | to help destitute children and establish the United States' first juvenile ... |
| Jordan Galland | ... oko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. Lennon has again collaberated with friend | , as he contributed the score to Jordan Gallands 2012 film "", and he appe ... |
| Juozas Kralikauskas | ... omualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The Offering of the Bull, 1975), and | ' Mindaugas (1995) |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
| 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 ... |
| Euripides | ... is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of | ' The Madness of Heracles. He was commissioned in 1996 by the National The ... |
| Alexei Panshin | The early Heinlein biographer and critic | , in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversia ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
| Mae West | ... im Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy romance film starring | and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noa ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... Shelter, which was made as the band was gaining fame in the United States. | worked with Jagger on Shine a Light, a documentary film featuring the Roll ... |
| David Mitchell | Author | described himself as being "magnetised" by the book from its start when he ... |
| Gerald Gardner | It was at Spielplatz that Ross Nichols first met | |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | ... Court did not have jurisdiction, with U.S. ambassador to the United Nations | dismissing the Court as a "semi-legal, semi-juridical, semi-political body ... |
| Paracelsus | ... 1571), and finally theoretical medicine (1580). While originally hostile to | , in his later career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory fo ... |
| Whitley Strieber | ... ornia—and the nuclear war leaves no lasting trauma. The 1984 book Warday by | and James Kunetka takes up a limited nuclear attack in precisely the locat ... |
| Fran Walsh | ... ter Jackson's films are mixed from that of his partner and co-screenwriter, | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | In One From the Heart, director | brought Kinski to the U.S. to act as a "Felliniesque circus performer to r ... |
| David Gerrold | ... ed Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". According to screenwriter | , the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked H ... |
| David Hume | ... ence for their own products. Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher | used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently app ... |
| William Allingham | ... t stature "sinister, clever face" and with a "voice like a carving knife" ( | 's diary 1872), she moved into the Langham Hotel, London in 1867, where sh ... |
| Romualdas Granauskas | ... y Vara (Power, 1944), Justinas Marcinkevičius' drama-poem Mindaugas (1968), | ' Jaučio aukojimas (The Offering of the Bull, 1975), and Juozas Kralikausk ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
| Ayn Rand | ... tivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist | (1905–1982). Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independ ... |
| Jordan Galland | ... z and Guildenstern Are Undead, directed by long time friend and school mate | In the same year, Lennon produced a second album on Chimera for his mother ... |
| Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
| Mārtiņš Zīverts | ... s been portrayed in several 20th-century literary works: the Latvian author | ' tragedy Vara (Power, 1944), Justinas Marcinkevičius' drama-poem Mindauga ... |
| Frédéric Mistral | ... eul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, | , Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James ... |
| Ibn at Athir | ... , caused the place to be closed once more". Similar information is given in | 's Chronicle under the year 1119; "In this year was opened the tomb of Abr ... |
| Ellis Parker Butler | Heinlein later credited the 1905 | short story "Pigs is Pigs" with informing the flat cat incident. A similar ... |
| Christopher Marlowe | This legend also inspired the drama Dido, Queen of Carthage by | . Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games Civilization II a ... |
| Luigi Illica | ... Nonetheless, Ricordi reached terms with Sardou, and assigned the librettist | to write a scenario for an adaptation. In 1891, however, Illica advised Pu ... |
| Peter Jackson | In the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (2001–2003) by | , the Nazgûl also attack the inn themselves. Emphasis is given to their lo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Figgis | ... she appeared in films such as Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen, and | ' One Night Stand |
| Edith Stein | ... bjected to what they perceived as a desire to "Christianize" the Holocaust. | 's (a German nun who converted from Judaism in 1922 and was killed in Ausc ... |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
| Alanis Morissette | ... the previously mentioned Liz Phair, PJ Harvey and the massively successful | fit into this sub group |
| Justinas Marcinkevičius | ... rary works: the Latvian author Mārtiņš Zīverts' tragedy Vara (Power, 1944), | ' drama-poem Mindaugas (1968), Romualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... , 2007 when it was removed by the SEC (SEC Release No. 34-55970). President | condemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate ... |
| Hero of Alexandria | ... cientists added the inclined plane to the five simple machines described by | . The force required to lift the load is reduced by pulling it up the ramp ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | Mindaugas is the primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by | , one of the Three Bards. He has been portrayed in several 20th-century li ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... given on the occasion of his visit to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, | suggested a reading of the events of the Holocaust as motivated by a hatre ... |
| Bollandist | ... s, while numerous modern scholars, following Louis Duchesne, reject it. The | s however defended it (their Acta Sanctorum, July, VI and VII, gives furth ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by | in The Dunciad. Whatever the justice of these, it should be borne in mind ... |
| Gerald Gardner | ... er of Bards, Ovates and Druids. In turn he attracted both fellow Druids and | , who later established his first coven at Bricket Wood in his development ... |
| Vogel schemes | ... fore British settlement the area was covered in dense forest and swamp. The | of the 1870s provided the necessary impetus to lead to the construction of ... |
| Johannes Baptista Montanus | ... n medicine at the University of Padua with Bassiano Landi, the successor of | . In Paris he studied with the iconoclastic philosopher Petrus Ramus. He j ... |
| Three Bards | ... primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by Juliusz Słowacki, one of the | . He has been portrayed in several 20th-century literary works: the Latvia ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
| Thucydides | ... t of the Ionic dialect group. "Old Attic" is a term used for the dialect of | (460-400 BC) and the dramatists of Athens' remarkable 5th century; "" is u ... |
| Zheng He | ... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period that | led explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ... |
| Martin Luther | ... tury. The council could not prevent schism and the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. | was shocked by the corruption of the clergy on a trip to Rome in 1510. Six ... |
| George Washington | ... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was | 's birthday |
| Werner Herzog | ... in 1978. In the late 1970s, Jagger was cast as Wilbur, a main character in | 's Fitzcarraldo. However, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Roba ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | ... om a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened "Winston" (after the antihero of | 's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Their debut performance was in October 197 ... |
| Temple, Robert | ... ge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0521374510* | , , Proceedings of 4th Philosophical Meeting on Contemporary Problems, No ... |
| Asa Gray | ... a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of | 's . She also collected butterflies and moths and later wrote, "I believe ... |
| Paul Samuelson | ... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and | ) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ... |
| Arthur de Gobineau | ... Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, | , Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castel ... |
| Rich Karlgaard | Upside was started by banker Anthony B. Perkins and technical writer | as a magazine "for Silicon Valley about Silicon Valley." Venture capitalis ... |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... while her lover Cavaradossi, of Roman descent, is born in Paris. Illica and | , the playwright who joined the project to polish the verses, needed not o ... |
| Augustan History | The | ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that Zenobia queen of Palmyra in the la ... |
| Roman Polanski | In 1976, Kinski began a romantic relationship with | , when she was 15 years old and he was 43 |
| Varian Fry | | was a 32-year-old Harvard-educated classicist and editor from New York Cit ... |
| Robert McNamara | ... Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's Secretary of Defense | stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... rd, Flynt publishes a satirical parody ad where famous evangelical minister | (Richard Paul) "speaks about his first time", and tells of a sexual encoun ... |
| Plato | ... nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher Aristotle. | is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned. ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included | and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ... |
| Silius Italicus | ... nibal belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to | in his Punica (1.71–7) |
| Sam Shepard | ... nds $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager ( | ) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his w ... |
| Phil Hartman | ... arks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive James Bond, portrayed by | , offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lai ... |
| Wilkie Collins | ... rary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and | ), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her stories and character ... |
| Krist Novoselic | ... um In Utero (1993) was an intentionally abrasive album that Nirvana bassist | described as a "wild aggressive sound, a true alternative record." Neverth ... |
| Lord Byron | ... related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with | , discussing publication of Byron's works |
| Vishnu Sarma | ... d in ancient Indian literature, such as the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, | 's Panchatantra, Syntipas' Seven Wise Masters, the Hitopadesha, and Vikram ... |
| John Polkinghorne | ... tion of black holes. In his book Questions of Truth, the particle physicist | has another difficulty with Smolin's thesis, in that one cannot impose the ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus was nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher | . Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books ... |
| Mike Figgis | ... Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, | , and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Scorsese's entry ... |
| Susan Elaine | ... . John and Barbara had four children: Dwight David II "David", Barbara Ann, | and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixo ... |
| Porphyry | ... peratures in which plant life flourishes. However the ancient commentary by | did not understand the myth in this way and saw Persephone's descent as co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Geoffrey Ashe | ... trade) and Saxon artifacts. The use of the name Camelot and the support of | helped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew ... |
| Cinthio | Othello is an adaptation of the Italian writer | 's tale "Un Capitano Moro" ("A Moorish Captain") from his Gli Hecatommithi ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... iz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, | , Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herc ... |
| Robert Browning | ... s, politicians, literary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, | and Wilkie Collins), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her sto ... |
| Elinor Glyn | After a long affair with the romance novelist | , Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabam ... |
| John Landis | ... rances include Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), | ' Susan's Plan (1998), The Lost Son (1999), and Inland Empir |
| 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 ... |
| Bengt Lidforss | Later, both terms came to be used side by side: | wrote 1915 (in German) about "Organs or Organells" |
| Ovid | Letter 7 of | 's Heroides is a feigned letter from Dido to Aeneas written just before sh ... |
| Patrice Chéreau | ... ierre Boulez, with Teresa Stratas singing the lead role; the production (by | ) was a sensation and the recording won the Gramophone Award for 1979. The ... |
| Ishtori HaParchi | ... te about Hebron over the next two centuries, among them Nachmanides (1270), | (1322) and Rabbi Meshulam from Volterra (1481). HaParchi in 1322 does not ... |
| Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar | ... religion. The western system of education was introduced during the rule of | , when two schools were established in Bangalore. Subsequently, Wesleyan M ... |
| Sam Shepard | ... epard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and | as Yeager |
| Josie Bissett | ... ;Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga and | |
| David Lee Roth | ... n 100,000 people alongside Iron Maiden, Kiss, Helloween, Guns N' Roses, and | . The band was soon added to the "Monsters of Rock" European tour, but dro ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... next appeared, and bow. Rodgers' daughter Mary caught sight of her friend, | , across several rows; both had eyes wet with tears |
| 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, ... |
| Barack Obama | ... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidate | visited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ... |
| Simon Newcomb | ... hat Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer | . Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of ... |
| L. Ron Hubbard | ... ious legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by | . The Church of Scientology is often accused of through the filing of SLAP ... |
| Florus of Lyon | ... f predestination whatsoever, a denial which raised the ire of Ratramnus and | . In response, Ratramnus composed the two-book work On the Predestination ... |
| Jim Bouton | ... as no particular secret, having been discussed in Sports Illustrated and in | 's groundbreaking book Ball Four, but there was virtually no public backla ... |
| Carnegie | ... jamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, " | 's remarkable success as a self-help author" further developed the genre w ... |
| John Lennon | ... was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Suzuki also cited | as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was bei ... |
| Haydn | ... fic hymns from the Olney books. For example, the tune 'Austria' (originally | 's 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser') is associated today with the hymn 'Glo ... |
| John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower | ... ree; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, | , was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the ... |
| Bill Richardson | ... Minister; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts | ;, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... her and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of | . The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism, a her ... |
| C. S. Lewis | For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received | 's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Alda | ... Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett), and | for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Despite having a leading tally, the f ... |
| Alastair Reynolds | In | ' Revelation Space series of novels the concept of demarchy has been used ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... n of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder. In 2011, Costner confirmed his role in | 's Django Unchained. Later on, it was announced that Costner had to drop o ... |
| Peter Greenaway | ... n of this practice is in dispute; one source describes a similar act in the | movie The Belly of an Architect |
| Edward Norton | | was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as D ... |
| Steve Martin | ... ailable (other celebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are Tom Hanks, | , and Alec Baldwin), an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members |
| Frederik Pohl | The concept of demarchy played an important role in | 's science fiction novel The Years of the City, which is set in a near-fut ... |
| Bede | ... mpose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk | . He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational rel ... |
| Lauren Willig | ... a concept created by Philip Jose Farmer. In addition, a series of novels by | , beginning with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (2005), chronicl ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... became his friends, including Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, | , Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfello ... |
| Bruce Timm | ... p is never referred to by this name in the series (According to a post from | on Toon Zone.net, this was a direct order from DC, every script his team w ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... L DVD is available (other celebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are | , Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin), an honor usually reserved only for SNL ... |
| Rod Serling | The all-black principal cast was a novelty for television in 1960. Said | at the time (quoted in The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree) |
| John Calvin | ... r and condemnation of the Reformation by the Pope, the work and writings of | were influential in establishing a loose consensus among various groups in ... |
| Zack Snyder | ... than Kent in the upcoming rebooted Superman film, Man of Steel, directed by | . In 2011, Costner confirmed his role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchai ... |
| George Lucas | ... d LucasArts. The site replaced portions of what was the Letterman Hospital. | won the development rights for 15 acres (61,000 m²) of the Presidio, in Ju ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wes Craven | ... three piece band. The version later appeared on the soundtrack to the 1989 | horror movie Shocker. While the band was holding auditions for the new lea ... |
| Shashi Tharoor | ... overnment sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece | ;, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Ministe ... |
| Alfred Duggan | ... onze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes. | 's novel Elephants and Castles provides a lively fictionalised account of ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was | 's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ... |
| Virgil | The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of | , a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not occur in ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
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| Robert A. Heinlein | The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by | , originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Octo ... |
| David Garrow | King biographer | disagrees with William F. Pepper's claims that the government killed King. ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien's | ... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of | The Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ... |
| Levon Helm | ... ight become known, Yeager confides in friend and fellow pilot Jack Ridley ( | ). Ridley cuts off part of a broomstick and tells Yeager to use it as a le ... |
| Irving Berlin | He performed a song and dance rendition of the | standard, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colone ... |
| Jonathan Larson | Rent, a 1996 musical by | , is based on La bohème. Here the lovers, Roger and Mimi, are faced with A ... |
| Wes Anderson | ... ghlights for Smith in 2001 was inclusion of his song "Needle in the Hay" in | 's dark comedy The Royal Tenenbaums. The song plays during a suicide attem ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... tershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. | also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the Univers ... |
| Leonard Peikoff | ... se it in the process of any attempt to deny it." As Objectivist philosopher | noted, Rand's argument for axioms "is not a proof that the axioms of exist ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Johnson continued the FBI's wiretapping of | that had been previously authorized by the Kennedy administration under At ... |
| Voltaire | ... d much attention. Later deism spread to France, notably through the work of | , to Germany, and to America |
| Moses | ... utionary nature of the Halacha point to a famous story in the Talmud, where | is miraculously transported to the House of Study of Rabbi Akiva and is cl ... |
| 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 |
| William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by | , believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the It ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, | 's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ... |
| René Descartes | ... ipotent would mean the omnipotent being is above logic. A view supported by | He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy |
| Tertullian | It was in the West that precise definition of the doctrine arose. | , Cyprian, Ambrose and Ambrosiaster considered that mankind shares in Adam ... |
| Darren Aronofsky | ... pires III campaign "Blood, Ice and Steel". Recently, characters in the 2006 | film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. Jorge ... |
| Richard Rodgers | ... udolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with | |
| Marlene Dietrich | Blonde Venus, starring | and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West ... |
| Al Pacino | ... ached to direct The Irishman, which will star Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and | . It has also been announced that Scorsese is attached to direct an adapta ... |
| Creophylus | ... ers exclusively Egyptian and Oriental. We find mentioned as his instructors | , Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, Thales, Anaximander, and Pherecydes of Syros. ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... cluded Austrian school economist Ludwig von Mises along with the then young | . Initially the society had little impact on the wider world – Hayek was t ... |
| Karen Berger | ... is work, DC Comics hired him, and he wrote the limited series Black Orchid. | , who later became head of DC Comics's , read Black Orchid and offered Gai ... |
| George Borrow | ... ed the City as a courtier to King Charles II in 1671 and described it thus: | in his semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro (1851) wrote of Norwich as |
| 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 ... |
| Mae West | ... Dietrich and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though | always claimed to have discovered Cary Grant for her film, elaborating tha ... |
| Juan Bosch | ... ctly supported the overthrow of left-wing, democratically elected president | of the Dominican Republic and João Goulart of Brazil, maintaining US suppo ... |
| William of Ockham | ... another major schism of Christendom. The crisis of theology beginning with | in the 14th century was occurring in conjunction with the new burgher disc ... |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | ... e a mountain” told Martin that he thought she had something special. It was | (pp. 58–59). This marked the start of her career |
| Mae West | The story is set in New York in the 1890s. A bawdy singer, Lady Lou ( | ), works in the Bowery barroom saloon of her boss and benefactor, Gus Jord ... |
| Julien Josephson | The movie was written by | (story) (adaptation), John W. Krafft (titles) and Sonya Levien. It was dir ... |
| Augustine | ... ." The term was not a neologism, however, as paganismus was already used by | |
| Roger Dee | ... year. The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with | 's An Earth Gone Mad; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Sta ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... ted with other men who would greatly influence him like G. Lowes Dickinson, | , Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, Bertrand Ru ... |
| Sonya Levien | ... itten by Julien Josephson (story) (adaptation), John W. Krafft (titles) and | . It was directed by William K. Howard |
| 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 ... |
| Ruth Carter Stapleton | ... em. (The real Larry Flynt plays the presiding judge in a cameo appearance.) | (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President Jimmy Carter ... |
| Sam Kieth | ... remain in print (14 if the spin-off is taken into account). Artists include | , Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, lettering by Todd Klein, colors ... |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | ... m car crashes leading to vocal instruction, unknowingly singing in front of | , to her final break on Broadway granted by the very prominent producer, L ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | | – a 17th century deist and important influence on subsequent deists – used ... |
| Carly Simon | ... ta Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, | , Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, Sop ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... he old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by | |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Lindsay-Hogg | In January 1969, the group got together with director | to film the rehearsals for the band's first live concert since 1966. The r ... |
| Titus Livius | ... Alba Longa, according to the traditional history of the city handed down by | . He was the successor (and probably son) of Capetus, the eighth king of A ... |
| David Hume | ... ose of natural theology. This became a point of attack for thinkers such as | as they studied the "natural history of religion" |
| Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... nofsky film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. | refers to the Fountain of Life in a short story in the book , in which the ... |
| Harry Lauder | ... liest recorded proprietors are the Lauder of the Bass family, from whom Sir | is descended. According to legend, the island is said to have been a gift ... |
| Scarlett Thomas | Novelist and lecturer | uses it to teach innovative contemporary fiction, as an example of differe ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... sidered that mankind shares in Adam's sin, transmitted by human generation. | taught that Adam's sin is transmitted by concupiscence, resulting in manki ... |
| Charles Darwin | In 1959, the centenary year of | 's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declare ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir | . In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ... |
| Lawrence Kasdan | ... his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Costner was a friend of director | , who promised the actor a role in a future project. That became 1985's Si ... |
| Margaret Trudeau | ... , Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, Carly Simon, | , Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, Sophie Dahl and , amo ... |
| Bruce Dickinson | ... uise of fictitious record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with | , lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhin ... |
| Mark Twain | ... gon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad, writer | spoke of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: "Now comes a si ... |
| Nathaniel Branden | ... e first read Rand's works in their "formative years." Rand's former protégé | referred to Rand's "especially powerful appeal to the young," while Onkar ... |
| Guy Torry | ... s. Derek also develops a friendly rapport with black prison inmate Lamont ( | ) who works with him in the prison laundry. His fellow neo-Nazis take noti ... |
| Benjamin Glazer | The movie was adapted by | , Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholso ... |
| George Washington | ... e served in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1843. The town was named for | 's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British ... |
| Otto Harbach | ... merstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, | and Frank Mandel. He began as an apprentice and went on to form a 20-year ... |
| Dallin H. Oaks | ... , with ten stakes and over 100 wards being added during his administration. | replaced Wilkinson as President in 1971. Oaks continued the expansion of h ... |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz | The movie was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and | from the play by Kenyon Nicholson. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. ... |
| Michel de Montaigne | ... relationship between their followers turned quickly to conflict. Frenchman | told a story of a Lutheran pastor who declared over dinner that he would r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... article with the title inspired by a possibly tongue-in-cheek comment from | , a comment later echoed by U.S. President Richard Nixon, that "We are all ... |
| Kenyon Nicholson | ... y Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by | . It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. The Barker is a silent film with ... |
| John Vanbrugh | ... ughter the second Duchess of Marlborough; the architect of Blenheim Palace, | ; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, Queen Carol ... |
| Aristotle | ... , and metaphysics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, such as | , Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scienti ... |
| Leonard Woolf | ... e were three with whom Strachey soon became closely associated: Clive Bell, | and Saxon Sydney-Turner. With another undergraduate, A. J. Robertson, the ... |
| Vitruvius | ... making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. | (vii, introduction) notes Theodorus the Phocian as the architect of the Ro ... |
| Dave McKean | ... m Jones III, lettering by Todd Klein, colors by Daniel Vozzo, and covers by | |
| Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President | , seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ... |
| Woody Guthrie | ... tained audiences with folk and blues songs by artists such as Leadbelly and | . This proved so popular that in July 1954 he recorded a fast-tempoed vers ... |
| Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as | , earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi ... |
| John Waters | ... ilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and | . Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival |
| Claudian | ... he Ostrogoths are first named in a document dated September 392 from Milan. | mentions that they together with the Gruthungi inhabit Phrygia. According ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... of sexual liberation in common currency in that day. Early in 1916 Reed met | , and beginning that May the three rented a cottage in Provincetown. Not l ... |
| John Ney Rieber | ... wizard. The miniseries was popular, and sired an ongoing series written by | |
| Carl Jung | ... from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." The psychoanalyst | saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believe ... |
| Robert Browning | ... thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of | 's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along ... |
| Edward Norton | Critics mostly praised the film and | was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. It was also named by ... |
| Peter Lombard | ... tury the identification of original sin with concupiscence was supported by | and others, but was rejected by the leading theologians in the next centur ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to | , Louis Pasteur and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... w expressed by some classical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, | , and Gersonides |
| Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
| Courtney Love | ... t, a habitual womanizer, becomes particularly smitten with Althea Leasure ( | ), a runaway-turned-stripper who works at one of his dance clubs. With hel ... |
| Randolph Bourne | ... s, which as a result of an article by Reed and one earlier in the summer by | , had its financial backing cut off and ceased publication. Reed was stunn ... |
| Abbie Hoffman | The album title is a reference to | 's book Steal This Book, which is regarded as a classic example of counter ... |
| Albert Brisbane | ... few readers followed his suggestions. Utopia fascinated him; influenced by | he promoted Fourierism. His journal had Karl Marx (as well as Friedrich En ... |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... From 2001 to 2003, he dated Odessa Whitmire, a former personal assistant of | and Ben Affleck |
| Laurence Sterne | ... night a traveler is a good indicator of this novel which is reminiscent of | 's Tristram Shandy. The book commences on a hypothesis of novelistic eleme ... |
| Samson Occom | ... or such an establishment resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian | . Occom became an ordained minister after studying under Wheelock from 174 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... of the only things that could hurt the Spectre, which had been obtained by | , giving him control over superheroes that entered Nazi-occupied areas |
| Pasha Glubb | ... es from Bethlehem to Hebron had been cut off from their lines of supply and | sent 350 Arab Legionnaires and an armoured car unit to Hebron to reinforce ... |
| Michelangelo | ... ted Italy. In the same palazzo were also the two statues of river gods that | moved to the steps of Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill |
| John W. Campbell | ... round in time to adjust their ages a bit." The novel "worried and bothered" | , who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, t ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... d Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé | |
| 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 ... |
| Errol Fuller | ... hirioux’s grey parrot, was captioned with the following Dutch poem, here in | 's 2002 translation |
| D. A. Pennebaker | ... rt Drew), Harlan County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple), Dont Look Back ( | ), Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed ci ... |
| Irving Greenberg | Rabbi | is a Modern Orthodox rabbi who has written extensively on how the Holocaus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sloan Wilson | ... e for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including Andy Rooney and | who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in the Gray Flannel S ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... ggressive melodies and loud distorted guitars put the "power" in power-pop. | of The Who coined the term "power pop" in a 1967 interview in which he sai ... |
| Fleeming Jenkin | ... e power input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, | , William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid govern ... |
| Ron Shelton | Costner then starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup (1996) for | , who had previously directed him in Bull Durham. He developed the film Ai ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... ated Odessa Whitmire, a former personal assistant of Billy Bob Thornton and | |
| Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
| Richard Rodgers | ... 's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with | to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' ... |
| John Dryden | ... 's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by | in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad. Whatev ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... rejected by the leading theologians in the next century, chief of whom was | . He distinguished the supernatural gifts of Adam before the Fall from wha ... |
| Lloyd C. Douglas | The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion written by | . The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... Asimov to write the latter as an experiment for the magazine), and again by | , Asimov's usual editor. In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury acce ... |
| Wagner | ... ng double bass. In the Romantic era and the 20th century, composers such as | , Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and Prokofiev also requested notes below the ... |
| Lorenz Hart | ... sical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' first partner, | , originally planned collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoh ... |
| Berry Gordy | #"Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, | ) – 4:3 |
| Mary Hopkin | ... "Step Inside Love" (1968, given to Cilla Black), "Goodbye" (1969, given to | ), "Come and Get it" (1969, given to Badfinger), and early versions of "We ... |
| P. Schuyler Miller | ... etailed picture of an interplanetary future we will encounter in any year". | cited the novel's "freshness and simplicity," characterizing it as "a life ... |
| Alan King | ... David Brenner, he originally wanted to be known as the King of comedy, but | already had that last name, so he would be the Prince of comedy instead |
| Euripides | ... fore Virgil, the story is also alluded to in Greek classical literature. In | ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B.C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “For ... |
| Martin McDonagh | Walken returned to Broadway in | 's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010, and received a Tony Award nominati ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed a top adviser to | . The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received criti ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur and | , among others |
| Elie Wiesel | | is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, ... |
| Michael Moorcock | Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with | 's anti-hero Elric of Melniboné for Ed Kramer's anthology Tales of the Whi ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... agger has also been romantically linked to other women: Chrissie Shrimpton, | , Anita Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe ... |
| Edward Norton | ... nent court cases, and befriends a young, whip-smart lawyer, Alan Isaacman ( | ). In 1975, Flynt loses a smut-peddling court decision in Cincinnati, but ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... was derived from the two-volume book of the same name by Danish philosopher | , whose works generally deal with themes such as existential despair, angs ... |
| Virgil | ... olars who had been impressed by his industry. He then ventured to translate | into English verse (1649–1650), which brought him a considerable sum of mo ... |
| Livy | According to | , the hill first became part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal H ... |
| Oliver Stone | He followed this with (1991), the | -directed JFK (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect ... |
| Aristotle | ... hemy (although he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of | and Theophrastus. He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of ... |
| Jordanes | ... e the Vesi/Visigothi and the Greuthungi the Ostrogothi is also supported by | . He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the hei ... |
| Jerry Siegel | ... ived his first story the following month, #52 (Feb.1940). He was created by | and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solel ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... captain and others on board, including his companion, the young naturalist | , made observations on the geology and biology on Chatham, Charles, Albema ... |
| Dante | ... the Bible in French, Italian and German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, | 's Divine Comedy, En Route, Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about C ... |
| Frederik Pohl | ... Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on | , on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ure and the sciences. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as | , Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, ... |
| Blind Harry | ... an early date a castle on the island. Sir Robert de Lawedre is mentioned by | in The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir Willi ... |
| Jack Williamson | Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, | characterized Heinlein's story as "a dream of personal freedom" written wi ... |
| George R. R. Martin | ... e company. Liz Danforth created the art for each of the Nazgûl in the game. | 's novel The Armageddon Rag is about a rock band named the Nazgûl. The ban ... |
| Bill Murray | ... ble celebrities played in the 2006 Wolf Challenge in Sellersburg, including | , Kevin Costner, John Daly, and Cris Judd |
| Victor Hugo | ... nces. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as Charles Darwin, | and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur ... |
| Ignaz Maybaum | ... t been adopted by any sizable element of the Jewish or Christian community, | has proposed that the Holocaust is the ultimate form of vicarious atonemen ... |
| James Shirley | ... lby to learn Greek from David Whitford, who was usher in the school kept by | the dramatist |
| 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 ... |
| Theophrastus | ... he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and | . He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of the mineral and ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... the Franciscans, though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as | and William of Ockham, eliminated the element of concupiscence |
| James Blish | Science-fiction writer and critic | , writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of chara ... |
| Harry Northup | ... ous one with De Niro. Other frequent collaborators include Victor Argo (6), | (6), Harvey Keitel (5), Murray Moston (5), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3 ... |
| Aristotle | ... leontology with his explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused. | previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Ibn Sina m ... |
| Thomas Nast | ... rank who could not be trusted. The most vicious attacks came in cartoons by | in Harper's Weekly. Greeley ultimately ran far behind Grant, winning only ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... y to only Taiwan, Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949, | proclaimed the People's Republic of China, which was commonly known in the ... |
| William of Ockham | ... , though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as Duns Scotus and | , eliminated the element of concupiscence |
| 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 ... |
| Pierre Perrault | ... more accurately ""), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, and | , and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert ... |
| St Augustine | ... -Karl Huysmans's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by | , Cardinal Newman and Walter Pater |
| Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
| William Shatner | ... , sudden off-beat pauses, and strange speech rhythm, in a manner similar to | , which was subject to parody in a Robot Chicken episode. He is revered fo ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... ng asked the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its leader | for assistance. From May until July 1964, they carried out marches, sit-in ... |
| Harold Kushner | Rabbis | , William E. Kaufman, Milton Steinberg believe that God is not omnipotent, ... |
| Petrarch | ... oles, seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of the Renaissance poet | |
| Milton Steinberg | Rabbis Harold Kushner, William E. Kaufman, | believe that God is not omnipotent, and thus is not to blame for mankind's ... |
| Martin Luther | Reformers | and John Calvin equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it ... |
| James Whitcomb Riley | A statue of | , which stands in front of the Hancock County Courthouse, was erected in 1 ... |
| Gary Oldman | ... s in Hollywood, MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between Walken and | in 1998, citing their portrayals of such villains |
| Clive Barker | ... original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, | , Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others |
| Gus Van Sant | In 1996, Smith was tapped by director and fellow Portland resident | to be a part of the soundtrack to his film, Good Will Hunting. Smith recor ... |
| Brian Epstein | ... el proved popular in Liverpool, like many Broadway albums, and in 1963, the | -managed band, Gerry and the Pacemakers had a number-one hit with the song ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... ielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young | in his first professional Shakespearean leading role. Olivier's performanc ... |
| Jaan Anvelt | On , Bolshevik leader | led his leftist revolutionaries in an uprising in Tallinn, the capital of ... |
| Pamela Des Barres | ... men: Chrissie Shrimpton, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, | , Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, Carly Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Ph ... |
| Virgil | In | 's Aeneid, Deiphobus appears in the Underworld to Aeneas. He tells Aeneas ... |
| Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
| Spinozist | Here Gottfried says that Pliny is not | , but 'could be called a Pandeist' whose nature-God 'is not separate from ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, | stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ... |
| James L. Brooks | ... reator Matt Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of | 's office. Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program The Tracey Ul ... |
| Stevenson's | Catriona is | 1893 sequel to Kidnapped. Both novels are set in the aftermath of the Jaco ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and | tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ... |
| James K. Galbraith | ... he dream of global free-market capitalism. In the same month macroeconomist | used the 25th Annual Milton Friedman Distinguished Lecture to launch a swe ... |
| Copernicus | ... ble advance in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of | , Kepler, and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the cent ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with | for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with S ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, | , Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
| Mr. E. Blackadder | ... and Nobility", in which the Scarlet Pimpernel is praised by everyone except | , who sees nothing admirable in "filling London with a load of garlic-chew ... |
| Haydn | ... from southern Germany and Italy. In some respects, Pachelbel is similar to | , who too served as a professional musician of the Stephansdom in his yout ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Joan Baez, Donny Hathaway, Michael Bolton, | , Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles (1967), ... |
| Carly Simon | Jagger was allegedly a contender for the anonymous subject of | 's 1973 hit song "You're So Vain", in which he sings backing vocals. Altho ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... to' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers Ana Lydia Vega and | , and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Kennedy, while serv ... |
| Ben Stiller | ... red in Barry Levinson's Envy in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who helps | 's character, and in his starring role in 2004's Around the Bend he again ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after | 's short film Hedy (1966), also known as The Shoplifter. The shoplifting c ... |
| Hamon L'Estrange | ... sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones. The English historian Sir | , who witnessed a live bird, described it as such |
| Kepler | ... in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of Copernicus, | , and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the center of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Zelazny | ... n, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, | , Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
| W. H. Auden | ... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as | , composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ... |
| Erwin Rommel | ... he landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches. | was the primary target of the psychological aspects of this operation. Con ... |
| Barry Levinson | Walken also starred in | 's Envy in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who helps Ben Stiller's chara ... |
| Philip Stanhope | ... g Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, and | , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left little to the poor an ... |
| Terence Winter | ... ok Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City. | , who previously wrote for The Sopranos, created the series. In addition t ... |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on | 's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ... |
| Ana Lydia Vega | ... os, boxer Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers | and Giannina Braschi, and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. ... |
| Matt Groening | The Simpsons creator | conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's o ... |
| Lord Herbert of Cherbury | ... ts and religious wars since the beginning of the Reformation. In 1642, when | 's De Veritate was published, the Thirty Years War had been raging on cont ... |
| Matthew Fox | ... Christian denominations (such as the Unity Church) and theologians (such as | ). Under such different views, Augustine's example of newborn babies would ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, | , H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
| Plutarch | ... genuine exiles, were able to access their income in Attica from abroad. In | , following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, t ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | and | |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... along with other "Handsome Men" including Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe and | . At the end of the skit Kimmel has a door slammed in his face by Damon st ... |
| E.C. Stedman | ... tertained the other passengers with "", about the rise and fall of empires. | , in Victorian Poets describes this "lyric to England" as "manly verse – a ... |
| Richard Wright | Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author | . The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ... |
| John Polkinghorne | ... ch it has created the physical world. However many modern scholars (such as | ) hold that it is part of a deity's nature to be consistent and that it wo ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... r album Rising. Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of | 's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of vario ... |
| George Antheil | Avant garde composer | , a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with ... |
| Immortal Technique | ... n songs by various musicians, including Puerto Rican rock band Puya, rapper | and reggaeton artist Tego Calderón |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including | 's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on ... |
| Courtney Love | ... ynt, and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, | , and Edward Norton |
| Irving Berlin | ... alk" with a hard consonant, which does not allow the singer a vocal climax. | later stated that "You'll Never Walk Alone" had the same sort of effect on ... |
| John Loftus | ... ng, "any doctor would tell you that these are the symptoms of a poisoning". | reported on ABC radio that Arafat had died of AIDS. According to Loftus, t ... |
| Paul Krugman | Nobel laureate | also actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ... |
| Edmond de Goncourt | ... experience of the Commune. A more pragmatic lesson was drawn by the diarist | , who wrote, three days after La Semaine Sanglante, "…the bleeding has bee ... |
| Thorne Smith | ... oore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, | , and Gene Wolfe |
| J. B. Priestley | ... uch as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as | . Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face |
| Miloš Forman | ... ople vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by | about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, ... |
| Theodore Spencer | In 1951, in the first | Memorial Lecture at Harvard University, Eliot criticized his own plays in ... |
| John Fowles's | ... man (1980), written by Harold Pinter, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of | book. In addition to the Victorian love story of the book, Pinter creates ... |
| Brian Selznick | Hugo is a 3D adventure drama film based on | 's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chl ... |
| Robert Reich | ... ntion to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, Brad Delong, | |
| Gene Wolfe | ... lany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and | |
| Rigoberta Menchú | ... ers Ana Lydia Vega and Giannina Braschi, and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner | . Kennedy, while serving jail time in Puerto Rico for his role in the prot ... |
| Haydn | ... an Stefani and Maciej Kamieński), others imitated foreign composers such as | and Mozart |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
| Richard Wright | ... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains | 's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born |
| Plutarch | ... nificantly towards its restoration. Hadrian offered complete autonomy. Also | was a significant factor by his presence as a chief priest |
| Jorge Luis Borges | | , in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional worl ... |
| Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... cene is almost entirely drawn from Molnár and is one extended musical piece | ;described it as "probably the single most important moment in the revolut ... |
| Kim Newman | ... d Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with | . Even though Gaiman thought he did a terrible job, the book's first editi ... |
| Ibn Battuta | By the time of the Moroccan traveller | 's appearance on the Somali coast in 1331, the city was at the zenith of i ... |
| Park Benjamin, Jr. | ... he lawyer, writer, editor, encyclopedist and Naval Academy graduate (1867), | It was adopted by the Navy Department in 1898 due to the efforts of anothe ... |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | ... o Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, | , Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer and Jude Law. The film has been met with cr ... |
| Gnaeus Naevius | A fragment of an epic poem by | who died at Utica in 201 BC includes a passage which might or might not be ... |
| John Travolta | ... tion Hairspray—where he is seen singing and dancing in a romantic duet with | —and he portrayed the eccentric but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusi ... |
| James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
| Chris Date | ... uent years, the most recent being the Sixth Normal Form (6NF) introduced by | , Hugh Darwen, and Nikos Lorentzos in 2002 |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Norton | ... uent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and | |
| Alan Moore | ... t Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing written by | , and carefully read it. Moore's fresh and vigorous approach to comics had ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | | acknowledged difficulty in comprehending a deity's power. Aquinas wrote th ... |
| John Hughes | Later in 1985, the band wrote the song "If You Leave" for the | film Pretty in Pink. The song was featured on the soundtrack and became a ... |
| Robert Speaight | ... ce was given on June 15, 1935 in the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral. | played the part of Becket. The production then moved to the Mercury Theatr ... |
| Lewis Black | ... ama Click, and he also appeared in Man of the Year, with Robin Williams and | . He costarred in the 2007 film adaptation Hairspray—where he is seen sing ... |
| Yaqut al-Hamawi | Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian | wrote that it was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the ... |
| Augustine | ... that, man remains free. Instead of accepting the Lutheran interpretation of | 's teaching, Orthodox Churches accept the teaching of John Cassian, which, ... |
| Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
| Joel Spolsky | ... l mis-steps during introduction, like the lack of a macro language or undo. | blames it on the design itself, claiming it was too perfectly aimed at a s ... |
| Carl Barks | ... his nephews that it really works. Seven years later, in "That's no fable!" | revisited the myth this time with Scrooge McDuck and his nephews finding t ... |
| Thomas Dick | ... s the priority must be assigned to others. A lesser-known classmate of his, | , also went on to become a popular astronomical writer |
| Sir Leslie Stephen | ... wide variety of positions on a wide variety of religious issues. Following | 's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that ... |
| Goodfield | ... s; formation of minerals; and the diversity of earth’s terrain. Toulmin and | (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna ... |
| Artie Shaw | ... ienced her first serious adult romances. The first was with the band leader | . She was deeply devoted to him and was devastated in early 1940 when he e ... |
| Robert Burton | In England, the term deist first appeared in | 's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) |
| Adolphe-Basile Routhier | The original French lyrics of "O Canada" were written by Sir | , to music composed by Calixa Lavallée, as a French Canadian patriotic son ... |
| Alan Moore | After forming a friendship with comic book writer | , Gaiman started writing comic books, picking up Marvelman after Moore fin ... |
| Josephus | ... s given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in | 's Against Apion, i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the s ... |
| Plutarch | ... graphers dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, | . He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, ... |
| Calixa Lavallée | ... O Canada" were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, to music composed by | , as a French Canadian patriotic song for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society ... |
| Barack Obama | ... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority for | in the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... (on album Penguin) and Peter Frampton (on I'm in You), and also by comedian | on Bill Cosby Sings Hooray For the Salvation Army Band |
| Robert Speaight | The play, starring | , was broadcast live on British television by the BBC in 1936 in its first ... |
| Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
| Jonathan Tisch | ... his wife Pam. The school was renamed in 2006 after a $40 million gift from | . It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research universit ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ress in which Damon commented on the Republican Vice Presidential candidate | , whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case John McCain were to n ... |
| Demetrius of Phalerum | ... der and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under | , and besieged and took Munychia (307 BC). After these victories he was wo ... |
| C. S. Lewis | In recent times, | has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ... |
| Edward Norton | ... History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring | and Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema |
| Marcus Aurelius | However, barbarian raids during the reign of | and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by Constantine ... |
| Serj Tankian | ... is of the same quality as the tracks which made it onto Toxicity. Vocalist | has said that the songs were left out of Toxicity "because they didn't fit ... |
| 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 |
| John McCain | ... l candidate Sarah Palin, whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case | were to not make it through his first term. Damon referred to Palin as a " ... |
| 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 |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... inland United States and abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, | , Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, ac ... |
| Harold Kushner | The most popular works espousing this point are from | (in Judaism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articul ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... . Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by | . King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 |
| Charles Darwin | ... the older English names, principally because those were the names used when | visited |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... her and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of | . The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism, a her ... |
| Al Jean | Mimi Pond wrote the episode and staff writer | came up with the title. David Silverman directed this episode, while Rich ... |
| John Steinbeck | ... nd Tortilla Flat (1942) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by | . White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her ... |
| Joseph Conrad | ... d to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met | , then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, ... |
| Jim Dale | ... e foppish exterior of British aristocrat Sir Rodney Ffing. It also features | as his assistant, Lord Darcy. They must rescue preposterously effete arist ... |
| Edward Grim | ... dral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of | , a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event |
| Harry S. Truman | ... e a ceasefire was signed in Vietnam and just a month after former president | died. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ... |
| Sophie Dahl | ... Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, | and , among others |
| Julian Lennon | ... n was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. | is his half-brother and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister. After Sean's bi ... |
| Mos Def | ... , Run DMC, Public Enemy, Schooly D, N.W.A, Kid Frost, Wu-Tang Clan, Dr Dre, | , Beastie Boys and the Pharcyde are very often directly sampled, regardles ... |
| Candace Allen | ... ced in 1995 after 15 years of marriage. In 1996 he married his second wife, | , a Boston-born writer. This second marriage ended after Rattle began a re ... |
| 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" ... |
| Shusaku Endo | Scorsese anticipates filming an adaptation of | 's novel Silence, a drama about the voyages of two Portuguese Jesuit pries ... |
| Aristotle | ... affiliated with the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division. | scholar and Objectivist Allan Gotthelf, chairman of the Society, and his c ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... e Done Him Wrong but Grant had already made seven movies, including playing | 's leading man in Blonde Venus the previous year. Of the people who appear ... |
| Jimmy Kimmel | Comedian | at some point started stating near the end of his ABC television show Jimm ... |
| Lorna Luft | ... e to the Academy; prompting Luft to instead turn the award over to daughter | who had expressed a desire to keep it in the family |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Miller | The 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by | '63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his frater ... |
| Parmenides | The atomistic void hypothesis was a response to the paradoxes of | and Zeno, the founders of metaphysical logic, who put forth difficult to a ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Spade | ... , Walken played a gangster who was in the witness protection program in the | comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts |
| Bruce Lee | ... ng wealthy, Prinze took martial arts lessons from Robert Wall, a student of | , who appeared in Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. Soon after, W ... |
| Mikhail Bakunin | ... participatory democracy from the grass roots up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, | , and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong tried to draw majo ... |
| 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. |
| David McKenna | ... same path as he did. The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative. | scripted the film and shooting took place in Los Angeles, California. The ... |
| Philip Dunne | ... arring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by | |
| 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 ... |
| Phil Alden Robinson | ... sese reported that his long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic is coming up, with | writing the screenplay. He is also attached to direct The Irishman, which ... |
| Ausonius | ... dding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter. The rhopalic verse of | is a good example; besides following the standard hexameter pattern, each ... |
| 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 ... |
| Don Cheadle | ... 24, 2008, and featured Affleck along with a host of celebrities, including | , Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford, and Robin Williams |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
| Virgil | ... rn-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet | in his Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa |
| Cecil B. DeMille | ... ). After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in | 's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Matu ... |
| Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, one of the Nazgûl is sh ... |
| Philipp Melanchthon | Luther, along with his colleague | , emphasized this point in his plea for the Reformation at the Reichstag i ... |
| Juvenal | ... asies or hallmarks of personal style, and were not imitated by later poets. | , for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sens ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... e Republic of China was established, heralding the end of the Qing Dynasty. | of the Kuomintang (the KMT or Nationalist Party) was proclaimed provisiona ... |
| Porphyry | ... to, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, | , and Iamblichus for the biographical details. Aristotle had written a sep ... |
| Sarah Silverman | Kimmel's girlfriend at the time, comedian | , appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on January 31, 2008 and aired a clip where ... |
| David Frum | ... espread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. | , a former speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, speculated that ... |
| Molefi Kete Asante | In 2002, scholar | listed King on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans |
| Laurens Reael | ... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General | , admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz |
| Horace | ... tance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of | , line 263 |
| Dave McKean | ... te three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long-time friend | : Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Trage ... |
| Sun Tzu | ... pe of warfare, being rooted in Chinese Stratagems outlined in words such as | ’s The Art of War and The Thirty-Six Stratagems, has become so engrained i ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ms were selling for upwards of $200,000, to famous musicians such as Sting, | and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over. The Synclavier was ... |
| Charles Darwin | In 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to | 's theories. Broca was rather inspired with the whole idea of evolution. H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Freed | ... ich she would forever be identified, "Over the Rainbow". Although producers | and Mervyn LeRoy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer tried f ... |
| T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by | that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... s up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, | and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as r ... |
| Ross Laidlaw | ... venson's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist | |
| Oscar Browning | ... d at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton he was a favorite of | , an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal. While a ... |
| Andy Warhol | Pop artist | painted a series of silkscreen portraits of Jagger in 1975. One of these w ... |
| Petrarch | ... re far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise. | , for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic ... |
| Lucretius | However | , describing atomism in his De rerum natura gives very clear and compellin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | In 1972, General | launched the "Easter Offensive", an all-out attack against South Vietnam f ... |
| Alfred Douglas | In mid-1891 Lionel Johnson introduced Wilde to | , an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. Known to his family and friends ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... thy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the children's book by | . In this film, she sang the song for which she would forever be identifie ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
| Philochorus | From | , Atthi |
| Peter Jackson | ... does ride a creature more in line with the book when he confronts Éowyn. In | 's film trilogy based on The Lord of the Rings, all nine Nazgûl are shown ... |
| Jeph Loeb | Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and | developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which wa ... |
| Theocritus | Demeter might also be invoked in the guises of: | , wrote of an earlier role of Demeter as a poppy goddess |
| Aristotle | From | Constitution of the Athenians |
| Lorenzo de Zavala | ... the northeastern curve of the Houston Ship Channel. Channelview was home to | , one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas. During World War I ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... y successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and | whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was to ... |
| Fran Drescher | ... Raton is almost idiomatically used for indicating retirement. For example, | 's character in The Nanny is always pushing her parents to move to Boca, a ... |
| Clive James | ... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence. | wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ertainers such as Gwen Stefani, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Groban, and | . The annual Apollo Night talent show draws about 1,500 people to the Stoc ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... vate companies and chairperson of interest groups; while Pierre Trudeau and | returned to legal practice. Former prime ministers also commonly penned au ... |
| B W Aston | The Texas historian | is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery near Tolar |
| Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... of Harvest Home (1978) and the theatrical film Death on the Nile (1978), an | murder mystery. The bulk of her remaining work was for television. She won ... |
| Thomas Hardy | ... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of | 's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ... |
| Martin Olson | ... Show, hosted by his friend Lenny Clarke and written by Boston comedy writer | . Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influence ... |
| William Roache | ... (Guiding Light) in the USA, the longest-serving members of a drama series ( | for Coronation Street in the UK, Ray Meagher for Home and Away in Australi ... |
| George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
| Larry Sabato | ... d it "McCain's plan" and University of Virginia political science professor | said, "McCain owns Iraq just as much as Bush does now." The surge and the ... |
| Robert Penn Warren | ... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men by | described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ... |
| Stenger | ... rd subjective experience to be more valid than objective material reality." | states that the term "bioenergetics" "is applied in biochemistry to refer ... |
| Aleksander Kamiński | ... he Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, | , Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
| 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 ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... applies an extended regular expression syntax that was added to Unix after | 's original regular expression implementation. fgrep searches for any of a ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... 24 August 1736, he married Mary Wortley Montagu (daughter of Sir Edward and | ), bringing the large Wortley estates to his family. In 1737, due to the i ... |
| Saint Augustine | ... , the Vandals laid siege to the walled city of Hippo Regius in 430. Inside, | and his priests prayed for relief from the invaders, knowing full well tha ... |
| Friedrich Schlegel | ... rasting it with "classic" but in terms of spirit rather than merely dating. | , wrote in his Dialogue on Poetry (1800): "I seek and find the romantic am ... |
| Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | ... th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the Platonist philosopher | made extensive translations from both Latin and Greek. In the early 16th c ... |
| Tennessee Williams | ... ge others with love but instead resorted to "high-grade carpentry work." In | 's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a ... |
| Elvis Mitchell | ... major critics (listed as "Top Critics") gave favorable reviews. Film critic | of the New York Times lauded it as a "vital and sharply intelligent film," ... |
| Irving Thalberg | ... backing, The Pottery Maker (1925) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1927). | of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) i ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
| Johann Mattheson | ... 733 notes, "mi against fa", which the ancients called "Satan in music", and | in 1739 writes that the "older singers with solmization called this pleasa ... |
| John Erskine | To commemorate Bacon's seven hundredth anniversary, Professor | wrote A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century, a biographical play which was p ... |
| Byron Nelson | ... he American West, R&B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham (manager for ZZ Top), | , a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Ben ... |
| Woody Guthrie | In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger | to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower ... |
| Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ly preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with | 's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Nors ... |
| Helen Hunt | ... including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or John Travolta to play Lester, and | or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn. Mendes did not want a big star "weighing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
| Dominic Lawson | ... the father of food writer and celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, and journalist | |
| Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
| Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
| Nigella Lawson | Lawson is the father of food writer and celebrity cook | , and journalist Dominic Lawson |
| George Lucas | ... urces speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for Indiana Jones, neither | nor the other creators of the films have ever confirmed this. Other candid ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ny things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless he counts as Omnipotent. | advanced a version of the omnipotence paradox by asking whether God could ... |
| Poliziano | ... d Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet | and the Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino made extensive translations ... |
| Alfonso X of Castile | ... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by | in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ... |
| Aristotle | ... force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, | , and other early Greek philosophers. Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was one o ... |
| Natalis Comes | ... as the Moon producing winter storms. The 16th-century Italian mythographer | interpreted the whole story of Orion as an allegory of the evolution of a ... |
| Mertens, Pierre | ... Melle - Menen - Mercator, Gerardus - Merckx, Eddy - Merelbeke - Merksplas - | - Mesen - Meulebeke - Meuse-Inférieure - Meuse-Rhenish - Middelkerke - Mil ... |
| Ken Thompson | Grep was created by | as a standalone application adapted from the regular expression parser he ... |
| John Belushi | ... da Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for | and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. ... |
| Joss Whedon | ... atural-based plots involving vampires, witches, and werewolves. The popular | series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, with their continuing serial pl ... |
| Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | ... olish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, | , Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
| John Hollander | ... ersially nonsensical, and Chomsky's example remains by far the most famous. | wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence |
| Bill Murray | ... ertes by Liev Schreiber, Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by | |
| Beah Richards | ... them a black man as their future son-in-law. John's parents (Roy E. Glenn, | ) fly up from Los Angeles to the Draytons' dinner but don't know that Joan ... |
| David Hume | ... n at second order questions about ethics. Earlier, the Scottish philosopher | had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values |
| 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 ... |
| Ethan Hawke | ... emporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. | plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes ... |
| Alhazen | ... e and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist | . However, more recent reevaluations emphasize that he was essentially a m ... |
| Daniele Luttazzi | In 2003, comedian | published the screenplay Tabù, an almost parody of the film. In the variat ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
| Marc Guggenheim | ... ment will be releasing a Galactica 1980 comic series. It will be written by | and will be a re-imagining of the original series and is expected to be re ... |
| Karin Boye | ... include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and | |
| Sir Alec Rose | ... ht boxing champion, Alan Pascoe, Olympic medallist, was born in Portsmouth, | , famous single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimm ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... e United States Postal Service with Connecticut themes include Nathan Hale, | , Josiah Willard Gibbs, Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Ch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Murray | ... also regularly appeared in the show's sketches, notably as the pianist for | 's Nick the Lounge Singer character, and as Don Kirshner |
| Leon Trotsky | ... oika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of | . The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate se ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | This was essentially the position taken by | in his The City of God |
| Chris Elliott | ... members of the show. Common contributors included bandleader Paul Shaffer, | , Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer Bill Wendell, writer ... |
| Glen A. Larson | These Battlestar Galactica softcover novelisations were written by | with the authors listed below. All novels except Battlestar Galactica #14: ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including | , records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ... |
| Livy | | mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on ... |
| John Travolta | ... io suggested several alternatives, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or | to play Lester, and Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn. Mendes did ... |
| Liev Schreiber | ... lays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by | , Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
| 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 ... |
| Jan Dobraczyński | ... er war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, | , Henryk Woliński, and others |
| Conan O'Brien | ... S. citizenship. Through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host | . He attended , in Worcester |
| Lewis | ... der brother Val came to be a pioneering influence in BBC Radio. His brother | was a scholar, writer, intelligence officer and humanitarian worker. His n ... |
| August Strindberg | ... ho have acknowledged their debt to the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, | , J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and Karin Boye |
| Laurence Olivier | ... arly inspired by his frequent collaborator David Lean. Praise also came for | 's cameo as the Duke of Wellington, with Philip French of The Times writin ... |
| Marlier, Marcel | ... Marollen - Marols - Martens, Wilfried - Matsys, Quentin - Mariage, Benoît - | - Mechelen - Meerhout - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - ... |
| Richard Rush | ... n for appreciating films that did not fit standard industry niches, such as | 's multi-layered The Stunt Man (1980). SIFF was instrumental in the entry ... |
| Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
| Robert Hughes | ... olars see romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some like | see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Nov ... |
| Michael Almereyda | ... referred to as Hamlet 2000) is a 2000 American film written and directed by | , set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of ... |
| Faith Bandler | Back in Australia, he was introduced to | who enlightened the Robesons to the deep deprivation the Australian Aborig ... |
| Aristotle | ... European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by the works of | and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, | and Karin Boye |
| Rob Zombie | ... s teams, and has hosted nationally known entertainers such as Gwen Stefani, | , Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Groban, and Bob Dylan. The annual Apollo Night talen ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Two days after the march, on March 9, 1965, | led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. He and other civil rights leaders at ... |
| Eyvindr skáldaspillir | ... in poems by known poets such evidence is difficult to evaluate. For example | , composing in the latter half of the 10th century, uses in his Hákonarmál ... |
| Ray Strachey | ... e best known of these essays, called Cassandra, was previously published by | in 1928. Strachey included it in The Cause, a history of the women's movem ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... ny more releases from T-Neck after getting an offer from Motown Records CEO | to sign with Motown. Sent to the label's Tamla division, the brothers reco ... |
| Sam Harris | ... g article titled "Drugs and the meaning of life", author and neuroscientist | argues "The fact that we pointlessly ruin the lives of nonviolent drug use ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... of Bakshi's art, was released on April 1, 2008. The foreword was written by | and the afterword by Bakshi |
| Dougal Dixon | ... r and broadcaster), grew up in Ayr and Dumfries. Author and earth scientist | is from Dumfries. Hunter Davies (author, journalist and broadcaster) lived ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
| K Callan | ... e. It stars George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Hildegarde Neil, Paul Sorvino and | |
| Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
| George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Annie Besant | ... Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and | . After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he g ... |
| Maurizio Giuliano | ... thing, such as the youngest person to visit all nations of the world, being | |
| Epicurus | Epicurean ethics is a hedonist form of virtue ethics. | "presented a sustained argument that pleasure, correctly understood, will ... |
| Noam Chomsky | "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by | in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is gramm ... |
| Roddy Doyle | Irish writer | wrote a short story by the same title about an Irish girl who brings home ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ki Longfellow-Stanshall | ... songs such as "Headbutts". In the mid 80s, he often appeared on Vivian and | 's showboat, the Old Profanity Showboat, in Bristol's Floating Harbour. Wh ... |
| Andrew Breitbart | ... , from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and | , conservative journalist; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! ... |
| René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
| 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 ... |
| Brothers Grimm | ... le devices that would be familiar to a reader of Alice in Wonderland or the | ; in fact earlier in his career Collodi worked on a translation of Mother ... |
| Byron Nelson | ... he main east-west road through town, State Highway 114 Business, is named " | Boulevard" in honor of the legendary golfer who resided in the community. ... |
| John Bunyan | In 1660 | was imprisoned for 12 years in Bedford Gaol. It was here that he wrote The ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... né Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem. | argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy t ... |
| Herb Hendler | ... s offered a position with Youth For Christ, and a week later was invited by | to come to Hollywood to write musicals for Capitol Records. Norman recalle ... |
| Robert E. Howard | The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of | , author of the Conan the Barbarian books |
| Laurence Olivier | ... nch as the long-suffering Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), | as the Duke of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richard ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... to avoid inconveniencing the Chicago traveling public, including President | . In a common pattern, Air Force One would land at a larger area airport, ... |
| Nikos Kavvadias | ... hos. A famous Greek poet of the 20th century was also a Chinese-born seaman | |
| 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 ... |
| Ryan Adams | ... ic, including The Beatles, Beach Boys, David Bowie and other acts including | . Hoon has recently also stated that he was a follower of early punk rock, ... |
| Robert Bolt | ... of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and directed by | and starred his wife, Sarah Miles, as Lady Caroline |
| Apuleius | ... stored through the intervention of a benevolent female spirit is taken from | ' The Golden Ass, while his being swallowed by a giant fish may owe someth ... |
| John Mayne | ... t spent the last five years of his life as the British consul in Barcelona. | was born in Dumfries in 1759 and contributed in the field of poetry. World ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and | from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik ... |
| Madelyn Pugh | ... series Alice, starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators | (Madelyn Davis) and Bob Carroll, Jr |
| Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... like a coherent sentence does not mean the sentence really makes any sense. | asserts that the paradox arises from a misunderstanding of omnipotence. He ... |
| Louis Livingston Seaman | ... nghuzi roam freely, since many of them used to be comrades, as described by | (Dr. Seaman): " They can not be caught, the plain truth being that the bes ... |
| Lord Byron | ... a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of | and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and di ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... rds of the Rolling Stones, the "brother" of co-host Colin Quinn, and artist | |
| Joe Clark | ... l sector; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University | ;and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... sertion since the American Civil War. Sheen's performance ultimately led to | choosing him for a starring role in 1979's Apocalypse Now, a film that gai ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... f J M W Turner. In 1836, his son, Miles Edmund was appointed to assist him. | was one of his pupils |
| Jack Rose | It was adapted by Melvin Frank and | from the story "She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night" by Frank, who als ... |
| Timothy Freke | ... n classical civilization and is known mainly for his books co-authored with | which argue that Jesus is a purely mythical construct |
| Keats | ... Imperial War Museum. To all intents and purposes, Sassoon became to Owen " | and Christ and Elijah"; surviving documents demonstrate clearly the depth ... |
| Bob Carroll, Jr. | ... in and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh (Madelyn Davis) and | |
| Boscán | ... g his contemporaries, and the success of his innovation no doubt encouraged | to introduce the Italian metres into Castilian. His verses were transmitte ... |
| Martin Fowler | ... pply the method and s for when you should (or should not) apply the method. | 's book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code is the canonica ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shirley Ann Grau | ... ces and to the political and business realms. For example, from literature: | , Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative jo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Darwin's | ... e well known as a region of distinct fauna, famous as the place of birth of | Theory of Evolution, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... wise man will know what is right, do what is good, and therefore be happy. | (384 BC – 322 BC) posited an ethical system that may be termed "self-reali ... |
| Gilda Radner | ... lated project. Shaffer later reported that he was in (unrequited) love with | . He would go on to appear in 1998's |
| John Milton | ... have delivered if Charles had entered a plea, while Parliament commissioned | to write a rejoinder, the Eikonoklastes ("The Iconoclast"), but the respon ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and | . Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica c ... |
| Harvey Pekar | ... ts like Letterman's verbal sparring matches with Cher, Shirley MacLaine and | |
| Henry Lawson | ... haped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like | and Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fidd ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ns when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? He points out that | demonstrated the equivalence of mass-energy. That is, according to relativ ... |
| Colin Quinn | ... haracters as Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, the "brother" of co-host | , and artist Andy Warhol |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... was born out of moments like Letterman's verbal sparring matches with Cher, | and Harvey Pekar |
| William Shakespeare | ... sh knight who fought for the House of York on many occasions. Some, notably | , regard him as the most likely culprit. Tyrrell was arrested by Henry VII ... |
| Robert Zemeckis | ... the content". Nevertheless, the studio offered the film to Mike Nichols and | ; neither accepted. In the same year, Mendes (then a theater director) rev ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
| Leonardo | ... in an abbey whose library henceforth "sparked the Renaissance", inspired " | and Michelangelo", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to t ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... , The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He had a small part in | 's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot; hi ... |
| Ice Cube | Rammstein embarked on a live tour with Korn, | , Orgy and Limp Bizkit called the Family Values Tour in September through ... |
| Provoost, Anne | ... k, Retie - Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy - Progressive Party (Belgium) - | - Proost (company) - Province of Antwerp - Province of Brabant - Province ... |
| John Case | ... ndorra during the Spanish Civil War.* In the 1997 novel The Genesis Code by | , the leader of Opus Dei is portrayed as the novel's antagonist. In the no ... |
| René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
| Emily's | ... vels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular Charlotte's Jane Eyre and | Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| James I of England | ... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of | (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ... |
| Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... led to Iberia and beyond, Nearchus, the 6th century merchant and later monk | (Cosmas who sailed to India) and the explorer of the Northwestern passage ... |
| Madonna | ... 989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from | . Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was born on April 13, 1991. Their son ... |
| Edwin Markham | ... a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the | Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contes ... |
| Emory Upton | ... rfield Road with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery in support. He had Gen. | 's Division placed across the Range Line Road with Battery I, 4th US Artil ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
| Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
| Françoise Hardy | ... sed his first solo album, Deserted Palace, and from 1973–74 wrote music for | and Gérard Lenorman, as well as directing Christophe's Olympia show |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... ions should be submitted for further experimental testing is very much like | 's 'Method of Verification', and Bacon's work on optics and the calendar a ... |
| Dorothy Day | ... ke it as an actor. It was there that he met the legendary Catholic activist | . Working with her Catholic Worker Movement, he began his commitment to so ... |
| Matt Groening | ... e episode was the first to feature the series' full title sequence. Creator | developed the lengthy sequence in order to cut down on the animation neces ... |
| Siculus Flaccus | ... or to a public river (one with a constant flow), or to another public road. | , who lived under Trajan (AD 98-117), calls them viae publicae regalesque, ... |
| Luigi Pulci | ... s vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors | (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariost ... |
| Julian Beck | ... d during the 19th century as a religious zealot named Reverend Henry Kane ( | ). Kane was the leader of a utopian cult, who had sealed themselves in an ... |
| John Dewey | ... origin of pragmatic ethics in the United States, especially in the work of | |
| Charlotte's | ... he undoubtedly Romantic novels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular | Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| Nina Hagen | ... how the band had played there up to that date. Supporting acts were Danzig, | , Joachim Witt and Alaska. The show was professionally filmed, intended to ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The phrase was further popularised by | 's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena" |
| Cao Pi | ... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When | , King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ... |
| Livy | ... 58 BC relative to the start of the Julian calendar. Also, the histories of | give us exact Roman dates for two eclipses in 190 BC and 168 BC, and we ha ... |
| Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
| Alexander Bogdanov | ... Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and | 's followers. Zinoviev remained Lenin's constant aide-de-camp and represen ... |
| Ross McWhirter | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins Norris and | , who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The brothers were ... |
| Tina Turner | According to a 1990s interview with singer | 's mother, Zelma Bullock, the singer was born Anna Mae Bullock in a sharec ... |
| Herodotus | ... le was fought and Josiah was killed (2 Kings 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:20-24). | reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2:159 |
| Gil Scott-Heron | ... lso a predecessor for beat poetry, as well as the rapping in hip hop music. | , a jazz poet/musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as "The R ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... tent description of a state of affairs. This position was once advocated by | . This definition of omnipotence solves some of the paradoxes associated w ... |
| Robert E. Howard | The pulp fiction author | , creator of the character Conan the Barbarian among others, lived in Cros ... |
| 14th Dalai Lama | ... ment sales. Political meetings between foreign government officials and the | are also opposed by China, as it considers Tibet to be formally part of Ch ... |
| Stanley Coren | ... well as thoroughly cunning, particularly with strangers. They rank 42nd in | 's |
| Karen Black | ... nt Offerings (1976) and The Disappearance of Aimee (1976), but clashed with | and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she ... |
| Al-Ghazali | ... ed by the Qadiriyya and Tijaan brotherhoods, as well as the Islamic scholar | |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quentialist theories of utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and | , and deontological ethics as epitomized by the work of Immanuel Kant. The ... |
| Jason Segel | On November 19, 2011, Miss Piggy, fellow Muppets, and | participated in the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live by singing "I ... |
| Keir Hardie | ... this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which | had formed in 1893 |
| Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Lee Roth | ... um seller that would be the band's last with Sammy Hagar on vocals. In 1996 | returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone, ... |
| Boy George | ... falo Girls." Later the Hilltoppers' home was visited by the Sex Pistols and | |
| Galen | ... ribed by Celsus (ca 30 BC–38 AD), while loss of function was added later by | even though the attribution is disputed and the origination of the fifth s ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by | . In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
| Jean Bodin | ... o the church, centering on the pope. The immediate author of the theory was | , who based it on the interpretation of Roman law. With the rise of nation ... |
| Dahlia Lithwick | ... to Scalia's and sometimes the two question counsel in seeming coordination. | of Slate described Scalia's technique |
| Wagner | ... n Siegfried's family; his mother named him Siegfried because of her love of | 's operas. His middle name, Loraine, was the surname of a clergyman with w ... |
| Kirsty Wark | BBC Broadcaster | was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster Stephen Jardine. Neil Olive ... |
| Philip Pullman | ... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by | |
| Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
| Martin Luther King | ... ss who's coming to dinner now?" with the sarcastic one-liner: "The Reverend | ?" After King's assassination on April 4, 1968, this line was removed from ... |
| Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright | ... of scholars and historians. According to the Anglican Bishop of Durham, the | , the novel is a "great thriller" but "lousy history". For example, the ma ... |
| Aristotle | ... Bacon had received showed him the rare defects in existing academic debate. | was known only through translations, as none of the professors would learn ... |
| William of Ockham | ... rgne, Henry of Ghent, Albert Magnus, Thomas Acquinas, John Duns Scotus, and | |
| Peter Maurin | ... he began his commitment to social justice, and would one day go on to play | , cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in . Sheen deliberately faile ... |
| Joseph Conrad | ... ere is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in | 's |
| Sean Penn | Wright was married to actor | from 1996 to 2010, with whom she had two children |
| Steven Spielberg | ... reamWorks. With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and | in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the proje ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... t least to the 12th century, addressed by Averroës (1126–1198) and later by | . Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (before 532) has a predecessor version o ... |
| Sidney Poitier | ... eson, was held at Carnegie Hall, as a benefit for the Paul Robeson Archive. | proclaimed, "When Paul Robeson died, it marked the passing of a magnificen ... |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... e 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), | (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century ... |
| William Rose | ... rginia. The film was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by | . The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol |
| Floyd Mutrux | ... he Shirelles' story was shown in Baby It's You!, a musical revue written by | and Colin Escott, which follows the story of Greenberg and Scepter Records ... |
| Saul Steinberg | ... rt's visualization of the math problem was partially inspired by the art of | . The increasing appearance of numbers in that sequence derived from Silve ... |
| John Henry Faulk | ... city in the United States for 2008. The Austin Public Library operates the | Library and various library branches. In addition, the University of Texas ... |
| Vincent Schiavelli | ... m an aortic dissection the day before the off-Broadway opening of Rent; and | , an actor and spokesperson for the National Marfan Foundation |
| John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... sm articulated by economists working in the Neoclassical tradition, such as | . Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage ... |
| Walt Disney | ... pped balked at the idea because of the cost of color broadcasting. In 1961, | struck a deal with NBC to move the show to their network. At the time, NBC ... |
| John Kennedy Toole | ... or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally. Other notables such as | , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces, Rudolph Matas, ... |
| Jane Fonda | ... s would still like to refilm a scene from The Letter to which Davis nodded. | , Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors ... |
| John Orloff | In October 2011 writer | was reported to have been hired as the script writer of this new feature f ... |
| Jonathan Larson | ... 's Volleyball (1984) who died suddenly at a match from an aortic dissection | ;, the author and composer of Rent, who died from an aortic dissection the ... |
| Douglas Coupland | The eponymous heroine of | 's novel Girlfriend in a Coma is Karen Ann McNeil. She collapses after a p ... |
| Kenneth McIntyre | ... that the islands were charted by Portuguese navigators in the 16th century. | , for example, claimed that Houtman was in possession of Portuguese maps o ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... rginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including Pat Robertson and | , as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace the fine members of ... |
| Katharine Houghton | ... Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece | . The film was groundbreaking for its positive representation of the contr ... |
| Jakob Meckel | ... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan, | , had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ... |
| Ludovico Ariosto | ... hors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and | (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... he film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend | . The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Gold ... |
| Hesychius | ... s used as a symbol in textual criticism for the Alexandrian text-type (from | , its once-supposed editor) |
| Jeff Tamarkin | As described by | , "The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided dec ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... hn Butler Trio. Nick Cave has been heavily influenced by the country artist | . In 2000, Cash, covered Cave's "The Mercy Seat" on the album American III ... |
| Walt Disney | ... me park of the same name, changed its name to Walt Disney Presents in 1958. | had long wanted ABC to broadcast his show in color, but the network still ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
| Aristotle | ... been a disciple of Grosseteste. He became a master at Oxford, lecturing on | . There is no evidence he was ever awarded a doctorate — the title Doctor ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... ade a speech in Virginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including | and Jerry Falwell, as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace th ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... ea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, | of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sán ... |
| Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
| Martin Luther | One passage in scripture supporting the idea of divine right of kings was . | , when urging the secular authorities to crush the Peasant Rebellion of 15 ... |
| Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
| Jon Vitti | The concept for the episode developed from writer | coming up with a long list of bad things Bart would do for attention imagi ... |
| Mongo Beti | In 1972, | , a writer in exile from Cameroon published Main basse sur le Cameroun, au ... |
| Conan O'Brien | ... y, a onetime producer for both men. On April 25, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose | , who was a writer for The Simpsons at the time and a former writer for Mi ... |
| Schlegel | ... (where Fichte lived, as well as Schelling, Hegel, Schiller and the brothers | ) a center for early German romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important wri ... |
| Nick Cave | ... music of successful contemporary bands The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. | has been heavily influenced by the country artist Johnny Cash. In 2000, Ca ... |
| Robert Bork | ... tration officials put Scalia on a short list with fellow D.C. Circuit Judge | , to be considered if a justice left the Court. In 1986, Chief Justice War ... |
| Sidney Poitier | ... ho's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, | and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. T ... |
| David Bivin | ... hristian scholars such as Robert Lindsey, David Flusser, Shmuel Safrai, and | have proposed that there was a Hebrew version of the Gospel before it was ... |
| Lorne Michaels | ... esident Peter Lassally, a onetime producer for both men. On April 25, 1993, | chose Conan O'Brien, who was a writer for The Simpsons at the time and a f ... |
| James Boswell | Count Andrei Shuvalov, chamberlain to Catherine, knew the diarist | well, and Boswell reports that Shuvalov shared private information regardi ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002, | canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life. |
| François Fénelon | The first archbishop appointed by the king of France was | . He came to be known as the "swan of Cambrai" ("le cygne de Cambrai"), in ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... s sang a medley of songs after being presented the awards by Merry Clayton, | , and Darlene Love. In 2002, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall ... |
| Glen A. Larson | For many years, original series creator | has often declared plans for a Battlestar Galactica motion picture. All at ... |
| Eugene Levy | ... production of Godspell, starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, | , Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to play piano for a Broadway s ... |
| James I | ... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her son | when he became King of England |
| Van Morrison | People! performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with | and Them, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The ... |
| Jon Vitti | ... on the Fox network on January 14, 1990. It was the first episode written by | . It was also the first ever episode to use the signature title sequence, ... |
| Obama | ... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos of | and Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony |
| Matt Stone | ... terest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon Trey Parker and | 's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a team of writer ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... ists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as | challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the ... |
| Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
| Sidney Poitier | ... young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( | ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii. The plot c ... |
| Rachel Held Evans | Author | resides in Dayton and writes about the town in the spiritual memoir Evolvi ... |
| Orson Welles | Among his friends were | and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Hust ... |
| Galen | ... ncient cultures. A pure vitalistic doctrine, however, can be traced back to | of the second century, a physician who became a surgeon for gladiators at ... |
| Hilda Ellis Davidson | | , writing on Snorri's unique description of Hel in his Prose Edda, states ... |
| Shakespeare | ... d by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the | play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia S ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... 0-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) Jerome (c. 340-420), and | (c. 354-430), had been that Matthew was the first gospel to be written. Th ... |
| John Bassett Moore | ... e Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken. The second ballot elected | of the United States, and the sixth Didrik Nyholm of Denmark and Max Huber ... |
| Gilda Radner | ... al director for the Toronto production of Godspell, starring Victor Garber, | , Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory (including | 's On War), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military th ... |
| Katharine Houghton | The film tells the story of Joanna "Joey" Drayton ( | ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prent ... |
| Georgius Agricola | By | 's time, the term had become a generic term for all of the sulfide mineral ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... y may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies (as | did in the US presidential election, 2008) it's clearly not correct to lab ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... e Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1969, then under the direction of | ("father" of musique concrète), proved hugely influential. Jarre was intro ... |
| Trey Parker | ... or adults, an interest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon | and Matt Stone's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a ... |
| John Sebastian | ... s death in 1997 returned to Brownsville to perform Jug Band recordings with | and the J-Band |
| Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
| 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 ... |
| Jerome | ... 60-130), Irenaeus (c. 130-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) | (c. 340-420), and Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430), had been that Matthew w ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... ay filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor | Helms was credited even by his most vociferous opponents with providing ex ... |
| Lorraine Hansberry | On January 15, 1965, Robeson gave the eulogy at the Harlem funeral of | recalling her work at Freedomways and her contributions to civil rights. F ... |
| Gladys Knight | ... later they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, together with | and The Pips. At the ceremony in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, th ... |
| Michael Jackson | Popular singer and song writer | paid a visit to Cleveland Elementary School to see the children and famili ... |
| Samson Occom | ... uth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named | , and at least some of those funds were used to help found the College |
| Saint Paul | The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, | and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of th ... |
| John Dewey | ... with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and especially | , pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scien ... |
| John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... els and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic | . A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estim ... |
| Michael Dertouzos | ... ap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, | , John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopoulos |
| Elijah Wald | ... e of the Emancipation Proclamation. Grammy-winning blues musician/historian | and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 19 ... |
| Hippocrates | ... tinguish living from non-living matter. In the Western tradition founded by | , these vital forces were associated with the four temperaments and humour ... |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | ... n Françaix's Concerto (1975), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk (1980), | 's Concerto (1983), Christopher Rouse's Concerto (1985), and Henry Brant's ... |
| John Keats | In Endymion (1818), | includes the line "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be insp ... |
| Plato | These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by | in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work |
| Harold Robbins | ... twin sisters and Where Love Has Gone (1964) was a romantic drama based on a | novel. Davis played the mother of Susan Hayward but filming was hampered b ... |
| Ivan Southall | ... published in England. The first non-British author to receive the award was | in 1972. The original rules also stated that an author could only win the ... |
| John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
| Gopal Ganesh Agarkar | ... d the Deccan Education Society with a few of his college friends, including | , Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi and Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar whose goal was to ... |
| John Belushi | ... l life, she frequently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to | and Gilda Radner |
| Larry Kramer's | ... 0. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright | early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. In 1992, he starred in a Shakespear ... |
| Boethius | ... iis of Martianus Capella, although the term "quadrivium" was not used until | early in the sixth century. As Proclus wrote |
| Peter Gallagher | ... curring motif. Carolyn begins an affair with a business rival, Buddy Kane ( | ). When Lester is about to be laid off his job he blackmails his boss for ... |
| Alan King | ... htclubs and resorts became the new breeding ground for stand-ups. Acts like | , Danny Thomas, Don Rickles and Jack E. Leonard flourished in these new ar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Snorri | ... tailed account of a venture to the region after the death of the god Baldr. | 's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of B ... |
| Martianus Capella | ... adrivium is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of | , although the term "quadrivium" was not used until Boethius early in the ... |
| Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
| Gilda Radner | ... ently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to John Belushi and | |
| Ian Fleming | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in | 's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 Mar ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
| Averroes | ... text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and | ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics w ... |
| Edward Bond | ... was adapted as a film of the same name in 1951. Nightingale also appears in | 's surrealist play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbia ... |
| Louis Veuillot | ... scribers. He edited it for three years. (It afterwards became his co-editor | 's ultramontane organ, L'Univers. |
| Philip Pullman | ... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - | 's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library |
| 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 ... |
| Eric Bentley | ... el is about life and death." Another view was advanced by critic and writer | , who disliked the ending, stating, "the last scene of Carousel is an impe ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... rtin anchored SNLs "Weekend Update" segment in 1976–77, and was paired with | in 1977–78 and Bill Murray in 1978–80 |
| G. K. Chesterton | At the turn of the century, | and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various ... |
| William Hazlitt | ... ne "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be inspired by Poussin. | may have introduced Keats to the painting—he later wrote the essay "On Lan ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and | took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ... |
| Mary Seacole | ... her independence and feeling of religious calling, but in Channel 4's 2006 | : The Real Angel of the Crimea and Simon Schama's A History of Britain she ... |
| Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
| Nicholas Negroponte | ... nclude Dimitrios Galanos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), | , Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Arg ... |
| Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
| Brian Crozier | ... itics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians Paul Preston and | state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's ministers were appointed ... |
| Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
| William Watson | ... he Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, Stephen Phillips, and | , had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson, producing weak imi ... |
| Bernard Cornwell | ... cdonald Fraser himself. Both companies took an extensive role in developing | 's Sharpe (TV series). No further news has been forthcoming since this tim ... |
| Bill Murray | ... Update" segment in 1976–77, and was paired with Dan Aykroyd in 1977–78 and | in 1978–80 |
| Nouriel Roubini | ... ons of pessimism may be used to silence legitimate criticism. The economist | was largely dismissed as a pessimist, for his dire but accurate prediction ... |
| Descartes | ... n, as we are in thought by the laws of logic." This position is advanced by | . It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logi ... |
| Rob Reiner | ... en pitched around Hollywood for a long time. Receiving advice from director | , screenwriter William Goldman, and their friend writer/director Kevin Smi ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... t, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, | and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washingt ... |
| Max Schott | The screenplay is very different from the | novella. In the Schott story, Murphy and Emma stay just platonic friends. ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
| Van Morrison | ... wn features in the song Snow in San Anselmo by Irish born singer/songwriter | , about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living ... |
| John Belushi | As a TV anchorwoman, Curtin played as a foil to | , who often gave a rambling and out-of-control "commentary" on events of t ... |
| Rob Pike | ... stems by Peter Fraser. A University of Toronto team consisting of Tom Duff, | , Hugh Redelmeier, and David Tilbrook implemented a version of QED that ru ... |
| Philip Roth | The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by | . It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is ... |
| Richard Henry Horne | ... cholas Poussin", published in Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners (1822). | , writing in the generation after Keats and Hazlitt, penned the three volu ... |
| Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
| Frank Rich | New York Times critic | said of the 1992 London production: "What is remarkable about Mr. Hytner's ... |
| Vishal Bhardwaj | ... (Bianca) and Konkona Sen Sharma as Indu (Emilia). The film was directed by | who earlier adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth as Maqbool. All characters in th ... |
| Allegra Huston | ... attorney and who is father of actor Jack Huston. Soma also had a daughter, | , as the result of an extramarital affair with John Julius Norwich; Huston ... |
| Mavrodes | ... this definition. Let X = "to make something that its maker cannot lift". As | points out there is nothing logically contradictory about this; a man coul ... |
| William Goldman | ... od for a long time. Receiving advice from director Rob Reiner, screenwriter | , and their friend writer/director Kevin Smith, the two made changes to th ... |
| Tatian | ... ault. Rather, each man is what he will appear to be through his own fault.” | said, “We were not created to die. Rather, we die by our own fault. Our fr ... |
| John Lennon | ... biting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed | with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, a ... |
| Jess Oppenheimer | ... et research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so | changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and L ... |
| Rafael Calvo Serer | ... ble members of Opus Dei who were vocal critics of the Franco Regime such as | and Antonio Fontan, who was the first Senate President of Spain's democrac ... |
| George Lucas | San Anselmo's most prominent resident, movie director | , bought an old Victorian in San Anselmo with some of the proceeds from hi ... |
| Herodotus | ... ds, 1955.*Hall, Manly Palmer, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , * | , The Histories* * Manas, John Helen, , New York, Pythagorean Society, 194 ... |
| Nathan Zuckerman | ... te 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is 65-year-old author | , a character in previous Roth novels, including American Pastoral (1997) ... |
| Spike Lee | ... 6 – Part 1 and 1989 – Part 2) by Henry Hampton, Four Little Girls (1997) by | , and The Civil War by Ken Burns, UNESCO awarded independent film on slave ... |
| Thomas Hardy's | ... till had a large audience; volumes of verse published in that time included | The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson ... |
| Jane Jacobs | ... ionals" as a full style of capital of its own. Some ethicists, most clearly | , see this as simple corruption. Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cas ... |
| Rupert Sheldrake | ... nd an advocate of vitalism is very rare, however the work of the biochemist | has been described as vitalistic. In 1981 in his book A New Science of Lif ... |
| Chanakya | ... the Rig-Veda, Samhitas, Brahmanas, the Mahabharata and Buddhist Pali Canon. | (c. 350–275 BC) was a political thinker in Takshashila. Chanakya wrote the ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
| Stephen Sackur | In a September 2010 interview with | for the BBC’s HARDtalk program, May said that he would rather be remembere ... |
| Jimmy Swaggart | While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like Bob Larson | ;, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and Jerry Falwell; and oth ... |
| Mari Sandoz | ... anes made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. | writes in her book, Slogum House, "She was the fifth of twelve children in ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors | and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponent ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... ob Larson; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and | ; and others within the conservative religious establishment, who consider ... |
| Anatoly Karpov | ... feature images of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and chess grandmaster | |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. | , Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Prévert adapted several | tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in version ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ons. After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President | , then assumed the post of President at Columbia University |
| Gene Hackman | ... semble prep-school drama School Ties. In 1992, he landed a big part in with | and Jason Patric. Four years later, he auditioned for a small role in Cutt ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... by Tom Robbins, pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant. | opens his "Kora in Hell: improvisations" city lights books wit |
| José Ángel Gutiérrez | ... movement known as La Raza Unida Party founded by three Chicanos, including | over a conflict about the ethnicity of cheerleaders at Crystal City High S ... |
| John Henry Wigmore | ... ternational Court of Justice as an advance in the science that we pursue?", | said that the creation of the Court "should have given every lawyer a thri ... |
| Tom Robbins | In the book Jitterbug Perfume by | , pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant |
| Madonna | ... usic videos in the 1990s. His first video role was as the Angel of Death in | 's 1993 "Bad Girl". The second appearance was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as | , believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ... |
| Julie Andrews | ... e recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite | two years earlier) |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and | , two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents |
| Kenneth Branagh | The second major film, directed by and starring | in 1989, attempts to give a more realistic evocation of the period and lay ... |
| Lucian | ... he sun"), after learning of the description by the 2nd-century Greek author | , of a picture of Orion recovering his sight; Poussin included a storm-clo ... |
| Joseph Cotten | ... cess and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included | , Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead. The following year, Davis was cast as th ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... rt was about to consider the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to | , who was challenging the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A group ... |
| Noam Friedlander | ... s John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, Patrice de Plunkett, Maggy Whitehouse, | many of the criticisms against Opus Dei are myths and unproven tales. Alle ... |
| Oliver Stone | The film was written by | and Richard Boyle, and was directed by Stone. Stone's portrayal is sympath ... |
| Philip Reeve | In the Mortal Engines by | , Professor Pennyroyal is a bogus historian who leads the protagonists of ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... enjamin Franklin, believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as | were agnostic about the immortality of the soul |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Salter | In August 1999, McCain's memoir Faith of My Fathers, co-authored with | , was published; a reviewer observed that its appearance "seems to have be ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... his 2003 album Poodle Hat, consists of rhyming palindromes and parodies the | song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues". There is an accompanying video for th ... |
| Emilio Estevez | ... name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors | , Ramon Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez. ... |
| James L. Brooks | ... Bart the Genius" as his favorite among the episodes he wrote to that point. | also mentioned the episode among his favorites, saying that "we did things ... |
| George MacDonald Fraser | ... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by | |
| Michelangelo | ... whose library henceforth "sparked the Renaissance", inspired "Leonardo and | ", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to the Orient, payin ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
| Romantic | ... s. . The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much | and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Ge ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... escribed and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In | 's Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses ... |
| Bruce Sterling | ... . In the keynote address to a computer security conference on June 8, 2004, | described the city as the "Capone-Chicago of cyber fraud" |
| 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 ... |
| George Stevens, Jr. | To producer | , Huston symbolized "intellect, charm and physical grace" within the film ... |
| Rick Stein | ... coastline with few easily navigable harbours. The influence of restaurateur | can be seen in the port, and tourists travel from long distances to eat at ... |
| Mary Astor | ... t renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, | and Agnes Moorehead. The following year, Davis was cast as the lead in an ... |
| Borland C++ | ... done with pre-compilers that generated C code). The next version was named | to emphasize its flagship status and completely rewritten in-house, with P ... |
| Lytton Strachey | ... r as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from | 's biography of her in Eminent Victorians. It was adapted as a film of the ... |
| Johann Stumpf | ... e land better known by translating into Latin parts of the great Chronik of | . With this view he collected materials, and in 1574 published a specimen ... |
| Kambri Crews | | , producer and publicist located in New York City, and author of in which ... |
| John Kennedy Toole | ... or other flowers. It also appeared in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by | on a sign composed by the main character |
| Tertullian | ... t of Alexandria said, “We…have believed and are saved by voluntary choice.” | said, “I find, then, that man was constituted free by God. He was master o ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marco Polo | ... arked the Renaissance", inspired "Leonardo and Michelangelo", and motivated | and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding ... |
| Plato | ... rough all things" was "both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus (God)". | envisaged God as a Demiurge or 'craftsman'. Outside ancient Greece many ot ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... by Grape performed along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, | , The Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Jo ... |
| Paul Preston | ... in right-wing politics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians | and Brian Crozier state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's minist ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
| Carl Jung | ... over the other vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for | |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with Laurence Fishburne opposite | 's Iago (not that there have been many major screen productions of Othello ... |
| Turbo Basic | ... ping applications for the PC. Borland followed up that success by releasing | , Turbo Prolog and Turbo C |
| Nina Hagen | ... lues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, | , Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz ... |
| Bill Murray | ... Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with Gilda Radner and | ) |
| Ovid | ... sed by Horace, who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by | , in his Fasti for May 11, the middle day of the Lemuria, when (in Ovid's ... |
| Nathan Zuckerman | The Human Stain is set in the 1990s United States. The story is told by | , a writer who lives a secluded life where Coleman Silk is his neighbor. S ... |
| Gilda Radner | ... d" (mother of the Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with | and Bill Murray) |
| 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 ... |
| Immanuel Wallerstein | ... aintain this amounts to a de facto control over less powerful nations ('see | 's World Systems Theory') |
| Andrei Konchalovsky's | ... ississippi. He starred as Joseph Stalin's projectionist in Russian director | 1991 film The Inner Circle. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as ... |
| Plato | ... olini scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as | , Cicero and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court. | saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ... |
| Robert Service's | ... humous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, | Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobe ... |
| Statius | ... ufferer from unrequited love: "Pale Orion wandered in the forest for Side." | mentions Orion four times in his Thebaïd; twice as the constellation, a pe ... |
| Osbern | ... fe in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer, | , himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
| Federico Brito Figueroa | Proponents of such theories include | a Venezuelan historian who has written widely on the socioeconomic underpi ... |
| Rupert Holmes | ... een famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after | released his song "Escape", commonly known as "The Piña Colada Song" |
| Lattice C | ... e. Turbo C competed with other professional programming tools (Microsoft C, | , Watcom C, etc.). Turbo C did, however, have advantages in speed of compi ... |
| Woody Allen | Her upcoming roles include | 's To Rome with Love, and she is set to reunite with Italian director Serg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vitruvius | ... libraries in search of works by such classical authors as Plato, Cicero and | . The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Arist ... |
| Sally Field | Emma Moriarty ( | ) is a 33-year-old, divorced mother who moves to a rural Arizona town to m ... |
| Alekos Sakellarios | ... Award winner Katina Paxinou, Dimitris Horn, Manos Katrakis and Irene Papas. | , Michael Cacoyannis and Theo Angelopoulos are among the most important di ... |
| Nonnus | ... s of Tanagra, one of the defenders of Thebes. The very late Greek epic poet | mentions the oxhide story in brief, while listing the Hyrians in his Catal ... |
| Yeats | ... dancing, and films. The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included | with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent. It went on to provid ... |
| John Masefield's | ... , George Meredith's Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and | Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats was devo ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... roup of Hollywood friends, including the producer Alan Ladd, Jr., directors | , Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard ... |
| Kevin Spacey | Lester Burnham ( | ) is a middle-aged magazine writer who despises his job. His wife, Carolyn ... |
| Plato | ... and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as | , Aristotle, Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Cobbett | ... This liberalism is different from most modern forms, taking influence from | and John Ruskin, who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the esta ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... e have been two major film adaptations. The first, directed by and starring | in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Gl ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
| Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
| Frank Harvey | ... roductions. Notable collaborators included C. J. Dennis, George Wallace and | . Film production continued only until 1934, when it ceased as a protest o ... |
| Sally Field | | and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast G ... |
| Chekhov's | ... s. That production went far toward Gielgud's successful effort to establish | 's viability on the English-speaking stage. Gielgud's own performance as V ... |
| Voltaire | ... of the country. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of | and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Ru ... |
| Aristotle | ... truvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, | , Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christ ... |
| John Lithgow | ... playing a human, Dr. Mary Albright, opposite the alien family, composed of | , Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As with SNL, ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like | as you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ... |
| Giambattista Vico | ... universally-applicable cyclic model of history — notably in the writings of | |
| Barack Obama | ... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of | . He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ... |
| John Steinbeck | ... so been associated with a negative cultural stereotype first popularized by | 's novel "The Grapes of Wrath", which described the plight of uneducated, ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... . Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor | . Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern co ... |
| Bill Murray | ... enwriter, actor and voice artist. He is the older brother of actor/comedian | and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Sc ... |
| Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
| George Stevens, Jr. | | notes that while many directors rely on post-production editing to shape t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Esthero | ... li Khan, Amalia Rodrigues, as well as Caetano Veloso, Juanes, Jeff Buckley, | , Björk, Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beck. Fur ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
| Pindar | ... write of him: The brief passages in Aratus and Vergil are mentioned above. | celebrates the pancratist Melissus of Thebes "who was not granted the buil ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing Shana Alexander) vs. | , who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the right-wing view, al ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... , where they lived in a six-family communal house. Damon grew up near actor | , a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films (Damon ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of | . Mikis Theodorakis composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and C ... |
| Kateb Yacine | ... ation with the French language is often more complex. Algerian intellectual | wrote in 1966 tha |
| Peter Berglar | ... te President of Spain's democracy. The German historian and Opus Dei member | calls any connection made between Opus Dei and Franco's regime a "gross sl ... |
| Dorothy Day | ... adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of | and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities. It also ... |
| Charles Seife | ... du–Arabic digits and applied this knowledge to the abacus, but according to | without the numeral of zero. According to William of Malmesbury (c. 1080–c ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
| Bede | ... Brito" to distinguish him from a different man called Pelagius of Tarentum. | refers to him as "Pelagius Bretto". St. Jerome suggests he was of Scottish ... |
| Jared Diamond | | describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ... |
| Plutarch | ... ociety, 1947.*Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.* | "Lives"*Rohde, Erwin, Psyche, 1925.* Seyffert, Oskar, , London: W. Glaishe ... |
| Peter Shaffer's | ... ikov) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of | play Amadeus. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Acto ... |
| James Carville | ... hko, who was a Visiting Artist from 1956–1957. Currently on the faculty are | , Nick Spitzer, and Melissa Harris-Perry. Several football alumni play in ... |
| Thomas Bradwardine | In De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum, | denounced Pelagians in the 14th century and Gabriel Biel did the same in t ... |
| Christina Rossetti's | ... olumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, | posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last P ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... a post office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by President | , who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy ranc ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ncient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and | ) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian world, providing ... |
| Shana Alexander | ... am 60 Minutes, Curtin portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing | ) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the ri ... |
| Rosalind Russell | ... r discussed her career and answered questions from the audience; Myrna Loy, | , Lana Turner, Sylvia Sidney, and Joan Crawford were the other participant ... |
| Horace | Orion is used by | , who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by Ovid, in hi ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... ought to light a new space for politics and political action. Works such as | 's The City of God synthesized current philosophies and political traditio ... |
| Celsus | The first four (classical signs) were described by | (ca 30 BC–38 AD), while loss of function was added later by Galen even tho ... |
| Sir John Masterman | ... ames used in the novel; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from | , an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during ... |
| Sean Penn | ... um. More recently, "Hey Grandma" was included in the soundtrack to the 2005 | -Nicole Kidman film, The Interpreter, as well as being covered in 2009 by ... |
| Peter Maurin | ... Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and | concerning localized and independent communities. It also influenced the t ... |
| John Turturro's | In 1998, Walken played an influential gay New York theater critic in | film Illuminata |
| Al-Ghazali | ... to endure. Optimistic attitudes are favored and of emotional consideration. | and William James have rejected their pessimism after suffering psychologi ... |
| Max Schott | ... y film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a 1980 novel by | and directed by Martin Ritt. The film stars Sally Field (also executive pr ... |
| Petrarch | ... ultural achievements. Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with | (best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the C ... |
| Albert Einstein | In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to | 's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ersuade and/or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with | ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, s ... |
| Boethius | ... re four roads meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to | or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadriviu ... |
| Ralph Nader | ... the Warren and Burger Courts, which shaped the law in the 1960s and 1970s. | has stated that Scalia's claim to an originalist philosophy is inconsisten ... |
| Turbo C++ | In May 1990, Borland replaced Turbo C with | . In 2006, Borland reintroduced the Turbo moniker |
| George Meredith's | ... sts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, | Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's B ... |
| Conrad Hall | ... f static shots and slow pans and zooms to generate tension. Cinematographer | complemented Mendes' style with peaceful shot compositions to contrast wit ... |
| Larry McMurtry | ... miles by wagon for burial. The story is the inspiration behind Texas author | ’s novel, Lonesome Dove |
| Sally Field | ... from a 1980 novel by Max Schott and directed by Martin Ritt. The film stars | (also executive producer), James Garner, Brian Kerwin, and Corey Haim |
| Cassiodorus | ... s meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to Boethius or | in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the ... |
| Don Rosa | Guardians of the Lost Library is a comic book story made by | for The Walt Disney Company, mentioned by Comics Buyer's Guide as "possibl ... |
| Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... rell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoological Park, founded by | |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of | ’s Natural History |
| Vesalius, Andreas | ... rk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verlooy, Jan-Baptist - | - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requirements for Belgian ... |
| K Callan | In the morning, Vicky bumps into an American lady and her children, Patty ( | ) while shopping for her son. She invites Vicky to dinner, but Vicky sharp ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... rtress) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance. | was his guest at Vigevano, as was Bramante, who is ascribed with the tall ... |
| George Clooney | ... two major film franchises. He co-starred as thief Linus Caldwell, alongside | , Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, in Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of the ... |
| John Bassett Moore | ... rles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President. Weiss died the following year, and | resigned; Max Huber was elected Vice-President on 12 September 1928 to suc ... |
| Laurence Olivier | The play's ambiguity has led to diverse interpretations in performance. | 's 1944 film, made during the Second World War, emphasises the patriotic s ... |
| Jia Yi | The famous Han poet and statesman | concluded his essay The Faults of Qin (過秦論) with what was to become the st ... |
| Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also represented by | and Nikos Kazantzakis |
| James Agee | ... there is the Huston look". The "Huston look" was also noted by screenwriter | , who adds that this "look proceeds from Huston's sense of what is natural ... |
| Alexander Suvorov | ... temkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Pyotr Rumyantsev and | , and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Rus ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Odysseas Elytis | ... . Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and | are among the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also repr ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... s, "he threw himself into each role with a sense of dedication." Playwright | commented that Muni "was pursued by a fear of failure. |
| Caetano Veloso | ... LC, world music artists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Amalia Rodrigues, as well as | , Juanes, Jeff Buckley, Esthero, Björk, Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The ... |
| Carl Jung | ... h in vitalist concepts, particularly through the ideas of Sigmund Freud and | . Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist Hermann von Helmholtz, ... |
| Beckett's | ... Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in | Endgame, saying that the play offered "nothing but loneliness and despair" ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... tar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by | , a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales |
| 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 ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... centric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by | but sold only fitfully. The follow-up singles fared no better despite some ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the 20th century. Novel is also represented by Alexandros Papadiamantis and | |
| Frédéric Bastiat | ... s coined in 1914 by Friedrich von Wieser in his book "". • However, in 1848 | described this concept in his essa |
| Emperor Go-Toba | In 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt by | to seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ... |
| Robert Bork | ... onfirm nominees of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including | and Clarence Thomas |
| Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
| Piers Paul Read | Criticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like | and Vittorio Messori to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in referenc ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | Much of | ' writings on social and economic matters has affinity with distributism, ... |
| Barack Obama | ... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for | , along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... ilm, made during the Second World War, emphasises the patriotic side, while | 's 1989 film stresses the horrors of war. A 2003 Royal National Theatre pr ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for the | play, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ... |
| Neil Young | ... on Polydor Records in Germany. Thereafter, Mosley and Craviotto joined with | to form The Ducks, which played in and around the Santa Cruz area during 1 ... |
| John Travolta | ... Cool (2005), a crime/comedy about the film and music industries that stars | , Uma Thurman and The Rock. She produced and starred as "Lucy" in Illegal ... |
| O. Henry | ... ded in 1983. Austin is also home to the O. Henry House Museum, residence of | from 1893–1895. Farmers markets are popular attractions, providing a varie ... |
| Gus Van Sant | ... et experimental film Gerry (2002), which he co-wrote with Casey Affleck and | . Damon garnered generally positive critical reaction for his Golden Globe ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... does not appear on old documents, in the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by | , there is a reference of swords presumably made of Biscayan iron to which ... |
| Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
| E. R. Thiele | ... kah's reign. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while | , following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... participated actively in the Surrealist movement. Together with the writer | and artist Marcel Duchamp, he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
| James Rado | ... an and produced by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers. As co-creators | and Gerome Ragni and half of the cast were leaving the production to join ... |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | ... lamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian | and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most ... |
| Sally Field | The 1983 film Places in the Heart starring | was also filmed in Waxahachie. Unlike Mercies, it was filmed deliberately ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
| Abel Muzorewa | ... support for the Internal Settlement government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, under | , and campaigned along with Samuel Hayakawa for the immediate lifting of s ... |
| Sima Qian | The Chinese historian | , writing a century after the First Emperor's death, wrote that it took 70 ... |
| Suetonius | ... generic term for the governor of a Roman province, known after the time of | , and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Th ... |
| Gilbert White | ... iased empirical research for modern estimates of biodiversity. In 1768 Rev. | succinctly observed of his Selborne, Hampshire "all nature is so full, tha ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Ruskin | ... different from most modern forms, taking influence from William Cobbett and | , who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the establishment posit ... |
| James Joyce | ... n the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by | in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gi ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were | and Thomas Jefferson |
| Melvin Frank | It was adapted by | and Jack Rose from the story "She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night" by ... |
| Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
| Pliny the Elder | ... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by | , or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ... |
| Charles Wood | ... aring in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), | (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespear ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of | 's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ... |
| Eric Manes | ... The first film to take full advantage of this change was Martin Kunert and | ' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq during the war an ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by Pliny the Elder, or with Flaviobriga, by | . There are also ancient walls, discovered below the Church of San Antón, ... |
| Elia Kazan | ... role in the original Broadway production. Both productions were directed by | |
| Varro | ... was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. | states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had ... |
| George Washington | ... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and | |
| Terrence Malick | ... iety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, | , David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Ol ... |
| Elaine Showalter | ... is advances he cursed her so that her prophetic warnings would go unheeded. | called Nightingale's writing "a major text of English feminism, a link bet ... |
| Frances H. Flaherty | Flaherty was married to writer | from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances worked on several of her husban ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, | , Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... he Surrealist movement. Together with the writer Raymond Queneau and artist | , he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He was also a member of the ... |
| Martin Kunert | ... equipment prices. The first film to take full advantage of this change was | and Eric Manes' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq dur ... |
| Su Shi | The poet | (1036–1101) popularized Hainan's isolation and exoticism when he was exile ... |
| Kevin Spacey | ... a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. | stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he be ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerome Ragni | ... by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers. As co-creators James Rado and | and half of the cast were leaving the production to join the Acapulco prod ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... uni starred as Willy Loman in the English opening of Death of a Salesman by | , on July 28, 1949 at the Phoenix Theatre, London. He took over from Lee J ... |
| Giorgos Seferis | ... os and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates | and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century ... |
| Empedocles | ... ted from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher | who lived in ancient Akragas). However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the p ... |
| Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
| Sima Qian | ... opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact. | 's description of the tomb includes replicas of palaces and scenic towers, ... |
| Patrick Pearse | ... olly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and | , met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the me ... |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... soldier, whose name is an attempt at a phonetic rendition of "Llywelyn". In | 's acclaimed 1989 film version of the play, most of these scenes were play ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Osborne | ... sentials on Turner Classic Movies, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host | and film critic Molly Haskell. Bogdanovich is also frequently featured in ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts." | , chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by | , and the mention in Dumas's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of bra ... |
| Stuart M. Kaminsky | ... . Besides directing, he also narrates portions of the story. Film historian | notes that Huston presents Sigmund Freud, played by Montgomery Clift, "as ... |
| Adolf Bastian | ... hological "motifs," Hubert and Mauss's "categories of the imagination," and | 's "primordial thoughts. |
| John Calvin | Later writers, such as Martin Luther (1483-1546), | (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) reacted in different ways ag ... |
| Ken Wilber | ... authors associated with the new age community have also advocated vitalism. | (1996) has argued that a purposive force guides the course of evolution. D ... |
| Emmanuel Todd | ... ively high propensity to " with rates ranging from 20% to 50%. According to | the relatively high exogamy among French Algerians can be explained by the ... |
| Chuck Norris | ... ed there. The long-running television series Walker, Texas Ranger, starring | , was filmed in Waxahachie on occasion |
| Steven Spielberg | ... of stardom." After meeting Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting, director | cast Damon as the titular character in the 1998 World War II film Saving P ... |
| Martin Luther | Later writers, such as | (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) rea ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... roblems also led to the breakup of her marriage to the film's scriptwriter, | , "virtually on set." Huston later commented about this period in her care ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of | over American distributists |
| Leonhard Euler | ... sis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £300 to | for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard D ... |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | In Maine writer, | 's novel, Country of the Pointed Firs, one of the residents of Dunnet, Mai ... |
| Cotton Mather | ... us other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" – | in 1702. "Connecticutensian" – Samuel Peters in 1781. "Nutmegger" is somet ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ben Hecht | ... k. Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by | , to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel. Directed by St ... |
| Thomas Bradwardine | How to react to Pelagius has remained a question in Christian theology. | (c. 1290-1349) wrote De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum a ... |
| Angelos Sikelianos | ... rldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, | and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates G ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... after the 18th century. In 1860, the inhabitants enthusiastically supported | in his conquest of southern Italy (in the course of the Unification of Ita ... |
| Joseph Haydn | The earliest known concerto for double bass was written by | ca.1763, and is presumed lost in a fire at the Eisenstadt library. The ear ... |
| Bob Larson | While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like | ; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and Jerry F ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and | , the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ... |
| Andrew Jackson Downing | During the early 1850s, architect and horticulturist | designed a landscape plan for the Mall. Over the next half century, federa ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, | and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 19 ... |
| Mill | ... as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by | and Sidgwick. Since then, the term has become common in English-language e ... |
| Dionysios Solomos | ... -selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, | , Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... he long-running British legal programme Crown Court. In 1975, he starred as | in the BBCs historical drama The Love School. He found fame only years lat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... elt the humour was outdated and incomprehensible to modern audiences, while | , in his equally praised 1944 film version of the play, staged the comic s ... |
| E. F. Schumacher | Distributism is known to have had an influence on the economist | , a convert to Catholicism |
| Spike Lee | ... ilter journalism to interview various NBA stars. The spots were directed by | |
| Harry Turtledove | Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in | 's alternate history novel |
| Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
| Patricia Highsmith | ... come known for choosing a wide variety of film roles, from his portrayal of | 's anti-hero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to a fallen ange ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... Furtado also hosted a program about AIDS on MTV, which also featured guests | and Justin Timberlake. On September 27, 2011, Furtado announced during Fre ... |
| Richard Viguerie | ... as the second most-expensive nation-wide (John Tower's in Texas), thanks to | and Alex Castellanos's pioneering direct mail strategies. However, it was ... |
| Aristophanes | ... red wine but accepts a drink of barley, water and pennyroyal called kykeon. | made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. Mar ... |
| Kostis Palamas | ... one of the best-selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as | , Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Con ... |
| Ferdowsi | In Persia, works such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Epic of Kings by | provided evidence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristote ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... ugh, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, | , Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Wa ... |
| George Washington | ... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue of | to be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena | ... Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan, travels around the country portraying | . Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself. | , a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir | , and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ... |
| 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 ... |
| Irving Thalberg | ... Buck, of the same name. Because he was not of Asian descent, when producer | offered him the role, he stated, "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting | and George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ... |
| Will Shortz | ... stlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and | . Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in Kill Bill Vo ... |
| Aristotle | ... Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued | 's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle ... |
| Averroes | ... the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and | , continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing comm ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Aldrich | ... forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion. The director, | , explained that Davis and Crawford were each aware of how important the f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... lick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and | . He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In televisio ... |
| Sammy Cahn | ... est Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Music, Song (for George Barrie and | for "All That Love Went to Waste"), Best Picture and Best Writing, Story a ... |
| Julius Scheiner | The Scheinergrade (Sch.) system was devised by the German astronomer | (1858–1913) in 1894 originally as a method of comparing the speeds of plat ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
| James Joyce | ... y comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake by | . On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kevin Smith | ... Rob Reiner, screenwriter William Goldman, and their friend writer/director | , the two made changes to the script. The script eventually became Good Wi ... |
| Donna Hogan | According to a story published in the New York Daily News, | , Smith's younger half-sister, has said that the model froze the sperm of ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | Like Machiavelli, | , well known for his theory of the social contract, believed that a strong ... |
| Dorothy Day | ... an by making him more dependent on the Servile State. Distributists such as | did not favor social security when it was introduced by the United States ... |
| Jonathan Aitken | ... d expulsion. The last individual to leave the Privy Council voluntarily was | , who left on 25 June 1997 following allegations of perjury |
| Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
| Carl Jung | Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by | . It is proposed to be a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humani ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
| Otto von Bismarck | ... by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as | and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
| Albert Einstein | ... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to | 's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ... |
| Attila the Stockbroker | ... ll of his albums. In the 1990s, he toured as "Headbutts and Halibuts", with | with whom he wrote a surreal rock opera called Cheryl. In 1992 Otway appea ... |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | ... y High School. Silhouette artist Kara Walker was raised in Stockton, as was | , author of The Woman Warrior. Mixed martial artists Nick and Nate Diaz we ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | During the Italian Renaissance, | established the emphasis of modern political science on direct empirical o ... |
| George Washington | ... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and | . A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ... |
| George Washington | ... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers. | gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... de of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and Will Shortz. | also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg | ... ican singers Joan Baez and Nat King Cole. In 1961, French singer-songwriter | paid tribute to "Les feuilles mortes" in his own song "La chanson de Préve ... |
| Richard Brodie | | , Charles Simonyi, and David Luebbert, members of the Microsoft Word devel ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ernardino Ferrari and others, as well as tempera polyptych of the school of | |
| Bob Phillips | ... . The steel house was featured on an episode of Texas Country Reporter with | shortly before Bruno's death |
| Tiger Woods | ... ics for the Salaam Remi produced track are reported to be influenced by the | cheating scandal, in which was originally referred to as "Elin's Song". On ... |
| John Belushi | ... ns from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, | , Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. He appears in m ... |
| Lewin Bentham Bowring | ... strongly posted, and whose posts have not been reconnoitered by daylight". | gives this alternative account |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including | , were educated. The derivation of the word "Edda" as the name of Snorri S ... |
| Eric Idle | ... uccess. He assessed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. | and Stephen Fry said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the ne ... |
| Martin Seligman | Psychologist | provides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlationa ... |
| David Baddiel | ... t more racism. In April 2011, Jewish comedian, author and Chelsea-supporter | produced a short film stating that the anti-semitic chanting is as unaccep ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by | in England |
| Cato the Elder | ... ng Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of | in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter met ... |
| Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
| Christopher Moltisanti | ... ode of The Sopranos entitled "Luxury Lounge", playing himself. In the show, | and Carmine Lupertazzi offer him a role in the fictional slasher film Clea ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d questionable. There is no confirmation for the view - as fictionalised in | 's Richard III (Act 3, Scene 5) - that Richard made any claims about his b ... |
| Gilda Radner | ... o 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, | , Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that ... |
| Flodoard | ... , Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, | , and others make no mention of this story |
| Virgil | ... als became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by | 's Aeneid. About 600 lines survive. A copy of the work is among the Latin ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... h century as a reaction against then-dominant systematic philosophies, with | generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher |
| Paolo Giordano | ... y. Prime numbers are used as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation in the | novel , in which they are portrayed as "outsiders" among integers |
| Stephen Phillips | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, | , and William Watson, had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Gilliam | Damon played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm in | 's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was a critically pan ... |
| E. M. Forster | ... y in Wiltshire, although he maintained contact with a circle which included | and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Den ... |
| Abul Kalam Azad | ... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru and | representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ... |
| Alfred Austin | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as | , Stephen Phillips, and William Watson, had been working very much in the ... |
| James Macpherson | In 1761 | announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian (Oisín) in the Scotti ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... specially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what | called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concr ... |
| Rostam Mirlashari | ... ntury. However, a Swedish folk band, Golbang and Padik with the lead singer | originally from Zahedan & Lashar in Balochistan, has made progress in intr ... |
| Sartre | ... k, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and | . A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as | and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ... |
| Richard Belzer | ... some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included | , John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. H ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... itten by Gordon Lightfoot and popularized by artists such as Elvis Presley, | , and Peter, Paul and Mary |
| Mark Twain | ... st doubt on the protagonist's version of events. Another influence might be | 's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually ... |
| Tipu Sultan | ... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, | . Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ... |
| Daron Hagen | ... ologue and two acts with a libretto by Irish poet Paul Muldoon and music by | was performed by the opera theatre at The University of Texas in Austin. T ... |
| Friedrich Maximilian Klinger | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to | , fathered by Catherine's lover, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlo |
| John Fiske | ... ames said most philosophers have an "antipathy to chance." His contemporary | described the absurd decisions that would be made if chance were real |
| Horace | Authors of antiquity, such as | and Pliny, were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their de ... |
| Daniel Dennett | In his book "Kinds of Minds", philosopher | wrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some s ... |
| Itzik Feffer | ... two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels and | —who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
| 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 ... |
| Herodotus | ... merist version that begins the account of Persian-Hellene confrontations of | , she was kidnapped by Minoans, who likewise were said to have taken her t ... |
| Henry W. Grady | Named The Model City by Atlanta newspaperman | for its careful planning in the late 19th century, the city is situated on ... |
| Sidney Lumet | ... ken made his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery, in | 's The Anderson Tapes. In 1972's The Mind Snatchers A.K.A. The Happiness C ... |
| Wilhelm Grimm | Damon played a fictionalized version of | in Terry Gilliam's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was ... |
| Alastair Campbell | ... rhaps the best-known person in the UK often described as a "spin doctor" is | , who was involved with Tony Blair's public relations between 1994 and 200 ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... in India. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders of British India—including | and Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Mus ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... h which combines the elements ("battle, hard"), and ("breach, gap, notch"). | Latinised this to Caliburnus (likely influenced by the medieval Latin spel ... |
| John Travolta | ... it was Pan Am's frontline airliner during that time. Additional footage of | 's Boeing 707 in Pan Am livery has also been used in the TV series |
| Scribonius Largus | ... alists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as Pliny the Elder and | , attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks delivered by catfish a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Merlin Holland | ... s to the cause of the meningitis: Richard Ellmann claimed it was syphilitic | ;, Wilde's grandson, thought this to be a misconception, noting that Wilde ... |
| Carl Sagan | In his science fiction novel Contact, NASA scientist | suggested that prime numbers could be used as a means of communicating wit ... |
| Neil Young | ... t there would be no further financial support from Katz unless they did so. | , then of Buffalo Springfield, was in the room at the time, and kept his h ... |
| Willy Russell | ... l other notable performers: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, | and Alan Bleasdale |
| Franz Kafka | ... urd has been prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, | , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre an ... |
| Muhammad Iqbal | ... ct of Muslims in politics. In his presidential address of 29 December 1930, | called for "the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State ... |
| Thomas Browne | ... "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in | 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 |
| Bill Murray | ... d his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his brother, | . However, he has also landed a series of roles in other films. He memorab ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... deral transfer payments by the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister | and concommitant repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan bill of rights which ... |
| 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 ... |
| Max Beerbohm | ... sent a telegram to Ross: "Terribly weak. Please come." His moods fluctuated | ;relates how their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... on of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of | 's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Cr ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
| Frederick II | ... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperor | reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ... |
| Dick Bruna | ... emale rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist | . The original Dutch name, Nijntje, is a shortening of konijntje, "little ... |
| Lord Byron | Mary and Percy Shelley and | holidayed by the lake and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the bas ... |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, | and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus contai ... |
| Gordon Lightfoot | ... Miller Band and written by Paul Pena; and "Early Morning Rain", written by | and popularized by artists such as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Pa ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... om were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl. | wrote of her |
| Brian Kernighan | ... ve a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by | to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the l ... |
| Chevy Chase | ... has also landed a series of roles in other films. He memorably appeared as | 's uptight boss in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and co-st ... |
| Alan Bleasdale | ... rformers: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell and | |
| Ronald Knox | ... s the end of his life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. He had hoped that | , a Roman Catholic priest and writer whom he admired, would instruct him i ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Joyce | ... ly in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in | 's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the st ... |
| Milo Parker Jewett | ... ye Anne Fox (PhD. in Chemistry, 1974), founding president of Vassar College | , founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Travolta | ... has been replaced with an Airbus A310-325, YR-LCB "Moldova". American actor | owns, and is qualified to fly as second in command, an ex-Qantas 707-138B, ... |
| Giovannino Guareschi | ... Camillo is the main character created by the Italian writer and journalist | (1908-1968), and is based on the historical Roman Catholic priest, WW II p ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... r "blessed happiness", described by the 13th-century philosopher-theologian | as a Beatific Vision of God's essence in the next life. Human complexities ... |
| Steven Hill | Las Vegas castmembers Trishelle Cannatella and | appeared in the horror film Scorned. Cannatella has also appeared on other ... |
| Samuel Johnson | Conversely, in 1774, | published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. O ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas Hofstadter | ... del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a 1979 book by | , described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds an ... |
| Mike Harding | ... st successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, | and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose betwe ... |
| James H. Street | ... Muskogee. In literature, Lochapoka was the destination of the colonists in | 's 1940 novel Oh, Promised Land |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... e notion of the absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. | , Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-P ... |
| Haydn | ... section. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of | and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, a ... |
| Hugh Hefner | In 1992 Smith was chosen by | to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed ... |
| Plato | ... cient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of | and |
| William Butler Yeats | ... Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner | was devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the s ... |
| Harold Ramis | ... kers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, | and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his broth ... |
| Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
| John Irving | ... o major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of | 's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's ... |
| Rod Serling | ... es Bemis for his antisocial behavior, and his greatest desire is thwarted." | 's conclusion alludes to the Scots language poem "To a Mouse" (for which O ... |
| Woody Allen | ... me "Chris Walken", playing fictional poet and ladies' man Robert Fulmer. In | 's 1977 film Annie Hall, Walken played the suicidal brother of Annie Hall ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... ces their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce. | launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw observational c ... |
| Edmund Gosse | ... At the Grave of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, | , Thomas Hardy and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
| Frederick II | ... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, King | announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ... |
| Neil Strauss | ... ion. In the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. In 1997, | of defined alternative rock as "hard-edged rock distinguished by brittle, ... |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
| Claude Simon | ... e length in his 1978 work René Char: the Myth and the Poem. French novelist | likewise found Orion an apt symbol, in this case of the writer, as he expl ... |
| Thomas Hardy | ... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse, | and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ... |
| James Keach | ... gels (2010). She also co-authored several children's books with her husband | for the This One 'N That One series |
| Peter Lombard | ... law, including commentaries on the Pauline epistles and on the Sentences of | . He is sometimes referred to as famosissimus doctor |
| Arrigo Boito | Giuseppe Verdi and librettist | adapted Shakespeare's play to Otello, an Italian grand opera in four acts ... |
| Peter Andreas Munch | ... . Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776–1839) and historian | (1810–1863) |
| Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
| 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 ... |
| d'Holbach | ... heir actions are determined. "Hard determinists", such as Martin Luther and | , are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and reject free will. ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... Orion aveugle of 1970. Marion Perret argues that Orion is a silent link in | 's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the bl ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... the most influential proponents of this classical notion of patriotism was | |
| Samuel Hahnemann | The founder of homeopathy, | , promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of disease: "...they are solely ... |
| Philippe de Commines | ... racted; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman (named only by | as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells), claimed to have carried ... |
| Robert de Boron | ... a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. In | 's Merlin, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone. In ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... rkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of | and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdit ... |
| René Char | The twentieth-century French poet | found the blind, lustful huntsman, both pursuer and pursued, a central sym ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... "higher authority" by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President | (Attorney General William Henry Moody: "They say a billionaire from Scotla ... |
| 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 |
| T. E. Hulme | ... rigins of Imagism are to be found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by | . These were published in January 1909 by the Poets' Club in London in a b ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... . This method was first introduced and made popular by New York City Mayor, | , in the early 1990s |
| Lenny Bruce | ... ritish audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from | . Victoria Wood launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw ... |
| Henry Vaughan | Sassoon was a great admirer of the Welsh poet | . On a visit to Wales in 1923, he paid a pilgrimage to Vaughan's grave at ... |
| Steven Soderbergh | ... Linus Caldwell, alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, in | 's 2001 remake of the Rat Pack's 1960 caper film Ocean's 11; the successfu ... |
| Poets' Club | ... d A City Sunset by T. E. Hulme. These were published in January 1909 by the | in London in a booklet called For Christmas MDCCCCVIII. Hulme was a studen ... |
| Walthéry, François | ... lo - West Flanders - West Flemish - Western Hainaut - Wetteren - Wevelgem - | - Westhoek (region) - Wichelen - Wielsbeke - Wijnegem - Willebroek - Wille ... |
| Paul of Tarsus | Most New Testament scholars believe | wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work ... |
| Taylor Branch | ... ller, Damon Strange, who worked for a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Historian | called the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p. 391 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vincenzo Scamozzi | ... y designs by architects such as Andrea Palladio, Inigo Jones, John Webb and | , which were ready for inspection. The ceiling is supported by eight large ... |
| Margaret Mead | ... rana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and | , among many others. He influenced generations of students as a teacher an ... |
| Jennifer Saunders | ... , where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and | , Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began thei ... |
| James Keach | In 1993, Seymour married her current husband, | . Together they had twins, Johnny Stacy and Kristopher Steven, born 30 Nov ... |
| John Lennon | In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, | stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the N ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... reatest Stars in the UK. She is also well known for her collaborations with | , such as appearing in and co-writing with her the award-winning sitcoms V ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... Reilly's performances receiving largely negative notices. Stand up comedian | was the latest big name to play Othello. He did so on a tour at the start ... |
| Patti Smith | ... formation of the Sex Pistols as well as the release of the albums Horses by | and Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed as three key events that gave birth to ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... erature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of | |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... hBDBSh NTB`R WNShRP or parasnu ra`abhtan shebad'vash nitba'er venisraf), by | , referring to the halachic question as to whether a fly landing in honey ... |
| Pirandello's | ... 928, and John made his radio debut there the following year in a version of | The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, which he was then performing at the ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... nd Kristopher Steven, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends | and Christopher Reeve |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ... h her leading man, Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. The film's director | later remarked, "Bette was letter perfect. She was syllable-perfect. The d ... |
| Praxagoras of Athens | ... is sons, Constantine was presented as a paragon of virtue. Even pagans like | and Libanius showered him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 3 ... |
| Liutprand of Cremona | The pontificate of Sergius III, according to | , was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians saw as a "pornocrac ... |
| Bob Larson | ... n response to the criticisms of Christian Rock music by American evangelist | , whom Norman regularly lampooned at his concerts. Norman's 1969 apocalypt ... |
| Arnold Palmer | ... n Lake Golf Club, which opened in 1974, and was the first to be designed by | , Northwinds Golf Course (public), Indian Lake Resort (fine dining, banque ... |
| Christopher Reeve | ... even, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends Johnny Cash and | |
| Libanius | ... presented as a paragon of virtue. Even pagans like Praxagoras of Athens and | showered him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, ... |
| James Cameron | ... ude the French lyrics.) She was offered the chance to compose the score for | 's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined. A 1989 recording of Enya s ... |
| James Q. Wilson | ... n windows policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by | and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater attent ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and | . He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ... |
| Alexei Sayle | ... ative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, | , Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The ... |
| Nikolai Berdyaev | ... n postmodern Christianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as | , Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
| İsmet Özel | ... when much of humanity leaves Earth to settle on far-flung "colony worlds". | wrote a poem titled "Of not being a Jew" in which he lamented the fact tha ... |
| Richard Posner | ... by liberals, and applauded by conservatives. However, Seventh Circuit judge | , disagreed with Scalia's opinion, stating that the Second Amendment "crea ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
| Robert Burns | Dumfries was the hometown of | from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael’s ... |
| A C Fox Davies | ... apparently originated in a carving of about 1534 outside Norwich Guildhall. | noted that "whether or not these figures were then intended for heraldic s ... |
| Richard Baxter | However, | ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria ... |
| Alfonso X | ... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and | , as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista |
| Pauline Kael | ... ch as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance". | wrote that much of Mankiewicz's vision of "the theater" was "nonsense" but ... |
| Raymond Benson | ... oldfinger, Bond "was presented as a complex character". Continuation author | agrees, and sees Goldfinger as a transitional novel, with Bond becoming mo ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, | conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ... |
| Molière | ... has sometimes been criticized as begging the question by inventing a name. | had famously parodied this fallacy in Le Malade imaginaire, where a quack ... |
| Wendy Wasserstein | ... ard for his role as a gay pediatrician in a television-movie version of the | play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Also in 1996, he pro ... |
| Adam Sandler | ... musical director for 2001's The Concert For New York City, and accompanied | 's Opera Man sketch and the Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games (With My ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... 93, her recording of "Marble Halls" from Shepherd Moons was featured in the | film, The Age of Innocence |
| Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
| Ben Jonson | ... the Greek roots (; "again") and (; "way, direction") by the English writer | in the 17th century. The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is, (; "c ... |
| Douglas Adams | ... he fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by | . Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... most extensive treatments of the existentialist notion of Angst is found in | 's monumental work Begrebet Angest |
| Seneca | ... ole would remain stable. Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher | and the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is oft ... |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... -movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring | . Also in 1996, he provided both the speaking and singing voice of the pro ... |
| Orson Welles | ... ly related to each other. (The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring | was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of ... |
| Ramón Novarro | ... came the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them | , William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy. Crawford appeared in The Unk ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... zi (c.1547–1632), Jean Lemaire (1598–1659), Francisque Millet (1642–79) and | (1452–1519). The Venetian window in this room is derived from the Queen's ... |
| Frantz Fanon | ... s include Subaltern Studies (specifically its postcolonial manifestations), | 's "psychopathology of colonization", and filmmakers of the Latin American ... |
| E. M. Forster | ... was responsible for employing several eminent names as reviewers, including | and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Ar ... |
| Laurence Fishburne | ... production casting a black actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with | opposite Kenneth Branagh's Iago (not that there have been many major scree ... |
| George Orwell | ... itical pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as | 's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Political pessimism about one's country often cor ... |
| President John F. Kennedy | ... ll, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city. In a telephone conference with | , the President informed the HRC that after the Birmingham church bombing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nigella Lawson | His six children are journalist and TV presenter and food writer | , the late Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, Dominic Lawson, the former ed ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak ... |
| Willard Huyck | ... Spielberg, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, | , and Gloria Katz |
| Émeric Crucé | ... ional court had long been proposed; Pierre Dubois suggested it in 1305, and | in 1623. The idea of an international court of justice arose in the politi ... |
| Allan Bloom | ... into moral and political decay. Robert Bork's Slouching Toward Gommorah and | 's The Closing of the American Mind are famous expressions of this point o ... |
| Julius Eduard Itzig | ... er, and meeting his future biographer, a neighbour and fellow jurist called | (who changed his name to Hitzig after his baptism). Itzig had been a membe ... |
| Plutarch | ... he height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and | documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histor ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ext of the sponsorship scandal that came to light soon after Prime Minister | left office, Bédard asserted that she had been forced to resign from her m ... |
| Pierre Dubois | An international court had long been proposed | ;suggested it in 1305, and Émeric Crucé in 1623. The idea of an internatio ... |
| Carl Jung | ... or abnormal condition). The term was however most influentially defined by | and Sigmund Freud over a century later. It has continued to be used in con ... |
| Livy | ... ms, as Vergil's epic Aeneid and also historiographical works, like those of | . The works of this literary age lasted through Roman times, and are class ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edmund Goulding | ... d MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, | 's Sally, Irene and Mary (1925). She played Irene, a struggling chorus gir ... |
| Zosimus | ... s, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, Eunapius began—and | continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Constantine for weakenin ... |
| Hans Jæger | Munch also received his father's ire for his relationship with | , the local nihilist who lived by the code "a passion to destroy is also a ... |
| Livy | During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, | and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organizati ... |
| 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 ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | It was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian | around 1220. It survives in seven main manuscripts, written down from abou ... |
| Robert Bork | ... Greek philosophy, leaving it doomed to fall into moral and political decay. | 's Slouching Toward Gommorah and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Tillich | ... on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, | , Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
| Boy George | ... ard and Judy Show in 2003 with his counterpart Paul Masterson and singer/DJ | promoting their album, on which Boy George made a cameo singing contributi ... |
| Federico García Lorca | ... ly Béla Bartók. George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the | poem "¿Por qué nací?", the first movement of three in his fourth book of M ... |
| Dominic Lawson | Lawson's son | is also a climate change sceptic, taking a similar viewpoint as his father ... |
| Frederica Sagor Maas | ... ven, Crawford embarked on a campaign of self-promotion. As MGM screenwriter | recalled, "No one decided to make Joan Crawford a star. Joan Crawford beca ... |
| Eunapius | ... great pagan emperors, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, | began—and Zosimus continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Consta ... |
| Ovid | ... steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, Horace, | and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. ... |
| Saul Williams | DJ Krust and | ' track "Coded Language" opens with the line "Whereas, breakbeats have bee ... |
| Laurence Olivier | Unlike Welles's film, | 's Othello (1965), based on John Dexter's National Theatre Company's produ ... |
| Sheldon Rampton | ... cy, and is the creation of Center director John Stauber and PR Watch editor | |
| Martin Scorsese | ... the producer Alan Ladd, Jr., directors Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, and | , and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz |
| John Boorman | ... lm, Hugo, and has signed up to appear in the new feature by Neil Jordan and | entitled Broken Dream |
| George Washington | ... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. | was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ... |
| Whitley Strieber | ... ontana in Milagro Beanfield War in 1988. He also played the leading role of | in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber that was ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replaced | as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ... |
| Bradbury's | ... dith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence. This notion, akin to | "The Pedestrian", is also alluded to in "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", i ... |
| Neil Young | ... s two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliott Smith, and | 's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" performed by Annie Lennox. Produced by th ... |
| Doreen Valiente | Many confuse the esbat with the ritual observance of the full moon. While | writes that in full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, ... |
| Terry Ramsaye | ... ard to Moving Objects, likely due to erroneous citations by film historians | and Arthur Knight (see Anderson and Anderson below) |
| Giordano Bruno | In the sixteenth century the Italian philosopher | , an early supporter of the Copernican theory that the Earth and other pla ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horace | ... ure grew steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, | , Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Au ... |
| David Irving | ... with Hitler while alluding to the Creativity Movement and Holocaust denier | |
| John Stauber | ... the Center for Media and Democracy, and is the creation of Center director | and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Damon had an uncredited cameo in | 's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 Che Guevara bi ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... ecial, Julie Walters and Friends, which featured writing contributions from | and Alan Bennett. In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pa ... |
| Irving Thalberg | ... first of its kind in Hollywood. Furthermore, it was Chico's connection with | of MGM that led to Thalberg's signing the Brothers when they were in a car ... |
| Woody Allen | Later that year, she starred in | 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena, a mentally unstable woman. Pet ... |
| Bohumil Hrabal | The main action of the novel Closely Observed Trains, by Czech author | , takes place on the night of the first raid |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
| André Gide | ... , who have produced a number of original biographies and monographs on him. | , on whom Wilde had such a strange effect, wrote, In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Jung | | found his approach particularly fitting for people who are successfully ad ... |
| Roy Jenkins | ... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President | became the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ... |
| Euripides | ... rodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and | |
| Salvator Rosa | ... ne (1577–1660), Peter Paul Rubens (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), | (1615–1673), Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666), Jacopo Ligozzi (c.1547–1632) ... |
| Donald Trump | ... iberal Democrat, joined the Scottish Green Party in protest to the plans by | to develop on an important environmental site at Menie. On 13 October 2009 ... |
| Stephen Fry | ... s the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring | as the title character |
| Bradbury's | ... that today's technology-dependent world, where books have become passé (cf. | "The Pedestrian"), could render an outage both a liberator and an executio ... |
| Tony Hancock | ... d by other comic actors with whom they had worked, including Peter Sellers, | , Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play was seen again ... |
| Aristophanes | ... historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, | , and Euripides |
| Mary Astor | ... following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with | , Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader | termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question" |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
| Arnold Bennett | ... ter and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like | and Osbert Sitwell. His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxf ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... is or her experiences. Individuals are thus defined by their choices alone. | 's principle that existence precedes essence, as he explains in "Existenti ... |
| Sophocles | ... nd Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as | , Aristophanes, and Euripides |
| Janet | ... the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. | and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, he ... |
| Orson Welles | Shot between 1948 and 1952, | directed (1952), produced as a black-and-white film noir. The film stars W ... |
| Irving Thalberg | ... ted the roles that Shearer played but knew that Shearer's husband, producer | , guaranteed Shearer first choice of roles in any MGM property. "How can I ... |
| Arthur Blessitt | Norman, along with Pat Boone | ;; Duane Pederson; Jack Sparks, a founder of the Spiritual Counterfeits Pr ... |
| Lazare Carnot | ... the Directory. France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of | , the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following ext ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... erman. She also appeared in ITV's Marple: Ordeal By Innocence, based on the | novel. She was a contestant on season five of the US reality show, Dancing ... |
| Moses | ... who, along with his brother Dathan, joined Korah in the conspiracy against | and Aaron. He and all the conspirators, with their families and possession ... |
| Brian Blessed | ... es, starring Italian-German actor Mario Adorf as Don Camillo and Englishman | as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was Cyril Cusack |
| Bill Murray | ... parents were Irish American and Catholic. He is the older brother of actors | , Joel Murray and John Murray. A sister, Nancy, who is an Adrian Dominican ... |
| John Macquarrie | ... nkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | ... erspective of the RAF pilots as well as the Germans in Dresden at the time. | 's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) incorporates the bombi ... |
| Andy Samberg | ... ices of a pair of wasps in the film Antz. In 2009, she played Paul Rudd and | 's mother in I Love You, Man |
| Neal Katyal | In May 2011, U.S. Solicitor General | , after a year of investigation, found Charles Fahy intentionally withheld ... |
| Richard Ellmann | Wilde's life was still waiting for independent, true scholarship when | began researching his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumousl ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and | , as well as two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliot ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... n expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible. For example | , after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, b ... |
| John Cage | (Sometimes referred to as "found" instruments or as custom percussion) | , Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, c ... |
| Gloria Katz | ... Palma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard Huyck, and | |
| Philip Roth | ... n 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the | story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Be ... |
| Charlotte Mew | ... r employing several eminent names as reviewers, including E. M. Forster and | , and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and ... |
| Peter Jackson | ... o enter the German charts at number one. The video features scenes from the | film |
| Moschus | ... be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre; the Syracusan poet | makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shining") but elsewhere her mother ... |
| Joseph Haydn | | 's Symphony No. 47 in G is nicknamed "the Palindrome". The third movement, ... |
| Paul Rudd | ... ther as the voices of a pair of wasps in the film Antz. In 2009, she played | and Andy Samberg's mother in I Love You, Man |
| William Plomer | ... the eyes and a rose in its mouth. The book was dedicated to "gentle reader, | ", the editor of a number of the Fleming novels. Fleming took part in a se ... |
| Thucydides | ... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and | , and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides |
| William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
| Graham Chapman | They also appeared in smaller supporting roles in | 's Yellowbeard and Martin Scorsese's After Hours |
| William Henry Hudson | ... s Historic essays, but his arguments were in turn refuted by the naturalist | in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn |
| Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
| Edward Albee | ... mp!", which became closely associated with Davis after it was referenced in | 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and impersonators began to use it in t ... |
| Hesiod | ... f the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The name Europa occurs in | 's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys. The story of h ... |
| Vyvyan Holland | ... ut when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). In 1954 | published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties W ... |
| Leslie Lamport | ... als more with appearance than structure. The LaTeX macro package written by | at the beginning of the 1980s offered a simpler interface, and an easier w ... |
| Lorne Michaels | ... ng him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( | , Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol). He was a regular performer on The Nat ... |
| Merlin Holland | ... fe and children faced after his imprisonment. It was revised and updated by | in 1989 |
| Rob Reiner | ... of motion pictures over the years, including a small role (Artie Fufkin) in | 's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in th ... |
| Herodotus | ... be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like | and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripi ... |
| Geri Halliwell | ... was a #2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK #1 remake for | in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Ber ... |
| Hesiod | ... al reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and | , historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocl ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... and Freedom, a political rally for African American civil rights, at which | gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers | , Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other schol ... |
| Robert Burns | ... his army, with only £1,000 and 255 pairs of shoes having been handed over. | moved to Dumfriesshire in 1788 and Dumfries itself in 1791, living there u ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... dimir Lenin rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor | spent his final years and passed away in Vevey (there is a memorial statue ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | ... s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, | , Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other scholars extend the term ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... y the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by | who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a l ... |
| Jody Lynn Nye | Asprin's ofttimes co-author, | , has completed one further Griffen McCandles novel, Dragons Deal, and may ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went skiing with Attorney General | . Scalia stated that he was never alone with Cheney during the trip, the t ... |
| Mallarmé | ... r Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to | .and the Symbolist source was amplified further in Taupin's study publishe ... |
| Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
| Chris Bartlett | ... s portraying Cook. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a play, written by | and Nick Awde, examined the relationship from Moore's view, . Tom Goodman- ... |
| Wilfred Owen | At Craiglockhart, Sassoon met | , a fellow poet who would eventually exceed him in fame. It was thanks to ... |
| Hesketh Pearson | ... ndence. The first more or less objective biography of Wilde came about when | wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). In 1954 Vyvyan Holland publish ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Kim | ... at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver and the Korean-American | ) |
| Michael McKean | ... llar Celebrity Invitational, winning $250,000 for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. | won the tournament, while Cheech Marin came in third |
| August Strindberg | ... tists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual | , whom he painted in 1892. During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched ... |
| Nick Awde | ... At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a play, written by Chris Bartlett and | , examined the relationship from Moore's view, . Tom Goodman-Hill played C ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | In several early French works such as | ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section ... |
| Jody Lynn Nye | ... ly 2000s, he wrote several novels in collaboration with authors Peter Heck, | , and . These novels included continuations of the "Myth" series and the " ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, | , shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956. It is unclear if ... |
| James Keach | ... eries Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, she met her fourth husband, actor-director | |
| Xenophon | ... be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), | (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Political Science") (384–32 ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... y, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as | and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Murray | The term esbat in this sense was described by | |
| Victoria Wood | Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedienne | , whom she had briefly met in Manchester. The two first worked together in ... |
| Jordanes | According to | ' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the Goths around the time o ... |
| Carl Hiaasen | She also has narrated several audio books, including | 's novel Nature Girl |
| Aristotle | ... c political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and | ("The Father of Political Science") (384–322 BC). These authors, in such w ... |
| George Lucas | ... at costarred Margot Kidder. Along with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by | for the part of Han Solo in ; the part ultimately went to |
| Revilo P. Oliver | ... hile others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist | and the Korean-American Mike Kim) |
| Gabriel Marcel | The term "existentialism" was coined by the French philosopher | in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by Jean-Paul Sartre who, on October 29, 1 ... |
| Shakespeare | ... ich a perfect and equal world contradictorily considers works like those of | "smut" |
| Hume | ... n or vision or intent, nor vice versa - a distinction sometimes credited to | who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth. The ver ... |
| Tipper Gore | ... ommon theme in Megadeth songs, as seen in Mustaine's scathing assessment of | , the PMRC, and music censorship in the song "Hook In Mouth". Mustaine tak ... |
| Roma Ryan | ... album Amarantine Enya sings in Japanese and Loxian, a language invented by | . The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provide ... |
| Donna Hogan | ... orced on November 4, 1969. She had five half siblings including half-sister | . Anna Nicole was raised by her mother and aunt. Virgie subsequently marri ... |
| George MacDonald Fraser | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by | (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ... |
| Plato | ... Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, | (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Poli ... |
| Michael Cunningham | ... He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon | 's novel |
| Burgess Meredith | ... was one of the first episodes written for The Twilight Zone. It introduced | to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced ... |
| Robert Sherard | ... biography he was more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, | , Robert Ross, his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously publi ... |
| Neil Jordan | ... orsese's next film, Hugo, and has signed up to appear in the new feature by | and John Boorman entitled Broken Dream |
| Shakespeare | ... w it. Stymied, he spent his time in translating works such as the Bible and | . This enforced delay led to continued improvement. In July 1887 he publis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... tos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and of British naturalist/humorist | |
| Pedro Almodóvar | ... n 2006, Cruz received favourable reviews for her performance as Raimunda in | 's Volver. Carina Chocano of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Cruz, who has r ... |
| Nisio Isin | ... Eve, Otto, and Renner. Lon Nol (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. | is a Japanese novelist and manga writer, whose real name (西尾 維新, Nishio Is ... |
| Hesiod | ... the 8th century BC. Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the | ic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. The earliest vase-painti ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... Republican Party presidential primaries, McCain endorsed former 2008 rival | and campaigned for him, but compared the contest to a Greek tragedy due to ... |
| Günter Grass | ... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in | 's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... ised Modernist English language literary movement or group. In the words of | : "The point de repère usually and conveniently taken as the starting-poin ... |
| Elliot Goldenthal | ... three acts based on the Shakespeare play and Cinthio's tale with a score by | . The work has been staged by the San Francisco Ballet with Desmond Richar ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... III, and starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, directed by | . He appeared in Scorsese's next film, Hugo, and has signed up to appear i ... |
| Charles Kay Ogden | E-Prime and | 's Basic English may lack compatibility because Basic English has a closed ... |
| John Travolta | ... ene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in | 's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too. In addition, Shaffer lent his voice ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... ometimes factually inaccurate, it offers a good literary portrait of Wilde. | wrote two books about his relationship with Wilde: Oscar Wilde and Myself ... |
| Ken MacLeod | ... 's cryptic acknowledgement credits friend and fellow science fiction author | with the suggestion "to argue the old warrior out of retirement" (to rewri ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... esisers of the 1970s with Oxygène 7–13, dedicated to his mentor at the GRM, | , who had died two years before. Eschewing digital techniques developed in ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | | and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the first philosophers considered fund ... |
| Budd Schulberg | In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by | , Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillip ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rob Zombie | ... il will feature alongside Megadeth for the next Gigantour. In February 2012 | and Megadeth announced nine-date co-headlining U.S. tour scheduled for May ... |
| Frank Harris | ... ic accounts which can be good character sketches, but factually unreliable. | , his friend and editor, wrote a biography, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Conf ... |
| Roma Ryan | ... o composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums; and | , who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya ... |
| Michael Palin | ... peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and | . The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and ... |
| Bill Murray | ... 's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the | film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... wise) in wartime concert parties and moved into professional entertainment. | , Peter Sellers and the other Goons, and Tommy Cooper all began their care ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rihanna | ... The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" in 2001. In 2010, singer | sampled "One By One" on a song from her new album Loud |
| John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
| Forest Ray Moulton | ... 70 Ophiuchi system with a 36-year period around one of the stars. However, | published a paper proving that a three-body system with those orbital para ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... so appeared in smaller supporting roles in Graham Chapman's Yellowbeard and | 's After Hours |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... ten by John Cleese about a zoo in peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, | , Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The dedication displays photos and the li ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in | 's The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affair ... |
| 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 ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ation in the rubble of a ruined world" and tells of Henry Bemis , played by | , who loves books, yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from r ... |
| Vernor Vinge | ... science fiction writing on occasion. In the novel A Deepness in the Sky by | , the spacefaring Qeng Ho culture is depicted as using metric units such a ... |
| Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
| David Drake | ... in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including Andrew J. Offutt and | , published novels about their characters. In 2002, Lynn Abbey resurrected ... |
| Arthur Miller | ... to drama. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in | 's All My Sons. She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA f ... |
| Moses | ... ce their rulings) was created alongside the line of High Priests created by | through Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of k ... |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... to him as "le great event" of the season. Rehearsals of the play, including | , began but the play was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, since ... |
| Coen brothers | ... een, but removed the sequence as he believed it to be too whimsical—"like a | movie"—and therefore inappropriate for the tone he was trying to set. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ippolit Bogdanovich | ... inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and | laid the groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, espec ... |
| Glenn Gould | ... itions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist | . By extension, however, certain pupils of Schoenberg's pupils (such as Be ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shelley Berman | Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, | and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
| Eric Idle | ... e the 1960s. He also appeared in a Monty Python sketch, taking the place of | . Cook was on the cast album of the show and in the film, Pleasure At Her ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... d to the youngest daughter, Carol Anne. The original film was co-written by | . The Poltergeist films collected a total of approximately $132 million in ... |
| Bartolomeo Platina | The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of | 's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan ma ... |
| Charles Stross | The novels Accelerando and Glasshouse by | have several uses of metric time, including kiloseconds, megaseconds, and ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... GMC). Central to this was a group of German scientists and engineers led by | that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under ... |
| Josephus | ... uscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian | , and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ctices which prevented many other species from becoming extinct. Naturalist | paid tribute to the vanished species in an observance held at Wyalusing St ... |
| Gaspar Roca | On April 8, 2007, | , the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief died due to a respira ... |
| Alexander Pushkin | ... groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, especially for | . Catherine became a great patron of Russian opera (see Catherine II and o ... |
| Lionel Johnson | ... published in 1929. In 1915, Pound edited the poetry of another 1890s poet, | for the publisher Elkin Mathews. In his introduction, he wrot |
| Lionel Johnson | In mid-1891 | introduced Wilde to Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time ... |
| Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
| Plato | ... problems. Some attribute it as a carefully constructed myth by followers of | over two centuries after the death of Pythagoras, mainly to bolster the ca ... |
| Mordecai Kaplan | ... n the theology of Reconstructionist Judaism as presented in the writings of | |
| Alexander Radishchev | When | published his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1790 (one year afte ... |
| Plutarch | ... orem occurred five centuries after his death, in the writings of Cicero and | |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... ext major film role was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by | . His so-called Sicilian scene has been hailed by critics as the best scen ... |
| Terry Jones | ... for the cast album and TV special. Cook performed monologues and skits with | |
| William Harvey | William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner | 's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ... |
| Scott Westerfeld | The Risen Empire by | uses metric time to measure time within an empire that extends over many s ... |
| Jonathan Magonet | ... ce after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead. British rabbi | has discussed some of the textual difficulties this raises. In the first p ... |
| H.D. | ... group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle (who had started signing her work | ) and her future husband Richard Aldington. These two were interested in e ... |
| Judd Winick | ... then-President Bill Clinton. Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, | , went on to become a successful comic book writer, and wrote the Eisner A ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... ere he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of | and others. After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tri ... |
| John B. Keane | The Field is a play written by | , first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened farmer "Bull ... |
| Richie Unterberger | ... nces, all distributed free through various fan trading sites online. Author | noted that it is "now theoretically possible to assemble a complete collec ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
| Hesketh Pearson | ... ng Earnest was no exception. Allan Aynesworth (who played Algy) recalled to | , "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph t ... |
| Ousmane Sembène | ... ry. Senegal and Ghana also has long traditions of producing films. The late | , the Senegalese film director, producer and writer is from the region, as ... |
| John Cleese | ... ook performed all four nights of The Secret Policeman's Ball – teaming with | . Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with Eleanor Bron. H ... |
| Sappho | ... ton. These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially | , an interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they a ... |
| Conrad Hall | | was not the first choice for director of photography; Mendes believed he w ... |
| Herman Wouk | ... n Europe during World War II. The series was based on a successful novel by | , and is noted for its accurate, and graphic, depiction of the Holocaust. ... |
| E. Arnot Robertson | ... was well received by critics and made a profit of $2.2 million. The critic | observed that "only Bette Davis . . . could have combated so successfully ... |
| Fritz Lang | An opening scene of | 's 1927 film Metropolis shows a metric clock with ten numbers instead of t ... |
| Paul Reiser | ... Billy Elliot (2000). In 2002, she again won a BAFTA for her performance as | 's mother in My Beautiful Son |
| Richard Aldington | ... da Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband | . These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially S ... |
| Erich von Stroheim | ... mics, but he soon set that aside to make films, inspired, in particular, by | 's work |
| Steven Spielberg | ... the original film in the trilogy, directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by | and released on June 4, 1982. The story focuses on the Freeling family, wh ... |
| Peter Simon Pallas | ... ted to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist | . The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the a ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
| Henry Koster | ... vey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by | , and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man ... |
| Magha | ... mes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by | . It yields the same text if read forward, backward, down, up, or diagonal ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
| John Cage | ... xtended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as | , Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a g ... |
| Ibn Arabi | Several Sufi saints and thinkers, primarily | , held beliefs that were somewhat panentheistic. These notions later took ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... b Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, | and Dick Gregory began to cross over to white audiences during this time |
| Paul | ... ecame fanatical anti-Communists, and Saul, persecutor of Christians, became | , a fanatical Christian. For the "true believer", substance is less import ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and | , rejected the story |
| Phil Foglio | ... nother Fine Myth. Originally illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by | , the highly pun-driven books follow a "demon" magician who has lost his p ... |
| Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | made a comment on The Colbert Report about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
| John Cleese | Cook appeared at the first three fund-raising galas staged by humourists | and Martin Lewis on behalf of Amnesty International. The benefits were dub ... |
| Robert Reich | ... mos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor | , former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretar ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | ... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by | ) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... d what came to be seen as "Imagism's enabling text", the haiku-like poem of | entitled "In a Station of the Metro" |
| Sartre | ... himself agree that it was ethical; the religious suspends the ethical), and | 's final words in are "All these questions, which refer us to a pure and n ... |
| Mulla Sadra | ... a panentheistic trend, represented by scholars such as Sayyid Haydar Amuli, | (all of whom were influenced by Ibn Arabi). Some Sufi Orders, notably the ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... at Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of | 's antisemitic comments. As an ice hockey fan, Leary hosted the National H ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... is also noted for its tributes to country music legends like Hank Williams, | , Merle Haggard, and Waylon, Willie and the Boys. Other genres of music pe ... |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | He has received two Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for | ’s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards and for Pixar sci-fi fil ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tertullian | The doctrine also derives in part from a repudiation of Greek thought by | , who argued that a material body was created for each immaterial soul |
| Bartolomeo Platina | ... , had long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions. | , who was one of these, wrote a threatening letter to the Pope, and was im ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... ulation was already a standard practice but involved serious risks. In 1721 | had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, ... |
| George Orwell | ... did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat (1979). | served with the POUM in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of | (the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer) in about 140 AD provide possibl ... |
| James Macpherson | ... mes from a retelling of these legends in epic form by the 18th century poet | |
| Neltje Blanchan | ... l marker commemorates the events, including the last great nesting in 1878. | , in her book Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted documented that over a millio ... |
| Abel Ferrara | ... mpire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director | and writer Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also ... |
| Aristoxenus | ... t — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like Aristotle and | cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually quoted their ma ... |
| Peter Heck | ... 990s and early 2000s, he wrote several novels in collaboration with authors | , Jody Lynn Nye, and . These novels included continuations of the "Myth" s ... |
| George Carlin | ... coming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances. Richard Pryor and | followed Lenny Bruce's acerbic style to become icons. Stand-up expanded fr ... |
| Erich von Stroheim | ... of his most well-known films, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), starring | and Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escap ... |
| Georgi Markov | In 1978 Bulgarian dissident writer | was killed in London by a dose of ricin injected via a modified umbrella. ... |
| Emlyn Williams | ... Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green (1945) based on a play by | . Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh min ... |
| Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ... |
| Benjamin Franklin's | ... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by | one-fluid theory later in the century |
| 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 ... |
| Jeffrey Archer | ... British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist | . Somewhere between $3 million and $20 million was expended on the failed ... |
| Paul Greengrass | In 2010, Damon re-teamed with director | , who directed him in the Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum, for the a ... |
| Filip Callimachus | ... y against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as | , who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views. ... |
| Voltaire | ... ving observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador. | , writing of this, estimates that at this time 60% of the population caugh ... |
| Mike Davis | ... of India were affected and millions died, and Curzon has been criticised by | , an American Marxist, for allegedly having done little to fight the famin ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ic Borderline. They returned to the West End for Robeson's starring role in | 's Othello, opposite Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. Essie's Paul Robeson, Ne ... |
| Marie Stubbs | ... rán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure | in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class |
| Pat Barker | The novel Regeneration, by | , is a fictionalised account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was mad ... |
| Aristotle | ... h remain extant — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like | and Aristoxenus cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually ... |
| Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... riter Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also stars | , and an art house film by David Salle, "Search and Destroy. |
| Molière | ... poets. (e.g. SOE agents often used verses by Shakespeare, Racine, Tennyson, | , Keats, etc.) |
| Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
| Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by Marcel Schwob, "Uccello le poil" by | and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno Tolentino) |
| Alan Bennett | ... rs and Friends, which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and | . In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime – Jack a ... |
| Frank Harris | ... Griffiths Wainewright, in the Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend | . Two of Wilde's four writings on aesthetics are dialogues, though Wilde h ... |
| Alfred Kreymborg | ... blish an anthology under the title Des Imagistes. It was first published in | 's little magazine The Glebe and was later published in 1914 by Alfred and ... |
| Günter Grass | German author | is one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ... |
| Steve Martin | ... , and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters. | and Bill Cosby had levels of success with gentler comic routines. The olde ... |
| Peter Simon Pallas | ... on in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and | from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital |
| Leo Marks | When | was appointed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in L ... |
| Joseph Haydn | ... assical style working in the late 18th and early 19th century, particularly | , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Though ... |
| E. R. Thiele | William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915 – 913 BCE. | offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the Rehoboam artic ... |
| Bruno Tolentino | ... cel Schwob, "Uccello le poil" by Antonin Artaud and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by | ) |
| George Orwell | ... en of necessity, effort which can instead be expended on artistic creation. | summarised, "In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striv ... |
| Sarah Palin | Alaska Governor | was revealed as McCain's surprise choice for running mate on August 29, 20 ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | The sources for Paolo Uccello’s life are few: | ’s biography, written 75 years after Paolo’s death, and a few contemporary ... |
| Jörg Friedrich | ... y from the fighting on the Eastern Front. In Fire Sites, Austrian historian | agrees the RAF's relentless bombing campaign against German cities in the ... |
| William Nicholson | In 1800, | and Johann Wilhelm Ritter succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and ... |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | Naturalist | wrote that the Passenger Pigeon's extinction "illustrates a very important ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ism saw something of a return to the idea of a mere unchallengeable despot. | condoned extra-legal tyrannicide in the worst of circumstances |
| Harold Monro | ... d was later published in 1914 by Alfred and Charles Boni in New York and by | at the Poetry Bookshop in London. It became one of the most important and ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | | 's novel (1969) was a satirical novel that used some elements from his exp ... |
| Voltaire | Catherine enlisted | to her cause, and corresponded with him for 15 years, from her accession t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years. | spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... es into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters. Steve Martin and | had levels of success with gentler comic routines. The older style of stan ... |
| Woody Allen | ... al Hair. The Lovin' Spoonful's song "Pow!" was used as the opening theme of | 's first feature film, What's Up, Tiger Lily. John Sebastian composed the ... |
| Elmer Blaney Harris | ... red in Montgomery's Anne books, is in Cavendish, on the north shore of PEI. | founded an artists colony at Fortune Bridge and set his famous play Johnny ... |
| Adrian Edmondson | ... he ITV pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, | , Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. The show was first broad ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ch was released December 24, 2004. Included is an audio-only interview with | as well as the clip of The Drew Carey Shows parody of the episode |
| Paul Schrader | The Comfort of Strangers, an art house film directed by | , had the distinction of providing a role for Walken that disturbed even h ... |
| Chevy Chase | ... , Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite | , and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite ... |
| Bill Richmond | ... e Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, | , Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Mani ... |
| Pliny | ... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and | gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... feature film, What's Up, Tiger Lily. John Sebastian composed the music for | 's second film, You're a Big Boy Now, and The Lovin' Spoonful played the m ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fire in 1771, but by 1774 the house, though incomplete, was inhabited. Dr. | visiting the house in 1781 is quoted as saying, "This is one of the places ... |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | ... . He was received at the salons littéraires, including the famous mardis of | , a renowned symbolist poet of the time. Wilde's two plays during the 1880 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Christopher Reeve | ... se, and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite | . In 1981, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Berger | In outline there are some similarities to | 's 1964 novel Little Big Man, in which a 121-year-old man recounts his num ... |
| Pope Pius II | He was elected to succeed | by the accessus in the first ballot of the papal conclave of 1464 with a m ... |
| Miles Tripp | ... rer, includes a first-hand account of the firestorm in his published works. | , who was a bomb aimer in one of the aircraft which bombed Dresden, wrote ... |
| Steven Soderbergh | Damon next appeared in | 's dark comedy, The Informant! (2009), in which his Golden Globe-nominated ... |
| John James Audubon | ... popular, commercial hunting started on a prodigious scale. The bird painter | described the preparations for slaughter at a known pigeon-roosting site |
| Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
| Amy Lowell | ... six by Pound. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, | , William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | ... ician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. | in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his in ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in | 's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Gaiman says that he started reading The ... |
| John Steinbeck | ... 81, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the novel by | . Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe. In 1 ... |
| Adam of Usk | ... Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of | (1404) gives her a name, Agnes, and furthermore mentions a statue in Rome ... |
| Miguel de Unamuno | ... s. Of those, some have been notable Spanish scholars, such as Basque writer | , Rector of the University of Salamanca from 1901 until 1936 |
| John Lennon | ... ly Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member | ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after multiple failed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cotton Mather | ... ntless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "infinite multitudes," and | described a flight as being about a mile in width and taking several hours ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Barnes | ... ected the band as they stopped and started between jokes. Composer-lyricist | , who wrote all of the original musical production numbers in the show. Ba ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... d. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, | , James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| John Lennon | ... s by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become Let It Be). | may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs; L ... |
| Cassiodorus | ... n up, in his name and in the names of his successors, by his Roman minister | . The Goths seem to have been thick on the ground in northern Italy; in th ... |
| Maynard Smith | ... opt T instead of S. This fact represents the point of departure of the ESS. | and Price specify two conditions for a strategy S to be an ESS. Eithe |
| Lynn Abbey | Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, | ) the Thieves' World series of shared world anthologies, credited as the f ... |
| Émile Zola | ... n Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by | and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin |
| Richard Eberhart | ... lism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, | , Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, ... |
| Eleanor Bron | ... sire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( | ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features ... |
| Woody Guthrie | ... and "They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave" with a guitar I borrowed that was | 's; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside. I included a song of ... |
| Pausanias | ... directly in cult anywhere in classical Greece, but at Lebadaea in Boeotia, | noted in the 2nd century AD that Europa was the epithet of Demeter— "Demet ... |
| Lady Louisa Stuart | # | (12 August 1757 – 4 August 1851 |
| Pedro Almodóvar | ... r unusual circumstances. Also in 1997, she appeared in the opening scene of | 's Live Flesh as a prostitute who gives birth on a bus and in Et hjørne af ... |
| Michael Palin | ... yika featured in the documentary series Pole to Pole. The BBC documentarian | stayed on board the MV Liemba and traveled across the lake |
| Jordanes | ... of the Lugian federation, which was composed of Germanic and Slavic tribes. | refers to Vandals as Gothic (East Germanic) speakers, and name etymologies ... |
| Robert Frost | ... s produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, | , Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Ship ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ef Butler of England for almost thirty years, and granddaughter of the poet | |
| Gwion Bach | ... and the salmon of knowledge bears a strong resemblance to the Welsh tale of | |
| Anthony Boucher | Even the "avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man", | , writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying "the ... |
| Nigel Jaquiss | ... Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, | , Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
| James Joyce | ... work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, | , Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| Michel de Montaigne | ... had gone in search of gold. Snowed in for the winter, he read the Essays by | . Montaigne's book impressed Hoffer deeply, and he often made reference to ... |
| Matt Damon | ... featured in the 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Will Smith, | and |
| Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
| Abel Ferrara | King of New York (1990), directed by | , stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White—recently ... |
| Jean Giraudoux | ... ssigny in France's Haute-Marne department. His father-in-law was the writer | , who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say th ... |
| Petrarch | ... happenings. Giacomo Penzio (fl. 1495-1527), in a work falsely attributed to | (1304–74), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Rom ... |
| Herodotus | ... g boats, fishing and other skills required to survive in their environment. | also mentions that Darius had made use of the ocean in this region of Sind ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with | , who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive ( ... |
| Janet Morris | ... els and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by | , the first "authorized" Thieves World novel, published in 1985. Janet Mor ... |
| Laurence Olivier | When | gave his acclaimed performance of Othello at the Royal National Theatre in ... |
| Ford Madox Ford | ... Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, | , Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| 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 ... |
| Gavrila Derzhavin | ... classical and European influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. | , Denis Fonvizin, and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the grea ... |
| Gertrude Stein | ... iday on the French Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as | and Claude McKay. Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in Ame ... |
| Dave Thomas | ... in Toronto during their tour of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land. According to | , in his book, , their sketch was very poor and the actors gave bad perfor ... |
| Andrew J. Offutt | ... phic novels followed in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including | and David Drake, published novels about their characters. In 2002, Lynn Ab ... |
| Jake Tapper | ... uthors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent | , novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, ... |
| Denis Fonvizin | ... pean influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, | , and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the great writers of the ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
| Marcel Schwob | ... nter Melvin Day) and literary criticism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by | , "Uccello le poil" by Antonin Artaud and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno To ... |
| Allen Upward | ... Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, | and John Cournos |
| Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
| David K. Shipler | ... t, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, | , and Joseph Rago |
| 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 ... |
| Claude McKay | ... Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as Gertrude Stein and | . Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in America, with and w ... |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | ... ous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem "Vento a Tindari", written by | |
| Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... the Charlottetown Festival, hosted at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. | , who was born in Clifton (now New London) in 1874, wrote some 20 novels a ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... iter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host | , commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, ... |
| Elmar Huseynov | ... ts Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including Eynulla Fatullayev and | , have been persecuted or been killed for their criticism of the governmen ... |
| Adrian Edmondson | ... French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and | began their careers. The stand-up comedy circuit rapidly expanded from Lon ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under President | sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Robeson was one of four hosts who gave speeches to welcome | to Kingsway Hall to support his efforts in the Indian independence movemen ... |
| 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 ... |
| Liz Smith | ... others, including Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, James MacArthur, June Allyson, | , and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. Bette Davis supported Christina's version, ... |
| John Maynard Smith | Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by | and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in pee ... |
| Donald Knuth | In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with | and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Agnes Boulton | ... ime they had one son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910–1950). In 1917, O'Neill met | , a successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... d became a major literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were | , Tobias Smollett, Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also g ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... homage to "Time Enough at Last". In , Albert Brooks recounts the episode to | as they drive along an empty stretch of highway. "This thing freaked me ou ... |
| Mark Twain | ... e Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included | , Charles Dickens and Christopher Marlowe |
| Eynulla Fatullayev | ... criticism by Human Rights Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including | and Elmar Huseynov, have been persecuted or been killed for their criticis ... |
| Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canadian playwright | 's 1988 award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a ... |
| Dinesh D'Souza | ... ondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst | , radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and jou ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Albert Brooks | ... erican popular culture frequently pay homage to "Time Enough at Last". In , | recounts the episode to Dan Aykroyd as they drive along an empty stretch o ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... d III in the first episode of Blackadder, "The Foretelling", which parodies | 's portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy ... |
| Budd Schulberg | ... ude ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter | , political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, c ... |
| Fynes Moryson | In | 's "Itinerary" (1617) is a similar allusion to the habit of carrying umbre ... |
| Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
| Mitt Romney | ... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusetts | in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ... |
| Craig Ferguson | ... tars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, | , Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The stand-up comedy ... |
| Britney Spears | On September 4, 2003, | , Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith and others performed in a nati ... |
| Jonas Hanway | ... ound their value, and got over the shyness natural to a first introduction. | , the founder of the Magdalen Hospital, has the credit of being the first ... |
| Sadakichi Hartmann | ... thology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of | , and contemporary French-language translations |
| Norman Maclean | ... st Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. | , a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of A River Ru ... |
| Donna Woolfolk Cross | ... 's feminist play Top Girls (1982). The story is reworked in American writer | 's 1996 novel. Pope Joan. There have been two film versions, a 1972 film d ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by | . Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ... |
| Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
| Ptol. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , Strab.; , | ) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
| Winston Groom | Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in | 's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forres ... |
| Don Cheadle | ... to create Water.org in July 2009. He, along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, | , and Jerry Weintraub, is one of the founders of , an organization that fo ... |
| Clarissa Dickson Wright | ... ities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, | at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political ... |
| Charles Maturin | ... stian, and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer; a gothic novel by | , Wilde's great-uncle. Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the D ... |
| Eric Sevareid | ... ublic television in 1964 and then in two one-hour conversations on CBS with | in the late 1960s |
| Caryl Churchill | ... 6 novel The Papess Joanne. Pope Joan is a character in the opening scene of | 's feminist play Top Girls (1982). The story is reworked in American write ... |
| 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 ... |
| José Joaquín de Olmedo | ... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte | ;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tobias Smollett | ... literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, | , Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emmanuel Rhoides | ... worked in a number of modern works. The story is retold in the Greek author | ' 1866 novel The Papess Joanne. Pope Joan is a character in the opening sc ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, | instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ... |
| Otto von Bismarck | ... he bones of one British grenadier" was an echo of a famous sentence used by | : "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian ... |
| 14th Dalai Lama | In Southwest China, many Tibetan people emigrated to India, following the | in 1959 after the failure of his Tibetan uprising. This wave lasted until ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
| Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
| Christopher Marlowe | ... and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
| Einstein's | ... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and | general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ... |
| Senator Orrin Hatch | ... federate flag, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator. Helms turned to | and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ined a King's Scholarship, Gielgud trained briefly at RADA and understudied | in Coward's The Vortex at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead under the dire ... |
| Arnaut Daniel | ... ion of the condensed, direct expression that he detected in the writings of | , Dante, and Guido Cavalcanti, amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 ... |
| Moses | ... e 40-day period of repentance is also analogous to the 40 days during which | repented and fasted in response to the making of the Golden calf. (Jews to ... |
| Colen Campbell | ... uildings including the 'Bagnio' (or Casino, designed by Lord Burlington and | ) in 1716, the 'Pagan Temple' (designed by the Catholic Baroque architect ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... nd of one of Jarre's fellow-pupils at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of | , where Jarre had learned to use synthesizers, including the EMS VCS 3, wh ... |
| Ebenezer Porter | ... ea of religion and theology, Dartmouth alumni include priests and ministers | , Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, Solo ... |
| 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 |
| Chris Rock | ... Some notable people from South Carolina are Peg Leg Sam actor and comedian | and a notable descendent from the people of the state, is young family his ... |
| Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. ( | , whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ... |
| Barbara La Marr | ... choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, | , who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis |
| Ada Leverson | ... lloway and, shunning attention, went into hiding at the house of Ernest and | , two of his firm friends. Edward Carson approached Frank Lockwood QC, the ... |
| Nick Tosches | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and | , whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and h ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... d from Dartmouth in 1924. Theodor Geisel, better known as children's author | , was a member of the class of 1925 |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
| Plato | ... the Pythagoreans, allegedly exercised an important influence on the work of | . According to R. M. Hare, this influence consists of three points: (1) Th ... |
| Sydney Pollack | ... g films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, and | 's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, while other films like Song of Norway a ... |
| James Lipton | ... credited cameo in the sixth season of the show. He is named as the only man | has ever called a coward in an episode of Arrested Development. He current ... |
| Foglio | ... glory. Some of the early "Myth" novels were later adapted as comic books by | and others. The Myth books have passed through three publishing companies ... |
| Rowan Atkinson | ... e had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast included John Cleese, | , Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and Terry Jones. The show has never been repeat ... |
| Choudhary Rahmat Ali | ... and of (the) Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by | , a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Ne ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... rtel and Lost It All. She had a supporting role as Mirtha Jung, the wife of | 's character. The film received mixed reviews, but made $80 million worldw ... |
| Mark Twain | ... sh Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as | and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | His daughter Antonia Uccello (1456–1491) was a Carmelite nun, whom | called "a daughter who knew how to draw". She was even noted as a "pittore ... |
| Gary Player | ... res five award-winning golf courses designed by the likes of Jack Nicklaus, | , Tom Fazio, and Pete Dye. The courses snake along the skinny island, movi ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... hed on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists | and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to ... |
| Carrie Fisher | ... y the producers of Dynasty, who used it as the fictional hotel The Carlton. | was originally contracted to portray Miss Scarlet but withdrew to enter tr ... |
| Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
| Randle Cotgrave | In | 's "Dictionary of the French and English Tongues" (1614), the French Ombre ... |
| Walter Pater | ... about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and | |
| Charles Darwin | ... g and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by | during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contribu ... |
| Bill Drummond | ... orn in Dumfries as were fellow musicians Geoffrey Kelly and Ian Carr. While | of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one of the Queen of the South fans inc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Björn Ulvaeus | Per Gessle is one of three people (also including | ) who own NoteHeads, a Swedish company which publishes the music notation ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
| Jack Nicklaus | ... he island features five award-winning golf courses designed by the likes of | , Gary Player, Tom Fazio, and Pete Dye. The courses snake along the skinny ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guido Cavalcanti | ... ct expression that he detected in the writings of Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and | , amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 series of essays I gather th ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... nfluenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and | , to name a few |
| Peter Gallagher | ... ed Bentley with a video camera, telling the actor to film what Ricky would. | and Alison Janney were cast (as Buddy Kane and Barbara Fitts) after filmin ... |
| Ian Carr | ... er Genesis was born in Dumfries as were fellow musicians Geoffrey Kelly and | . While Bill Drummond of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one of the Queen ... |
| Terry Jones | ... The cast included John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and | . The show has never been repeated |
| Thomas Coryat | In | 's "Crudities", published in 1611, about a century and a half prior to the ... |
| Julian Lennon | ... the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of | . His godfather is Sir Elton John |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... documentary, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, narrated by | , and he also scripted Sam Cooke - Legend, narrated by |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | ... German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, Dante's Divine Comedy, En Route, | 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
| George Burns | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, | , Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaudeville. They sp ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, | and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few |
| John Lennon | ... t and actor of English, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of | and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather ... |
| Edward Louis Bernays | ... d individuals to achieve mutual understanding and realize strategic goals." | , who is considered the founding father of modern public relations along w ... |
| Voltaire | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating | , Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her ... |
| Josie Bissett | ... son 1 to mean-spirited, adulterous villain from Season 2 on; Jane Mancini ( | ), his budding fashion designer wife; Billy Campbell (Andrew Shue), the st ... |
| Horace | ... British politics and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets | , Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | ... rime minister Alexei Rykov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, | , and Grigory Sokolnikov, the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting P ... |
| Zoltan Korda | Sanders was released in 1935 and editing by | produced an imperial film. The film was immensely popular and made Robeson ... |
| Copernican | ... h century the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, an early supporter of the | theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, put forward the vie ... |
| Ken Kesey | A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in | 's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 movie adaptatio ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... omedy sections were originally intended to be performed by a cast including | and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tim Marchman | In July 2007, New York Sun sportswriter | wrote about Henderson's accomplishments |
| Charles Darwin | William Charles Wells, predecessor to | on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geolo ... |
| Aristoxenus | ... of metempsychosis. Other authorities contradict the statement. According to | , he allowed the use of all kinds of animal food except the flesh of oxen ... |
| Solomon Spalding | ... Porter, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, | , and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, Arnold Resnicoff, and David ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... f the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four places above frequent co-star | . Also in 2006, she starred in the film Driving Lessons alongside Rupert G ... |
| Stephen of Bourbon | ... y in the year 1099. De Mailly's 'account' was acknowledged by his companion | |
| Laurence Binyon | ... ongst the defining qualities of Imagist poetry. Through his friendship with | , Pound had already developed an interest in Japanese art by examining Nis ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former Mayor of New York City | in as the year progressed |
| Wilson Mizner | ... al, Road Show, which centers on the lives of Addison Mizner and his brother | |
| Peter Ustinov | ... originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and | , but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he co ... |
| Thucydides | ... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially | , and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steven Spielberg | In August 2009 it was announced that | was to direct a remake of the film, with production beginning in 2010. The ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... ries of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor. | became known as 'the' obscene comic when he used language that usually led ... |
| Glenn Beck | ... some conservative ideologies, such as support for the military. Leary told | , "I was a life-long Democrat, but now at my age, I've come to realize tha ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Unexpected spoof "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as | , explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast ... |
| John Lennon | ... in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, | wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been w ... |
| Remy de Gourmont | In an article in La France , 1915, the French critic, | described the Imagists as descendants of of the French Symbolistes and in ... |
| Gus Van Sant | ... ife. He will also star in Elysium. He will shoot Promised Land, directed by | , in April 2012 |
| Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
| Ian Penman | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, | and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-r ... |
| Aristoxenus | ... various anecdotes in antiquity. Iamblichus (apparently on the authority of | ) gives a long description of the daily routine of the members, which sugg ... |
| Jonathan Tropper | ... n between 20th Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, and novelist | had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached Tom H ... |
| Herodotus | ... tions of the Second Sophistic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were | and especially Thucydides, and their subject matter was secular history. T ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... who named the area Twickenham after the home village of his distant kinsman | |
| James Agee | ... whined". Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance | ;wrote that she "demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic ... |
| Virgil | ... and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets Horace, Homer and | , the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus whic ... |
| George Antheil | Lamarr also co-invented – with composer | – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hop ... |
| Sylvia Plath | Other sources include | 's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with ... |
| John of Damascus | ... ely fictional Passion of Artemius, probably penned in the eighth century by | , makes the legendary connection explicit. As an interpretation of the exe ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... ned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director and producer | when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Patrick | ... e sent Palladius to Ireland to serve as a bishop in 431. Bishop Patricius ( | ) continued this missionary work. Pope Celestine strongly opposed the Nova ... |
| Livy | According to tradition and later writers such as | , the Roman Republic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the s ... |
| Archestratus of Gela | The Hedyphagetica took much of its substance from the gastronomical epic of | . The eleven extant hexameters have prosodical features avoided in the mor ... |
| Plato | Both | and Isocrates affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leavi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hans Staden | The practice of cannibalism among the Tupí was made famous in Europe by | , a German soldier and mariner who was captured by the Tupí in 1552. In hi ... |
| Philip Pullman | ... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of | 's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ... |
| Tim Burton | ... h his suburban home. The same year, he appeared as the Headless Horseman in | 's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appear ... |
| John Milton | ... to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet | in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in | 's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel, All the Pretty Horses ... |
| Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... ropper had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached | and later Robert Downey, Jr. for the lead role, but in December 2009 Spiel ... |
| Eleanor Bron | ... with John Cleese. Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with | . He also led the ensemble in the finale – the "End Of The World" sketch f ... |
| John Cleese | ... Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and | and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Va ... |
| Matt Damon | ... nchecked sensuality." Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is | 's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western be ... |
| George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
| John Masefield | ... His first published success, The Daffodil Murderer (1913), was a parody of | 's The Everlasting Mercy. Robert Graves, in describes it as a "parody of M ... |
| George Carlin | ... Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until | was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing th ... |
| Xenophanes | ... he had lived four lives that he could remember in detail, and, according to | , Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog |
| Shakespeare's | ... ge in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from | Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For G ... |
| Plato | | believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which tied in with his innatism ... |
| Woody Allen | Other notable comics from this era include | , Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... ht Zone-style TV show that airs in the year 3000] on "A Head in the Polls") | ;'s (in the DVD's second alternative ending); and The Simpsons (on the sea ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
| Arthur Symons | ... s indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, | and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.and the Symb ... |
| Darren Star | ... om July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. The show was created by | for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company, Spelling ... |
| Aulus Gellius | ... , Greek, and Latin languages were in contact with one another; according to | 17.17.1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had "three hearts" ... |
| Gordon Brown | The Rt. Hon. | , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the Unive ... |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed by | in 1990. Gambon had been in Olivier's earlier production. In an interview ... |
| Gustav Machatý | In early 1933 she starred in | 's notorious film Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film made in Prague, in which sh ... |
| Scaliger | ... der Werff) and the Pieterskerk (church of St Peter (1315) with monuments to | , Boerhaave and other famous scholars. From a historical perspective the M ... |
| William of Apulia | ... speration to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to | , begged him "to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force th ... |
| John Wilkes | The journalist | published a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ... |
| Iamblichus | ... all else, Pythagoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Both | and Porphyry give detailed accounts of the organisation of the school, alt ... |
| Albert Goldman's | ... luding 1,150 pages of text), the work countered earlier biographies such as | Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley's life ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... e appeared as the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring | and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael ... |
| Chaz | ... survived by his wife Mary Bono and children Christy, Chianna, Chesare, and | . His mother Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at ... |
| Lord Byron | In contrast | and Walter Scott achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe wi ... |
| Archibald Cox | ... cre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor | , following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixo ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... , and it set term limits to the presidency of two terms. It stipulated that | , the incumbent at the time, would not be affected by the amendment. In 19 ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... plication of the law of the State". In April 2010, Christopher Hitchens and | wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humanity due to what they ... |
| François Rabelais | ... h a vengeance in the 16th century, when farcical texts such as the works of | tackled more serious issues (and incurred the wrath of the crown as a resu ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
| Steven Soderbergh | ... ole as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite George Clooney and Cate Blanchett in | 's The Good German, based on the Joseph Kanon novel of the same name |
| Paul Tillich | ... of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. | , an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and Karl Ba ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Hazlitt | ... inal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer | and others |
| Voltaire | ... orm, thus including him in a tradition that includes Cervantes, Diderot and | |
| Albert Speer | During his post-war interrogation, | , Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, indicated ... |
| George Clooney | ... ire starred in his first villainous role as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite | and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the Jo ... |
| Tony Hillerman | ... Korry, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists | and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator an ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including | and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes |
| Thomas More | After his return he settled in London—where he became friends with | —as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first w ... |
| Robert Bork | On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General | was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard ... |
| Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
| Vic Reeves | ... al cats, before moving to France in January 2003. They sold the property to | , shortly after Baker had worked with him on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... n al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met with | who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United ... |
| Thomas More | ... Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and | 's Utopia (1516) |
| Sir Isaac Newton | ... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of | and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ... |
| Jacopo Sannazaro | ... to. He is there represented together with his patron Alfonso and his friend | in adoration before the dead Christ |
| Thomas Ince | ... again to a reworking of the past, this time the supposed murder of director | by Orson Welles's bête noire William Randolph Hearst, The Cat's Meow was a ... |
| Sebastian Brant | ... examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard the Fox, | 's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and Thomas More's ... |
| Cole Porter | ... e nomination for Best Actress, for her performance in the 2004 biography of | , De-Lovely, opposite |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... n addition to composing new film scores, Timothy Brock has restored many of | 's scores |
| Olaus Magnus | ... of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by | in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another sugges ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
| François Rabelais | ... wo major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were Giovanni Boccaccio and | . Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard ... |
| Ray Martin | ... of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host | , Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant |
| Lew Welch | ... s another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like | and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1 ... |
| K. M. Peyton | Flambards is a novel by the English author | |
| 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 ... |
| Simone de Beauvoir | ... st philosophy in the works of Kierkegaard, Shestov, Heidegger, and Jaspers. | , an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partn ... |
| Franz Kafka | ... e (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), | (1883–1924) and Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). Hoffmann's story Das Fräulei ... |
| Woody Allen | ... C Motion Pictures. It made some moneymaking films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, | 's Take the Money and Run, and Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't T ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... lar were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japanese poetry. | was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets l ... |
| Lorne Michaels | ... Many famous successful comedians like Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, | , Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, Rich Little, Norm Macdonald, Harland Will ... |
| 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 |
| Bob Fosse | ... res, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures. It made some moneymaking films like | 's Cabaret, Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, and Sydney Pollack's The ... |
| Zoroaster | It has also been surmised by many researchers that the Aryan prophet | was born somewhere in ancient Aryana, possibly in the ancient northern Per ... |
| Lillian Hellman | ... to giggles and squirms. William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in | 's The Little Foxes (RKO, 1941), but they clashed over the character of Re ... |
| George MacDonald | ... l (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), | (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and Al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vsevolod Pudovkin | | noted that the editing process is the one phase of production that is trul ... |
| Philip Ridley | ... n Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of Callie in | 's dark, adult fairy tale, The Passion of Darkly Noon |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... an Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), | (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), ... |
| Eugenio Espejo | ... bamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and medical pioneer | , born in 1747 in Quito |
| Julius Caesar | ... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by | 's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... ole as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne Wang's Smoke and also as | 's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of ... |
| Jules Verne | ... vehicles of every sort featured large in adventure stories such as those of | and the Tom Swift books. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | Among the Beats, Gary Snyder and | in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... waves on the big screen. Many famous successful comedians like Jim Carrey, | , John Candy, Lorne Michaels, Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, Rich Little, ... |
| 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), ... |
| Thurston Clarke | American author | 's analysis of the bombing gave timings for calls and for the explosion wh ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor | , Governor George Pataki, and President George W. Bush vowed to rebuild th ... |
| Wayne Wang | ... ther critical acclaim for her role as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in | 's Smoke and also as Val Kilmer's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same y ... |
| Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
| John of the Cross | ... to set up two houses for men who wished to adopt the reforms; she convinced | and Anthony of Jesus to help with this. They founded the first convent of ... |
| Aaron Sorkin | In an episode of NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (also written by | ), an elderly man is discovered in the studio. When asked his name, he rep ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... ect acting style, making for more subtlety of expression. Actresses such as | in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere (1916), Janet G ... |
| Edmund Hillary | ... inal assault on the summit with its second climbing pair, the New Zealander | and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali sherpa climber from Darjeeling, India. They r ... |
| John Cassavetes | ... d François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and | also pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and thro ... |
| Cygwin | ... Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS/2, | , AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs. Freeciv.net is a ... |
| Marshall Neilan | ... esence of stage actors in film was the cause of this outburst from director | in 1917: "The sooner the stage people who have come into pictures get out, ... |
| Nikolai Gogol | ... d with realism that influenced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), | (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), ... |
| Ann Elder | ... quietly zany characters and straight man for anybody's jokes; comic actress | , who also contributed to scripts, tap dancer Barbara Sharma, who would la ... |
| Zhuge Liang | ... y popularized two-character surnames and a number of important figures like | and possessed them. As of 2009, in the United States, 70,000 family names ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gary Snyder | Among the Beats, | and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis o ... |
| John Gay | ... tion of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, | , John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Vi ... |
| Ban Gu | ... huanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by | ’s (班固) History of Han (漢書), but historians regard Sima’s work as their mo ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... an Luc Godard and François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as | and John Cassavetes also pushed the limits of editing technique during the ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Livy | The author's chief sources are Cicero, | , Sallust and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatm ... |
| Lily Tomlin | ... that season, Teresa Graves, Jeremy Lloyd, Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam. | joined in the middle of the season. Jo Anne Worley, Goldie Hawn, and Judy ... |
| Charles Olson | ... the San Francisco Renaissance. In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, | , the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote "ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMM ... |
| Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
| Leonard Maltin | ... tasy and romance.". In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian | stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney ... |
| Rabindranath Tagore | ... bindo, Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, | , and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Ni ... |
| Aristotle | ... nimalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae | ;, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; T ... |
| Archimedes | ... . E. Montucla's L'Histoire des Mathématiques, and his story of the death of | intrigued her |
| Virgil | ... ol. Specifically, the authors derived from Erasmus are Cicero, Terence, and | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as | (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charl ... |
| Sarah Hudson-Pierce | The Shreveport, Louisiana, publisher | was born near Sulphur Springs in 1948 |
| Leonhard Euler | ... Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and | . She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézout and Le Calcul D ... |
| Sallust | The author's chief sources are Cicero, Livy, | and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatment of his ... |
| Philip Dunne | ... Huston had, with friends including director William Wyler and screenwriter | , established the "Committee for the First Amendment", as a response to th ... |
| François Truffaut | The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and | and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes al ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... edical literature shortly after Galvani's work. These results were known to | when she authored Frankenstein (1819), although she does not name the meth ... |
| Juvenal | ... Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 130 | ;, ix., 50.; Ovid Ars. Am., ii., 209). From such mentions the umbrella doe ... |
| Aaron Sorkin | ... Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" (written by Paul Redford and | ), Sam Seaborn, while attempting to gain a pardon for someone whom he beli ... |
| Jeremy Lloyd | ... n saw several new people who only stayed on for that season, Teresa Graves, | , Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam. Lily Tomlin joined in the middle of the ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... 14, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, | , John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St Jo ... |
| Isaac Adamson | Maguire's company is also co-producing an adaptation of a mystery novel by | called Tokyo Suckerpunch with Sony Pictures. The film, scheduled to be rel ... |
| Michelangelo | ... laced buon fresco, and was used by painters such as Gianbattista Tiepolo or | . This technique had, in reduced form, the advantages of a secco work |
| Perez Hilton | ... ndence Day weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Celebrity gossip blogger | had also been posting items on his website about Bass's orientation since ... |
| Harriette Wilson | ... rom issuing an edition of the rather racy memoirs of one of his mistresses, | , in exchange for financial consideration. The Duke promptly returned the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stella Adler | ... stian. He was an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with acting teacher | , and appeared on television and in summer stock. In the early 1960s, Bogd ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatoli Boukreev | ... wards published the bestseller Into Thin Air, which related his experience. | , a guide who felt impugned by Krakauer's book, co-authored a rebuttal boo ... |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... an society. The work of men like Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, | , Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rab ... |
| Álvaro Vargas Llosa | ... married his first cousin, Patricia Llosa, with whom he had three children: | (born 1966), a writer and editor; Gonzalo (born 1967), a businessman; and ... |
| Meghan | In 1984, McCain and Cindy had their first child together, daughter | , followed two years later by son John Sidney (Jack) IV, and in 1988 by so ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... and also, in 1714, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included | , Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... riedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and | . His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971) |
| John McCain | ... t known resident is U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate | . McCain's home in the community, referred to in the media as his "Sedona ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
| 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 ... |
| Michael McKean | ... m Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, | , Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving. The film was produced by Debr ... |
| Paul Redford | ... itled "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" (written by | and Aaron Sorkin), Sam Seaborn, while attempting to gain a pardon for some ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... n of the Tory and Whig parties - and also, in 1714, by the formation of the | , which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, | , Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of | around AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Phil Hartman | ... e of Saturday Night Live, Kirk (guest host William Shatner) directs McCoy ( | ) to help a man who's choking. McCoy snaps, "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, no ... |
| George Cram Cook | ... for Cardiff which took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband | 's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to the wharf (pictured) that was us ... |
| Martial | ... rstood, and he has been represented as a mean flatterer of the same type as | . But, if the references to the imperial administration are carefully scan ... |
| Clifford Odets | ... nd Jean Marais (1956). During the same period, Renoir produced in Paris the | play, The Big Knife, and wrote and produced in Paris for Leslie Caron his ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to | and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ... |
| Martial | ... s to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. (Ovid Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I. | ;, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 130; Juvenal, ix., 50.; Ovid Ars. ... |
| André Breton | ... and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, | and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heidegger's Being and Time was publish ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. | was one of the greatest of Anglo-Irish satirists, and one of the first to ... |
| Subhash Kak | ... lism, addressed for example by K. D. Sethna and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . | (1994) claimed that there is an "astronomical code" in the organization of ... |
| Aelian | ... tings of ancient authors especially attracted him. He published editions of | , De natura animalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptore ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ome sum for that day of one hundred dollars a month. Famous American author | , who saw the Pony Express in action first hand, described the riders in h ... |
| Jon Krakauer | Journalist | , on assignment from Outside magazine, was in one of the affected parties, ... |
| Edward Abbey | ... experiment. Oracle was also the postal address for environmentalist author | , who never lived in the town but visited often. Oracle is becoming a bedr ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be | and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The l ... |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... Tokarzewski. Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General | , this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Arm ... |
| Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
| Ovid | ... ed to the East in 27. Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which | belonged; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of th ... |
| Ian Hancock | ... omanis, it is impossible to accurately assess the actual number of victims. | , director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at ... |
| Man Ray | ... or of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and | ). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing techniques ... |
| George Lucas | ... "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, | , Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most crit ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially Pliny and | ) gives the following account |
| Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
| K. D. Sethna | ... topic of great significance in Hindu nationalism, addressed for example by | and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . Subhash Kak (1994) claimed that there is a ... |
| Brian De Palma | ... of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, | , George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. ... |
| F. Passow | ... independent work of the kind since Stephanus's Thesaurus, and the basis of | 's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contempora ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... René Clair (director of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists | and Man Ray). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing ... |
| Goethe | ... es Brahms in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by | . Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notab ... |
| William Friedkin | ... ritic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included | , Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Franc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Parnell | ... ed Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, | , and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. This club included several ... |
| Dictionary of Welsh Biography | ... ld, he was knighted in 1934. Under his editorship, the first edition of the | was compiled, though not published until after his death (1950) |
| Gary Gygax | ... nd Geneva Resort. Lake Geneva was also home to Dungeons and Dragons creator | until his death in 2008. Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, also owned p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Basil Bunting | ... arried the Imagist focus on formal concerns to a high level of development. | , another Objectivist poet, was a key figure in the early development of t ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... Governors since October 2004, alongside other space advocates such as actor | and author and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke. In a 2007 interview with GQ ... |
| Melody Maker | ... l Quinn, "One Day." It flopped, leading Clarke to place an advertisement in | looking for a vocalist for a new musical project. He selected Peterborough ... |
| Lu Xun | ... ctions; his innovative use of informal, humorous, and varied language (even | (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of Qu ... |
| Horace | The chicory plant is one of the earliest cited in recorded literature. | mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simpl ... |
| Georges Bataille | ... e audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, | , Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heideg ... |
| Joseph Kanon | ... ney and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the | novel of the same name |
| Weegee | ... nton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer | and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don Hewitt worked for UP Newspictures ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... irline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited on the set by the actor | . She commented that she had a "nerve" playing a woman in her sixties, to ... |
| Caesar | ... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to | 's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ... |
| Qu Yuan | ... Xun (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of | without rhyme |
| Lev Kuleshov | Early Russian filmmakers such as | further explored and theorized about editing and its ideological nature. S ... |
| Frank Gifford | ... egis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey. In 1985, Kathie Lee Johnson (who would marry | a year later) became Philbin's co-host. Buena Vista Television (now Disney ... |
| Debra Hill | ... McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving. The film was produced by | |
| Albert Capellani | ... es made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue. Directors such as | (a French director who also did work in America directing Alla Nazimova fi ... |
| William Shakespeare | The swallow is also notably cited in several of | 's plays for the swiftness of its flight; for example: "True hope is swift ... |
| Ernie Hudson | The ensemble cast included Christopher Meloni, | , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Eamonn Walker, Rita More ... |
| Jorge Luján | ... ez. Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion | and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carn ... |
| Edmund Hillary | ... before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 |
| Mike Read | ... rie would return for the band's next single, "The Power of Love", imitating | in a parody of the DJ's banning of their previous single, "Relax" |
| 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 ... |
| John William Polidori | ... ley's wife-to-be Mary Shelley and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor | . The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland bu ... |
| Herodotus | ... e that circumcised females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that | (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt. ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... trayed a fictional version of Jannings in Inglourious Basterds, directed by | |
| 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 ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... tors to the springs included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, | , and Johannes Brahms. In those years there were more millionaires living ... |
| Aristophanes | ... s an indispensable adjunct to a lady of fashion in the late 5th century BC. | mentions it among the common articles of female use; they could apparently ... |
| Samuel David Luzzatto | ... scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi | better known as Shadal. It was in Trieste that Achille La Guardia met and ... |
| Robert Burns | ... novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of | in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland but based in London or elsewher ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis Zukofsky | ... nly in free verse. Clearly linking Objectivism's principles with Imagism's, | insisted, in his introduction to the 1931 Objectivist issue of Poetry, on ... |
| Edna Lewis | Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author | wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Countr ... |
| John Saltmarsh | ... mber at Lincoln College. Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to | , who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform. Fuller subsequently ... |
| Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
| Wallace Stevens | ... on their operations from positions won by the Imagists." On the other hand, | found shortcomings in the Imagist approach: "Not all objects are equal. Th ... |
| Pindar | ... Ruhnken nicknamed him "Orpheomastix"); an essay on the life and writings of | and a collection of his fragments. His Eclogae physicae is a selection of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
| Hubert van Es | ... Oscar Fraley, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer | , photographer Stan Stearns,1970s White House photographer David Hume Kenn ... |
| Vertamae Grosvenor | ... ways, compiled by African Americans, have been published and well-received. | 's Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, originally pu ... |
| Katherine Mansfield | The graves of G. I. Gurdjieff and | can be found in the cemetery at Avon |
| Samuel Ornitz | ... an, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, | and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions. Known as the " ... |
| Vitruvius | ... icae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and | ; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken nicknamed hi ... |
| Ian Fleming | ... persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, | , originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisione ... |
| Sima Qian | ... consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " | ", not "Si Ma Qian" or "Si Maqian". However, as the Chinese language makes ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of | 's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ... |
| Darren Lynn Bousman | ... mother/guardian of a teen surfer on the brink of greatness. She appeared in | 's Mother's Day (2010) |
| George Washington | ... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of | . In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ... |
| Les Claypool | ... om The Living End and Jimbo Wallace from The Reverend Horton Heat. Primus's | used an upright bass for the song Mr. Krinkle, from Pork Soda, and for the ... |
| Sam Raimi | In an article for Premiere magazine, | confirmed the long-standing rumor that Maguire and his Spider-Man co-star ... |
| Objectivist poets | The influence of Imagism can be seen clearly in the work of the | , who came to prominence in the 1930s under the auspices of Pound and Will ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rumer Godden | ... ade The River, his first color film. Based on the novel of the same name by | , the film is both a meditation on human beings' relationship with nature ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... lege, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included | and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his fath ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... ronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by | ). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and physicist ... |
| Seneca | ... were astronomers, the last two merely translating Aratus' poem Phaenomena. | , too, had described Sirius as being of a deeper red colour than Mars. How ... |
| John Howard Lawson | ... Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and | , he refused to answer any questions. Known as the "Hollywood Ten", they c ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... h Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring | and Laurence Olivier |
| Ovid | ... er their mistresses. Allusions to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. ( | Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 13 ... |
| Chris Sanders | ... eature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it was written and directed by | and Dean DeBlois, and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia C ... |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... ome reformers like Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj and | have attempted to re-interpret the Vedas to conform to modern and establis ... |
| Xenophon | ... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of | and Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken ... |
| Edward Dmytryk | ... , Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, | , Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... itten in response to a rivalry with Thomas Shadwell and eventually inspired | to write his satirical The Rape of the Lock. Other satirical works by Pope ... |
| Walter Lowenfels | In 1929, | jokingly suggested that Aldington should produce a new Imagist anthology. ... |
| Julie Newmar | ... villains such as Cesar Romero (the Joker), Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), | and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and Joan Collins (the Siren) added to the show' ... |
| Lester Cole | ... Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, | , Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answ ... |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... s (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, | , Ferdinand Verbiest and Gerardus Mercator |
| Ptolemy | ... s included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Oscar Fraley | ... ngton Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author | , military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van ... |
| Oppian | ... litica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae | ;, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and Vitruvius ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... eau novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and | . The Woman on the Beach (1947) starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan was ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg '36 and | |
| Andrea Palladio | ... eenth century in other parts of Romania, although never to the same extent. | , the famous Italian architect of the 16th century, built many mansions wi ... |
| Juan Carlos Onetti | ... onal Novel Prize in 1967, contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer | and by Gabriel García Márquez. This novel alone accumulated enough awards ... |
| Gabriel García Márquez | ... contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and by | . This novel alone accumulated enough awards to place the author among the ... |
| Judd Winick | ... credits of each episode is designed as an aquarium, but also by a poem that | wrote during his stay in the house called "Fishbowl". In some seasons, the ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... e and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and | |
| Richard Crossman | In March 1946, British Labour Party MP | gave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ... |
| Demetri Martin | ... r, David Cross, Louis C.K., Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and | . In 2005, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, established an archiv ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... e of her own that retained an Imagist concern with compression of language. | developed his poetic along distinctly American lines with his variable foo ... |
| Thorstein Veblen | ... nomic system. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, and later evolutionary economist | , believed that socialism would be the result of innovative engineers, sci ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cole Porter | Also in 1990, Erasure contributed the song "Too Darn Hot" to the | tribute album "Red Hot + Blue" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Later ... |
| Paul Morley | ... -UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's | , dispassionately reported details of the relative nuclear arsenals of eac ... |
| Deepa Mehta | ... engaged in fighting border terrorism, was well received, as was his role in | 's art house film Earth. His first release for the new millennium, Mela, i ... |
| John of the Cross | ... e was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with | , a founder of the Discalced Carmelites |
| Thorstein Veblen | Other theorists, such as Joseph Schumpeter, | and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socialism would form nat ... |
| John Landis | ... tories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth. In a CNN interview, | said the movie was "based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth," ... |
| D. H. Lawrence | Lowell persuaded | to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writ ... |
| Adrian Scott | ... on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, | , Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howar ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... college campuses. Special guest villains such as Cesar Romero (the Joker), | (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and Joan Collins (t ... |
| Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
| Epicurus | ... ca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, Historia animalium and Politica | ;, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Hali ... |
| Robert Whittington | ... m Hormannum, 1521) is directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, | , who had "under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lily with scoff ... |
| Sister Nivedita | ... nath Tagore, and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women such as the Scots–Irish | , spread the passion for rejuvenation and freedom. The rediscovery of Indi ... |
| Desiderius Erasmus | ... olars and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (Pope Adrian VI), | , Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, Ferdinand Verbiest ... |
| Pupi Avati | ... 1987), and The Beiderbecke Connection (1988). In 1991, the Italian director | released . Filmed partially in the Beiderbecke home, which Avati had purch ... |
| Swami Dayananda Saraswati | Since the 19th and 20th centuries, some reformers like | , founder of the Arya Samaj and Sri Aurobindo have attempted to re-interpr ... |
| Thorstein Veblen | ... al element to Marxism and initiating the concept of evolutionary socialism. | saw socialism as an immediate stage in an ongoing evolutionary process in ... |
| Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrateds | wrote in 2003, "There are certain figures in American history who have pas ... |
| John Dryden | ... ut the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular. | wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original a ... |
| Gail Collins | ... , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and | , Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables c ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... d, his voice was restored. He returned to Europe, where he starred opposite | in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, filmed in English simultaneously with its ... |
| John Milton | When | wrote his Latin grammar Accedence Commenc't Grammar (1669), over 60 percen ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theophrastus | ... totle, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica | ;, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works ... |
| Bruce Hoffman | ... ilitary command and their Criminal Investigation Division. Security analyst | has written that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Pal ... |
| George Lily | A sketch of Lily's life by his son | was written for Paulus Jovius, who was collecting for his history the live ... |
| John Landis | ... The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with | , and stars Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Chr ... |
| Marianne Moore | ... king him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist. | also became associated with the group during this period. However, with Wo ... |
| Budd Schulberg | ... bject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by | '36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Thomas Moore | ... 's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and | , from Ireland but based in London or elsewhere reflected in different way ... |
| Thomas Shadwell | ... world. His satirical Mac Flecknoe was written in response to a rivalry with | and eventually inspired Alexander Pope to write his satirical The Rape of ... |
| Dalton Trumbo | ... 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, | , Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he re ... |
| Jonathan Lynn | ... nd other various murder/dinner parties of mystery. The film was directed by | , who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, Ei ... |
| Gilbert White | | studied the Barn Swallow in detail in his pioneering work The Natural Hist ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... chose to release the story exclusively to People magazine, who bumped actor | off of that week's cover in favor of Bass. In his coming out interview, Ba ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... , including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and | with Silent Movie (1976). Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed d ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... nti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring Maureen O'Hara and | . Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film about Texas sharecropper ... |
| Virgil | ... made structures and bridges since time immemorial. An early reference is in | 's Georgics (29 BC) ...garrula quam tignis nidum suspendat hirundo (...the ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... ust a matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling." | , who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers, but ... |
| Alan Ball | ... Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by | . Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife cr ... |
| 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- ... |
| Herbert Biberman | ... ardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, | , Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, ... |
| Stanley Kubrick | ... robably the most effective fusion of existentialist philosophy and cinema." | 's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory "illustrates, and even illuminates... ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed | for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ... |
| Hannibal Buress | ... next generation of comedians, including Bill Burr, David Cross, Louis C.K., | , Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and Demetri Martin. In 2005, Emerson College ... |
| Tan Twan Eng | #The Gift of Rain by | set in World War II Penang, was nominated for 2007 Man Booker Prize |
| Holly Johnson | ... great warrior tribes go to war", from the film (the line is also spoken by | at the beginning of the session version) |
| C. S. Lewis | A version of Bacchus also appears in | ' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ... |
| David Hume | ... l). Religion is not always positively associated with morality. Philosopher | stated that, "the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to b ... |
| Saint Paul | ... s Physician (1959) was about Saint Luke; Great Lion of God (1970) was about | ; and I, Judas (1977) was about Judas Iscariot |
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| Anton Chekhov | ... ican drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright | , Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindb ... |
| Albert Maltz | ... fore the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, | , Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz ... |
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| Susan Arnold Elston | On May 6, 1852, Wallace married | . They had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (born February 17, 1853) |
| Aristotle | ... out the necessity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to | 's Nicomachean Ethics: "For as one swallow or one day does not make a spri ... |
| David Weber | ... attracted considerable interest from other best selling writers, including | and Mercedes Lackey. The premise of the series is that, in about April 200 ... |
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| Coleridge | ... ary." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote | after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's ... |
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| Pliny the Elder | According to The Natural History of Pliny, by | (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ... |
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| Santo Cilauro | The series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, | , Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner. They created and performed in The D-Generati ... |
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| Wyndham Lewis | ... went on to co-found the Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer | |
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| David O. Selznick | ... ew material especially for the network. Shortly after the death of producer | , ABC acquired the rights to a considerable amount of the Selznick theatri ... |
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| Rob Sitch | ... e series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro, | and Tom Gleisner. They created and performed in The D-Generation and The L ... |
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| John Gould Fletcher | ... of the original poets ,(also including imagist poetry by the American poet | ), with the exception of Pound, who had tried to persuade her to drop the ... |
| H. G. Wells | #The Man Who Could Work Miracles by | (1866–1946) |
| Louis C.K. | ... fluence the next generation of comedians, including Bill Burr, David Cross, | , Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and Demetri Martin. In 2005, ... |
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| Jean Genet | The French director | 's 1950 fantasy-erotic film Un chant d'amour shows two inmates in solitary ... |
| Robert Altman | ... er would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director | changed the script so much |
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| Steven Spielberg | ... Dragonheart. Both Last Crusade and The Rock alluded to his James Bond days. | and George Lucas wanted "the father of Indiana Jones" (although Connery is ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... and the Vulture - and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. | claimed it as the arrow with which Apollo exterminated the |
| Ambrose Bierce | Twain's younger contemporary | gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, b ... |
| Sam Hall | ... one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, | , Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles |
| David Mamet | Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film was adapted by | from the novel by Barry Reed and is not a remake of the 1946 film of the s ... |
| Ted Gioia | ... articular mention of Beiderbecke's "amount of teaching," the jazz historian | also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting t ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat | . He told friends, "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair an ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... us love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In "The Waste Land", | quoted the line "Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?" ("When wil ... |
| 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 |
| Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
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| Guido Cavalcanti | ... in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and | . The book met with little popular or critical success, at least partly be ... |
| John Keats | ... n image of the assembly of Swallows for their southward migration concludes | 's ode "To Autumn" |
| George Lucas | ... t Crusade and The Rock alluded to his James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and | wanted "the father of Indiana Jones" (although Connery is only 12 years ol ... |
| Guy Maddin | ... og is an odd mix of European languages, increasing the film's universality. | won awards for his homage to Soviet era silent films with his short The He ... |
| David O. Selznick | ... Gone with the Wind. Davis expressed her desire to play Scarlett, and while | was conducting a search for the actress to play the role, a radio poll nam ... |
| Chris Sanders | ... ney film produced in the wake of the more expensive Pinocchio and Fantasia. | , a head storyboard artist at Disney Feature Animation, was approached to ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to | (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ... |
| Mercedes Lackey | ... derable interest from other best selling writers, including David Weber and | . The premise of the series is that, in about April 2000, irresponsible al ... |
| Nancy Friday | | 's book, Men in Love - Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love over Ra ... |
| John Cournos | ... ll, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and | |
| Julius Caesar | ... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, | as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ... |
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| Terry Teachout | ... mstrong began to make their most important records. According to the critic | , they are "the two most influential figures in the early history of jazz" ... |
| Frederik Pohl | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by Arthur C. Clarke and | , Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subramanian to solve F ... |
| Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
| August Strindberg | ... ht Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright | . His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacula ... |
| Jane Austen | ... st in English during the peak Romantic period, other than Walter Scott, was | , whose essentially conservative world-view had little in common with her ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, | and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ... |
| Ebenezer Cooke | | , author of "The Sot-Weed Factor," was among the first American colonialis ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. | states that Interview |
| William Wyler | ... el (1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director | . She later described him as the "love of my life", and said that making t ... |
| Stanley Tucci | ... e Times (2005) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles | ;'s The Impostors has an opening silent sequence in the style of early sil ... |
| Mark Twain | ... to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. | was a great American satirist: his novel Huckleberry Finn is set in the an ... |
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| Ray Martin | The series comprehensively lampooned | , and it's relevance in exposing the hypocrisy of ratings driven current a ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire. | and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ... |
| Abdullah Hussain | #Interlok by | . Book 2 was set in Simpang Empat, Penang, Seberang Perai and Book 3 was s ... |
| Daniel Negreanu | ... d in the money in several events and has been tutored by poker professional | . Maguire can be seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and | , left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, Eisenhower was ent ... |
| Stephen Howarth | In 2009 the poet | and veteran theatre producer Andrew Hobbs collaborated on a play entitled ... |
| Sidney Lumet | Directed by | , the film was adapted by David Mamet from the novel by Barry Reed and is ... |
| Aristophanes | ... rms cynicism and parody were used. Modern critics call the Greek playwright | one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their criti ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’ | wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Hanrahan | ... George Schlatter, Jack Mendelsohn, Lorne Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, | , Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, L ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hanoch Levin | ... that period were written in advance, like those of the Pale Tracker trio or | 's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was Yehon ... |
| Jeri Taylor | ... racters talking shortly before the Romulan's attack; Next Generation writer | suggested that the opening should be something "fun", leading to the switc ... |
| August Strindberg | File:August Stindberg.jpg| | . 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Swede |
| Nikolai Berdyaev | Two Ukrainian/Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov and | , became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutio ... |
| Billy Graham | Helms was close to fellow North Carolinian | (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robe ... |
| John Aubrey | ... hn Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to | , Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit." At thirteen he was admitted to Queen ... |
| Jorge Enrique Adoum | Contemporary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist | ; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets ... |
| Lorne Michaels | Laugh-In writers included: George Schlatter, Jack Mendelsohn, | , Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Ric ... |
| Pausanias | ... ng the common articles of female use; they could apparently open and close. | describes a tomb near Triteia in Achaia decorated with a 4th-century BC pa ... |
| Milton | ... 'Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and | , or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravaganc ... |
| Frank G. Slaughter | ... ticised, novelised account of Constantine's life written by American author | and published in 1965. It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the R ... |
| Pāṇini | ... Pakistan, the language of the masses was refined by the ancient grammarian | , who set the rules of a structurally rigorous language called Sanskrit wh ... |
| James Q. Wilson | The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists | and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which app ... |
| Horace | ... and of Cajamai. He then wrote the Art of Love, a poem; and in 1709 imitated | in an Art of Cookery, which he published with some letters to Lister. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jonathan Swift | The term big-endian originally comes from | 's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 17 ... |
| Geoffrey of Villehardouin | ... pt, the object of their crusade; one of the envoys was the future historian | . Genoa was uninterested, but in March 1201 negotiations were opened with ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author | and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ... |
| Warren Beatty | In 1990, | directed and starred as the title character in a live action all-star cast ... |
| Benjamín Carrión | ... novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist | ; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carrera Andrade; the novelist Enriq ... |
| Larry Siegel | ... han, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, | , John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack Margolis, Bob Howard, John Jay Carse ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with | , Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Gu ... |
| Nicholas Meyer | ... different manner to express living in the future. Taking cues from director | 's approach to , Zimmerman noted that even in the future humanity will sti ... |
| Louise Bertin | ... te song on the piano – with only one finger. Hugo also worked with composer | , writing the libretto for her 1836 opera La Esmeralda which was based on ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson, and | , whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms School of Government ... |
| Allan Katz | ... im Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, | , Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack Margolis, B ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... llo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars | , Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. T ... |
| Ludwig Tieck | ... er for early German romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were | , Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedr ... |
| Ovid | ... hne's arrogance, Athena set a contest between the two weavers. According to | , the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal we ... |
| Scott Adams | ... a interactive fiction video game based on the franchise. It was written by | and published by Adventure International |
| Kate Webb | ... ABC News president Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, | , Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, Ne ... |
| Don Reo | ... l Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, | , Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack ... |
| Stephen King | ... pular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in | 's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining |
| John Lennon | ... ased Home at Last. Included on this album is "God Part III", which draws on | 's "God" and the U2 riposte ("God II"); "Come Away", written about his 197 ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... ly Graham (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, | , and Jerry Falwell, whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms Sc ... |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ... rary version of his adventures comparable, for example, to that of Jason in | ' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is ... |
| Jorge Carrera Andrade | ... orary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet | ; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carr ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... about the Israeli society and was mainly inspired by the American comedian | |
| Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
| Nikki Finke | A 2006 comment from LA Weeklys | reflects the same sentiments |
| Charles Stanley | ... th Carolinian Billy Graham (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as | , Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell, whose Liberty University dedicated its ... |
| Gabriel Marcel | ... ts. He published a major work on these themes, The Destiny of Man, in 1931. | , long before coining the term "existentialism", introduced important exis ... |
| Zheng He | ... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as | , Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuse | of a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ... |
| Yehonatan Geffen | ... h Levin's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was | 's stand-up performance which was satirical about the Israeli society and ... |
| Pope Innocent III | | succeeded to the papacy in 1198, and the preaching of a new crusade became ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | # | biography film Road to Dawn (China, 2007) featuring Winston Chao and Angel ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... tine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of King Cole of Colchester. | expanded this story in his highly fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, ... |
| 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 |
| Voltaire | ... in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by | . A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... ssing methods and background checks on all those arrested. Republican Mayor | hired Bill Bratton as his police commissioner who adopted the strategy mor ... |
| Chris Meledandri | ... Jethro Rothe-Kushel ("The Oscars"), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, | Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who! (film), and "Despicable ... |
| Frederick Marryat | #The Phantom Ship by | (1792–1848) |
| 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) |
| Dorothy Baker | In 1938, | borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and publish ... |
| Eugenio Espejo | Famous authors from the late colonial and early republic period include: | a printer and main author of the first newspaper in Ecuadorian colonial ti ... |
| Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | ... ark the Indian Rebellion of 1857 or the 'First War of Indian Independence'. | 's award-winning Rang De Basanti was Khan's first release in 2006. His rol ... |
| Menander | ... filth and disease. His bawdy style was adopted by Greek dramatist-comedian | . His early play Drunkenness contains an attack on the politician |
| Romantic | ... velopment of the poetic rules of "Classicism" that would dominate until the | s. The critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe who preached greater ... |
| Charles Lamb | ... ng the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". | made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works. |
| Casey Robinson | The movie was adapted by Gerald C. Duffy (titles), Winifred Dunn, | (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by Rupert Hughes. I ... |
| Victoria Hamson | Ian married | on 16 April 1988 in Oxford. They have two children, both born in the Londo ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... accidentally transported back in time to the 15th century; there they meet | and, upon realising which age they are in, travel to Spain to try to stop ... |
| Delphine de Girardin | ... g his exile (where he participated also in many séances conducted by Madame | ), and in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that esp ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such as | also occasionally received posthumous titles |
| Juan de Velasco | ... nclude the Jesuits Juan Bautista Aguirre, born in Daule in 1725, and Father | , born in Riobamba in 1727. De Velasco wrote about the nations and chiefdo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Novalis | ... erman romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were Ludwig Tieck, | (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölder ... |
| W. D. Richter | ... nce fiction film that was released in 1984. It was directed and produced by | , and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a ph ... |
| Roman Polanski | ... as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, | 's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Guest in 1965, fea ... |
| Edmund Hillary | ... ally easier and is the more frequently used route. It was the route used by | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognized of fifteen routes to t ... |
| Juan Montalvo | ... in Guayaquil), famous for his ode to Simón Bolívar titled Victoria de Junin | ;, a prominent essayist and novelist; Juan Leon Mera, famous for his work ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
| Macaulay | ... iary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian | and the poet Hallam. With the election of Zachary Taylor his post was not ... |
| Plato | ... e two were inseparable, reading together the best Greek authors, especially | , and discussing, either during their walks by the sea-shore and the banks ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Broyles, Jr. | ... Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by | and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an ad ... |
| George Weigel | ... covery of the much larger — and ongoing — abuse scandal in public schools." | , the Chair of Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in ... |
| Heinrich von Kleist | ... ortant writers were Ludwig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), | and Friedrich Hölderlin |
| Seneca | ... and of greater positive value. It consists of some translations of Livy and | , and of a very large number of interesting and admirably written letters, ... |
| Quintilian | The first Roman to discuss satire critically was | , who invented the term to describe the writings of Lucilius. The two most ... |
| Jeff Bond | ... he Next Generation, was given the task of composing for the feature. Critic | wrote that while McCarthy's score was "tasked with straddling the styles o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Conrad | #An Outcast of the Islands by | (1857–1924) |
| Dolly Parton | ... ppeared to be completely arbitrary, one raid famously netting a copy of the | musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) under the mistaken beli ... |
| Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
| Jack Mendelsohn | Laugh-In writers included: George Schlatter, | , Lorne Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim ... |
| Rupert Hughes | ... n, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by | . It was directed by Alfred Santell |
| Ed Harris | ... tars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and | . The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes t ... |
| John Conroy Hutcheson | #The Penang Pirate by | (1840–1897) |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
| James Mackintosh | ... n classics, philosophy and mathematics. He there formed the acquaintance of | , who, though a year younger, was a year his senior as a student. While th ... |
| Ernoul | ... ld French Continuation of William of Tyre (parts of which are attributed to | ), and by Ambroise, Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, and Giraldus Cambren ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Serafinowicz | ... sion of the theme tune. Celebrated attendees included actor/writer/composer | and satirist/writer/broadcaster Victor Lewis-Smith. Multiple cameras recor ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Flip Wilson | ... ason on the show into the title role of the police drama Get Christie Love! | took Geraldine and his other characters to his own variety show from 1970 ... |
| Ronsard | ... was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devotion to | but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle Philippe Des ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mos Def | East Coast hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, | , Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known f ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of | . The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ... |
| Horace | ... ucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are | and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire. Other im ... |
| Martin Niemöller | Lutheran pastor and theologian | , founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, ... |
| Buffon | ... 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, | , Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish ... |
| James Berardinelli | | of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: "D ... |
| Melissa Mathison | The film is adapted by | , Jeanne Rosenberg and William D. Wittliff. It is directed by Carroll Ball ... |
| Clemens Brentano | ... ater became a center of German romanticism, where writers and poets such as | , Achim von Arnim, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff met regularly in li ... |
| Howard Estabrook | ... Davis nominated. This prompted an announcement from the Academy president, | , who said that under the circumstances "any voter ... may write on the ba ... |
| Lorenzo Valla | ... papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. The 15th century philologist | proved the document was indeed a forgery |
| James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
| Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... om he grew up watching on I Love Lucy re-runs. He is a self-described "huge | fan", devoting an entire room in his Jackson, Mississippi, estate to Seuss ... |
| Alan Plater | ... as featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by | : The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), and The Bei ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Her film debut was a small part in | 's 1982 film One from the Heart. Soon thereafter came her star-making role ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of | . Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ... |
| Orson Welles | ... y of the Red Lectroids to Earth in an incident that was reported in 1938 by | in his radio broadcast The War of the Worlds, only to have it retracted as ... |
| Pierre de Ronsard | ... tion, was a sober correction to the luxuriant importation and innovation of | and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux begin ... |
| Kyle Baker | ... their 1990 film. This miniseries, True Hearts and Tommy Guns, was drawn by | and edited by Len Wein. The third issue was a direct adaptation of the fil ... |
| Tommy Steele | ... tish rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and | . During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant, however, in ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. | , in his book on existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, quoted Dosto ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and | |
| Jien | ... scovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. | records that Suinin was the third son of Emperor Sujin, and that he ruled ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, George Bernard Shaw faces | |
| Pliny | ... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to | 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ... |
| Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder | ... lieb von Hippel the Younger (1775–1843), the son of a pastor, and nephew of | , the well-known writer friend of Immanuel Kant. During 1792, both attende ... |
| 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 ... |
| LL Cool J | ... hree, and later, in the golden age of hip hop, Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D, and | would continue this tradition |
| John Stuart Mill | ... e Baconian method was further developed and promoted by English philosopher | . His 1843 book, A System of Logic, was an effort to shed further light on ... |
| La Pléiade | ... ection to the luxuriant importation and innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and | , but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Mal ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... Emperor Otto III and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet | . The 15th century philologist Lorenzo Valla proved the document was indee ... |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | ... , nature, and Germanic myths. The later German Romanticism of, for example, | 's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff's ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... read as to suggest a very ancient origin of the practice. See, for example, | 's map in his The Historical Atlas of World Mythology [Vol I: The Way of t ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Bob Dylan | American singer/songwriter | refers to Rainey in the song "Tombstone Blues" on his 1965 album, Highway ... |
| Thomas Friedman | ... n Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists | and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter an ... |
| Shonda Rhimes | ... hel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy | , film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel ("The Oscars"), VP of Fox ... |
| Henry of Huntingdon | ... ons regarded Constantine as a king of their own people. In the 12th century | included a passage in his Historia Anglorum that Constantine's mother Hele ... |
| Philippe Desportes | ... on to Ronsard but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle | , whom the Norman poet had at first distinctly plagiarized |
| 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 ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Sidney Lumet | ... , Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) and in 1993, starred as a defense lawyer in | 's murder drama Guilty as Sin |
| Plato | In | 's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, Aristophanes relates a cr ... |
| Livy | ... ression, and of greater positive value. It consists of some translations of | and Seneca, and of a very large number of interesting and admirably writte ... |
| Nas | ... hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, | , The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known for their sociopolitical s ... |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by | beginning Enfin Malherbe vint ("Finally Malherbe arrived") are rendered on ... |
| Jeffrey Kluger | ... daptation of the book by astronaut Jim Lovell (the story's protagonist) and | . Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, emp ... |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... ism, where writers and poets such as Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, and | met regularly in literary circles |
| Peter Jackson | ... and "Aníron" (in Sindarin)—the latter two, which she composed, appearing in | 's movie and its soundtrack album. "May It Be" was nominated for the Acade ... |
| John Huston | The Battle of San Pietro is a 1945 documentary film directed by | about the Battle of San Pietro Infine during World War II. It was shot by ... |
| Amole Gupte | ... film was initially conceived of and developed by the husband and wife team, | and Deepa Bhatia. It was a story of a young child who suffers in school un ... |
| Aspasia | ... the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in Glory and the Lightning (1974), | , mistress of the Athenian leader Pericles |
| Eddie Campbell | Both | and Grant Morrison have utilised the character. Morrison claims that the m ... |
| George Weigel | ... n The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church, | claims that it was the infidelity to orthodox Roman Catholic teaching, the ... |
| Roger Vadim | ... iller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. She also appeared in a 1988 remake of | 's provocative And God Created Woman, Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) and in ... |
| Gustave Flaubert | ... st Kathryn Harrison argues is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of | 's Madame Bovary (1856). In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the d ... |
| Marcel Lefebvre | ... sia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop | who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his ... |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
| Michael Radford | ... i came to international fame through the success of Il Postino, directed by | . Troisi died in 1994 of a heart attack in his sister's house in Ostia (Ro ... |
| Mathurin Régnier | ... theory and practice is excellently described by his contemporary and rival | , who was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devot ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Dean DeBlois | ... Disney Animated Classics, it was written and directed by Chris Sanders and | , and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Og ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to | 's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ... |
| Lucien Carr | ... ower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, | , Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thom ... |
| Dylan Moran | ... l stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, | , Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
| George Washington | Robert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by | , but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ... |
| Persius | ... e Roman Empire. Other important satirists in ancient Latin are Lucilius and | . Satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, ... |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... of, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and | 's Das Marmorbild (The Marble Statue), 1819, was darker in its motifs and ... |
| Sam Hall | ... ture film titled House of Dark Shadows in 1970. Dan Curtis directed it, and | and Gordon Russell wrote the screenplay. Many cast members from the soap o ... |
| Luigi Tansillo | ... n of his life during this period. His Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from | , appeared in 1587 |
| David Bronstein | ... sia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and | in 1960 in which Spassky ("Kronsteen") was victorious |
| Sidney Poitier | In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and | , Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural con ... |
| Bruce Hoffman | Security analyst | wrote of the bombing in his book Inside Terrorism that |
| Roger Grimsby | For sixteen years starting in 1970, | and Bill Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... s a theologian and historian of Protestantism; the astronomer and physician | was a priest |
| 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 ... |
| Cotton Mather | In 1718, | contacted Yale and asked for his help. Mather represented a small institut ... |
| Bede Griffiths | ... for the Semi-Arid Tropics. For a year and a half he lived in the ashram of | , where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life |
| Richard Dawkins | ... brain size, and in particular the development of theory of mind abilities. | in The God Delusion suggested that our morality is a result of our biologi ... |
| John Ralston Saul | ... ose made using the verb "to be". This is desirable according to philosopher | who claims that a state of "permanent psychological discomfort" can serve ... |
| Jess Stearn | ... d in reincarnation. She had become friends with well-known occultist author | , who suggested that the vivid detail in her many historical novels was ac ... |
| 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 ... |
| Euripides | ... able, for example, to that of Jason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or | ' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Or ... |
| Al Pacino | ... rred as the title character in a live action all-star cast film, along with | , Dustin Hoffman and Madonna |
| Spike Milligan | ... d many successful and influential stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, | , Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlo ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title was inspired by | 's , which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The P ... |
| Xenophon | The Greek general | records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ... |
| Zarathustra | ... of Bactria (which later became Balkh), is believed to have been the home of | , who founded the Zoroastrian religion. The Avesta refers to eastern Bactr ... |
| Thomas Campbell | ... t bequests to Southey (who would later write Telford’s biography), the poet | (1777–1844) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (to which ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." | , "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics" |
| Sidney Howard | ... y Samuel Goldwyn and directed by F. Richard Jones, the movie was adapted by | and Wallace Smith from the pulp novels by Herman C. McNeile. It was nomina ... |
| W. D. Richter | In 1974, | 's wife read a review of Dirty Pictures from the Prom, the debut novel fro ... |
| Hipponax | ... eiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th century BC poet | wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves |
| Walt Disney | ... tral myths explored in the 2011 Weaponized anthology The Immanence of Myth. | has depicted the character on a number of occasions. The first such portra ... |
| Ashutosh Gowariker | ... or Most Popular Film, an award shared between Khan and the film's director, | . Khan later commented on the loss of Lagaan at the Oscars: "Certainly we ... |
| Ardal O'Hanlon | ... Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, | , Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
| Ron Rosenbaum | Journalist | , in his book , found that the phrase "final solution" had been used much ... |
| Ludwig Beck | General | of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination at ... |
| Rachel Dratch | ... ps, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, | , a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda R ... |
| James Q. Wilson | The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists | and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both ... |
| Theodor Herzl | The Hungarian-Jewish journalist | had been assigned to report on the trial and its aftermath. Soon afterward ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums. | announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ... |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... of the Rodeo" and "He Really Loves You". In response both to televangelist | 's June 1987 book Religious Rock 'N' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, whi ... |
| Bruce Wagner | ... 002, which union produced two daughters. She had previously been married to | |
| Jimmy Akin | ... ry was said.Director of Apologetics and Evangelization for Catholic Answers | also pointed out, "Back in 1996 the CDF did not have a mandate to handle c ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | The whodunit Five Red Herrings by | involves the artistic community of Kirkcudbright. In 1975, the book was ma ... |
| Robert Baird | He was a son of | (1798–1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the Uni ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | Star Trek creator | had worked with Kelley on previous television pilots, and Kelley was Rodde ... |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... important literary author also important to existentialism was the Russian | . Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground portrays a man unable to fit into s ... |
| Ovid | ... ason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in | 's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Orion, but that is one versi ... |
| Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... Coast counterparts include Emcee Lynx, The Coup, Paris, and Michael Franti. | was also known for rapping about social issues such as police brutality, t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Rollins | In 1990, Bad Brains backed longtime friend, fan, and protege | on a cover version of The MC5's "Kick out the Jams". The recording appears ... |
| Brit Hume | ... Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, | , Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Coll ... |
| Jean Paul | ... Germany. He had however read Schiller, Goethe, Swift, Sterne, Rousseau, and | , and wrote part of a novel called Der Geheimnisvolle |
| Jo Benkow | ... nfarction. An interview given by King Harald V, and hints in a biography by | , who was the president of the parliament in that time, mention the possib ... |
| Plato | Such practices are presumably very ancient. | wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak" ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... ted to Paris on the outbreak of World War II. Thanks to the intercession of | and other friends, including the journalist Varian Fry, he was discharged ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
| Euell Gibbons | ... ific Coast of North America, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus was praised by | ; Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is also eaten |
| 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 ... |
| David Langford | Hugo-winning science fiction critic | observed in a column: "(…The Handmaid's Tale, won the very first Arthur C. ... |
| Al-Jahiz | ... Satire was introduced into Arabic prose literature by the Afro-Arab author | in the 9th century. While dealing with serious topics in what are now know ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... , news executives, novelists and high government officials. Among them were | , David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core me ... |
| Malcolm Marmorstein | ... played by more than one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included | , Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles |
| Lev Kuleshov | | was among the very first to theorize about the relatively young medium of ... |
| George Orwell | ... nd with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after | 's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ord ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Austin | The home of author | , the author of "The Land of Little Rain", is preserved as a museum locate ... |
| Megan McArdle | Atlantic Monthly columnist | has argued that if the act was "part of the problem, it would be the comme ... |
| Herodotus | ... possible to arrive at this conclusion. Maka is mentioned by Greek historian | as one of the early satraps of Cyrus the Great, who successfully united se ... |
| Jonathan Meades | In literature, Portsmouth is the chief location for | ' novel Pompey, in which it is inhabited largely by vile, corrupt, flawed ... |
| Aristotle | ... 0), or 'New Method', and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in | 's Organon. This method was influential upon the development of scientific ... |
| John Foxe | ... the Haven. Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of | , the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
| Morgagni | ... animals). His very innovative work may be viewed as sitting between that of | whose work Virchow studied, and that of Paul Ehrlich, who studied at the C ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up). | , a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after | 's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where ... |
| Gordon Russell | ... . Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, | , and Violet Welles |
| Brothers Grimm | ... folk tales, in 1806–08. The first collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales by the | was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of Hans Christian Anders ... |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | ... onomy is a contested issue. Socialists including Karl Marx, Robert Owen and | advocated various forms of labour vouchers or labour-credits, which like m ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
| 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 ... |
| W. Somerset Maugham | ... n the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage (1934), a film adaptation of | 's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. Many actresses fe ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
| Ramsey Campbell | ... ki first appeared in "The Inhabitant of the Lake" (1964), an early story by | |
| Edwin Newman | ... high government officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, | , Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's fa ... |
| Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
| John Lennon | ... to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by | in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s. It has been in t ... |
| Gerhard Weinberg | ... Cold War, this could had helped cause World War III. The American historian | wrote that the explusions of the Sudeten Germans was justified as the Germ ... |
| Johnny Mercer | ... r discussed "That Old Black Magic" which was just emerging as a new song by | and Harold Arlen. Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and st ... |
| Damon Knight | ... professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by | under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the ... |
| Leonora Carrington | ... and flee to America with the help of Guggenheim. He left behind his lover, | , and she suffered a major mental breakdown. Ernst and Guggenheim arrived ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... Munster in the 1560s and 1570s, actions which earned the praise of the poet | in his A View of the Present State of Ireland in 1596 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | ... ist, discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. A few years earlier, | , the American physician, poet and essayist, noted that sepsis in women fo ... |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | ... 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, | , author of The Woman Warrior; and Terry Tempest Williams, author of An Un ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... and were married the following year. Along with other artists and friends ( | and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Er ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... in Ireland. Much of the entire province of Munster was laid waste. The poet | left an account of it |
| Terry Tempest Williams | ... q War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior; and | , author of An Unspoken Hunger; were arrested along with 24 others for cro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patrick O'Brian | In | 's Aubrey-Maturin series, Portsmouth is most often the port from which Cap ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... al; members of the audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but | , Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A sel ... |
| Pope Pius II | ... do Pandolfo Malatesta, duke of Rimini, who was later defeated. As a result, | gave San Marino some castles and the towns of Fiorentino, Montegiardino an ... |
| Miranda Devine | Conservative commentators such as | categorised the crimes as racially motivated hate crimes The Sydney Mornin ... |
| Burt Shevelove | ... acter of Aristophanes' play The Frogs, later updated to a modern version by | (libretto) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) ("The time is the prese ... |
| Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Born in London, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of | . From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at ... |
| Dayo Wong | A famous stand-up comedian in Hong Kong is | Tze-Wah, who first started stand-up comedy in Hong Kong in early 1990s |
| Isaac Newton | ... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and | in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ... |
| Tim Burton | Directors | and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they ar ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | ... by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of | , who was publishing his invented tales in Danish from 1835, these German ... |
| Lev Kuleshov | Sometime around 1918, Russian director | did an experiment that proves this point. (See Kuleshov Experiment) He too ... |
| Averroes | ... sophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and | . Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramat ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... y the Barratt Band, recorded songs for Before and After, a tribute album of | covers scheduled to be released in 1982 to celebrate the 20th anniversary ... |
| Neil Shubin | ... fusion is apparent for the non-specialist in the book "Your Inner Fish", by | , who describes the origin of teeth in chapter 4. In this chapter, the aut ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... e Frogs, later updated to a modern version by Burt Shevelove (libretto) and | (music and lyrics) ("The time is the present. The place is ancient Greece. ... |
| D. C. Fontana | ... "abrasive sand" Kelley used in creating McCoy's demeanor. Star Trek writer | said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist | has also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ... |
| Aristophanes | In Plato's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, | relates a creation myth involving three original sexes: female, male and a ... |
| August Wilson | The 1982 | play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom took its title from her song of the same nam ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... our fallacies are sometimes compared to a similar list in the first part of | 's Opus Majus which, although it was much older, had not been printed in B ... |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... priests. former U.S. Senator said the same thing:Santorum also agreed with | summary that it was "no surprise that the center of the Catholic Church ab ... |
| Émile Zola | ... al achievements who took positions on grounds of higher principle – such as | , novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poinca ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
| Cy Endfield | ... ton and Norman Wooland. He then played a rogue lorry driver Johnny Yates in | 's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins ... |
| Melody Maker | ... revered in popular music history, some initial critical reaction was poor. | said that Queen "contrived to approximate the demented fury of the Balham ... |
| William Shatner | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, | and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captai ... |
| Judd Winick | ... veloped romantic relationships with their castmates. roommates Pam Ling and | have since married, as have their roommate Rachel Campos and Sean Duffy of ... |
| Robert Altman | ... Actress Oscar in 1975 for Nashville). Henry Gibson later co-starred in the | film Nashville and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Ruth Buzzi became a r ... |
| Anatole France | ... unds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and | , mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, lib ... |
| John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... o 2001, the company also published the magazine George which was founded by | |
| James I | ... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown. | on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ... |
| Thomas Browne | The English physician Sir | (1605–82) was one of the earliest scientists to adhere to the scientific e ... |
| Octave Mirbeau | ... ok positions on grounds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists | and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, an ... |
| Art Wallace | ... . The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by | , does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in dayt ... |
| Galen | ... ology, such as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from | to Harvey. The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th cen ... |
| Richard Crossman | ... . No remorse was expressed for the largest group of victims, the Arab dead. | , a British Labour Party MP, whose experience on the Anglo-American Commit ... |
| Helen Thomas | ... a, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, | , resigned her position, after working for UPI 57 years |
| Todd McCaffrey | According to | , the organization immediately "acquired great status in its efforts to he ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... he film features music by Carmine Coppola, the father of Hollywood producer | , who was the executive producer of the film |
| Pope John Paul II | ... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted by | on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a |
| François Maynard | Malherbe's two most important disciples were | and Racan; Claude Favre de Vaugelas is credited with having purified Frenc ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... p of poets now considered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much ... |
| Euripides | ... n the world will fix all nature of earthly problems. In Aristophanes' play, | competes against Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondhei ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
| Heberto Padilla | ... the so-called 'Padilla Affair', when the Castro regime imprisoned the poet | for a month in 1971. Vargas Llosa, along with other intellectuals of the t ... |
| Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, | and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, incl ... |
| Johnny Cash | Austin got her start in music opening for | in Australia at the age of 14. She later moved to the United States where ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, William Shatner and | manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. | was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ... |
| 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" ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... dered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, foll ... |
| Ubayd Zakani | ... he term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature. | introduced satire in Persian literature during the 14th century. His work ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, | faces William Shakespeare |
| Tertullian | ... masculated man, or a metaphor for chastity. The early Christian theologian, | , wrote that Jesus himself was a eunuch (c. 200 AD). Tertullian also noted ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... w's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and shortened by | with a live orchestral score composed by his father Carmine Coppola |
| John Keats | ... the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, followed later b ... |
| Man Ray | ... and in Beverly Hills, California in October 1946, in a double ceremony with | and Juliet P. Browner, he married Dorothea Tanning. The couple first made ... |
| Carlo Gozzi | ... g Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, | , and Calderon. These relatively late introductions marked his work profou ... |
| Brian Helgeland | In the film's actor/director DVD commentary, | , co-commentating with Paul Bettany, states that the film was intended to ... |
| Lisa Tuttle | In 1982, | withdrew her short story "The Bone Flute" from the final Nebula ballot, to ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | He moved in the circles of | , Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and Da ... |
| Octavio Paz | A month after losing the election, at the invitation of | , Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ... |
| Narai | ... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King | (1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, | , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
| John Landis | ... created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, | , David Peckinpah, Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive produce ... |
| Leibniz | ... e to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yet | and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the ... |
| Margaret Atwood | The Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of the | dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| Václav Havel | ... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with | on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ... |
| 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 ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, | , and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... a Feelin', which produced another single in its lead-off single, a cover of | 's "Jolene" |
| Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Adelbert von Chamisso, | , Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
| Melody Maker | The first host was Richard Williams, features editor of | , the music weekly. From 1972, the programme was presented by DJ Bob Harri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
| Immanuel Velikovsky | Famous examples of exoheretics are psychiatrist and psychoanalyst | , Erich von Däniken, linguist and language teacher Charles Berlitz, Johann ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lily Tomlin | ... Owens was not in the 1967 pilot and Buzzi missed two first-season episodes. | and Goldie Hawn later became noted film stars (Hawn won an Academy Award w ... |
| Roberto Orci | For the 2009 reboot film Star Trek, writers | and Alex Kurtzman saw McCoy as an "arbiter" in Kirk and Spock's relationsh ... |
| David Peckinpah | ... obert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, | , Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive producers at different t ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... tural movement, mainly through the public prominence of two French writers, | and Albert Camus, who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read jou ... |
| Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
| Eduard Gufeld | ... Fribourg 1987. He finished equal first at Wellington 1988 with Chandler and | . Spassky maintained a top ten world ranking into the mid-1980s |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... lice thriller film entitled One False Move, starring actors Bill Paxton and | , and written by Thornton. However, only some filming was reportedly done ... |
| 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 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing with | pointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... on area, with a focus on the region's parakeets, in an episode presented by | |
| Penelope Spheeris | ... 2 as part of the soundtrack to the film Wayne's World. The film's director, | , was hesitant to use the song, as it did not entirely fit with the lead c ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Blake | ... muel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older | , followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare. The publication in ... |
| Peter Schamoni | Max Ernst's life and career are the subject of | 's 1991 documentary Max Ernst. Dedicated to the art historian Werner Spies ... |
| Charles Berlitz | ... alyst Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich von Däniken, linguist and language teacher | , Johannes Lang, inventor an |
| Tacitus | ... on Lapponicum as "Fenn". The first known historical mention of Fenni was by | , about 98 CE. The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came ... |
| Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Eisenman | ... s a means of communicating with a broader public. Other architects, such as | of the New York Five advocated the pursuit of form for the sake of form an ... |
| LL Cool J | Eric Roberts, Joyce Van Patten, Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, | , Rick Fox, Dana Ivey and Peter Criss have made appearances on the show |
| Aisha Tyler | ... Office), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, | of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie ... |
| Alex Kurtzman | For the 2009 reboot film Star Trek, writers Roberto Orci and | saw McCoy as an "arbiter" in Kirk and Spock's relationship. While Spock re ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... . Examples include swing era players such as Jimmy Blanton, who played with | , and Oscar Pettiford, who pioneered the instrument's use in bebop. Paul C ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... g, feeling human being incarnate — embodied — in a concrete world. Although | adopted the term "existentialism" for his own philosophy in the 1940s, Mar ... |
| Garry Kasparov | ... te fields. At Belfort WC 1988, he scored 8/15 for a joint 4th–7th place, as | won. At Reykjavík WC 1988, he scored 7/17 for a joint 15th–16th place, wit ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | Directors Tim Burton and | , and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. ... |
| John Wycliffe | ... written with Edward Hannes, a confutation of Antoine Varillas's account of | . He had already made some translations from the French language, and writ ... |
| John Clare | ... and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of | . The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poem ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President | , who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception ... |
| George Arliss | ... ths, and six unsuccessful films, Laemmle elected not to renew her contract. | chose Davis for the lead female role in The Man Who Played God (1932), and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zacharias Werner | ... the same atmosphere he had enjoyed in Berlin, renewing his friendship with | , and meeting his future biographer, a neighbour and fellow jurist called ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... inger Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, | was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him. He has col ... |
| John Calvin | ... as the sacramental union. The Reformed churches, following the teachings of | , believe in an immaterial, spiritual (or "pneumatic") presence of Christ ... |
| Saxo Grammaticus | ... the Norse language, but it may have been introduced by the Danish historian | to distinguish between Fish-Fennians (coastal tribes) and Lap-Fennians (fo ... |
| Einhard | ... the Frankish kingdom. The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by | , the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometim ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... he following year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and | ) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspi ... |
| Otis Ferguson | The New Republic critic | wrote two short articles for the magazine, "Young Man with a Horn" (July 2 ... |
| Tycho Brahe | ... his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in | 's sky atlas. Unwilling to risk his reputation by releasing unverified dat ... |
| Novalis | ... rlin literary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of | , Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von S ... |
| Sir Francis Bacon | The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by | . The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New ... |
| Jon Anderson | ... score, which included pop songs by Freddy Mercury of Queen, Pat Benatar and | of Yes was controversial, the door had been opened for a new approach to p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig Tieck | ... rary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, | , Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo ... |
| Isaac D'Israeli | ... e married Sarah Siprut de Gabay Villareal, on 28 May 1765. Their only child | was born the next year, on 11 May 1766 |
| Brent Butt | ... Green, Jeremy Hotz, Angelo Tsarouchas, Dave Foley, Jon Dore, Jay Sankey and | all began doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Canada |
| Francesco Redi | ... eved, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat | ;carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | In | 's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under | and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... tter dated July 25, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee wrote to American President | : "I am sure you will agree that the inhuman crime committed in Jerusalem ... |
| Chris Noonan | Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by | . It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: ... |
| Ashutosh Gowariker | ... December 2005, Khan married Kiran Rao who had been an assistant director to | during the filming of Lagaan. Khan is a follower of spiritual leader J. P. ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712, | , then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ... |
| Clemens Brentano | ... , and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, | , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo Gozzi, and Calderon. These relativ ... |
| Seneca | ... neration Scaliger prized Virgil above Homer. His praise of the tragedies of | over those of the Greeks influenced both Shakespeare and Pierre Corneille |
| C. Rajagopalachari | ... ence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including | , Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- wh ... |
| James Doohan | ... lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death | ;as Montgomery Scott says "He's dead already" instead. The line has entere ... |
| Art Wallace | ... Network officials greenlit production and Curtis began hiring crew members. | was hired to create a story from Curtis’s dream sequence. Wallace wrote th ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Waters | ... he 2005 documentary film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (narrated by | ) features Bono and documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beac ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... on of Indians from within the Congress Party, including C. Rajagopalachari, | , Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- who would later on c ... |
| Jerome Cardan | ... n the De plantis attributed to Aristotle, and in 1557 his Exercitationes on | 's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on Theophrast ... |
| Seymour Hicks | ... irely on quality productions. He began to make more expensive films such as | 's Scrooge (1935) and Spy of Napoleon which he hoped to gain both a nation ... |
| Orson Welles | On his death, fellow director and friend | wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, "Jean Renoir: The Greatest of ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... pts to submit it to the Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of | 's Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it ... |
| Dick King-Smith | ... The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by | and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog. The main animal c ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... Cesi (1585–1630) who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed | as its president. The current president is the microbiologist Werner Arber ... |
| Mindy Kaling | ... ble film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), | (The Office), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose P ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Two major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were | and François Rabelais. Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till E ... |
| Tracy Tormé | ... n different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and | . Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, David Peckinpah, Bill Dial a ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
| John Huston | Bradbury was hired in 1953 by director | to work on the screenplay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfull ... |
| Alastair Reynolds | The main antagonists in the 2004 novel Century Rain, by | – The Slashers – are named after Slashdot users |
| 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 ... |
| Rich Hall | ... of theatre sized shows with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, | , Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
| Pope John Paul II | With the changes in the canonization process introduced by | in 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ... |
| Albert Boadella | ... Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, Álvaro Pombo, | and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, both journalism and ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
| Brel, Jacques | ... raine-le-Comte - Brakel - Brasschaat - Brecht - Bredene - Bree - Bree BBC - | - Brepols - Brepols, Philippus Jacobus - Brueghel, Pieter the Elder - Brug ... |
| Diderot | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, | , and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputati ... |
| Anatole France | ... ench society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as | , Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Flexner | At the urging of | , who had done pioneering studies of medical education, and University of ... |
| Wang Fu | ... ng (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and | (78–163 CE) questioned whether human nature was innately good or evil and ... |
| Zoltán Ribli | ... orchnoi. At Reggio Emilia 1986, he tied for 2nd–5th places with 6/11 behind | . He swept Fernand Gobet 4–0 in a match at Fribourg 1987. He finished equa ... |
| Gaius Julius Hyginus | ... e name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, Eratosthenes, or | , what survives is either an ancient forgery or an abridgement of the orig ... |
| Robert Frost | ... e farms by Walter Hendricks, for returning World War II veterans, with poet | as its first trustee. The , founded in 1951, is headquartered on the campu ... |
| Walt Disney | ... The idea was inspired by the production of Dumbo, an economically-made 1941 | film produced in the wake of the more expensive Pinocchio and Fantasia. Ch ... |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
| Terence Young | Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director | , polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the ... |
| John Lennon | ... g task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of | (who had himself appeared on the show in 1975). This particular episode co ... |
| Ardal O'Hanlon | ... has since seen the presentation of theatre sized shows with comics such as | , Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
| Álvaro Pombo | ... r in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, | , Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, bo ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... ing work bears the name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, | , or Gaius Julius Hyginus, what survives is either an ancient forgery or a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Bob Fosse | ... uerile preference for ingenues". Carpenter's article served as the basis of | 's film (1983), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... ves—sponsored by Congressman Charles Schumer and cosponsored by John Lewis, | , and Jerry Lewis, as well as 220 other Congressmen—to posthumously bestow ... |
| Judith Butler | Theorists including Calvin Thomas and | have suggested that homophobia can be rooted in an individual's fear of be ... |
| Tom Stoppard | ... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence. | 's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ... |
| M. H. Abrams | ... and few dates much earlier than 1770 will be found. In English literature, | placed it between 1789, or 1798, this latter a very typical view, and abou ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yang Xiong | ... texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by | (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and W ... |
| Gabriel Byrne | ... ichael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and | . The best known theatres include the Gaiety, Abbey, Olympia, Gate, and Gr ... |
| Victor Hugo | As described in | 's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the medieval French referred to the ... |
| Descartes | | was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Morgan | ... time watching Gleason more than once, because Miller would start laughing. | appears as Cully Anderson, the unrequited love interest of Ann Rutherford' ... |
| Tracy Tormé | ... e network-enforced relinquishment of day-to-day creative control by creator | ), episodes became far more action-oriented, going so far as to devolve in ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist | had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnet ... |
| Gary Hart | ... n and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and | attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, and several year ... |
| Herodotus | Hecataeus of Miletus believed the earth was flat and surrounded by water. | in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... distinguishing himself as a soldier and as a captain. He studied art under | |
| Margaret Drabble | ... tween different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. | described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848" ... |
| Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Zheng He | ... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral | had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... w York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, Herman Klein, and | , castigated a succession of visiting Mediterranean tenors for resorting t ... |
| Claude Henri de Saint-Simon | ... s members of society who desire a more rational, efficient economic system. | , and later evolutionary economist Thorstein Veblen, believed that sociali ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... terling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, | , Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritsc ... |
| Harry Essex | ... brought Bradbury to movie theaters in 1953 with It Came from Outer Space, a | screenplay developed from Bradbury's screen treatment "Atomic Monster". Th ... |
| Arthur Frommer | In October 2009, | 's Budget Travel Magazine listed Cayucos as one of the "Coolest Small Town ... |
| Robert Osborne | ... affinity for makeup and often played characters much older. Film historian | notes that his makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
| Bill Gates | ... ft CEO Steve Ballmer's chair-throwing incident from 2005. Microsoft founder | is a popular target of jokes by Slashdotters, and all stories about Micros ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Daniel Speer | ... ata à 7 for two cornetts, two trumpets, three trombones and basso continuo. | published a four part sonata in Neu-gebachene Taffel-Schnitz (1685). In 16 ... |
| Joanna Russ | ... exts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), | ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) an |
| Montesquieu | ... ng (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especially | and Cesare Beccaria |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of | at its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ... |
| Sinclair Lewis | ... otege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, | , Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Kei ... |
| Upton Sinclair | ... Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, | , Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Will ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... f social constructs in understanding gender. Notable texts of this kind are | 's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), O ... |
| Sterling Hayden | It starred | and Huston's personal friend, Sam Jaffe. It also became the first serious ... |
| R. J. Rummel | or as ethnic cleansing. | has classified these events as democide |
| Herman Klein | ... , for instance, New York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, | , and George Bernard Shaw, castigated a succession of visiting Mediterrane ... |
| Aaron Hill | ... eare. Shakespeare's play returned to the stage in 1723, in an adaptation by | |
| Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
| Frankie Boyle | ... s with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, | , and |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... eat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by | against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Expedition of the Thousand |
| John Calvin | ... re of intellectual influence from the Continent, including the teachings of | that became known as Calvinism. This, in turn, revolutionised the Christia ... |
| Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
| Jean Anouilh | ... he implications, and muse on the irrationality and randomness of the world. | 's Antigone also presents arguments founded on existentialist ideas. It is ... |
| Walt Disney | ... s that brought in record audiences was Disneyland, produced by and starring | ...the beginning of a relationship between the studio and the network whic ... |
| Dean DeBlois | | , who had co-written Mulan (1998) with Sanders, was brought on to co-write ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege | , Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney ... |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | ... a satirical fictional character invented and performed by English comedian | . Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, as the title ch ... |
| 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, ... |
| Murray Chandler | ... ond. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with John Nunn and | , on 7/9. He won at Reykjavík 1985. At Brussels 1985, he placed second wit ... |
| David Ackert | ... so features Shaun Toub as her father, Shohreh Aghdashloo as her mother, and | as her cousin, Ali, who becomes an Islamic fundamentalist |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... y Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, | , Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand ... |
| d'Alembert | ... te comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot, and | —all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputation in their writ ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Aikin | deathbed by a noted physician, Dr. | , who happened to be his neighbour |
| Bulleh Shah | ... in is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, | , Mian Muhammad Bakhsh and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mir ... |
| George Sterling | ... ists who lived in or frequented the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, | and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robins ... |
| Mark Ellen | In the early 1980s, Andy Kershaw, David Hepworth, | and Richard Skinner also took turns as presenters. The same four presenter ... |
| Schiller | ... ed-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above it is a quotation by | in stylized lettering, "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and ... |
| William Wyler | ... n ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the director | , who loudly commented to the assembled crew, "What do you think of these ... |
| Bapsi Sidhwa | ... , as to which Mountbatten was the principal informant, and more latterly in | 's novel Ice Candy Man (published in the United States as Cracking India), ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... dian film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, Furtado lent her vocals for the | gospel cover "The Seeker" featured during the credits of the film. Furtado ... |
| encyclopedists | ... and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French | who later cemented her reputation in their writings. The leading economist ... |
| Subramanya Bharathi | ... , Mahars in Maharashtra, and Sikhs in Punjab. However, people like Mahakavi | , Vanchinathan and Neelakanda Brahmachari played a major role from Tamil N ... |
| Mian Muhammad Bakhsh | ... or his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, Bulleh Shah, | and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mirza Kalich Beg has been ... |
| Ben Hecht | ... so became one of Hollywood's first major gangster films, and was written by | , a leading screenwriter. The film, notes critic Richard Corliss, while a ... |
| Ray Bradbury | ... 1953); and Beat the Devil (1953). Moby Dick (1956), however, was written by | , although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the co ... |
| William Wyler | ... friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director | and screenwriter Philip Dunne, established the "Committee for the First Am ... |
| Pierre Corneille | ... ragedies of Seneca over those of the Greeks influenced both Shakespeare and | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | | wrote No Exit in 1944, an existentialist play originally published in Fren ... |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as Andrea Dworkin and | made alliances with the religious right. This critique was adopted and mad ... |
| Quintus Smyrnaeus | ... d of Achilles with the encircling ocean is also found repeated far later in | ’ Posthomerica (4th century AD) which continues the narration of the Troja ... |
| Eric Idle | ... parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring | as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Spro ... |
| Aristophanes | ... ea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, Mimnermus, | , and Apollonius Rhodius |
| Nikos Engonopoulos | ... kopoulos (El Greco), Panagiotis Doxaras, Nikolaos Gyzis, Yannis Tsarouchis, | , Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, so ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... and his stables housed the horses of President McKinley and Vice President | . Produce from his farm was transported to Georgetown where it became part ... |
| Andrea Dworkin | ... that they favoured censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as | and Catharine MacKinnon made alliances with the religious right. This crit ... |
| Francis Scott Key | ... ed for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for | 's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Many slaves escaped to the Briti ... |
| Virgil | ... history of literary criticism. Like many of his generation Scaliger prized | above Homer. His praise of the tragedies of Seneca over those of the Greek ... |
| Charles Bukowski | ... works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and | , and one often finds in their works a delicate balance between distastefu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Lederer | ... the alleged Ince murder by Welles, who in turn said he heard it from writer | |
| Mimnermus | ... aiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, | , Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
| Stasinus | ... earth-encircling (gaiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in | of Cyprus, Mimnermus, Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
| 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 ... |
| John McCain | ... nt in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, George W. Bush and | swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 percent of the sta ... |
| E. O. Wilson | ... Council (NRC). It first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist | used it as the title of the proceedings of that forum |
| Khatir Afridi | ... th century, Pakhto or Pashto has produced some great poets like Ghani Khan, | and Amir Hamza Shinwari. There are also many Pakistani's from the adjacent ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader | and his liberal outlook for the country. He felt differently about the Mus ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to | , whose identification of Dionysus with Christ is most explicit in Brod un ... |
| Crispin Glover | ... artmann permeate the works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, | , and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds in their works a delicate bala ... |
| Marie Stopes | ... started in the 1910s in the U.S. under Margaret Sanger and elsewhere under | . In the final three decades of the 20th century, Western women knew a new ... |
| Hesiod | Both Homer and | described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V is a history play by | , believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cr ... |
| C. S. Forester | ... n was already in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951), a story based on | 's popular novel. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in a co ... |
| Brian Epstein | ... oined her and tried to kiss her until she (in her words) "pushed him away". | 's personal assistant, Peter Brown, maintains that Cynthia did sleep with ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people. | , the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ... |
| Buddhaghosa | ... s well as other Sanskrit scriptures. Leonard Zwilling refers extensively to | 's Samantapasadika, where pandaka are described as being filled with defil ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... f the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor election, | won over 72% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides won nea ... |
| Chuck Palahniuk | ... lles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists such as | , David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope Innocent III | Historian Geoffrey Hindley's The Crusades mentions that in 1202 | forbade the Crusaders of Western Christendom from committing any atrocious ... |
| Mark Pattison | ... ve volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547; of these, a friendly critic, | , is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, "par ... |
| Maurice Schwartz | He was quickly recognized by | , who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and P ... |
| David Gordon | In 2004, post-modern choreographer | created a dance-theatre version of the play called Dancing Henry Five, whi ... |
| Rahman Baba | ... r Pashto spoken in the southern areas. Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) and | (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the Pashto language. In the last ... |
| Hal David | ... Live Stiffs album, notable for Costello's recording of the Burt Bacharach/ | standard "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" – the band recorded Th ... |
| John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
| John Murray Anderson | ... cribed her attitude as "insincere" and "frivolous". She was accepted by the | School of Theatre, and studied dance with Martha Graham |
| Pléiade | ... essible. As a poet Pasquier is chiefly interesting as a minor member of the | movement. As a prose writer he is of much more account. The three chief di ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... t the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' and | see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rati ... |
| Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with | , and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him |
| John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
| Linnaeus | The Barn Swallow was described by | in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ... |
| Orson Welles | ... and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and | as Father Mapple. A significant result of the film was Bradbury's book Gre ... |
| Khushal Khan Khattak | ... ern (Peshawar) variety, and the softer Pashto spoken in the southern areas. | (1613–1689) and Rahman Baba (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the ... |
| Pat Barker | ... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by | in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ... |
| Aristotle | ... be printed. In 1556 he printed his Dialogue on the De plantis attributed to | , and in 1557 his Exercitationes on Jerome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Novalis | ... hes see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, ' | ' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge see it as the beginning of a tradition of re ... |
| Callimachus | ... egins with the oxhide story of Orion's birth, which this source ascribes to | and Aristomachus, and sets the location at Thebes or Chios. Hyginus has tw ... |
| Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
| Jon Holmes | The | radio show on BBC 6 Music has a feature called the Old Gay Whistle Test, a ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after | , Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities |
| Richard Ayoade | ... es was parodied in the sketch comedy show Snuff Box. The host was played by | |
| Herman Melville | Huston had been planning to film | 's Moby Dick for the previous ten years, and originally saw it as an excel ... |
| Wil Wheaton | ... these celebrities include: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, writer and actor | , and id Software technical director |
| Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
| Russell Howard | ... ought to Switzerland comedians Brendon Burns, Craig Campbell, Jim Jeffries, | , Arthur Smith, Nina Conti and Kevin Bridges. Growing demand and success a ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism. | , then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ... |
| Leibniz | ... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with | ). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being Giacomo da Lentini and | |
| Abel Ferrara | Later, Schoolly D contributed songs and music to many | films, such as "Saturday Night" (from Saturday Night! – The Album), as wel ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... utation suffered in the late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like | and H. L. Mencken pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leadin ... |
| Hippocrates | ... tieth year that (with the exception of a brief tract on the De insomniis of | ) he felt that any of them were sufficiently complete to be printed. In 15 ... |
| Ulrich von Liechtenstein | ... nts to joust, and joins the jousting circuit under the assumed name of "Sir | " from Gelderland. Chaucer is then discovered to have a gambling problem, ... |
| Democritus | ... o Aristotle, pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and | (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth |
| Giacomo da Lentini | ... the vernacular of their own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being | and Dante Alighieri |
| Ken MacLeod | The site was mentioned briefly in the 2000 novel Cosmonaut Keep, written by | |
| Aristotle | ... sidered the world to be flat, at least according to Aristotle. According to | , pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritu ... |
| Dominique Lapierre | ... et Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and | , and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted ... |
| John Lennon | ... ed with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because | had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal w ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
| Herman Melville | ... tion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt | 's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during p ... |
| Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
| Robert Hübner | ... e tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with Yuri Balashov, Ulf Andersson and | . He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 1980, on 10½/15 with Alexander Belia ... |
| Hippocrates | ... respiratory problem separate from others was first recognized and named by | circa 450 BC. During the 1930s–50s, asthma was considered as being one of ... |
| Herman Melville | ... lay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfully based on the novel by | and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... husband, Harmon O. Nelson, known as "Ham". In 1926, she saw a production of | 's The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle. Davis later recalle ... |
| Camille Paglia | ... . This critique was adopted and made popular by dissident feminists such as | . Atwood warns that the consequences of such an alliance may end up empowe ... |
| Cotton Mather | ... Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England (1654), | 's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), and Winthrop's Journal were efforts ... |
| Symon Semeonis | In 1322, an Irish Franciscan monk, | encountered a migrant group, "the descendants of Cain", outside the town o ... |
| C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
| Tacitus | ... dence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the 1st century by | (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occ ... |
| Galen | ... tory Aristotle remained as much a law to him as in poetics, and in medicine | , but he was not a slave to the text or the details of either. He thorough ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... the way to his first tournament in Rouen, William and his friends come upon | (Paul Bettany), trudging down a road with no clothes or money. William per ... |
| Yuri Balashov | ... 1978 with 6½/9. At Munich 1979, he tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with | , Ulf Andersson and Robert Hübner. He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 198 ... |
| John McCain | ... ived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Republican | , who received 44.5% of the vote (2,788 ballots cast), with 81.3% of regis ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... nd René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, | ’s book (1958) and Masaki Kobayashi’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... Leslie, set in colonial Massachusetts. He also makes a brief appearance in | 's The Scarlet Letter in the chapter entitled "The Minister's Vigil. |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... g the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by | and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same ... |
| Thomas Warton | ... es such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother | , professor of Poetry at Oxford University Joseph maintained that inventio ... |
| H. G. Wells | ... Socratics and brought to it some of his most influential friends, including | , Arnold Bennett, Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conf ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... tian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by | . Euler gave two different definitions: the first was not his integral but ... |
| Mary Astor | ... with Huston. In addition, the supporting cast included other noted actors: | , Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own fathe ... |
| Masaki Kobayashi | ... 3 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt’s book (1958) and | ’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no joken I, the first instalment the H ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... antium Cura) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Council, established by | on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and peo ... |
| Horace | Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, | (65 BCE – 8 BCE), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mi ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
| Martianus Capella | In late antiquity such widely read encyclopedists as Macrobius (4th c.) and | (5th c.) discussed the circumference of the sphere of the Earth, its centr ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | ... writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the USA is | . Yalom states tha |
| Juvenal | Juvenalian satire, named after the Roman satirist | (late 1st century - early 2nd century CE), is a type of satire that is mor ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Other fictional settings from the stories of | |
| Larry McMurtry | ... the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay with | , and it won the 1971 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast th ... |
| Arnold Bennett | ... brought to it some of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, | , Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), ... |
| Jeri Taylor | ... ce in the upcoming Voyager, which was scheduled to begin airing in 1995. As | commented, "we knew that we wanted to include a renegade element in Voyage ... |
| Susan McClary | Through the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like | , Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harvey | ... ch as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from Galen to | . The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th century is r ... |
| Honoré de Balzac | ... rd Fauntleroy (1921), and changed the spelling of her name to "Bette" after | 's La Cousine Bette. She received encouragement from her mother, who had a ... |
| Theophrastus | ... erome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on | ' De causis plantarum and Aristotle's History of Animals, he left in a mor ... |
| Ptolemy | ... considers the possibility of an imperfect sphere, "shaped like a pinecone". | derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, ... |
| Margaret Elaine Dovey | ... ce. In 1942, while awaiting entry into the service, Whitlam met and married | , who had swum for Australia in the 1938 British Empire Games and was the ... |
| Honoré de Balzac | ... brother, Étienne Vincent de (1802–1892), is said to have collaborated with | in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of l ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ants to bring back to life one of the great tragedians. After a competition | is chosen in preference to Euripides |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... ressed. A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as | and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. While ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... or the French Prix de Rome prescribed that each candidate submit a cantata. | failed in three attempts before finally winning in 1830 with Sardanapale. ... |
| Richard Wagner | Music by late Romantic composers such as | and Johannes Brahms is now played with a fairly continuous vibrato. Howeve ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
| André Malraux | The term has been used in | ’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La ... |
| Kūkai | ... sexuality was "invented" by the Bodhisattva Manjusri of wisdom and the sage | , the founder of Buddhism in Japan. Japanese Buddhist scholar and author o ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... iticians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and | , have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their speeches. Ronald ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President | dishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ... |
| Euclides da Cunha | ... on is the non-fiction account of those events published by Brazilian writer | in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of Rafael Trujil ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | For his first directing assignment, Huston chose | 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed ... |
| Marilyn Manson | Rammstein performed The Beautiful People with | at the Echo Awards on March 22nd, 2012 |
| Joseph Haydn | ... k of trombone players. Most of these works derive from Vienna and Salzburg. | uses trombones in Il rotorno di Tobia, Die Sieben Letzten Worte, The Creat ... |
| Euripides | ... great tragedians. After a competition Aeschylus is chosen in preference to | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... trammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as | and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult a ... |
| Michael Jackson | In June 2009, after the death of pop superstar | , this message appeared to many internet users who were searching Google f ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and | in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home movie "Nice and Friendly ... |
| Plato | ... ry or anthropology. In a prominent example from Ancient Greece, philosopher | , when asked by a friend for a book to understand Athenian society, referr ... |
| Paul Gallico | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Moscow, in which Mrs. Ada Harris, the main ch ... |
| Charlie Chaplin's | ... lk Stories, a low budget salute to sentimental silent comedies particularly | The Kid |
| Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... avels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall". The Egyptian monk | (547) in his Topographia Christiana, where the Covenant Ark was meant to r ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and | , based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Ro ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like | , historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ... |
| Marc Scott Zicree | ... lvement caused the show to "jump the shark", despite new executive producer | 's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original "alternate history" premise ... |
| Aristophanes | ... end for a book to understand Athenian society, referred him to the plays of | |
| Flora Tristan | ... gely in France and Tahiti. Based on the biography of former social reformer | , it demonstrates how Flora and Paul Gauguin were unable to find paradise, ... |
| Pope Innocent III | ... a endorsed the move as necessary to prevent the crusade's complete failure, | was alarmed at this development and wrote a letter to the Crusading leader ... |
| Bette Davis | In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring | , and Across the Pacific, another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by | on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ... |
| Tom Clancy | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Patriot Games |
| 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 ... |
| Aristophanes | A third descent by Dionysus to Hades is invented by | in his comedy The Frogs. Dionysus, as patron of the Athenian dramatic fest ... |
| Matt Selman | ... the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. The writer of the episode | was nominated for a |
| Gabriel García Márquez | Also, In the short story "La Santa," by Nobel Prize | a character is named after Zavattini. In the story, the character is a tea ... |
| Galileo | ... s and quantum mechanics. Many mathematically inclined scientists, including | , were also musicians |
| Sami Shah | ... stani stand-up comedians are Umar Sharif, Shakeel Siddiqui, Kashif Khan and | . Hasb-e-Haal, the weekend comedy show starring Sohail Ahmed, is one of th ... |
| Burl Ives | ... hen renamed to Willow Creek, then Starr, before receiving its present name. | was once jailed in Mona for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew", because it was cons ... |
| Jeremy Griffith | Australian biologist | has written a number of books on the subject of the human condition includ ... |
| Quintilian | The word satura as used by | , however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that ... |
| Nonnus | Another myth according to | involves Ampelos, a satyr. Foreseen by Dionysus, the youth was killed in a ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... ition, in which the specific concept is defined as a measurable occurrence. | pointed out the dangers of believing that anything that could be given a n ... |
| John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
| Stendhal | ... d by France, with Balzac and Flaubert in literature and Courbet in painting | ;and Goya were important precursors of Realism in their respective media. ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | The existentialist psychotherapist | has identified what he refers to as the four "givens" or ultimate concerns ... |
| Lactantius | After his conversion to Christianity, | (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor Constantine and a trencha ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... ed a visit to Niagara Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to | , Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a wide ... |
| Emperor Wen of Wei | ... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as | . This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ... |
| Nas | ... y become faster and more ‘complex’”. He cites “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, | , AZ, Big Pun, and Ras Kass, just to name a few” as artists who exemplify ... |
| Catherine Des Roches | ... lection of poems on flea (La Puce de Madame Des Roches, published 1583; see | ) |
| Charles Nisard | ... ted, they contain more faults than those Scaliger has discovered in Cardan. | wrote also that his object seems to be to deny all that Cardan affirms and ... |
| Artur Yusupov | ... r 6th–7th places, behind joint winners Andrei Sokolov, Rafael Vaganian, and | , but only four players advanced to matches. This was Spassky's last appea ... |
| Tracy Tormé | The series co-creator, | , has often been critical of the direction the series took in the third se ... |
| Bret Harte | ... em as Duluwat Island. A local newspaper editor, who would later be known as | , was forced to leave the Humboldt Bay area after he editorialized his dis ... |
| Nevil Shute | ... nate history novels. Prince Philip also appears as a fictional character in | 's novel In the Wet (1952) |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing and | and others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ... |
| Christopher J. Date | ... model which itself is a precursor to creating or enhancing a database (see | "An Introduction to Database Systems"). There are a number of different ap ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... ra Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, | , and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home mo ... |
| David Peckinpah | ... s often been critical of the direction the series took in the third season. | was brought onto the series in the third season (around the time when Trac ... |
| Joseph Justus Scaliger | ... uninterrupted happiness, and by the birth of fifteen children who included | |
| Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... the ghosts he saw. Victoria also encountered the ghost of Josette Collins ( | ) when she was looking through the closed-off west wing of Collinwood. Lau ... |
| 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 ... |
| K'naan | ... tists for Haiti song, in which many Canadian artists came together and sang | 's inspirational song "Wavin' Flag" to raise money for the victims of the ... |
| Aristophanes | ... topics it deals with. From the earliest times, at least since the plays of | , the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex. On ... |
| Arthur Adamov | ... mporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and | wove into their plays the existentialist belief that we are absurd beings ... |
| Donald Wandrei | ... ng company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and | , takes its name from this city as a tribute |
| John Dryden | ... dramatic adaptation of the novel for radio was produced for BBC Radio 4 by | in 2000. An operatic adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale, by Poul Ruders, prem ... |
| 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 |
| Aristotle | Around 330 BC, | maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that ... |
| Barry Took | ... edlock Jr., Coslough Johnson (Arte Johnson's twin brother), Hart Pomerantz, | , Digby Wolfe, |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... one of a new breed of A-list directors that included Academy Award winners | and William Friedkin, with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Direc ... |
| Delahaye, Gilbert | ... éon - De Haan - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - de Haussy, François-Philippe - Deinze - | - de Merode, Alexandre - Demographics of Belgium - Dender - Denderleeuw - ... |
| Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... fulfill his longing and remorse for Josette by transforming Maggie Evans ( | ) into Josette. Her father Sam Evans, and boyfriend Joe Haskell, cannot pr ... |
| Ronald D. Moore | Berman informed | and Brannon Braga that Paramount had approved a two-picture deal. Moore an ... |
| Martín Adán | ... first literary influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as | , Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Genet | ... t how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, | , and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist belief that w ... |
| Mary Austin | ... one of the first outdoor theatres west of the Rockies, was built, with poet | and actor/director Herbert Heron leading the endeavor. Numerous groups inc ... |
| Laurence Sterne | ... le in the early revival of Gothic architecture. Tristram Shandy, a novel by | (1759–67) introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and | |
| Fujiwara no Teika | ... 首, lit. 100 people, 1 poem). Compiled in the early 13th century by the poet | , this game contains one hundred poems, with each one written by a differe ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... or the Doctrine of the Faith by its prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now | ), to Bishops of the entire Catholic Church * Pontifical secret;Church pre ... |
| Carlos Oquendo de Amat | ... ry influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, | , and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary nove ... |
| Michael Piller | ... producer Maurice Hurley to develop possible story ideas. Executive producer | turned down the opportunity to develop ideas, objecting to what he saw as ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | ... that the state of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of | , Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke. The original position figures pro ... |
| George Burns | ... hy Stars Come Out at Night". The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, | , Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson an ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
| William Friedkin | ... list directors that included Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola and | , with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Directors Company was a g ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by | . Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead ... |
| 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. |
| 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 ... |
| Luciano Violante | ... s, instead of a genuine preoccupation of the common citizen's civil rights. | , a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, c ... |
| John Birmingham | ... p (in his capacity as a World War II naval officer) is a minor character in | 's Axis of Time series of alternate history novels. Prince Philip also app ... |
| Brannon Braga | Berman informed Ronald D. Moore and | that Paramount had approved a two-picture deal. Moore and Braga, who were ... |
| Alistair Taylor | ... tney and Jane Asher, Pattie Boyd's 16-year-old sister, Paula, Mal Evans and | set off for Athens |
| Allan Manings | ... ill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, | , Jack Margolis, Bob Howard, John Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited ... |
| Albert Speer | In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments | to carry out a nationwide scorched earth policy, in what became known as t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... m that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as Marinus of Tyre and | , who were contemporaries |
| Marinus of Tyre | ... or coordinate system that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as | and Ptolemy, who were contemporaries |
| Harold Pinter | The 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay by | and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as | , and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince |
| Thomas Hobbes | ... he imagery of a savage state of nature of prior political philosophers like | . In the original position, the parties select principles that will determ ... |
| Avvakum | ... in print in 1672, in the published memoirs of the exiled Russian churchman | . This word was then introduced to the English-speaking world by the Dutch ... |
| Herodotus | ... and the Iron Age in Europe and the Middle East. The ancient Greek historian | states in The Histories of the 5th century BC that Glaucus of Chios "was t ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and | 's Handmaid's Tale (1985) |
| Virginia Woolf | ... mic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts. This device is similar to both | 's mixing of different characters' soliloquies and Gustave Flaubert's coun ... |
| Parmenides | ... tion credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and | , in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical |
| August Derleth | ... m House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, | and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute |
| Chris Bearde | ... Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited as Rowby Greeber and Rowby Goren), | (credited as Chris Beard), Chet Dowling, David Panich, Marc London, Paul K ... |
| Ed Wood | ... e Oliver North, Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker | were at one time in their respective worlds, President of the United State ... |
| Rowby Goren | ... Howard, John Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited as Rowby Greeber and | ), Chris Bearde (credited as Chris Beard), Chet Dowling, David Panich, Mar ... |
| Eugène Ionesco | ... bsurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist b ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by | , with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September ... |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... al community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of | 's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, a ... |
| Nicander | ... n attacks Artemis while hunting on Chios, and the Scorpion kills him there. | , in his Theriaca, has the scorpion of ordinary size and hiding under a sm ... |
| Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD, | was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... ate doth stand With towns of high'st regard the fourth of all the land", as | noted in Poly-Olbion (1612). The wealth generated by the wool trade throug ... |
| Lynn Garrison | In 1966 Bradbury helped | create AVIAN, a specialist aviation magazine. For the first issue Bradbury ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist | and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style. Sa ... |
| Dario Fo | ... but is not really firing at the target. Nobel laureate satirical playwright | pointed out the difference between satire and teasing (sfottò). Teasing is ... |
| Matt Groening | The Simpsons creator | named Nelson after the wrestling hold of the same name. Cast member Nancy ... |
| Gustave Flaubert | ... spiration. Two French figures, existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and novelist | , influenced both his technique and style. Sartre's influence is most prev ... |
| Walter V. Robinson | ... ases* Bernard Cardinal Law* Roger Cardinal Mahony;Anti-abuse* Ferns Report* | * Sex Crimes and the Vatican (Panorama documentary Episode)* Survivors Net ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan Tuvok. | and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, w ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... nal city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by | and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu ... |
| James Agee | ... the film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer | called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive moves I have ever ... |
| Viktor Korchnoi | ... , by 8½–6½, to qualify for the final. But at Belgrade 1977, Spassky lost to | , by (+4 −7 =7) |
| Mary Somerville | ... t in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of | 's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Re ... |
| Peter Wright | | , in his book Spycatcher, claimed that in 1967 Mountbatten attended a priv ... |
| Euripides | | composed a tragedy about the destructive nature of Dionysus in The Bacchae ... |
| Hesiod | ... r to have had diverse kinds of plough from the earliest historical records. | advised the farmer to have always two ploughs, so that if one broke the ot ... |
| Max Eastman | ... tween satire and grotesque on one side, and jest with teasing on the other. | defined the spectrum of satire in terms of "degrees of biting," as ranging ... |
| Samuel Daniel's | ... en consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with | poem on the civil wars |
| Aratus | ... ed either Artemis or the Hyperborean maiden Opis in her band of huntresses. | 's brief description, in his Astronomy, conflates the elements of the myth ... |
| César Moro | ... y obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and | . As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary novelists in search ... |
| William Friedkin | Part of the film Bug (2007) directed by | , starring Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick, Jr., was filmed ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, | , and John Locke. The original position figures prominently in his book, A ... |
| Thomas Chatterton | ... intained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet. | is generally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scot ... |
| Lubomir Kavalek | ... hibition match over Robert Hübner at Solingen, 1977 by 3½–2½, then defeated | , also at Solingen, by 4/6 in another exhibition match. His next Candidate ... |
| Brian Helgeland | ... s Tale is a 2001 American adventure film written, directed, and produced by | . The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Ru ... |
| Lucretius | ... zone (equator) and the ocean. This took a strong hold on the medieval mind. | (1st. c. BC) opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he consider ... |
| Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ... eration of Expellees staunchly defending the higher figure. The writings of | and Rudolph Rummel continue to remain influential in the English speaking ... |
| François Truffaut | ... red in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), an adaptation of Bradbury's novel directed by | |
| Harold Budd | Ambient composer | (raised in the desert town of Victorville, CA) recites his "Poem: Distant ... |
| José María Arguedas | ... of land and rural life made famous by Peru's foremost novelist at the time, | . Vargas Llosa wrote of Arguedas's work that it was "an example of old-fas ... |
| Orson Welles | ... (1946), although he was not credited. The film was directed and produced by | , who also acted the part of a Nazi war criminal who manages to settle in ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
| Jean Gerson | ... of Cardinal Richelieu he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying | 's authorship of De Imitatione Christi. Richelieu intended to make Naudé h ... |
| James Macpherson | ... ally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scottish poet | influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international suc ... |
| Averroes | ... ert was received at Paris as an authority equal to Aristotle, Avicenna, and | , leading Bacon to proclaim that "never in the world [had] such monstrosit ... |
| Robert Nozick | In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, | argues that, while the original position may be the just starting point, a ... |
| Cornelius Gallus | ... lection of melodramatic plots drawn up by an Alexandrian poet for the Roman | to make into Latin verse. It describes Orion as slaying the wild beasts of ... |
| William Everson | ... indbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included | , Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... , reading such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite author, | who wrote novels such as Tarzan of the Apes and The Warlord of Mars. He lo ... |
| William Faulkner | ... s, and arguably the most influential on his writing career, is the American | . Vargas Llosa considers Faulkner "the writer who perfected the methods of ... |
| Emilio Estevez | ... , with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton and | |
| Jamling Tenzing Norgay | ... e of commercialization of Mount Everest is a frequent subject of criticism. | , the son of Tenzing Norgay, said in a 2003 interview that his late father ... |
| Alhazen | ... and lenses. His research in optics was primarily oriented by the legacy of | through a Latin translation of the latter's monumental Kitab al-manazir (D ... |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
| Emilio Estevez | Otto Maddox ( | ), a young punk rocker living in Los Angeles, gets fired from his boring j ... |
| François Truffaut | ... able directors known for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick ... |
| Hugo Pratt | ... , a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator | in 1967. The Corto Maltese series has been translated into numerous langua ... |
| Sean Penn | In 1996, she married | and changed her name to Robin Wright Penn. The same year, she starred in t ... |
| Angus Wilson | ... own for its creative writing programme; established by Malcolm Bradbury and | , its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The university camp ... |
| Jan Timman | ... ed his place. Spassky won an exhibition match with rising Dutch grandmaster | at Amsterdam 1977 by 4–2. He triumphed narrowly in extra games in his firs ... |
| 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" |
| 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 ... |
| Peter McCarthy | ... 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and | , with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton an ... |
| Ingmar Bergman | ... t qualities. Notable directors known for their existentialist films include | , François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosa ... |
| Jules Verne | ... Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such authors as H.G. Wells, | , and his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs who wrote novels such as T ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
| Tom Robbins | Author | is a long-time resident of La Conner. Many of his books, most notably Anot ... |
| Frederick II | ... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, | , alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... n for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, | , Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... ediated through the influence that this Muslim scholar had on the optics of | . Moreover, Bacon's investigations of the properties of the magnifying gla ... |
| Naomi Klein | ... emitism. In a 2002 op-ed, alter-globalisation activist and critic of Israel | criticised Indymedia for perpetuating conspiracy theories about the Jews, ... |
| Sean Penn | In 1989, Wright became involved with actor | following his divorce from Madonna. Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, | got just over 62% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides go ... |
| Nawal El Saadawi | In 1980 and 1982 feminist physicians | and Asma El Dareer wrote about FGM as a dangerous practice intended to con ... |
| Robert Hübner | Spassky won an exhibition match over | at Solingen, 1977 by 3½–2½, then defeated Lubomir Kavalek, also at Solinge ... |
| 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 ... |
| Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
| Pope John Paul II | Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, | twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ... |
| Peter Jackson | In | 's The Lord of the Rings films, the palantíri of Minas Ithil, Orthanc, and ... |
| Edward Abbey | ... ater visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and | |
| Apollonius of Tyana | ... he spared Tyana after having a vision of the great 1st-century philosopher | , whom he respected greatly, in a dream |
| Tomé Pires | ... ucts from the inland jungle such as sapan(Bridge) woods, deerskin and rice. | , a Portuguese voyager, mentioned in the sixteenth century that Ayutthaya, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
| Ian McEwan | ... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and | . The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ... |
| Robert Bly | ... Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, | , Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
| Ed Harris | ... upporting role in the television film Empire Falls as Grace Roby, mother of | 's character Miles Roby. Wright received her third Screen Actors Guild Awa ... |
| David McWilliams | ... lly been positive from some economic commentators including Eddie Hobbs and | who have praised the proposals stating that they have considerable potenti ... |
| Czesław Miłosz | ... Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, | and Edward Abbey |
| Sidney Poitier | ... a and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, | and Harry Belafonte have cited his lead film roles as being the first to d ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... ew film industry and motion pictures, but as a spectator only. To Huston, " | was a god. |
| Charles Darwin | ... was the basis of a lifelong friendship between Rivers and the genial son of | |
| Lucian | | includes a picture with Orion in a rhetorical description of an ideal buil ... |
| Stephen J. Cannell | ... April 27, 1982 in Santa Barbara, California. Sarah was the sister-in-law of | and had previously been married to Randy Stonehill from 1975–1980. They fi ... |
| Dan Duchaine | ... published in magazines at one point or another. Popular bodybuilding writer | even suggested that Mentzer was drinking his own urine at the time. Mentze ... |
| Dungal | ... rs discussed Macrobius's view of the antipodes. One of them, the Irish monk | , asserted that the tropical gap between our habitable region and the othe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Simone de Beauvoir | French philosopher | provided a Marxist solution and an existentialist view on many of the ques ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
| John McCain | ... election, however, Barack Obama won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while | only won 29% of the vote. Overall, Agoura Hills is perhaps the most libera ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | ... Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, | , Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes An ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pierre Gassendi | The friend of Gui Patin, of | and all the liberal thinkers of his time, Naudé was no mere bookworm; his ... |
| Edmund Hillary | ... he subject among prominent mountaineers are strictly negative. For example, | , who went on record saying that he hasn't liked "the commercialization of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Orson Welles | Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with | while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970). Bogda ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, | won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ... |
| William Wyler | ... arred his father, Walter Huston. In addition, House Divided was directed by | , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process d ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and | . The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... d writer throughout his youth who was greatly influenced by the writings of | . Bradbury was especially impressed with Poe's ability to draw readers int ... |
| Frederick the Great | ... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of | . She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... ing of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of | , but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, show ... |
| Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terrence Malick | ... François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, | , Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody ... |
| Jack London | ... er. He also knows and meets various real-life historical figures, including | , Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick R ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
| Herodotus | According to | |
| Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
| Gregory of Tours | ... In a change of alliances, he also joined forces with Odoacer, according to | , to stop a band of the Alamanni who wished to invade Italy |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... astrology, and the calendar. Bacon often mentioned his debt to the work of | and Adam Marsh, as well as to other lesser figures. He was clearly not an ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... . In the 1980 Mr. Olympia he placed fourth (in a tie with Boyer Coe) behind | , Chris Dickerson and Frank Zane. He retired from competitive bodybuilding ... |
| Anatoly Karpov | ... ico by 4½–1½ (+3 =3); he then lost the semifinal match to the up-and-coming | in Leningrad, despite winning the first game, (+1 −4 =6). Karpov had publi ... |
| Martin Gardner | According to | , at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between N ... |
| James P. Lucier | ... ue, and in October 1990 his committee staff chief and longest-serving aide, | , prepared a report stating that it was probable there were live American ... |
| Menippus of Gadara | The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by | . His own writings are lost. Examples from his admirers and imitators mix ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
| Haydn | ... d biographies of several prominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, | , Mozart, Rossini and Metastasio |
| Sinclair Lewis | ... and cultural celebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were | , Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gers ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... erican writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, | , Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in ... |
| Lactantius | ... et dominus natus ("God and born ruler"), also later adopted by Diocletian. | argued that Aurelian would have outlawed all the other gods if he had had ... |
| Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... us personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister | (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without comm ... |
| Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
| Anna Komnene | ... rence and exclusion, (the word barbarian was used by 12th century historian | to describe non-Greek speakers), a sense of Greek identity and common sens ... |
| Julio Cortázar | ... a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, | , Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his boo ... |
| Callimachus | ... ntly used in several Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in | and Nonnus, who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in ... |
| Johnny Cash | ... abilly was underlined by the success of songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" by | , "Blue Suede Shoes" by Perkins and "Heartbreak Hotel" by Presley. For a f ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so late that it uses caballus for "horse". | cites a lost Latin writer for the story that Orion and Candiope were son a ... |
| Photius | In 858, | , a scholar who taught philosophy and lectured at the University of Consta ... |
| Kermit Roosevelt | ... o "Kermit" when a post office was established in 1906. Kermit was named for | , son of President Theodore Roosevelt, and incorporated in 1909 |
| Stephen Colbert | ... as served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including | 's fictional persona, Michael Corleone of The Godfather, Meredith Grey of ... |
| Robert Hunter | ... s contributed to two Grateful Dead tribute albums and covered Jerry Garcia/ | tunes such as "Ship of Fools", "Friend of the Devil", "It Must Have Been t ... |
| Octavio Paz | ... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as | , Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ... |
| Sheila Copps | ... Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy | (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image consciou ... |
| Emil Petaja | ... downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, | , Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Taimanov | ... won convincingly by Fischer, and the second a close battle. Before Spassky, | , Larsen, and Petrosian, had lost convincingly to Fischer, but Spassky mai ... |
| Archestratus | ... the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as | would be almost entirely unknown. Book XIII, for example, is an important ... |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | ... ebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, | , Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Etchegoyen | As summarised by | , "Reversible perspective is an extreme case of rigidity of thought...As B ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... mainstream media throughout the world covered the match. Secretary of State | spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex ... |
| Statius | ... nd became known as the son of Neptune. His son begat the Dryas mentioned in | |
| Hermann Hesse | ... ious real-life historical figures, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, | , Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... fton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers | , Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Will ... |
| Gabriel García Márquez | ... gside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, | and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva N ... |
| Haydn | ... on the Romantic movement generally. In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann called Mozart, | and Beethoven the three "Romantic Composers", and Ludwig Spohr used the te ... |
| Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
| Saint Augustine | ... ad and admired and were among those printed first in the fifteenth century. | (354–430) took a more cautious approach in arguing against assuming that p ... |
| Anatoli Boukreev | Guide | 's decision not to use bottled oxygen was sharply criticized by Jon Krakau ... |
| Pliny | ... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, | reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ... |
| Jim Murray | ... which reduced his strike zone without sacrificing much power. Sportswriter | described Henderson's strike zone as being "smaller than Hitler's heart". ... |
| Nonnus | ... eral Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in Callimachus and | , who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in several f ... |
| Ian Baker-Finch | ... Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line (series 3) and | in A Hole in the Heart. Harry Shearer appeared in the series 2 episode Cha ... |
| Zosimus | ... s to corrupt officials or soldiers. A secretary of Aurelian (called Eros by | ) had told a lie on a minor issue. In fear of what the Emperor might do, h ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... were laid in the 17th century with the development of probability theory by | and Pierre de Fermat. Probability theory arose from the study of games of ... |
| James Joyce | ... res, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, | , Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian gen ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... ecently discovered Greco-Muslim astronomy and on the calendaric writings of | , Bacon criticized the Julian calendar, describing it as intolerable, horr ... |
| Aretaeus of Cappadocia | ... which literally means “a passer through; a siphon”. Ancient Greek physician | (fl. in the first century CE) used that word, with the intended meaning “e ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... layed a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding father | , a medical doctor by training, received financial support mainly from the ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... . Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, | , George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included Willia ... |
| Plato | ... n of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of | , but the conversation extends to enormous length. The topics for discussi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Waris Shah | ... ranwala and Sheikhupura districts of the Pakistani Punjab which was used by | (1722–1798) in his famous book Heer Ranjha and is also now days the langua ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
| Shakespeare | ... iolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in | 's Henry V on stage and in television's An Age of Kings (1960), and subseq ... |
| Richard Cumberland | The utilitarian philosopher, Dr. | , was 14th Lord Bishop of Peterborough from 1691 until his death in 1718; ... |
| Photius | ... Diodorus' opinion on the matter is known to us only by a criticism of it by | . Severian, Bishop of Gabala (d. 408), wrote that the Earth is flat and th ... |
| Glenn Robbins | ... ghts (series 1); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole (series 2) | ;and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir a ... |
| Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
| Joe Clark | ... and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous | , and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politi ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and | . Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz ... |
| Enrique Castillo | ... y Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Penélope Cruz and | , was filmed in part in the town of Pritchett |
| Tim Burton | Warner Bros. has produced a film adaptation of the soap opera. | directed the film, and Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins |
| Andrew Gilligan | ... y, who committed suicide on 17 July 2003 after being named as the source of | 's disputed Today programme contribution |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... , particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of | ; he later described how he spent "many hours every day talking – the grea ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... rviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, | , and others |
| Malcolm Bradbury | ... is especially well-known for its creative writing programme; established by | and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The ... |
| Bill Bradley | ... e tax base, eliminate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democrats | and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; ... |
| Huppen, Hermann | ... (Dutch-speaking Belgium) - Human Rights League (French-speaking Belgium) - | |
| Hans Ree | ... 8/11, behind winners Vlastimil Hort and Ulf Andersson. He shared first with | at the 1971 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Vancouver |
| John Bradshaw Layfield | ... this type occurred at WWE No Mercy 2004 in which The Undertaker challenged | for the WWE Championship. It is said that The Undertaker created this matc ... |
| Pope John Paul II's | ... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by | motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Aulë is a fictional character from | 's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ... |
| Joseph Conrad | ... nest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, | , Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern von Sternberg ... |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
| Aristotle | ... itings of 1260–1280 Bacon cited Secretum secretorum, which he attributed to | , far more than his contemporaries did. Often used as an argument for the ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
| Harry Shearer | ... and Dick on the Line (series 3) and Ian Baker-Finch in A Hole in the Heart. | appeared in the series 2 episode Changing the Face of Current Affairs wher ... |
| Corinna | ... are attached to Orion in this way: A papyrus fragment of the Boeotian poet | gives Orion fifty sons (a traditional number). This included the oracular ... |
| J. J. Abrams | ... king cities. The most recent depiction of a giant monster is the monster in | 's Cloverfield, which was released in theaters January 18, 2008. The intri ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ons from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and | . The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as ... |
| Frederick Rolfe | ... g Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, | , Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... d additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., | , Steven Spielberg, and others |
| 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 |
| Qasim Amin | In 1899, | , considered the "father" of Arab feminism, wrote The Liberation of Women, ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... and Sergeant York. Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by | , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a t ... |
| Harold Bloom | ... or Death in the Andes) and the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. The literary critic | has included his novel The War of the End of the World in his list of esse ... |
| Donne | ... tires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. Although | had already circulated satires in manuscript, Hall's was the first real at ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... uced a film adaptation of the soap opera. Tim Burton directed the film, and | stars as Barnabas Collins |
| Julia Kristeva | ... ubversive exercise. The work of the feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher, | , has influenced feminist theory in general and feminist literary criticis ... |
| Bette Davis | ... ar sentence. The case was made into the 1937 movie 'Marked Woman', starring | |
| Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| George Sterling | In 1905, poet | came to Carmel and helped to establish the town's literary base. He was as ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... is founded on a natural law argument informed by scripture and proposed by | , the traditional conservative Protestant view is based on an interpretati ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ngs (including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by | , and Emmylou Harris) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman ... |
| Gordon Russell | ... led House of Dark Shadows in 1970. Dan Curtis directed it, and Sam Hall and | wrote the screenplay. Many cast members from the soap opera reprised their ... |
| Paul Krugman | Economist | argues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ... |
| Bram Stoker | ... playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, | . It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of Jame ... |
| Orson Welles | ... in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as | and John Ford, whom he later wrote a book about based on the notes he had ... |
| Toshio Sakai | ... Smith (National Reporting, 1964), Kyoichi Sawada (News Photography, 1966), | (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (National Re ... |
| Simone de Beauvoir | ... sexual conquests. His genuine empathy towards women is evident in his books | ;spoke highly of him in The Second Sex. He seems to have preferred desire ... |
| James Farley | ... ference with a single guest and a panel of questioners. Its first guest was | , who served as Postmaster General, Democratic National Committee Chairman ... |
| 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 ... |
| Evelyn Waugh | ... Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, and Japan were also present. British author | was also present, penning a contemporary report on the event, and American ... |
| Jan Hein Donner | ... quadrangular event at Leiden 1970 with 7/12, ahead of Larsen, Botvinnik and | . Spassky shared first at Amsterdam 1970 with Lev Polugaevsky on 11½/15. H ... |
| Corinna | ... sponse to Asopus regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. | sang of Orion conquering and naming all the land of the dawn. Robert Weir ... |
| Raghuram Rajan | ... w much deregulation took place during the Reagan administration. Economists | and Luigi Zingales point out that many of the major deregulation efforts h ... |
| Chuck Palahniuk | ... 1968) (now republished as Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick and Fight Club by | all distort the line between reality and appearance while simultaneously e ... |
| James Joyce | ... Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of | , including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail. Du ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | ... ave led some to Christian anarchism, including the notable Russian novelist | , author of the nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| Christopher Isherwood | ... nce encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer | gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands ... |
| Lucinda Franks | ... Sawada (News Photography, 1966), Toshio Sakai (Feature Photography, 1968), | and Thomas Powers (National Reporting, 1971), and David Hume Kennerly (Fea ... |
| Roman Polanski's | ... ed for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. He acted in | Chinatown (1974) as the film's central corrupt businessman, in 1974, and a ... |
| Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | Sterling wrote to his long-time literary mentor, | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... neously espousing strong existentialist themes. Ideas from such thinkers as | , Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gill ... |
| Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... d their roles. These included Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Roger Davis, and | , among others. 1971 saw the release of Night of Dark Shadows, also direct ... |
| Herodotus | Contrary to popular belief, the term delta was not coined by | |
| Joaquin Miller | Sterling's visitors included poet | , writer Charles W. Stoddard and photographer Arnold Genthe, known for his ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... n the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director, and | . Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of America ... |
| George Washington | ... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of | , Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ... |
| John Boswell | ... rosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague; as | has noted, "if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cic ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the works of | , the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ... |
| Lev Polugaevsky | ... Botvinnik and Jan Hein Donner. Spassky shared first at Amsterdam 1970 with | on 11½/15. He was third at Gothenburg 1971 with 8/11, behind winners Vlast ... |
| Hal David | ... t and sing ballads, the group had decided on cutting the Burt Bacharach and | song, "Make It Easy on Yourself", until being told that someone else had r ... |
| Thomas More | Corto's favourite reading is Utopia by | , but he never finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevens ... |
| Thomas Powers | ... graphy, 1966), Toshio Sakai (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and | (National Reporting, 1971), and David Hume Kennerly (Feature Photography, ... |
| C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
| Euripides | Evius, in | ' play, The Bacchae |
| Jerry Falwell | ... AIDS has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as Fred Phelps and | as a punishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th century, theologia ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, | , Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ... |
| Fredric Brown | ... Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, | , Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published ... |
| Seán O'Casey | ... during the early 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, | , Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest librarie ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | In 1914, poet | (1887–1962), and his wife, Una (1884–1950), found their "inevitable place" ... |
| George Carlin | ... th Robert Klein in 1975, and was instrumental in reaching larger audiences. | was a perennial favorite appeared in fourteen HBO comedy specials |
| Franz Kafka | ... st themes. Ideas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, | , Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Har ... |
| Jim Henson | ... s in films such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (both in conjunction with | 's Creature Shop). He collaborated with Terry Jones, who was a screenwrite ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henricus Valesius | ... nt readings. The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by | (Henri Valois) (Paris, 1668), who used the Codex Regius, a Codex Vaticanus ... |
| Bent Larsen | ... Sukhumi, and won by the same margin as in 1965 (5½–2½, +3 =5). He next met | at Malmö, and won by 5½–2½. The final was against his Leningrad rival Vikt ... |
| François Truffaut | ... he 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director | . Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film wr ... |
| Henry Kuttner | ... as where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, | , Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Holl ... |
| Vitruvius | # The directions for making pavements given by | . The pavement and the via munita were identical in construction, except a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... rly 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, | , Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rita Mae Brown | Crozet is also the setting for author | 's Mrs. Murphy series |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Jones | ... (both in conjunction with Jim Henson's Creature Shop). He collaborated with | , who was a screenwriter on Labyrinth, on The Goblins of the Labyrinth (19 ... |
| Chuck Palahniuk | ... "Always",Hamish and Andy (Australia),ESPN,KHQ's "The Derby", and also in by | . It has also been featured on CMT. Lind also is surrounded by fields of w ... |
| Statius | # A passage in | describing the repairs of the Via Domitiana, a branch road of the Via Appi ... |
| Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... isclosed details of CIA financial support for Duarte, earning a rebuke from | , but Helms replied that his information came from sources in El Salvador, ... |
| Bennett Cerf | According to Try and Stop Me by | , LaGuardia often officiated in municipal court. He handled routine misdem ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which Judd condemned Alaska governor | for supporting aerial wolf hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
| Aristotle | ... 6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. | accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 ... |
| Leigh Brackett | ... the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, | , and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilem ... |
| Rita Mae Brown | Author | along with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a mystery series common ... |
| Jack Williamson | ... A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and | . His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared i ... |
| Gerry Goffin | ... ed by "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", written by husband-wife songwriting team | and Carole King; the song went on to become either the first Billboard Num ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... 973). In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, | , Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New ... |
| Viktor Korchnoi | ... arsen at Malmö, and won by 5½–2½. The final was against his Leningrad rival | at Kiev, and Spassky triumphed (+4 −1 =5), which earned him another match ... |
| Roddy Doyle | ... writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and | . Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth Massie | ... ue's Descent and The Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors | and Stephen Mark Rainey |
| William of Rubruck | ... ibly obtained with the intermediation of other Franciscans, like his friend | , who had visited the Mongols. The most telling passage reads: "We have an ... |
| Hans Küng | ... sexuals. In the 20th century, theologians like Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, | , John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt, challenged traditional ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... mber 2003, she officially joined the show, adding celebrity figures such as | and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to t ... |
| Stephen Mark Rainey | ... Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors Elizabeth Massie and | |
| Claude Chabrol | ... llowing the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, | , and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by makin ... |
| Rob Wagner | ... limited to under 100 copies. Between 1941 and 1947, he was a contributor to | 's film magazine, Script |
| Robert Southey | ... us of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, | . Telford’s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as a ... |
| Gilles Deleuze | ... yevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, | , and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists such as Chuck Pala ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. | and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ... |
| Ken Follett | ... ntury Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, | , Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In pa ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
| Jerome | ... ates Scholasticus recorded more than 300, and Evagrius, Hilary of Poitiers, | and Rufinus recorded 318. Delegates came from every region of the Roman Em ... |
| 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, ... |
| Harris Newmark | ... businessmen including banker Isaias Hellman and wholesale grocer/historian | for $60,000, approximately $12 per acre. The land was later divided among ... |
| 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, ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... the 12th century Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as | , Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... rade barriers than any administration since Hoover." By contrast, economist | has pointed to the number of pages added to the Federal Register each year ... |
| Leonid Shamkovich | ... ared 1st–5th places at Sochi 1967 on 10/15 with Krogius, Alexander Zaitsev, | , and Vladimir Simagin |
| Raymond Arroyo | Similarly, in | 's autobiography of Mother Angelica, she recounts a similar event seeing a ... |
| Griff Rhys Jones | ... eader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, Ken Follett, | and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In particular, the city ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... es outlining a philosophy of science which might as easily be attributed to | centuries later. The novel's Roger Bacon serves to motivate Costain's prot ... |
| Stanley Kubrick | ... , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, | , Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody Allen. Charlie K ... |
| Robert Southey | ... ose this as their place of interment, that the 19th-century poet and writer | gave Bunhill Fields the memorable appellation: the Campo Santo of the Diss ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List (1993) directed by | , earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... n his career as a classical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite | in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appe ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and pl ... |
| 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 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... expedite the progress of the building project at its permanent location and | laid the foundation stone of the Institute at Powai on March 10, 1959 |
| Copernicus | ... hey simply make a conjecture based solely on reasoning". It is notable that | , writing only twenty years after Columbus in 1514, dismisses the idea of ... |
| Audre Lorde | ... wave, such as Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, | , Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other black feminists, sought to negotiat ... |
| Oliver North | ... iega. After the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered opposition from | in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with ... |
| Polly Platt | ... ng their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director. With his wife | , he headed for Los Angeles, skipping out on the rent in the process. Inte ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... n painter Caspar David Friedrich that "the artist's feeling is his law". To | poetry should be "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". In order ... |
| Mother Angelica | Similarly, in Raymond Arroyo's autobiography of | , she recounts a similar event seeing an apparition of the child Jesus in ... |
| Faiz Ahmed Faiz | ... ell-known representatives of contemporary Pakistani Urdu literature include | . Sadequain is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Ab ... |
| Nora May French | ... ff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Keith, Percy Gray, Arnold Genthe and | |
| Hal David | ... which peaked at #3, followed by "Mama Said", written by Burt Bacharach and | , then "Baby It's You", "Soldier Boy", and "Boys", with saxophonist King C ... |
| Julian Thompson | ... y two years later. However, military historians such as former Royal Marine | have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ... |
| Chris Morris | ... k series. One of the most well-known and controversial British satirists is | , co-writer and director of Four Lions |
| Jean Chrétien | ... politician or celebrity's characteristics (i.e. Roger Abbott's portrayal of | as a twisted-mouthed man who ridiculously mispronounced English words with ... |
| John Prendergast | ... el unspeakable violence" by Ashley Judd and the Enough Project's co-founder | regarding the continued violence in Congo. Her Op-ed discusses the recent ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mother Angelica | ... n which the child, she later discovers him to be the Divino Nino of Bogota. | is also a known devotee of the Infant Jesus of Prague statue |
| Bob Dylan | ... song "He Was a Friend of Mine", which had been popularized by The Byrds and | , which was re-titled "He is a Friend of Mine", and "I Love You", the song ... |
| Tom Brokaw | Following Russert's death, | was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw ... |
| Ibn Hazm | ... e same sex. However, sexual activities between them are totally prohibited. | , Ibn Daud, Al-Mutamid, Abu Nuwas and many others used this edict to write ... |
| Wes Anderson | ... Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, | , and Woody Allen. Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the p ... |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | ... s Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, | , and many other black feminists, sought to negotiate a space within femin ... |
| Metastasio | ... ominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini and | |
| Chuck Todd | ... tor on December 14, 2008. On December 18, 2008, NBC News Political Director | was named Contributing Editor of Meet the Press |
| Gertrude Atherton | ... be divided into large parcels and would not contain businesses. The author | , daughter-in-law to Faxon D. Atherton wrote in "The Californians", "Menlo ... |
| Douglas Hyde | ... for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, | , a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of Preside ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
| Jacques Étienne Victor | ... –1836) emigrated to North America and became a general in the Mexican army. | (1799–1855) took part in Louis de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the Uran ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
| Bill Richardson | ... rdon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico, | . On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned do ... |
| Giuseppe Carpani | In his works, Stendhal "plagiarized", reprised, appropriated, excerpts from | , Théophile Frédéric Winckler, Sismondi and others |
| Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
| Abu Nuwas | ... vities between them are totally prohibited. Ibn Hazm, Ibn Daud, Al-Mutamid, | and many others used this edict to write extensively and openly of brother ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ussed by a number of twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including | and Noam Chomsky |
| Elaine Showalter | In the field of literary criticism, | describes the development of feminist theory as having three phases. The f ... |
| Woody Allen | ... Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and | . Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desi ... |
| Jon Krakauer | According to | , the era of commercialization of Everest started in 1985, when the summit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terence Young | ... Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957 Connery appeared in | 's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Joh ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and | |
| Bobby Fischer | ... Santa Monica 1966 (the Piatigorsky Cup), with 11½/18, half a point ahead of | . Spassky also won at Beverwijk 1967 with 11/15 ahead of Anatoly Lutikov, ... |
| Graham Parker | ... he pair of Steve Goulding (drums) and Andrew Bodnar (bass), both members of | 's backing band The Rumour (whom he had used to audition for The Attractio ... |
| Maeterlinck, Maurice | Maarkedal - Maaseik - Maasmechelen - Maddens Doctrine - | - Magritte, René - Maingain, Olivier - Maldegem - Malle - Malmedy massacre ... |
| Neal Cassady | ... ne nickname (handle), CowboyNeal, is inspired by a Grateful Dead tribute to | in their song, "That’s It for the Other One" |
| Damon Knight | At the other extreme, science fiction author and critic | wrote |
| Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... rst season featured David Selby (Quentin Collins), Lara Parker (Angelique), | (Maggie Evans), and John Karlen (Willie Loomis). Robert Rodan, who played ... |
| James Blish | ... iction book Doctor Mirabilis, written in 1964 by the science fiction author | . This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Kn ... |
| Charlie Kaufman | ... ley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody Allen. | 's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desire to find existe ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... uel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, | and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the ... |
| Christopher Isherwood | ... radbury's work is sharply divided. In his review of The Martian Chronicles, | wrote |
| Bulfinch's Age of Fable | ... uraged his reading, providing him with classics such as The Arabian Nights, | , and children's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey. His grandfather al ... |
| A. J. P. Taylor | In 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and | , he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's fou ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
| Laurence Olivier | ... Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in | 's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. It wa ... |
| Tennessee Williams | ... the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by | and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in t ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist | |
| Arthur Miller | ... 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by Aldous Huxley, | , Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, where she appe ... |
| Mickey Rourke | ... cenes of which were filmed at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, and the 2008 | drama The Wrestler, which was partially filmed in at the Color & Cuts Salo ... |
| Richard E. Grant | ... rchward, Colin Firth as Arthur Holmwood, Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes, | as John Seward, and Harvey Keitel as |
| 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 ... |
| Greg Bear | The setting for | 's City at the End of Time is one hundred trillion years in the future and ... |
| Edward Fitzgerald | ... erman. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen under the influence of | 's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam. ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... legislation intending to fulfill the Contract with America was coming from | 's House of Representatives. Many Democrats in the Senate and the country ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
| Zoroaster | ... c. AD 120) asserted that Ninus' opponent, the king of Bactria, was actually | (or first of several to bear this name), rather than Oxyartes |
| Stephen Baxter | In | 's short story " " describes a Big Rip |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... uri joined the National Theatre of Greece and played the role of Electra in | 's play Mourning Becomes Electra in 1945. In 1949 she had her first major ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... ng Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, | as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus ... |
| Colette | ... us French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, | and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and ... |
| Julian Beck | ... eers of performance based works of art. Groups like The Living Theater with | and Judith Malina collaborated with sculptors and painters creating enviro ... |
| John Sebastian | ... e Clearwater Revival, Steppenwolf, The James Gang, Miles Davis, Tom Paxton, | and others |
| Ferdowsi | ... by the Persian literary tradition of Iran, particularly by the Shahnameh of | , which probably explains the fact that he named all of his sons after Sha ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... rs." Ted now served as a role model for Maria Shriver, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, | , Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, and other family members. The Boston Globe wr ... |
| Ibn Athir | 10) The Arab Historian | remarks in his book titled Al-Kamil: "If we name it the Quran of 'Ajam, we ... |
| Sanai | 5) | believes that in reality the foundation of poetry was established by Ferdo ... |
| Asadi Tusi | 2) | was born in the same city as Ferdowsi. His Garshaspnama was inspired by th ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... hard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, | , Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli ... |
| Anthony West | ... d Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914, a son, | (1914–1987), by the novelist and feminist , twenty-six years his junior |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... resley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, | , Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger ... |
| Judith Malina | ... nce based works of art. Groups like The Living Theater with Julian Beck and | collaborated with sculptors and painters creating environments; radically ... |
| Chaucer's | ... nded him for the part. He also appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of | The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a younger husband of the |
| Françoise Sagan | ... aywrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and | . In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and returned to Greece ... |
| John Cassavetes | ... n Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by | . It focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit ... |
| Charles Chilton | ... at Dixon, except the final episode, produced by Jacques Brown. In Series 8, | produced Episodes 1-5 and 17-26, Roy Speer produced Episodes 6-14 and Tom ... |
| Francis George Fowler | Henry Watson Fowler moved to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother | composed The King's English and the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and much of ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... e rule in Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India, | refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao Joshi ... |
| Francis Veber | ... mperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC. One of his grand-nephews is | , a screenwriter, director and playwright whose films have been frequently ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor | 's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trail ... |
| John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... tic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The accident killed its pilot | , and also his wife and sister-in-law. As patriarch, Ted consoled his exte ... |
| Gordon Brown | The government of | has announced several new reforms for care in England. One is to take the ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... n a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with | . It was also at this time that Snyder was an occasional student at the Am ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998, | made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ... |
| Anvari | 1) | a famous poet in his own right remarks about the eloquence of the Shahname ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as | , Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the ... |
| Marcel Achard | ... moved to Paris, where she appeared in boulevard plays by Jacques Deval and | , and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Je ... |
| William | ... he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, | and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914 ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... along with President Clinton at the public memorial service. He paraphrased | by saying of his nephew: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Petrarch | ... st modern historian. The foundation of Bruni's conception can be found with | , who distinguished the classical period from later cultural decline, or t ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by | in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia |
| Alexandre Dumas | ... nt of the Occitan Language. It is also the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired | 's character in The Three Musketeers. It is also home to the hero of the p ... |
| William Wyler | ... rl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran | . Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, shar ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... those like Robert Zubrin, Martyn J. Fogg, Richard L. S. Taylor and the late | who believe that it is humanity's moral obligation to make other worlds su ... |
| John Cage | ... Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, | , Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
| Mary Renault | ... river of boiling blood. A fictional version of Dionysius is a character in | 's historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominentl ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... er. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in plays like Macbeth by | and L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh |
| Matthew Arnold | ... nnection of Georgian culture with that of Shahnama: Furthermore he remarks: | used a famous episode from the epic as the basis of his poem Sohrab and Ru ... |
| Donald Trump | ... t season. In the final episode of the second season, he was matched against | , with King being killed again, this time in the ring |
| Hallie Flanagan | ... Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, Paul Appleby '13, | '11, and Florence Kerr '12 became influential New Deal administrators |
| Jean Anouilh | ... ouri starred in plays like Macbeth by William Shakespeare and L'Alouette by | |
| James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
| Prison Notebooks | ... the material, literally pens and paper, with which Gramsci would write his | ), brought John Maynard Keynes to prudently invite Sraffa to the Universit ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, | built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Zubrin | On the pro-terraforming side of the argument, there are those like | , Martyn J. Fogg, Richard L. S. Taylor and the late Carl Sagan who believe ... |
| Iain Banks | ... ht up in nearby Crossgates. In literature, the critically acclaimed author, | ; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson w ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... mless crimes. Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and | , Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality. The new Bolshevi ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... ncept of "inscape" which was derived, in part, from the medieval theologian | . The exact detail of "inscape" is uncertain and probably known to Hopkins ... |
| John Burnside | ... literature, the critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, | ; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal b ... |
| David Stannard | ... es and European colonizers came into widespread conflict, resulting in what | has called a genocide of the indigenous populations. Early European immigr ... |
| Juan Antonio Bardem | ... rman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibited by | . She continued her stage career in the Greek production of Tennessee Will ... |
| Hippocrates | Early references to the condition can be found in the work of | , Erasistratus, Plutarch and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted by | , who idolized Groucho |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from | (r. 161–180) on |
| Tennessee Williams | ... n Antonio Bardem. She continued her stage career in the Greek production of | 's Sweet Bird of Youth (1960), under the direction of Karolos Koun. In 196 ... |
| Dante | ... ther in The Hollow Men." This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to | as anything else in Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern Englis ... |
| Robert Gilfillan | ... e critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside | ;and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th c ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. President | great embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... charged at the time that it was made "under direct orders of the Kremlin." | , who reviewed the film for Sight and Sound in 1954, said it was "as clear ... |
| Darren Star | ... fictitious California University after graduation. The show was created by | and executive producers Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent. The "90210" in ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... been developed into numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr, | , Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations f ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... us directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, | , Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibit ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
| Cecil B. DeMille | In 1932, | produced and directed a highly successful film version of The Sign of the ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... st Neck became incorporated as a municipality which was named Lloyd Harbor. | , Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Joel at one point lived on the Neck. Currently ... |
| Ronald Neame | ... ith other famous directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, | , Carl Foreman, Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... acuated to the UK for five years during the German occupation of 1940–1945. | wrote some of his best-known works while in exile in Guernsey, including L ... |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | In January 2006, | ordered to stop paying pensions to ⅓ (more than 100,000) of elderly people ... |
| Richard Brooks | ... e Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), (directed by her second husband, | ), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of James Agee's nove ... |
| Frank Miller | ... major changes to many of their major revenue-generating comic book series. | 's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in G ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
| James Agee | ... and, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of | 's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending (1969), again direc ... |
| Aristotle | ... translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as | and Procopius. Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachea ... |
| Richard Brooks | ... citizens; they divorced in 1960. On 1 November, 1960, she married director | ; they divorced in 1977. Although both men were significantly older than S ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fredric Jameson | ... years before postmodernism became a dominant attitude in the visual arts." | , too, considers pop art to be postmodern |
| Andy Warhol | ... ious Dadaist — with a sense of humor; and Pop Artists like Claes Oldenburg, | , Roy Lichtenstein and the others |
| Alan Jay Lerner | ... musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and | 's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vince ... |
| Xenophon | ... ever, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material. His model was | , whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains fr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Chaikin | ... d by Denis Jerome and Klaus Bechgaard in 1979. Recent experimental works by | 's and Michael Naughton's groups as well as theoretical analysis of their ... |
| Gil Fates | ... eing hustled off the stage by announcer Johnny Olsen and executive producer | . Daly merely apologized to the panel, and the program continued |
| Samuel Rogers | ... he subject of a play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron (1821) and an episode in | ' long poem Italy. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto wri ... |
| C. S. Lewis | Fantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In | ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ... |
| Julia Kristeva | ... iterary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, | , Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| 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 ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... movement. While later American examples include the bulk of the careers of | and Roy Lichtenstein and his use of Benday dots, a technique used in comme ... |
| Walter Pater | ... oets, a group whose writings derived, in many ways, from the prose works of | , Hopkins's academic coach for his Greats exams, and later his lifelong fr ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
| David Hockney | ... advertising, and iconography of the mass production age. The early works of | and the works of Richard Hamilton, John McHale, and Eduardo Paolozzi were ... |
| Plato | ... , such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher | , but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. Once he had Philoxenus arre ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
| 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 ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
| Saul Kripke | Putnam, along with | , Keith Donnellan, and others, contributed to what is known as the causal ... |
| Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... schenberg and Jasper Johns as part of the transitional phase, influenced by | , between modernism and postmodernism. Both these artists used images of o ... |
| Neal Cassady | ... he inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way | had inspired Dean Moriarty in On the Road. As the large majority of people ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Byron | ... Frari, Venice. Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by | (1821) and an episode in Samuel Rogers' long poem Italy. The Byron play se ... |
| Robert Henryson | ... author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and | who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th century have connectio ... |
| John McCain | ... Security, and Refugees, and in 2005, Kennedy teamed with Republican Senator | on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The "McCain-Kennedy bil ... |
| Michael Psellos | ... s (such as his father and father-in-law) Bryennios made use of the works of | , John Skylitzes and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... c tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, | , Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... d her focus to stage and television acting. She toured the United States in | 's well-reviewed musical A Little Night Music, then took the show to Londo ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... tts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentator | praised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real w ... |
| Philip Whalen | Independently, some of the Beats, including | , had become interested in Zen, but Snyder was one of the more serious sch ... |
| Richard Dreyfuss | ... stival, where it captured the attention of film critics like Rex Reed. When | appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film a ... |
| William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... orum Fluxus in Düsseldorf with George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys, | , Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Emmett Williams and others |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | ... ange the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in | 's poem "The Last Leaf". Herman visited him in Boston, and his father turn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Huan Tan | The waterwheel appeared in Chinese records during the Han. As mentioned by | in about 20 CE, they were used to turn gears that lifted iron trip hammers ... |
| Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
| Umberto Eco | ... v, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and | |
| Burton Lane | ... n's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner's and | 's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Coluccio Salutati | ... , Tuscany circa 1370. Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leader | , whom he succeeded as chancellor of Florence. Bruni's years in office—141 ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... luded Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and | |
| Nikos Gatsos | One of her first songs was by Manos Hadjidakis and | . It was titled Hartino to Fengaraki ("Papermoon") and was a part of the G ... |
| Francesco Maria Piave | ... poem Italy. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto written by | for Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 18 ... |
| Lewis Mumford | ... Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian | —led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New ... |
| Jackson Mac Low | ... or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding members | , Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins |
| Hannah More | ... rkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, | and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of ... |
| Sarah, Duchess of York | ... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011, | stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ... |
| W H Russell | File:Wh russell cartoon.png| Punch: war reporter, | , Crimean Wa |
| John Cage | ... 931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to | 's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Soc ... |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | ... ce and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. | later referred to Snyder as 'the Thoreau of the Beat Generation' |
| Robert Zubrin | ... it could only be terraformed with greater difficulty. Mars Society founder | produced a plan for a Mars return mission called Mars Direct that would se ... |
| Caroline Kennedy | ... 25, 2008, where a video tribute to him was played. Introduced by his niece, | , the senator said, "It is so wonderful to be here. Nothing – nothing – is ... |
| James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
| Johnny Cash | Country singer | parodied the song in 1959 on the television show Town Hall Party, imitatin ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's fictional Middle-earth, the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Su ... |
| Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
| Kenneth Rexroth | ... t Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of | . Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This ... |
| Debbie Barham | ... , Garden wrote the Radio 4 series About a Dog, based on an original idea by | , with a second series in 2007 |
| Ludvig Holberg | An early mention in literature was | 's comedy Erasmus Montanus (1723). Erasmus Montanus meets considerable opp ... |
| Chris Claremont | ... sha first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #235 (October 1988), and was created by | and Rick Leonardi |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... Press, a Concrete poet, married to artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of | . Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the fusion of forms, the confusion of ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
| Mitt Romney | ... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans". | , former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ... |
| Paul Krugman | In 1991, | , as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ... |
| Robert Byrd | ... eagan] and I have been to the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him." Senator | of West Virginia, the President pro tempore of the Senate, issued a statem ... |
| John Cage | Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp, | 's 4' 33" which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Ra ... |
| Carolly Erickson | ... Starkey, feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, | , Alison Plowden and Susan James and Linda Porter. Biographers have descri ... |
| Robert Bridges | ... . These impulses seem to have taken on a degree of specificity after he met | 's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian Digby Mackworth Dolben, "a C ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | Snyder met | when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of Kenneth Rexroth ... |
| H. A. Guerber | ... ong with the host; those that joined in sincerity were rewarded with gold ( | , 1922). In the wake of the passing storm, with which the Hunt was often i ... |
| Andy Hamilton | ... vable Truth (which he co-devised), starring, among others, Jeremy Hardy and | |
| Dick Higgins | ... e use of a number of different media together. Intermedia, a term coined by | and meant to convey new artforms along the lines of Fluxus, Concrete Poetr ... |
| Aurobindo Ghosh | ... ds political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal and | |
| Roland Barthes | ... terature have often been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as | 's S/Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to r ... |
| Rider Strong | ... from TV at around the same time were most of the cast of Saved by the Bell, | of Boy Meets World, Joey Lawrence of Blossom (and to a lesser extent, Joey ... |
| Mickey Spillane | In the late 1940s | and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and li ... |
| Hal Foster | ... on the context can be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement. | , in his essay The Crux of Minimalism, examines the extent to which Donald ... |
| Alan Watts | ... student at the American Academy of Asian Studies, where Saburō Hasegawa and | , among others, were teaching. Hasegawa introduced Snyder to the treatment ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... hievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, | and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her ... |
| Clement Scott | ... and Henry Arthur Jones produced Hoodman Blind and in 1886 co-operated with | in Sister Mary. In 1886 Barrett left the Princess's Theatre, and in this s ... |
| George Gamow | ... expertise in the interpretation of X-ray diffraction patterns of proteins. | established a group of scientists interested in the role of RNA as an inte ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governor | from appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ... |
| Damon Wayans | ... ting classmates—until "King" was revealed as a young Don King (portrayed by | ), who promoted the schoolyard scuffle |
| Emile Verhaeren | ... Rompuy, Herman - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - | - Verhofstadt, Dirk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With President | 's declaration to create a Great White Fleet, the company entered the wars ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... in a schoolyard in 1939, in which the narrator led viewers to believe that | got his start in childhood as a peacemaker between two fighting classmates ... |
| Charlotte Chandler | ... mpanied by new books of transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and | . In a BBC interview in 1975, Groucho called his greatest achievement havi ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | ... ançois Lyotard, it was painting of the artists Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, | , Bracha Ettinger, and Barnett Newman that, after the avant-garde's time a ... |
| George Washington | ... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by | and Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ... |
| Griselda Pollock | ... d practices of women artists including painters and feminist theorists like | , were systematically reevaluating modern art. Brian Massumi claims that D ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... ts place the responsibility for the decision with the Ural Regional Soviet. | , in his diary, makes it quite clear that the assassination took place on ... |
| Henry Arthur Jones | In 1885 he and | produced Hoodman Blind and in 1886 co-operated with Clement Scott in Siste ... |
| Alison Plowden | ... activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carolly Erickson, | and Susan James and Linda Porter. Biographers have described her as strong ... |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... ty after he met Robert Bridges's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian | , "a Christian Uranian". The Hopkins biographer Robert Bernard Martin asse ... |
| Ibn al-Nadim | ... ss is in the Fihrist, a general bibliography produced in 377 AH (988 CE) by | . It includes an entire section on the topic of chess, listing |
| Félix Guattari | ... with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S. | disregards the "large promotional operations dubbed 'neo-expressionism' in ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... he nineteenth century it was largely rural with only scattered settlements. | lived at Hyde Farm in Kingsbury from 1771 to 1774. David William Murray, 3 ... |
| Peter Moon | In 1992, Long Island residents Preston B. Nichols and | wrote a science fiction novel, (ISBN 0-9631889-0-9) in which it was claime ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
| Otto Höfler | ... removed by trickery; it must be kept for a whole year and carefully tended. | (1934) and other authors of his generation emphasized the identification o ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
| Agatha Christie | Garden has also played a minor role in the 2007 television adaptation of | 's 'Nemesis' |
| Lew Welch | ... or a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, Philip Whalen and | . At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student journal. He also ... |
| Marcel Bigeard | ... nel Pierre Langlais, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and | , the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also a ... |
| David X. Cohen | ... t Springfield". The Flanders/Lovejoy segment of that episode was written by | . "22 Short Films about Springfield" in turn inspired the Futurama episode ... |
| Oliver St. John Gogarty | ... objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, | |
| Cardinal Pole | ... ent to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meet | on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calai ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting | , General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ... |
| Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | The Russian schoolmaster and physicist | foresaw elements of the space community in his book Beyond Planet Earth wr ... |
| David Hume | Historian and philosopher | , in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of Henry III (r.121 ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with | during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ... |
| Giovanni Verga | In her works we can recognize the influence of the verism of | and, sometimes, also that of the decadentism by Gabriele D'Annunzio |
| Porphyry | ... in the anonymous Parmenides commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to | [...] and is also found in Plotinus' Ennead 6.7, 17, 13-26. |
| Robert Burns | "Scots Wha Hae" is the title of a patriotic poem by | . The chorus of Scotland's unofficial national anthem refers to Scotland's ... |
| Larry Stephens | ... by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration of other writers including | , Eric Sykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wilt ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer | . Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
| Dave Chappelle | ... Live! and The Howard Stern Show to promote fights. He has been portrayed by | in a skit about a "Gay America", promoting a boxing match between two homo ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. | contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... n with the regular collaboration of other writers including Larry Stephens, | (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wiltshire and Joh ... |
| Michael Longley | ... bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as Derek Mahon and | . In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teacher and native of A ... |
| Karl Pearson | ... obability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by | . A histogram consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangle ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and | , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ... |
| Porphyry | ... xts, which shed light on some of the more puzzling comments by Plotinus and | regarding the Gnostics. More importantly, the texts help to distinguish di ... |
| Thomas Tickell | The house and lands of the poet | were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin So ... |
| Olaf Stapledon | ... ly excluded from science fiction's explorations of the end of our universe. | 's 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker describes intelligent life in the ... |
| Sidney Poitier | Along with Paul Newman, | and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company ... |
| John Antrobus | ... ykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wiltshire and | , initially under the supervision of Jimmy Grafton |
| Alfonso X | ... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of | . Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ... |
| Josh Fisher | ... he term VLIW, and the concept of VLIW architecture itself, were invented by | in his research group at Yale University in the early 1980s. His original ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
| 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 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
| Ira Gershwin | ... er. Soon after, he began to compose Broadway theatre works with his brother | and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris in an attempt to study with Nadia Bou ... |
| Erastus Otis Haven | ... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr. | , Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ... |
| George Washington | In 1792 Congress under | authorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... s in any particular country's self-interest to open its borders to imports. | proved that a country with monopoly pricing power on the international mar ... |
| James Oberg | In March 1979, NASA engineer and author | organized the First Terraforming Colloquium, a special session at the Luna ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... sidered using chemical warfare. One of the earliest such references is from | , who proposed a powder of sulfide of arsenic and verdigris in the 15th ce ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become | 's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ... |
| Rowan Williams | ... f the Christian right, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr | , the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Fla ... |
| Erwin Rommel | ... sh. Hitler had to intervene with the sending of the Afrika Korps of General | , that was the mainstay in the North African campaign. Continuing indicati ... |
| Karl Pearson | ... f a histogram); and gramma 'drawing, record, writing'. It is also said that | , who introduced the term in 1895, derived the name from "historical diagr ... |
| Attar | 8) | remarks about the poetry of Ferdowsi |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... ers written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress. | quipped, "The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho in ... |
| Emersonian | Eliot’s educational vision incorporated important elements of Unitarian and | ideas about character development, framed by a pragmatic understanding of ... |
| Tom Hanks | ... es, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to | ' character, and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | | was an uncredited screenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting ... |
| Freeman Dyson | In 2001, the space news website Space.com asked | , J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why some humans should liv ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... break Hotel" and "All Shook Up", while the same year in True Romance, actor | performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman covered th ... |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... porary acts, as the form was opposed by prominent religious leaders such as | and others on the Christian right. While in 1981 total gospel music indust ... |
| William Weld | ... nvestigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor | by 25 points |
| Aristotle | ... ecurity of despots rests entirely on the loyalty and power of mercenaries”. | wrote how some form of ‘guard’ (viz. a personal army) is needed for absolu ... |
| Dick Clement | ... an uncredited screenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team | and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lin ... |
| James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
| Patrick Kavanagh | ... hael McLaverty from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of | . With McLaverty's mentorship, Heaney first started to publish poetry, beg ... |
| Sally Field | ... er, and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite | , and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's s ... |
| John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
| Susan Travers | ... ccept women in its ranks, there has been one official female member, Briton | who joined Free French Forces during the Second World War and became a mem ... |
| Ernest Thompson Seton | ... s, and the idea of new members pledging themselves to the new organization. | 's Woodcraft Indians program was also consulted for its use of American In ... |
| Ian La Frenais | ... eenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and | were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up al ... |
| James Blish | ... observed by mankind: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. | 's Cities in Flight series of books (1955 and 1962) ends with the disrupti ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for | 's screen version of The Age of Innocence |
| Philip Whalen | ... Here he met, and for a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, | and Lew Welch. At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student jour ... |
| Alan Bleasdale | ... ichard Harvey, the title and incidental music for the mini-series G.B.H. by | . This entirely instrumental, and largely orchestral, soundtrack garnered ... |
| James Boswell | ... peaking voice to great effect in political speeches; the diarist and author | witnessed Wilberforce's eloquence in the House of Commons and noted |
| Lyle Estill | ... d at a local bank at the rate of $9 for every $10 of PLENTY. Local resident | , president of a Pittsboro company named Piedmont Biofuels, which accepts ... |
| Tallemant des Réaux | ... t rumours insinuated that he may have been homosexual or at least bisexual. | , drawing from rumours told to him by a critic of the king (the marquise d ... |
| Philip Hobsbaum | ... ntributing various articles to local magazines, he came to the attention of | , then an English lecturer at Queen's University. Hobsbaum was to set up a ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
| Tori Spelling | ... ls, while the series would make actresses Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and | household names in the US. The show also had many cast changes, though Gar ... |
| Herodotus | ... wap his horse with a fresh one, for maximum performance and delivery speed. | described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there a ... |
| Ernie Harwell | ... key players in the offseason. With the deaths of George Kell, Mark Fidrych, | and Sparky Anderson, the slogan has new appreciation, for players and pers ... |
| Anna Komnene | ... ging qualities, gained the favour of Alexios I and the hand of his daughter | , receiving the titles of Caesar and panhypersebastos (one of the new dign ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shirley Jackson | ... or an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of | 's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice o ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... 927, Sraffa's yet undiscussed theory of value, but also his friendship with | (a risky and compromising endeavor in the context of the Italian fascist r ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
| Augustine | ... the school moved into Syria, Northern Arabia, Egypt and North Africa (where | was a member of the school from 373-382); from Syria it progressed still f ... |
| Giovanni Verga | Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and | plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi and Renat ... |
| Luigi Capuana | Her work has been highly regarded by | and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro ... |
| Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
| Derek Mahon | ... ) and this would bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as | and Michael Longley. In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teac ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... or Distinguished Federal Civilian Service at a 1962 ceremony with President | . In September 2010, the FDA honored Kelsey with the first Kelsey award. T ... |
| Piers Anthony | ... e proclamation "'LET THERE BE LIGHT!' And there was light—" the story ends. | 's soft science fiction novel Ghost, deals with the topic of an energy-poo ... |
| Xenophon | ... but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim ( | ) attributes the invention to the Persian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), w ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... used the various sites as backgrounds. Today the most prominent example is | who shot the movie-in-a-movie Stolz der Nation (Pride of the Nation) for I ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plutarch | ... ces to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, | and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 ... |
| Mahadev Desai | During M. K. Gandhi's visit to RSS Camp accompanied by | and Mirabehn at Wardha in 1934, he was surprised by the discipline and the ... |
| Choe Bu | In 1488, the shipwrecked Korean scholar | travelled the length of the Grand Canal on his way from Zhejiang to Beijin ... |
| Peter Jackson | ... out of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in | 's film , (the city also has a cameo in , when Gandalf goes there to disce ... |
| Mario Impemba | ... rs' current exclusive local television rights holder is Fox Sports Detroit. | does play-by-play with former outfielder handling color commentary |
| Jack Williamson | ... eloped from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by | in a science-fiction story ("Collision Orbit") published during 1942 in As ... |
| Lu You | In 1170 the poet, politician and historian | travelled upon the Grand Canal from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze, recordi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Porphyry | ... balus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by | (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus (Eccles., iii, 56, 141). Clement of Alex ... |
| Mike Figgis | ... other gangster film, the 1988 film noir thriller Stormy Monday, directed by | and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Melanie Griffith, Sting and Sean Bean |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the fictional world of | 's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ... |
| Liam D'Arcy Brown | In 2006, the travel-writer | went one stage further in travelling on most of the canal which is still i ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... on the first syllable in a foot. It is similar to the "rolling stresses" of | , another poet who rejected conventional metre. Hopkins saw sprung rhythm ... |
| Nelson Goodman | ... is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal epistemic conditions. | had formulated a similar notion in Fact, Fiction and Forecast in 1956. In ... |
| Ben Stiller | ... he Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, | , Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro |
| Epiphanius | Early 3rd century–4th century Christian writers such as Hippolytus and | write about a Scythianus, who visited India around 50 AD from where he bro ... |
| Galen | ... ndition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Plutarch and | . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 in a trea ... |
| Salvator Rosa | ... ning the work into a history painting in the manner of Claude Lorrain, like | a late Baroque artist whose landscapes had elements that Romantic painters ... |
| Julian Barratt | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include Tariq Ali, | , Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Brono ... |
| Mirabehn | During M. K. Gandhi's visit to RSS Camp accompanied by Mahadev Desai and | at Wardha in 1934, he was surprised by the discipline and the absence of u ... |
| Jimmy Fallon | Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs | , television personalit |
| Martin Luther | ... gh, is that Protestant Reformation was—largely involuntarily—kickstarted by | in 1517, that is the year after the Reinheitsgebot edict (for one year onl ... |
| Robert Lowell | ... rton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet | , cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | Many people have criticized the golden rule | ;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ... |
| Stanley Baxter | ... cent and current inhabitants of Highgate include Tariq Ali, Julian Barratt, | , Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Char ... |
| Stephen Leacock | ... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and | . Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... nomy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari, Sardinia. In Turin he had met | (the most important leader of Italian Communist Party). They became close ... |
| Hara Takashi | ... I, giving rise to the nickname for the period, "Taishō Democracy." In 1918, | , a protege of Saionji and a major influence in the prewar Seiyūkai cabine ... |
| Poul Anderson | The Big Crunch as the fate of the Universe was also explored in | 's 1970 novel Tau Zero which posits a cyclic universe where the big crunch ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... er the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, | , fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his "Spirit ... |
| William Blake | ... y very largely abandoning classical drawing and proportions. These included | and Samuel Palmer and the other members of the Ancients in England, and in ... |
| Marc Seguin | ... t innovation was the use of a fire-tube boiler, invented by French engineer | that gave improved heat exchange. This was suggested by Henry Booth, the t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ferdowsi | ... ment of poetry and historiography, being mainly the poetical recast of what | , his contemporaries, and his predecessors regarded as the account of Iran ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
| Simon Mawer | ... isand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to | 's book Mendel's Dwarf. In December 2008, she stated that she was consider ... |
| Irving Caesar | ... 9 he scored his first big national hit with his song "Swanee" with words by | . Al Jolson, a famous broadway singer of the day, heard George perform "Sw ... |
| Robert Bridges | ... pkins was a supporter of linguistic purism in English. In an 1882 letter to | , Hopkins writes: "It makes one weep to think what English might have been ... |
| Ian McEwan | Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include | 's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ... |
| Douglas Adams | The end of the universe has been used for satirical and comedic effect. In | 's science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the "Resta ... |
| Tom Wolfe | Sparta was stated as the hometown of Charlotte Simmons in | 's 2004 novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" |
| Raymond Chandler | ... tists. (The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly | 's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... t Queen's University Belfast. During his time in Belfast he found a copy of | 's Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. "Suddenly, the matter of c ... |
| George Washington | ... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General | and other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ... |
| Ferdowsi | ... ma ( , "The Book of Kings") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet | between c.977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of Iran and related soc ... |
| Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
| Carl Sagan | | , an astronomer, proposed the planetary engineering of Venus in an article ... |
| Pat Summerall | ... time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer | and color commentator Tom Brookshier. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Cen ... |
| George Washington | ... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after | , the first president of the United States |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1976. | is making the film for which he will always be remembered—an adaptation of ... |
| Tom Lehrer | ... rom the 1965 song "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by the satirist | |
| George Whitefield | ... hornton, a philanthropist and a supporter of the leading Methodist preacher | |
| Pope Benedict | ====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States, | admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ... |
| Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | ... y such accounts already existed in prose, an example being the Shahnameh of | . A small portion of Ferdowsi's work, in passages scattered throughout the ... |
| Tori Spelling | ... in the 2008 spin-off series, 90210 along with former costars Jennie Garth, | , Ann Gillespie, and Joe E. Tata |
| Alexander Pope | They couple were friends of Dean Jonathan Swift and, through him, of | . Pope encouraged the Delaneys to develop a garden in a style then becomin ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
| H. A. Guerber | According to | : "The object of this phantom hunt varied greatly, and was either [that of ... |
| Zoroaster | ... ng only 1,000 verses. These verses, which deal with the rise of the prophet | , were afterward incorporated by Ferdowsi, with acknowledgment, in his own ... |
| George Washington | ... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with | , who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ... |
| 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 ... |
| DuBose Heyward | ... ning to New York City, he began writing Porgy and Bess with Ira, and author | . The opera, however, became a failure. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and co ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... authors to explore the more human-centric topics of fate and free will. In | 's classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, the primary character is a war veter ... |
| Louis Marshall | ... crosse teams. In 1911, under the leadership of Syracuse University trustee, | , the New York State College of Forestry was re-established in close assoc ... |
| John McCain | ... anoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee | , who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there. Air Force c ... |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | ... r, associated with beryl and juniper. Its astrological symbol was listed by | |
| Robert Lowell | ... 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. | called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, in ... |
| 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 |
| Spike Milligan | The show's chief creator and main writer was | . The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrase ... |
| Larry Kramer | ... cember 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of | 's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s ... |
| Steve Krantz | ... 7 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer | , Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It ... |
| Marco Polo | ... even made a distinct impression on some of China's early European visitors. | recounted the Grand Canal's arched bridges as well as the warehouses and p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Evliyâ Çelebi | The 17th century writings of | relate this story of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, circa 1630-1632 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of | , he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ... |
| George Washington | ... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General | , were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ... |
| Val Guest | ... nrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, she was spotted by the director | , who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small ro ... |
| Jaegwon Kim | ... organism of the same species). Other criticisms of MR have been proposed by | , David Lewis, Robert Richardson and Patricia Churchland |
| Virginia Woolf | ... am-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, | , and William Faulkner |
| Joshua Slocum | In 1898, during his solo circumnavigation of the world, | encountered a group of flat-Earthers in Durban. Three Boers, one of them a ... |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | | , political leader and orator, born in Dresden |
| Andy Warhol | ... pire blood) and socially successful (befriending many luminaries, including | ), but risks losing it all when the many enemies he makes along the way jo ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
| James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
| Evliya Çelebi | ... century Constantinople (present day Istanbul), purported in the writings of | to have achieved sustained unpowered flight |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
| William Faulkner | ... would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and | |
| 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 ... |
| Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
| Victor Cherbuliez | ... n, which had wide popularity, his work being commonly compared with that of | |
| Kostas Karyotakis | ... as admitted to the National Theatre's Drama School after reciting a poem by | . Dimitris Rontiris was her teacher and she graduated in 1944 |
| José Agustín Goytisolo | ... created in 1960 by Ricardo Bofill. Its collaborators included poets such as | , politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and , actr ... |
| Philoxenus | ... of having literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet | , and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded | . Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. | spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ... |
| Zabihollah Safa | ... rases and words which can be matched between these two sources according to | |
| Orson Welles | 1981. | receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stella Gibbons | ... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, | , Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ... |
| Dinabandhu Mitra | In literature, the play Nildarpan by | is based on the indigo slavery and forceful cultivation of indigo in India ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... irca 1309–1367), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani (c. 1275–1348), and | (1313–1375), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of C ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... ed him from wholly devoting himself to his religion. However, after reading | in 1872, he saw that the two did not necessarily conflict. He continued to ... |
| Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | ... iters such as Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, | and Daphne Patai oppose some forms of feminism, though they identify as fe ... |
| Bill Oddie | Garden, along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and | , became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The Goodies (1970– ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... s, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, | , Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, Ulrika Jonsson ... |
| Daphne Patai | ... a, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and | oppose some forms of feminism, though they identify as feminists. They arg ... |
| Virgil | ... axon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with | 's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, a ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | ... His detective novel, Trent's Last Case (1913), was much praised, numbering | among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can ... |
| Alcuin | ... astica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source; the Life of | ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser ... |
| Ed Harris | ... Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and | . It was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top G ... |
| Kevin Spacey | ... C miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring Jack Lemmon and | and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in ... |
| Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
| Stephen Gately | ... , Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, | , Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoski ... |
| Chico Buarque | ... ldwide success. But over the 1960s and 1970s, many artists who emerged—like | , Billy Blanco, Martinho da Vila, and Paulinho da Viola—advocated the retu ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... along with other three left-wing intellectuals, in with the known economist | , who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the "tyranny of the status quo" ... |
| Alfonso Cuarón | ... of Men was the basis for a 2006 feature film of the same name, directed by | and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. Despite substan ... |
| Don Simpson | ... oys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. It was produced by | and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Crimson Tide, and released ... |
| Tim Brooke-Taylor | Garden, along with | and Bill Oddie, became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The ... |
| Tori Spelling | ... ut the producers felt that she would be better for the part of Andrea. When | auditioned for the show, she used the name Tori Mitchell and auditioned fo ... |
| John Stow | ... ore than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. | , the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a fi ... |
| Kate Garraway | ... , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, | , Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Hig ... |
| Cho Ramaswamy | According to | , the editor of Tughlaq magazine, the RSS-sponsored Sewa Bharati did yeoma ... |
| Camille Paglia | Writers such as | , Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 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 ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... d performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor ( | joined the series for the second season) |
| Josephus | ... ortion of which has been lost. We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitus with | , who warped his narrative to do honour to Titus. In his allusions to the ... |
| Dante Alighieri | Chronicle of Fredegar mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, | (1265–1321) mentions Carantania as Chiarentana. The same name was also use ... |
| Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
| Christina Hoff Sommers | Writers such as Camille Paglia, | , Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Daphne Patai oppose som ... |
| Ptolemy | ... works of cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and | 's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
| Katrina Trask | ... by the great Wall Street financier, Spencer Trask and his wife, the author | . Since its inception in 1900, Yaddo has been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize wi ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ch We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and | , and inspired by the sinking of Kelly, under Mountbatten's command. Cowar ... |
| Daniel Ortega | Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President | , Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa r ... |
| Herman Melville | ... lt Whitman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and | 's novel Moby-Dick can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literatur ... |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | Both Michael Servetus and | have been interpreted as being proponents of Modalism. Neither, however, d ... |
| Tim Brooke-Taylor | ... he was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with | (Bill Oddie joined the series for the second season) |
| Jonathan Miller | ... detailed in his 2010 autobiography, "Life". The director, wit and physician | was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young | in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... i nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the regime of | from using the reactor for the creation of nuclear weapons |
| Jean Bodin | ... of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is also mentioned in | 's book Six livres de la République in 1576 |
| Gabriel Harvey | ... ops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and | , two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on a ... |
| Hesiod | ... d Osiris. The name's earliest recorded use dates from the 7th century BC in | 's poetic work Works and Days. Sirius has over 50 other designations and n ... |
| George Washington | ... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by | on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ... |
| Noel Fielding | ... kwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, | , Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, ... |
| Domenico Panaroli | The Colosseum has a wide and well-documented history of flora ever since | made the first catalogue of its plants in 1643. Since then, 684 species ha ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised President | to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ... |
| Jonathan Lynn | ... dy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and | |
| Aristotle | ... iphate, most of the Greek works of cosmology from Constantinople, including | 's De caelo and Ptolemy's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the Hous ... |
| Buffon | ... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of | 's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... uding the USA on its PBS channel. These productions featured Roy Marsden as | . The BBC has since adapted Death in Holy Orders (2003) and The Murder Roo ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... ies have consulate presence in the island. The French Consulate is based at | 's former residence at Hauteville House. The is based at local design and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Smiles | ... of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate | particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of , sometimes call ... |
| Marshall Brickman | ... r who aids her boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in building a nuclear bomb in | 's The Manhattan Project (1986). Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC min ... |
| Dick Enberg | The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with | handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John ... |
| Dean Jonathan Swift | They couple were friends of | and, through him, of Alexander Pope. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to devel ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... arallel to Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s in the United Kingdom and | 's in the United States |
| Michael Palin | ... former in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, | and Jonathan Lynn |
| Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
| Gary Spivey | ... (The Star Hotel Bed and Breakfast) is still standing today and is owned by | . In 1897 the Aberdeen and West End Railroad merged with the Asheboro and ... |
| John Henry Newman | ... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, | . Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ... |
| Herodotus | ... dating back to 4000 BC; the slow burning oil was used mostly to fuel lamps. | and other Greek travellers noted the use of castor seed oil for lighting, ... |
| David Sedaris | ... inning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, and | have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds are adjacent to the ... |
| Barry Letts | ... on the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee. He was recommended to producer | by the BBC's Head of Serials, Bill Slater, who had directed Baker in Play ... |
| Gitta Sereny | The British writer | (born in 1921 in Hungary), who conducted interviews with SS men, considers ... |
| Saul Kripke | ... eory regarding the mind-body problem. In philosophy of language, along with | and others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... 9th century and is now used solely for the Bayreuth Festival. Only works by | are put on |
| Craig Charles | ... anley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, | , Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway ... |
| Derek Roy | ... as writing for and acting in the high profile BBC show Hip-Hip-Hoo-Roy with | , and Michael Bentine, who appeared in the first series, had just begun ap ... |
| Bede | ... f Trier. It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew | 's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | In 2006 British comedian | released , a "mockumentary" that satirized everyone, from high society to ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... anne Silberstein was born on August 14, 1971, Rhonda's biological father is | . She is now married; her married name is Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and S ... |
| Terry Jones | ... riter and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, | , Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
| Truman Capote | ... 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, | , and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds ... |
| Clarissa Dickson Wright | Philosopher A.J. Ayer was born and grew up in the area, as did Chef | , and the former Wrights' home is now home to supermodel Kate Moss. Actor ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. | , Truman Capote, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The ... |
| Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | An admirer of | , she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S ... |
| Washington Irving | Tarrytown was described in 1820 by the writer | in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Irving began his story, "In the bosom of ... |
| Michael J. Fox | ... ar (1924). More recently, the 1987 movie The Secret of My Success (starring | ) was filmed in Lasdon Park and Muscoot Farm. Muscoot Farm was also used a ... |
| Laozi | ... of the Five Pecks of Rice. Its followers believed that the sage-philosopher | (fl. 6th century BCE) was a holy prophet who would offer salvation and goo ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... den was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with | , Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
| Cato the Elder | ... have ridiculed his fondness for old words and phrases (in which he imitated | ) as an affectation, but this very affectation and his rhetorical exaggera ... |
| Evelyn Fox Keller | ... en the social and natural worlds." Some feminists, such as Ruth Hubbard and | , criticize traditional scientific discourse as being historically biased ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for | and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ... |
| 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 ... |
| Regiomontanus | ... icus and decided to seek him out. From Petreius Rheticus was given works by | and others, intended as presents for Copernicus. He went on to Peter Apian ... |
| Livy | and declares that he is a greater historian than | |
| Bob Dylan | ... ght life. Caffè Lena was one of the first venues in the Eastern US at which | performed, in 1961. Arlo Guthrie played at Cafè Lena early in his career a ... |
| Quintilian | ... allust as an historian. Tacitus speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and | does not hesitate to put him on a level with Thucydides |
| Arthur Bernède | ... uddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and | formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to publish novels si ... |
| Lanford Wilson | ... f John Guare's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in | 's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre |
| Thucydides | ... nals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with | |
| Samuel Rowbotham | English writer | (1816–1885), writing under the pseudonym "Parallax," produced a pamphlet c ... |
| Tacitus | On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian. | speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate t ... |
| Laurence Olivier | In the late 1960s and early 1970s Baker was part of | 's National Theatre company, and had his first big film break in 1971 with ... |
| Madonna | ... zgerald, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, | , Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... wthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as | and Ralph Waldo Emerson still show elements of its influence and imaginati ... |
| 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 ... |
| Milton Work | ... r choice to pursue bridge competitions, where he attracted the attention of | , who had developed the Work Point Count system. Goren began helping Work ... |
| Sallust | ... us to show that sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of | and Tacitus could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost clas ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Styron | ... w Urbanism projects. One is Port Warwick, named after the fictional city in | 's novel, Lie Down in Darkness. Port Warwick includes housing for a broad ... |
| Jeff Daniels | ... ay productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside | in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre |
| Ely Culbertson | ... ted, he briefly attempted a law career in Philadelphia. The growing fame of | , however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... : The film was directed by Mark Hartley and interviews filmmakers including | , Dennis Hopper, George Miller and Barry Humphries |
| Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck | ... eology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is Le Règne Animal (1817; ... |
| Mos Def | ... 75 out of 100 on review aggregation site . The group also collaborated with | on the track "I Against I", which appeared on the "Special Cases" single a ... |
| Carl Sandburg | ... 963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and | . Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is feat ... |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | ... Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and | ), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President Jimm ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... in France than at home, but the romantic American novel developed fully in | 's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry ... |
| Jane Austen | ... d as Northanger Abbey in the 2007 ITV dramatisation of that name during its | season |
| Tertullian | The chief critic of Sabellianism was | , who labeled the movement "Patripassianism", from the Latin words pater f ... |
| John Guare | ... (1981) and I Am the Cheese (1983) and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of | 's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wi ... |
| Lionel Bart | ... iety of genres, but is perhaps best known for his starring role as Fagin in | 's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ... |
| Professor George D. Herron | ... ered on the campus of Iowa (now Grinnell) College. Its leading figures were | and President George A. Gates". Other firsts pointed to the lighter side o ... |
| Jeremy Silman | The popular "Winning Chess" series (with co-author IM | ) |
| Washington Irving | ... loration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after | 's publication of A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbu ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... a Mangy Lover (1963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as | and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and othe ... |
| Jonathan Downes | ... Portsmouth, Hertha Ayrton, a scientist and Suffragette was born in Portsea. | , cryptozoologist is known for living in Portsmouth, William Tucker, trade ... |
| Einhard | ... s Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and | 's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne"). He quotes from Gregory the G ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jermain Wesley Loguen | ... y other religious congregations. Prior to the Civil War, due to the work of | and others in defiance of federal law, Syracuse was known as the "great ce ... |
| Hideo Kojima | ... deo game industry; he was never interested in video games before seeing it. | also described it as the first video game that impressed him and got him i ... |
| Arthur O'Shaughnessy | ... Marseillaise" in his choral work The Music Makers, Op. 69 (1912), based on | 's Ode, at the line "We fashion an empire's glory", where he also quoted t ... |
| Alex von Tunzelmann | ... ffair between his wife and Nehru. It was to be loosely based on the book by | |
| Bill Oddie | Garden and | co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House ... |
| John McCain | ... rrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by an 8.1% margin over , with Obama carrying the state ... |
| Aristophanes | ... censor it or prosecute its practitioners. In a very early instance of this, | was persecuted by the demagogue Cleon |
| Robert Osborne | ... lear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film. According to | of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... or" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. | 's tales of the macabre and his balladic poetry were more influential in F ... |
| Martial | ... cter; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a prose work on wit (De urbanitate). | often alludes to Marsus as one of his predecessors, but he is never mentio ... |
| Aristotle | ... nce in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and | , who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his con ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
| Thomas Nashe | ... in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both | and Gabriel Harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a ... |
| Terry Jones | ... Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, | , Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandi ... |
| Newton | ... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa. | used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... isters' chambers, a theological college, an island or a private clinic. The | novel, The Private Patient, was published in August 2008 in the U.K. by Fa ... |
| Dore Schary | ... e to be made because he felt the story was subversive. The film's producer, | , wanted Spencer Tracy for the leading role. Concerned that Tracy might no ... |
| George S. Kaufman | ... ed his perfect woman: “Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like | . |
| Ely Culbertson | ... the development and popularization of the game following upon the heels of | in the 1940s and rising to prominence in the 1950s to the early 1960s |
| Michael Servetus | Both | and Emanuel Swedenborg have been interpreted as being proponents of Modali ... |
| Philipp Melanchthon | During the Reformation the theologian and educator | reorganized the whole educational system of the Lutheran Protestant parts ... |
| Aldhelm | ... sser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, | 's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne") ... |
| Joel Edgerton | ... Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, | , Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver. Animal Kingdom achieved success at the 201 ... |
| George Washington | ... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. President | is known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ... |
| Ovid | He survived Tibullus (d. 19 BC), but was no longer alive when | wrote (c. AD 12) the epistle from Pontus (E Ponto, iv. 16) containing a li ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance, | leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (wh ... |
| Marina Lewycka | ... setting for two popular novels, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by | and A Spot of Bother by |
| Rüdiger Safranski | For | , the Übermensch represents a higher biological type reached through artif ... |
| Emily Dickinson | ... nd imagination, as does the romantic realism of Walt Whitman. The poetry of | —nearly unread in her own time—and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick can b ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... iness, respectively. Arthur became a songwriter for Motown writing hits for | , The Miracles and Marvin Gaye while Chico became a professional dancer an ... |
| Richard Wagner | The town is best known for its association with the composer | , who lived in Bayreuth from 1872 until his death in 1883. Wagner's villa, ... |
| Horace | ... Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of | |
| C. S. Forester | | 's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a ... |
| Appian | ... utheast as far as Cyrenaica, so that Numidia entirely surrounded Carthage ( | , Punica, 106) except towards the sea |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... g guidance for citing electronic works. Other changes included a chapter by | on American English grammar and usage, and a revised treatment of mathemat ... |
| Tibullus | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and | , and contemporary of Horace |
| Barbara Cartland | ... 008 television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic of the romantic novelist | which was shown on BBC Four in the UK |
| Olivier Besancenot | ... tionary Communist League (LCR) candidate in the 2007 presidential election, | , received 1,498,581 votes, 4.08%, double that of the Communist candidate. ... |
| Thomas Middleton | ... he decree ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, | , Joseph Hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be spec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgil | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of | and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace |
| 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 ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and | still show elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic ... |
| Arthur Marx | ... as 29 and she 19 at the time of their wedding. The couple had two children, | and Miriam Marx. His second wife was Kay Marvis (m. 1945–51), née Catherin ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... devastated several times during the Thirty Years' War and conquered by King | in 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During W ... |
| Eugene Levy | ... ied, and Montalbán subsequently became a favorite subject of impersonators. | , for example, frequently impersonated him on SCTV. (In deference to Ameri ... |
| Tacitus | ... hat sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of Sallust and | could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost classical. Thoug ... |
| Daphne Patai | ... and criticize radical feminist positions as harmful to both men and women. | and Noretta Koertge argue that the term "anti-feminist" is used to silence ... |
| Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ... se, Volume 2 of The Morland Dynasty a series of historical novels by author | . The lead female character, Nanette Morland, is educated alongside Cather ... |
| Christopher Frayling | ... e true beginning of the Italian invasion of their privileged cultural form. | , in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical re ... |
| Vinicius de Moraes | ... and Garoto, this sub-genre was inaugurated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, and | . It then had a generation of disciples and followers including Carlos Lyr ... |
| Viktor Shklovsky | ... arly semiotic authors included Vladimir Propp, Algirdas Julius Greimas, and | . These critics were concerned with a formal analysis of narrative forms w ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir | also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham bec ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... member of the Black Panther Party and, more famously, the mother of rapper | - was born in Lumberton on January 10, 1947 |
| John Ruskin | ... ntinue to sketch throughout his life, inspired, as an adult, by the work of | and the Pre-Raphaelites. Hopkins became a skilled draughtsman and found th ... |
| Christopher Nolan | ... egor, George Michael, Piers Morgan, Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, | , Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, J. B. Priestley, Jonathan Pr ... |
| Michael Wilson | Salt of the Earth (1954) is an American drama film written by | , directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had b ... |
| Agnes Strickland | ... in the 19th century from the work of Victorian moralist and proto-feminist, | . This assumption has been challenged by David Starkey in his book Six Wiv ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... discover exactly which molecule was the genetic molecule. In Crick’s view, | ’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel’s genetics and ... |
| Lin Carter | ... i enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, | , Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the ... |
| Johnny Hunt | Dr. | , who was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2008, wa ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are | 's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ... |
| Epiphanius | ... on incorrect interpretations of scripture, or simply duplicitous in nature. | provides an example when he writes of the "Archontics": "Some of them ruin ... |
| John Cleese | ... corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring | |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... 1950s. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet | of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was ... |
| Michael McLaverty | ... ediate School in west Belfast. The headmaster of this school was the writer | from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of Patrick Kavan ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ore metaphysics. Herbert Marcuse criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by | for projecting anxiety and meaninglessness onto the nature of existence it ... |
| Sergio Leone | ... Western, seemed to be evolving into a new rougher beast. For many critics, | 's films were part of the problem. Leone's Dollars Trilogy (1964–1967) was ... |
| Robert Byrd | ... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore | of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behin ... |
| John McCain | ... or bills with him". In May 2008, soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee | said, "[Kennedy] is a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect fo ... |
| John Terraine | ... d Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian | . The list of episodes were |
| Darwin's | ... al History Museum narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that support | theory of natural selection |
| Daniel Inouye | ... d Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by | ) |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... d generous partner." Republican Governor of California and Kennedy relative | described "Uncle Teddy" as "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortuna ... |
| Tertullian | ... ; trinitas in Latin) could be found in the writings of Origen (185-254) and | (160-220), and a general notion of a "divine three", in some sense, was ex ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... ary Rodham Clinton and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning | . The famous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
| Aelianus Tacticus | ... major works on tactics come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by | and De Re Militari ("On military matters") by Vegetius. Taktike Theoria ex ... |
| Harvey Kurtzman | ... ce Culhane. Bakshi enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers | , Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
| William Horwood | ... Wind in the Willows won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. In the 1990s | came up with a series of sequels |
| John Donne | During her reign Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. | and Sir Walter Raleigh also had residences here in this era. It was at thi ... |
| John Stuart Mill | Victimless crimes are in the harm principle of | , "victimless" from a position that considers the individual as the sole s ... |
| Mario Amendola | ... rely Italian western movie was Il terrore dell'Oklahoma (1959), directed by | . The best-known and perhaps archetypal Spaghetti westerns were directed b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sun Tzu | ... e oldest military publications is The Art of War by the Chinese philosopher | . Written in the 6th century BCE, the 13-chapter book is intended as milit ... |
| Octavia Hill | ... tin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North Finchley. | , a social reformer and a founder of the National Trust, Kyrle Society and ... |
| Averroes | ... plished man who wrote a good Arabic style and who protected the philosopher | . His title of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he ... |
| 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" |
| Julie Bindel | ... who hold such views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, | , Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also con ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
| Sergio Leone | ... . The best-known and perhaps archetypal Spaghetti westerns were directed by | and scored by Ennio Morricone: the "Dollars Trilogy" (A Fistful of Dollars ... |
| Jean Renoir | ... nst the tsar. The mood of the army is perhaps captured well by one scene in | 's movie, La Grande Illusion. Alexandra sends boxes to Russian prisoners o ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... o convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President | without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was ... |
| Choe Bu | ... n the Grand Canal and away from the main delta. Even the shipwrecked Korean | (1454–1504)—while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488—ackno ... |
| John Wesley | In the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when | , a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charl ... |
| Vladimir Kramnik | ... s: Ruslan Ponomariov had gained the title under the auspices of FIDE, while | had beaten Garry Kasparov to take the Einstein title. It called for one ma ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... Common rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by | , who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Ka ... |
| Luther | ... o the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, | , John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, S ... |
| Sheila Jeffreys | ... views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, | , Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostituti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... s, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet | |
| Adolf Hitler | ... er Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of | . The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to ... |
| Garry Kasparov | ... ned the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten | to take the Einstein title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... ll called Khan the "greatest role of Montalbán's career". New Yorker critic | said Montalbán's performance as Khan "was the only validation he has ever ... |
| Jerome | ... been speculated that this may have provided motivation for canon lists. In | 's Prologue to Judith he claims that the was "found by the Nicene Council ... |
| Lactantius | ... were purely military; he left politics to Diocletian. The Christian rhetor | suggested that Maximian shared Diocletian's basic attitudes but was less p ... |
| Hans Reichenbach | ... oncept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences". Putnam's teacher | (his dissertation supervisor) was a leading figure in , the dominant schoo ... |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... tion include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, | and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostitution as "an intolerable ... |
| Thucydides | ... fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian | , and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Afric ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... d admit that they were, in fact, "bored with an exhausted Hollywood genre." | , he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus apprec ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... sometimes stage-directing as well as conducting, as in a 1963 production of | 's Lohengrin. He also conducted Mozart's The Magic Flute there in 1963 |
| James Fenimore Cooper | ... n Winkle (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of | , with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape des ... |
| N. Scott Momaday | ... drummer Steven Drozd. Notable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author | , poet Don Blanding, and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... is, a work he and Alfred subsequently collaborated in translating, and from | 's Enchiridion. About half of the Life is little more than a translation o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatoly Karpov | ... Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his world title match against | |
| Nicholas Meyer | ... t during filming of Star Trek II to make him appear more muscular; director | replied that even in his sixties Montalbán had a vigorous training regimen ... |
| Yehudi Menuhin | ... Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, | (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Mi ... |
| Boyd Rice | ... ollins, William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, Psyclones, The Haters, | , Pole, Stephen Vitiello, If, Bwana, PBK, Howard Stelzer, Chris Douglas a. ... |
| Eleanor Bron | ... and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time, along with | , Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake, and Neil Innes. He was also scri ... |
| John Barbour | ... e for Edward to gather a powerful army. According to the historian and poet | , King Robert Bruce rebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee h ... |
| Don Blanding | ... otable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, poet | , and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
| Jakob von Uexkull | ... nt challenges facing the world today". The prize was established in 1980 by | , and is presented annually in early December. An international jury, invi ... |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino | Mobile Suit Gundam was principally developed by renowned animator | , along with a changing group of Sunrise creators who went under the colle ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | ... g to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus appreciate how a film such as | 's Yojimbo (1961) "could exploit Western conventions while debunking its m ... |
| Claude Ponsard | ... ons; Albert O. Hirschman's (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development; and | 's (1958) Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales. Nonetheless, Walter I ... |
| Frank Miller | ... e DC Universe will never be the same." Along with Alan Moore's Watchmen and | 's , it contributed to the commercial and creative revitalization of DC Co ... |
| Dan Bakkedahl | ... lliam Ivey Long, Chris Elliott, Terrence Mann, and Daily Show correspondent | |
| Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
| Paul Jarrico | ... written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by | . All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their all ... |
| Gonçalves Dias | ... examples include José de Alencar, who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and | , renowned by the poem "Canção do Exílio" (Song of the Exile). The second ... |
| Bahadur Shah | ... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. | was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862 |
| H. G. Wells | ... uthor of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mr Tom and | author, lived in Portsmouth during the 1880s. and actresses and actors Emm ... |
| Basil Bunting | ... a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place where | gave the first reading of Briggflatts in 1965 |
| Astrid Lindgren | ... to a diverse group of people and organisations, including Wangari Maathai, | , Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memorial |
| Barack Obama | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
| Alan Seeger | ... stic volunteers and the hardened mercenaries of the old Legion, as the poet | pointed out, making assimilation difficult. Nevertheless, the old and the ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ntury Republican attorney and black civil rights activist who served in the | administration, was born in Holmes County in 1877 |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... accept his sexual attraction to other men, including a deep infatuation for | . There is nothing to suggest, however, any physical consummation and inde ... |
| Alexander Berkman | ... mbing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists | and Luigi Galleani |
| 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 ... |
| Millard Kaufman | ... on, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and | from the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original s ... |
| Viktor Korchnoi | ... t 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He also won a game against | , who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training fo ... |
| Barry Cryer | Garden wrote for and appeared with | and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot ... |
| Walter Pater | ... in 1864. During this time he studied with the prestigious writer and critic | , who tutored him in 1866 and who remained a friend till September 1879 wh ... |
| Haydn | ... ethoven's late quartets". Mendelssohn was not thought of highly, Mozart and | "were considered out of date and naïve", and J.S. Bach merely mathematical ... |
| Kit Woolsey | ... a major (especially if 1NT is in 15-18 range). Puppet Stayman, invented by | and Steve Robinson, is a variation of the Stayman convention intended to s ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored John McCain over | , although not as strongly as most of the other rural counties throughout ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
| Ida M. Tarbell | One of the original "muckrakers" was | , an American author and journalist. Her father was an oil producer whose ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| Brendan Cowell | ... 010 World War I drama Beneath Hill 60, directed by Jeremy Sims and starring | |
| John McCain | ... e many rural counties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored | over Barack Obama, although not as strongly as most of the other rural cou ... |
| Andy Griffith | ... the only interruption being during World War II. Alumni of the cast include | (who played Sir Walter Raleigh), William Ivey Long, Chris Elliott, Terrenc ... |
| Ibn Battuta | ... kingdom had converted to Islam. Marco Polo visited the island in 1292, and | visited twice during 1345–1346. Samudra was succeeded by the powerful Aceh ... |
| Herbert Croly | ... head was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was | (Class of 1889). Eliot was also involved in philanthropy, serving as a tru ... |
| 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 ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... , and his posthumous acclaim. Hopkins was deeply impressed with the work of | and she became one of his greatest contemporary influences, meeting him in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tom Pickard | ... e has a strong reputation as a poetry centre. The Morden Tower, run by poet | is a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place wh ... |
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| Han Shan | ... translation of the "Cold Mountain" poems by the 8th-century Chinese recluse | ; this work appeared in chapbook-form in 1969, under the title Riprap & Co ... |
| José de Alencar | ... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include | , who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... essional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was | in 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote |
| Johann Christoph de Jordan | ... tarting point in the autochtonic/allochtonic debate was the year 1745, when | published De Originibus Slavicis. The works of Slovak philologist and poet ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... r the Prussian Major-General and leading expert on modern military strategy | defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... et list, stage design, and costumes galore, and was dedicated to her friend | who died in June 2009. The tour, which commenced on May 15, 2010, in Bosto ... |
| Chris Elliott | ... t include Andy Griffith (who played Sir Walter Raleigh), William Ivey Long, | , Terrence Mann, and Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl |
| Robert Bridges | ... y poetic pieces. It was at Oxford that he forged a lifelong friendship with | (eventual Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) which would be of importanc ... |
| Michelle Magorian | ... as born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kipling, poet and author of the Jungle Book, | , author of Goodnight Mr Tom and H. G. Wells author, lived in Portsmouth d ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... res states that although feminists were among those who opposed the rise of | , feminism has a complicated relationship with the Nazi movement as well, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ecommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of | see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its a ... |
| António Nobre | ... 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as Cesário Verde and | . However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism is found already ... |
| William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
| Cesário Verde | ... e beginning of the 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as | and António Nobre. However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with Eratosthenes' method. | (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught theologian of the Middle ... |
| Johannes Dantiscus | The canon of Warmia Georg Donner and the bishop of Warmia | were both patrons of Rheticus. Rheticus was also commissioned to make a st ... |
| J. B. Priestley | ... ul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, | , Jonathan Pryce, Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Pet ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... impious lord, the flying hart To chase for ever through aërial grounds," ( | ), "Though narrow be that old man's cares" (1807), quoted in ; "Gabriel's ... |
| Hope Sandoval | ... tured guest vocals of TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Damon Albarn and | all check in for a song or two |
| Albert Speer | He and | were allegedly the only defendants to show remorse for their war crimes. " ... |
| Boethius | ... h century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of | |
| John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Robert Rodriguez | ... voices for animated films and supported his Nosotros foundation. Filmmaker | created the role "Grandfather" specifically for Montalbán in his Spy Kids ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... he goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was | (Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly (Class of 18 ... |
| Aristotle | ( , trans. Colburn) | also found cause to quote him |
| Washington Irving | ... the United States, romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with | 's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819), followed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wally Wood | ... tists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, | and Jim Steranko to work at the studio. After finishing Culhane's uncomple ... |
| Julius Nyerere | ... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent. | was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ... |
| Alexander Alekhine | ... shment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion, Dr. | , and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at the "Literary Café" ... |
| Gladys Knight | ... l's 'Divas with Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers | , Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at ... |
| Theognis of Megara | ... lides (Φωκυλίδης ὁ Μιλήσιος), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of | , was born about 560 BC |
| Petra Kelly | ... ncluding Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, | and Memorial |
| Julian Hatcher | ... lowback than as an adhesion-locked breech action. Some authorities, such as | , felt the Blish Lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish ... |
| Booker T. Washington | ... liot's tenure, including such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois (Class of 1890). | was awarded an honorary degree by Harvard in 1896. Unlike his successor, A ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... the earliest Christian scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with | ' method. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught ... |
| Betty Friedan | ... ritain, the women's movement was allied with the Labour party. In the U.S., | emerged from a radical background to take leadership. Radical Women is the ... |
| Robin Rimbaud | ... d Stelzer, Chris Douglas a.k.a. O.S.T., Aube, Andrew Deutsch, Leif Elggren, | , Alva Noto, Oval, Boards of Canada, DJ Spooky, Florian Hecker, Farmers Ma ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... to live in Dulwich and Chelsea before and after her time in Downing Street. | , the comedian who was the chief creator and main writer of The Goon Show, ... |
| Steven Isserlis | ... rformers. Musicians who have performered in the JdP in recent years include | , the Jerusalem Quartet, the Chilingirian Quartet and the Belcea Quartet |
| Franz Blei | ... erotic drawings however: 15 of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet | for his translation of Hellenistic satirist Lucian's Dialogues of the Cour ... |
| Castro Alves | ... especially the abolitionist movement; the greatest writer of this period is | |
| John Keats | Manley Hopkins moved his family to Hampstead in 1852, near to where | had lived thirty years before and close to the wide green spaces of Hampst ... |
| Lucian | ... ted by Viennese poet Franz Blei for his translation of Hellenistic satirist | 's Dialogues of the Courteseans. The book, limited to 450 copies, provided ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... ch broader layers of the population, and were championed by figures such as | . The 2003 invasion of Iraq led to a significant anti-war movement in whic ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... cinemas in 1934, in Alexander Korda's film The Private Life of Henry VIII. | played the king, with actress Everley Gregg appearing as Catherine Parr. T ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
| 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 ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny | ... Classical sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially | and Ptolemy) gives the following account |
| 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 ... |
| Cecil B. DeMille | ... rector, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay. It lost Best Picture to | 's The Greatest Show on Earth |
| Michael Patrick King | ... es in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer | and co-starring the cast of the original series. Also in 2008, she won an ... |
| Fritz Lang | Many of the following fictional cities were inspired by | 's 1927 film, Metropolis and the influential depiction of Los Angeles in R ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... titution which would greatly influence other contemporary figures including | . Port-Royal was run by followers of Jansenism, a theology condemned as he ... |
| Don DeLillo | ... (although frequently subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as | and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon pu ... |
| Jack Marx | ... ption in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert | in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner Geor ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... h, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by | |
| Norman Cameron | ... rca, where they were visited by writers and artists including James Reeves, | , John Aldridge, Len Lye, Jacob Bronowski, and Honor Wyatt. The house is n ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat | tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ... |
| Avienus | ... AD poet Marcus Manilius described it as "sea-blue", as did the 4th century | . It is the standard star for the color white in ancient China, and multip ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded by | as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court |
| John Cheke | ... ught into contact with the foremost educators of the time, Roger Ascham and | , and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek. He also acquired the affecti ... |
| William Blake | ... ighted traditional ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, | , Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico Ga ... |
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| John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | and Democrat Barack Obama tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This g ... |
| Sam Stayman | ... pening, a 1NT overcall and many other natural notrump bids. It is named for | , who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors wer ... |
| Suzette Haden Elgin | ... print titles. One of these titles, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by | , has sold over 250,000 copies. The reissued edition of The Columbia Histo ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... apra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon | 's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) |
| Rabindranath Tagore | ... d economic freedom for India's peasants and toiling masses. Poets including | used literature, poetry and speech as a tool for political awareness. The ... |
| Steve Krantz | ... ely ripped up the contract. Hampft suggested that Bakshi work with producer | , who had recently fired Culhane as supervising director on the Canadian s ... |
| Barry Letts | ... dio 4's Last Word to pay tribute to the deceased former Doctor Who producer | . He described Letts, who originally cast him in the role, as “the big lin ... |
| Noël Coward | ... nts. Sometimes the songs represented original material, or on one occasion, | 's classic There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner, but just as often t ... |
| John Ashbery | ... Progress of Stories (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, | and Harry Mathews. Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in Englan ... |
| James Thurber | ... Happiness of Mankind (1931). The "Outlines" became sufficiently common for | to parody the trend in his humorous essay, "An Outline of Scientists"—inde ... |
| Robert Mitchum | ... Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring | , Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring ... |
| Ptolemy | ... long been considered the oldest city of Poland because it was mentioned by | in the 2nd century A.D., but the claim is now doubted by some (cf. Calisia ... |
| Thomas Pynchon | ... ntly subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and | seem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon publication of V., Py ... |
| Sebastian Klonowic | ... and writers of the Polish renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including | and Jan Kochanowski, who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribu ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ers to deploy mustard gas to Italy. This included Italian intelligence that | had threatened to use gas against Italy if the state changed sides, and pr ... |
| Rosalía de Castro | ... in the local languages, like the Catalan Jacint Verdaguer and the Galician | , the main figures of the national revivalist movements Renaixença and Rex ... |
| Richard Hakluyt | ... retaliation, the village was sacked and burned. English writer and courtier | 's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from acc ... |
| Craig Owens | ... n his 1980 essay The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, | identifies the re-emergence of an allegorical impulse as characteristic of ... |
| Saxo Grammaticus | In the account of Baldr's death in | ' early 13th century work Gesta Danorum, the dying Baldr has a dream visit ... |
| Marco Polo | ... te 13th century, the monarch of the Samudra kingdom had converted to Islam. | visited the island in 1292, and Ibn Battuta visited twice during 1345–1346 ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... nutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly came up on the screen and | gave the first report of the assassination |
| Epiphanius | ... f believers at that time favoured the Sabellian view of the oneness of God. | (Haeres 62) about 375 notes that the adherents of Sabellius were still to ... |
| Toby Young | ... teadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, | , and Alex Zane |
| Ezra Pound | ... ngs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, | , Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, and Robert Duncan as si ... |
| 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 ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... ry, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, | , Lord Young of Dartington, Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
| Egill Skallagrímsson | ... ins the poem Sonatorrek. The saga attributes the poem to 10th century skald | , and writes that it was composed by Egill after the death of his son Gunn ... |
| John Mitchel | ... lism was heavily influenced by the anti-Liberal rhetoric of Young Irelander | . Griffith made a number of highly controversial statements and opinions. ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
| Nancy Hughes | With the immortal words "Good morning, dear," actress Helen Wagner ( | ) opened As the World Turns on April 2, 1956 |
| S. T. Joshi | ... diploma (although he maintained for most of his life that he did graduate). | suggests in his biography of Lovecraft that a primary cause for this break ... |
| John D. Barrow | ... of universal gravitation. While Kant's argument is historically important, | says that it "...gets the punch-line back to front: it is the three-dimens ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
| Noam Chomsky | Academic | argues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walt Disney | ... rt direction, effects animation and special effects. Hench was respected by | as one of the studio's most gifted artists and teamed him with Salvador Da ... |
| Gregory of Tours | ... entury Lombardic manuscript, which contains De cursu stellarum ratio by St. | . The Latin text taught readers how to determine the times of nighttime pr ... |
| David Kalākaua | ... mar of Hawaiian ("Über die Hawaiische Sprache") in 1837. When Hawaiian King | took a trip around the world, he brought his native language with him. Whe ... |
| Seneca the Younger | ... iest written record of magnification dates back to the 1st century AD, when | , a tutor of Emperor Nero of Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indi ... |
| Jacint Verdaguer | ... ere was a national boom of writers in the local languages, like the Catalan | and the Galician Rosalía de Castro, the main figures of the national reviv ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... Review believed Dickens’s "fellow feeling with the race is his genius"; and | thought the book charming, "inwardly and outwardly" |
| Barack Obama | ... ohn McCain received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat | 's 20,701 (47.26%), even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit marg ... |
| David Armand | Imbruglia made a surprise appearance alongside | midway through a performance of his 'interpretative dance' routine to sing ... |
| Manuel José Quintana | ... an Tenorio. Before them may be mentioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and | . The plays of Antonio García Gutiérrez were adapted to produce Guiseppe V ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
| Adrian Edmondson | ... red on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by and starring comic duo | and Rik Mayall as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates living on the dole in Ha ... |
| Craig Owens | ... compatible with the pictorial field of premodernist and modernist painting. | goes further, identifying the significance of Rauschenberg's work not as a ... |
| Brian Friel | ... at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright | 's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon and Robert Harri ... |
| Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
| Aratus | ... 2, and a final summary in 1926. He cited not only Ptolemy but also the poet | , the orator Cicero, and general Germanicus as colouring the star red, tho ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... n to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter | from Hollywood. Ironically, Gary Cooper himself had conservative political ... |
| Olaudah Equiano | ... of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was published in London, England, written by | , a former slave, featuring 79 Igbo words. The narrative also illustrated ... |
| Yehudi Menuhin | ... Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, | , Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra ... |
| 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 ... |
| Federico García Lorca | ... William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, | , and Robert Duncan as significant influences on his poetry, but added, "t ... |
| Irna Phillips | As the World Turns was the creation of | who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and wri ... |
| Frances Willard | ... d its roots to the early days of the Genesee College where suffragists like | and Belva Lockwood began to distinguish themselves nationally. However, th ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Matt Lucas | ... ipts were written by the same writers as Little Britain (David Walliams and | ) and Baker assumed his Little Britain persona. He used lines such as "Hel ... |
| Harry Mathews | ... es (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, John Ashbery and | . Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in England, France, and Sw ... |
| Washington Irving | ... to an 1808 short story describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." | 's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more com ... |
| José Cadalso | ... author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them may be mentioned the pre-romantics | and Manuel José Quintana. The plays of Antonio García Gutiérrez were adapt ... |
| Donald Trump | ... FL quarterback. He was selected by the USFL's New Jersey Generals (owned by | ) in the 1985 territorial draft, which took place months before the 1985 N ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... extual criticism as pedantry. His classical controversies also called forth | 's Battle of the Books |
| Paul Hasluck | ... ecember, once Labor's win was secure, Whitlam had the Governor-General, Sir | swear him in as Prime Minister and Labor's deputy leader, Lance Barnard, a ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Bernard Cornwell | Fictional residents also include | 's Richard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wa ... |
| David Walliams | ... 21:30 GMT. The scripts were written by the same writers as Little Britain ( | and Matt Lucas) and Baker assumed his Little Britain persona. He used line ... |
| Billy Graham | ... n the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Landry was a friend of the Reverend | , speaking at many of his crusades. In fact, one of the suit coats Landry ... |
| Robert Bloch | ... e of the great letter writers of the century. Among his correspondents were | (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian se ... |
| Nancy Hughes | ... t of Greek chorus to the stories. The primary purpose of characters such as | (Helen Wagner) was to comment on the crises faced and decisions made by th ... |
| Mitchum | ... at small, out-of-the-way Bridgeport, California in search of Jeff Bailey ( | ). Jeff is dating local girl Ann Miller (Virginia Huston), whose parents a ... |
| Úlfr Uggason | ... us other deities. Later in the book, Húsdrápa, a poem by 10th century skald | , is cited, during which Heimdallr is described as having ridden to Baldr' ... |
| Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
| Jacob Grimm | | theorized that Hel (whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-G ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist | was the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ... |
| Marcus Manilius | ... wever, not all ancient observers saw Sirius as red. The 1st century AD poet | described it as "sea-blue", as did the 4th century Avienus. It is the stan ... |
| Johnnie Mortimer | ... an for 16 episodes from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, | , Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, M ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Eliot | ... Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, | , Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney No ... |
| Howard Hawks | In 1959, Wayne teamed up with director | to make Rio Bravo as a conservative response. Hawks explained, "I made Rio ... |
| Henning Mankell | ... birthday of Anne Friel, playwright Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of | , Donna Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the t ... |
| Brian Cooke | ... from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, | and Donald Webster. The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Damiano Damiani | ... Mexican Revolution, often seen from a leftist political perspective (e.g., | 's A Bullet for the General, 1966; Sergio Corbucci's The Mercenary, 1968), ... |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian | published in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ... |
| Marshall McLuhan | ... oli. The "re-tribalization" of the modern, mass-society world envisioned by | , with all of the ominous, dystopian possibilities that McLuhan warned of, ... |
| James Day | ... jor comprehensive university were due to the efforts of two men, Chancellor | and John Archbold. James Roscoe Day was serving the Calvary Church in New ... |
| Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| Lewis Mumford | ... , published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. The critic | found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 "with its ... |
| Douglas Adams | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, | , George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, ... |
| Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
| John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Willa Cather | Acomita is mentioned in | 's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1 |
| Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by | , first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in ... |
| Frank Fenton | ... inwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by | and James M. Cain, from his novel Build My Gallows High (also written as H ... |
| Baum | ... ized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series will outlive its author; when | died, his publisher hired Ruth Plumly Thompson to write more Oz books. The ... |
| Frank Capra | ... . The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in | 's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr ... |
| Fanny Cradock | ... harine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her | take-off from Beyond Our Ken |
| David Markson | ... the same person), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, | , and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddi ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and | , who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this record ... |
| Melody Maker | ... 92 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". They were also labeled by | as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" and the reader ... |
| George Washington | During the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau & | 's troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ... |
| Allen Tate | ... e Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through | , and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriag ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... 6 December, Kentucky passed in review before President of the United States | as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Jan ... |
| Jennifer Saunders | ... her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife | ). Edmondson played an unrelated character also called Eddie Monsoon in th ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... lorous act that warrants the award, exceptions have been made. For example, | , while a reserve member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, received his Medal of ... |
| Edward Martyn | ... so-called Constitution of 1782 was still in effect. Its first president was | |
| José de Espronceda | ... s and playwrights. The most important Spanish poet during this movement was | . After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Mariano Jo ... |
| Giovanni Battista Ramusio | ... 1492. It is written in Raccolta delle Navigationi e Viaggi ( 1550–1556 ) of | that in June 1492, before Christopher Columbus leaves the South of Spain, ... |
| Paul Magrs | ... ed story under the banner title Hornets' Nest, written by well-known author | . He returns with a sequel to Hornets' Nest called Demon Quest. Baker has ... |
| Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
| Shelagh Delaney | The works for which she is now best remembered are probably | 's A Taste of Honey (1958), which gained great critical acclaim, and the s ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... riters of the century. Among his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), | , and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian series) |
| Leonard Leslie Brooke | The first incarnation of the band,"Mr. Crowe's Garden"; named after | s children's book Johnny Crow's Garden, began in 1984 in Atlanta. Influenc ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
| Joseph McElroy | ... , Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person), as well as authors such as | , William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stat ... |
| Robert Crumb | ... the East Side Book Store on St. Mark's Place, Bakshi came across a copy of | 's Fritz the Cat. Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... on. One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of | 's Mother Courage and Her Children (1955), which she directed and also sta ... |
| Félix Guattari | ... uch as Clement Greenberg, as well as radical opponents of modernism such as | , who calls it modernism's "last gasp". The neo-conservative Hilton Kramer ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Evagrius | ... n his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and | , his additions showing very little critical faculty; for the later period ... |
| Robert Penn Warren | ... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist | , who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ... |
| James Dobson | ... We Are Family Foundation video promoting tolerance, which was criticized by | of Focus on the Family because of the foundation's link to homosexuality |
| Christina Rossetti | ... araday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, | , Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe H ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
| Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
| Alexander Litvinenko | ... acob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, | , Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
| D. H. Lawrence | ... ped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel (1921), | 's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), Carl Van Vechten's essay ... |
| Robert Lowell | ... ; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what | described as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Phillip Noyce | ... wn; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David Gulpilil; and | 's Rabbit-Proof Fence in 2002. In 2006, Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes became t ... |
| Sarah Ferguson | Prince Andrew married | at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him D ... |
| Helen Gray Cone | ... ents; and its rigorous academics. The first female professor at the school, | , was elected to the position in 1899. The college's student population qu ... |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| Alan Bullock | ... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and | , are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ... |
| Leo VI the Wise | ... e of contents of another five books, continuing the history to the death of | in 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is d ... |
| Jonathan Franzen | ... their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular. | , who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis "an old literary hero of ... |
| Radclyffe Hall | ... tina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ion to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947 President | brought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient throu ... |
| Hitler | ... ended classes at the University of Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1933, after | took over Germany and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, Mendel and ... |
| Martin Niemöller | #Redirect | |
| David Foster Wallace | ... as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and | , who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recog ... |
| Johannes Kepler | ... ia that commonly develops as a symptom of aging. It was not until 1604 that | published the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lense ... |
| Asser | ... rome and Trent rivers which was ruled by Alfred. According to the historian | , Guthrum’s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was ab ... |
| Harry Shearer | ... l character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by | , and first appeared in the series premiere episode "Simpsons Roasting on ... |
| Fredric Jameson | ... creation of modernism at the end of its tether." Jean-François Lyotard, in | 's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically diff ... |
| Pausanias | The traveller | reported seeing a painting in the temple of Dionysus in Athens, which had ... |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... her media adaptations include a popular radio play version in 1934 starring | , an American television version from the 1940s, and, in 1949, the first c ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
| Eve Gil | ... tic Ignacio Mondaca Romero, narrator César Gándara, essayist and journalist | , short story and novel writer Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny and poet and novelist ... |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | ... this movement was José de Espronceda. After him there were other poets like | , Mariano José de Larra and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Jua ... |
| Paul Muldoon | ... d to build their large existing archive from Irish writers including Yeats, | , Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the The Belfast Grou ... |
| David Lindsay-Abaire | ... 006, Nixon won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play) for | 's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole. This part was later played by ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... to "read the smallest letters at incredible distances". A few years later, | is also known to have written on the magnifying properties of lenses in 12 ... |
| Hilda Ellis Davidson | ... that "half-goddesses" stand higher than "half-gods" in Germanic mythology. | (1948) states that Hel "as a goddess" in surviving sources seems to belong ... |
| Chris Columbus | ... cally in 1988. It starred David Keith as Elvis Presley, and was directed by | . In 1999, Elvis Presley Enterprises purchased a Wilson World Hotel branch ... |
| Derek Mahon | ... ny eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, Ted Hughes, and | into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to attempt to translate ... |
| Philippe de Rothschild | ... a time of drifting she settled in France and became the companion of Baron | , the vintner and poet, and wrote his memoirs, Milady Vine. In the mid-198 ... |
| Carl Van Vechten | ... vel (1921), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), | 's essay in The Double Dealer (1922), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herma ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
| Henri Michaux | ... i, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as Jean Genet and | |
| Jean Genet | ... berto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as | and Henri Michaux |
| Robert E. Howard | ... mong his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and | (Conan the Barbarian series) |
| Charles Chilton | ... Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963), her stage adaptation of a work for radio by | . Both were subsequently made into films. Theatre Workshop also championed ... |
| O. Henry | ... ana trade and the influence of outsiders, particularly North Americans, led | , the American writer who took temporary refuge in Honduras in 1896-97, to ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | Heimdallr is mentioned once in Háttatal. There, in a composition by | , a sword is referred to as "Vindhlér's helmet-filler", meaning "Heimdallr ... |
| Perrault | ... n his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas." In | 's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant (1697), each of ... |
| Jan Kochanowski | ... sh renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including Sebastian Klonowic and | , who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribunal was established ... |
| Georges Bataille | ... l Hegarty (2007) cites the work of noted cultural critics Jean Baudrillard, | and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the history of "noise". H ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... e into films. Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright | , and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
| Robert Grosseteste | Englishman | 's treatise De iride ("On the Rainbow"), written between 1220 and 1235, me ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... ble, although many eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, | , and Derek Mahon into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to at ... |
| The Belfast Group | ... eats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the | |
| Rolf Gerhardsen | ... two sons Truls and Rune Gerhardsen and a daughter Torgunn. His brother was | and with him Einar Gerhardsen also had a lifelong working relationship |
| Roger Ascham | ... where he was brought into contact with the foremost educators of the time, | and John Cheke, and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek. He also acquir ... |
| Marco Polo | ... e been exposed as hoaxes. Furthermore, although there have been claims that | encountered eyeglasses during his travels in China in the 13th century, no ... |
| Felicia Hemans | ... and a public library, or from little toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet | , and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, ho ... |
| James Connolly | ... Despite his opposition to communism and socialism, he sometimes worked with | , who also supported Irish nationalism |
| Walt Kelly | ... he Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks... boobs and undesirables." | 's Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of Senator Joe ... |
| John Cage | ... starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is | 's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half mi ... |
| Barack Obama | ... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat | narrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ... |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | ... at Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), Juliusz Słowacki and | , as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylogia). This close conne ... |
| W. N. P. Barbellion | Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of | 's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919. Since "B ... |
| Daniel Mainwaring | ... rring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by | (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank F ... |
| Michael Longley | ... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, | and other members of the The Belfast Group |
| Tori Spelling | ... ering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, | |
| John Stuart Mill | ... dels of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of | , poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiv ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... for CBS, and was a consulting producer on the ABC series Push, Nevada with | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... widely believed during the Civil War and was the subject of an 1864 poem by | , a poem that remained popular for decades. Barbara Fritchie, a significan ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | ... t and in works of great Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), | and Zygmunt Krasiński, as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylog ... |
| 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) |
| Swami Sahajanand Saraswati | ... later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like | wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toilin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Baldinucci | ... truction, including Dürer (1520), Vasari (1568), Molanus (c.1570–1580), and | (1688) |
| Daisy Ashford | Some books written for children, such as The Young Visiters by | (aged nine) or the juvenilia of Jane Austen, written to amuse brothers and ... |
| Moisés Naím | ... o Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, | , Tomas Eloy Martine |
| Warren Beatty | ... eutenant PT boat captain. Kennedy chose Robertson over Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, | (Jacqueline Kennedy's choice), and Jeffrey Hunter |
| Anton Delvig | ... 839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), | , and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
| Snorri Sturluson | Hel is referenced in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , various times. In chapter 34 of the book Gylfaginning, Hel is listed by ... |
| Ron Paul | ... s, the majority of Washington County voters cast their votes for Republican | , but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. Mitt ... |
| Zach Galifianakis | Actor and Comedian | also attended NC State University |
| Tony Kushner | ... vision series Law & Order. She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in | 's Angels in America (1994), received a Tony nomination for her performanc ... |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | ... ique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, | , Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
| Robert Reich | ... rofessor Rob Reich (not to be confused with former U.S. Secretary of Labor, | ) wrote in The Civic Perils of Homeschooling (2002) that homeschooling can ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... f a clear working proof of an old master print, like the two impressions of | 's Adam and Eve (1504, British Museum and Albertina, Vienna) which show th ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
| Swami Dayananda Saraswati | ... ulary or Sahityik Hindi (Literary Hindi) was popularized by the writings of | , Bhartendu Harishchandra and others. The rising numbers of newspapers and ... |
| Ambrose Philips | ... d him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of | , who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guard ... |
| Alex Steffen | ... ize. It also influenced numerous West Coast Generation X writers, including | , Bruce Barcott and Mark Morford. Snyder wrote numerous essays setting for ... |
| Pope John Paul II | In Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching, | identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ... |
| John McCain | ... 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated | , 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republican Presidential Caucuses, th ... |
| Sarah Dunant | ... blishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like Janet Frame and | |
| Wilhelm Küchelbecker | ... hev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and | |
| John Milton | ... has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the poet | had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for cl ... |
| Bruce Barcott | ... nfluenced numerous West Coast Generation X writers, including Alex Steffen, | and Mark Morford. Snyder wrote numerous essays setting forth his views on ... |
| Fugitives | ... –26) under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the | through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. | ultimately won the state by a narrow margin |
| Irna Phillips | ... sion soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. | created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guidin ... |
| Sergio Leone | ... oad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of | 's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office s ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... d Old Cholmeleians, the name given to old boys of the school. These include | , who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins ... |
| Romano Scarpa | ... untry of origin for some of the most famous Disney comic artists, including | , Giorgio Cavazzano, and Giovan Battista Carpi. Italy has introduced sever ... |
| Mos Def | ... cades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, Madonna, David Bowie, | , Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many others. Despite the gr ... |
| Ronnie Barker | ... ly used word futtock, rarely encountered outside the radio show (apart from | 's TV series Futtock's End), had a spillover effect on words like fetlock, ... |
| Theocritus | ... Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English | . Gay's pastorals achieved this goal and his ludicrous pictures of the Eng ... |
| Rommel | ... seek Axis help to raise an army to fight the British. Here, he raised with | 's Indian POWs what came to be known as the Free India Legion. Bose made h ... |
| Janet Frame | ... n 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like | and Sarah Dunant |
| Mortimer J. Adler | ... what matters morally is simply being human. For example, noted philosopher | wrote, "Those who oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that ... |
| Devaki Nandan Khatri | ... made Hindustani popular among the educated people. Chandrakanta, written by | , is considered the first authentic work of prose in modern Hindi. The per ... |
| John Betjeman | ... boys of the school. These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate | there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and Joh ... |
| Marcel Proust | ... earn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of | . Living among the gathering of young artists in the Montparnasse quarter, ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ts (1999), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of | , George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kapro ... |
| James Dobson | ... ate. The decision quickly drew criticism from some Christian groups such as | , but garnered praise from some Democrats and many Republicans, including ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of | when the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, three months later put an ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... managed to find a post as a teacher at Henley House School where he taught | |
| Robin Morgan | The Oxford English Dictionary credits | with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful. Concerning ... |
| Giovan Battista Carpi | ... amous Disney comic artists, including Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, and | . Italy has introduced several new characters to the Disney universe, incl ... |
| Marco Polo | ... anskrit and spent four years of his life working in Palembang. The explorer | visited Sumatra in 1292 |
| Jimmy Carter | ... sion was "firm, final, and unconditional." The eventual Democratic nominee, | , built little by way of a relationship with Kennedy during his primary ca ... |
| Albert Einstein | While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of | 's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ... |
| Newton’s | ... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas. | influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ... |
| Jane Austen | ... such as The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (aged nine) or the juvenilia of | , written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. Ann ... |
| Jacques Pradon | ... ichel le Clerc produced an Iphigénie in the same year as Racine (1674), and | also wrote a play about Phèdre (1677). The success of Pradon's work (the r ... |
| Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi | ... f Dwivedi") in Hindi literature lasted from 1900 to 1918. It is named after | , who played a major role in establishing the Modern Hindi language in poe ... |
| Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
| Al Capp | Cartoonists often use satire as well as straight humour. | 's satirical comic strip Li'l Abner was censored in September 1947. The co ... |
| Mark Morford | ... West Coast Generation X writers, including Alex Steffen, Bruce Barcott and | . Snyder wrote numerous essays setting forth his views on poetry, culture, ... |
| Jaishankar Prasad | ... and the literary figures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. | , Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... hese include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, | the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inven ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anne Frank | ... usten, written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. | wrote a novel and many very short stories in addition to her diary (which ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... sudden burst of charitable giving in Britain to Dickens's novella; in 1874, | waxed enthusiastic after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to gi ... |
| Carlos Fuentes | ... Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker | ;, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of ... |
| Thomas Otway | ... all it?, a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy, with special reference to | 's Venice Preserv'd. It left the public so ignorant of its real meaning th ... |
| Blake Morrison | ... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence, | suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... er the rise of Napoleon; it is often taken to begin with the publication of | 's first poems in 1822, and end with the crushing of the January Uprising ... |
| Ewan MacColl | ... 1934 where she met folksinger Jimmie Miller who would later become known as | . After joining his troupe, Theatre of Action, Littlewood and Miller were ... |
| Christina Hoff Sommers | | has been a vocal critic of the concept of herstory, and presented her argu ... |
| Tolkien | ... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of | 's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ... |
| Caesar | ... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between | and Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ... |
| Mahadevi Varma | ... l are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', | and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
| Elizabeth von Arnim | ... including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist | . In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whos ... |
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | He is a descendant of the scholar and politician | and a second cousin to former Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Dr Najma Heptulla |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by | in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka (1848) that "Space and duration ar ... |
| Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Montague Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... and managing his farm. While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, | , who lived in nearby Lenox. Melville was tremendously inspired and encour ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
| Yves Michaud | ... air, regarding allegedly anti-Semitic comments by Parti Québécois candidate | , was another factor favouring Bouchard's departure |
| George Orwell | ... father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like | a generation later). Two years later, having contracted malaria, he resign ... |
| Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' | ... gures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, | , Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi po ... |
| John Cameron Mitchell | ... l troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, | and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of ... |
| John Denham | ... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by | , part of his description of the Thames |
| Louisa May Alcott | ... ne (Christmas Shadows, 1850), Horatio Alger (Job Warner's Christmas, 1863), | (A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882), and others who followed S ... |
| Carl Sagan | | , pondering the question of whether life on Earth could be easily detected ... |
| Mikhail Lermontov | ... eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. Other Russian poets include | (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Ba ... |
| Rupert Holmes | ... Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of | , including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things ... |
| Henry Miller | ... took a job as a journalist. He soon became friends with the American writer | , and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. In the lat ... |
| George Washington | According to local tradition, | spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ... |
| Jacques Prévert | ... American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and | . In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tihanyi |
| Sumitranandan Pant | ... yavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and | , are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
| John Donne | ... losed and self-contained, as opposed to the enjambed couplets of poets like | . The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of ... |
| Jean le Rond d'Alembert | The first reference to spacetime as a mathematical concept was in 1754 by | in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by Jos ... |
| Leibniz | ... ngoing, and viciously personal disputes between the followers of Newton and | concerning priority over the analytical techniques of infinitesimal calcul ... |
| 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 ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by | in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales |
| Amber Reeves | ... Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer | , whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fa ... |
| Léon-Paul Fargue | ... came friends with the American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. | and Jacques Prévert. In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tiha ... |
| Carl Sagan | In his book Pale Blue Dot, author Dr. | also reflects on what he perceives to be the conceitedness and pettiness o ... |
| Alfred Rosenberg | ... s to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, | , and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
| Leibniz's | ... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared to | concept of monads |
| 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 ... |
| Rob Sitch | ... all dealt with aspects of the migrant experience or Australian subcultures. | and Working Dog Productions followed the success of The Castle with period ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity. These included | , Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl o ... |
| Fyodor Tyutchev | ... . Other Russian poets include Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), | (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wi ... |
| Robert Clark Young | ... w generation of authors interested in writing about the Far East, including | , whom he mentored. Snyder is now professor emeritus of English |
| John Dryden | ... e. The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of | and Alexander Pope. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the work ... |
| 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 ... |
| Publilius Syrus | ... ion. In 1726 he also published the Fables of Phaedrus and the Sententiae of | |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... ngs, includes a jab with an impression in the middle eight at televangelist | . The song "On the Fritz", the title track from Taylor's next studio album ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... ne of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to | , Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an in ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... y be emphasized, "by muting the strings and plucking the chord repeatedly." | , having been influenced by Link Wray, is often credited for introducing t ... |
| Bob Woodward | ... tical repercussions. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters | and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break ... |
| Nancy Cunard | ... rald, Lady Cunard (wife of the third baronet), and the great-grandfather of | |
| Galileo | At the same time, the experimental tradition established by | and his followers persisted. The Royal Society and the French Academy of S ... |
| Roger Williams | ... ony, clashing with the more conservative Thomas Dudley and the more liberal | and Henry Vane. Although Winthrop was a respected political figure, his at ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... uplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of John Dryden and | . Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Po ... |
| Georges Sorel | ... ich can be said to be legitimate others non-legitimate. Anarcho-syndicalist | advocated the use of violence as a form of direct action, calling it "revo ... |
| Yevgeny Baratynsky | ... l Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), | 's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
| Donna Leon | ... Friel, playwright Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, | and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by Bill C ... |
| Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
| José Rizal | ... emiere park, Rizal Park, which was erected for the country's national hero, | . Besides having parks and green areas, Manila is the home to several plaz ... |
| Lady Duff-Gordon | ... attitude encouraged by the Romantic school towards the Middle Ages. In 1861 | published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were add ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jim Harrison | ... unning conversations between Snyder and poet, writer and longtime colleague | , filmed mostly on the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California. The film al ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... r poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are | 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, an ... |
| Descartes' | ... d and the way the world really is, skeptical scenarios such as this one (or | Evil demon) present a formidable challenge. Putnam, by arguing that such a ... |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... nard, married Laura Charlotte Haliburton, daughter of author and politician | . The couple had three sons and one daughter |
| Leslie Phillips | ... tary Horne A' Plenty was broadcast on 14 February 1994. It was presented by | and included new interviews with Betty Marsden and Barry Took, period inte ... |
| Colin Burgess | ... detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by | and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleague ... |
| Nikolay Karamzin | ... of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and | (Poor Liza, 1792; Julia, 1796; Martha the Mayoress, 1802; The Sensitive an ... |
| Emlyn Williams | ... Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. (This is stated as fact by | in his 1978 introduction to a Saki anthology) It may, however, be a refere ... |
| Robert Altman | ... ter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (also 1988), | 's political satire for HBO. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel Tan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ters of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with | in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding g ... |
| Stewart Brand | The author and editor | once wrote: "Gary Snyder's poetry addresses the life-planet identification ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... hat he would visit China the following year. His National Security Advisor, | , had actually been in Beijing (unknown to Whitlam) at the same time as th ... |
| Sir John Summerson | ... ce on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian | asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English chu ... |
| Nick Cave | ... music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, | , Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular loc ... |
| Chinua Achebe | ... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs. | (in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ... |
| Anthony Hope | ... kshire in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin | , also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads |
| Michael McClure | ... George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, | , Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov |
| John Dean | ... b Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel | , that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party. ... |
| John Lennon | ... s a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians Buddy Holly and | became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point th ... |
| Thomas Coryat | ... on in northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by | in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years ... |
| Herbert Hoover | On March 3, 1933, President | signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ... |
| John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| D. H. Lawrence | ... as written about his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like | , William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. Willi ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, | 's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia. The form was immensely po ... |
| Ron Moody | ... sary. It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with | , Bill Pertwee, Eric Merriman's son Andy, Brian Cooke, Barry Took's ex-wif ... |
| John Gay | ... rrangement of the music for The Beggar's Opera (1728) -- to the libretto of | -- he composed many other works including stage and church music as well a ... |
| David Benson | ... wife Lyn, and extracts from Kenneth Williams's diary read "in character" by | . The special included the first and final episodes of Beyond Our Ken and ... |
| Burn's | ... festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using | poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In sho ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... e Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva | to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. ... |
| Stephen King | ... lculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". | called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the cla ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... d metal eyeglass frames called "John Lennon Glasses." British comedic actor | is known in the United Kingdom for wearing thick, square, horn-rimmed glas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Pollux | ... nfluenced by Bentley. His letters to Tiberius Hemsterhuis on his edition of | made the latter one of Bentley's most devoted admirers |
| H. G. Wells | ... ught of using a space theme. Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from | ' The War of the Worlds—he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child ... |
| David Icke | ... ed the fourth most eccentric star. He was beaten by Björk, Chris Eubank and | |
| Alexander Pushkin | ... the Cold, 1803). However the principal exponent of Romanticism in Russia is | (The Prisoner of the Caucasus, 1820–1821; The Robber Brothers, 1822; Rusla ... |
| Barack Obama | ... n, Republican John McCain received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 40%. This gives Hampton Township a Cook PVI of R+14 |
| John Keats | ... 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and | 's Lamia. The form was immensely popular in the 18th century. The looser t ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... ty in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes - "fallen women" - where | was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870. It may have inspired her best-known poe ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... feated his academic adversaries in the Phalaris controversy. The attacks by | (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad), John Arbuthnot and others demons ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence, | , and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was ... |
| Aristophanes | ... r ridiculed as often as they have been idolized. The classical Greek writer | , devoted an entire comedy, the Lysistrata, to a strike organised by milit ... |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... the most famous speech of his career. Drawing on allusions to and quotes of | , Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Alfred Lord Tennyson to say that American ... |
| Stephen Holden | In 1993, New York Times music critic | wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other America ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese. On December 13, 2002 | accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administ ... |
| Irving Berlin's | ... lar culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with | song, 'Puttin' on the Ritz'. The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed ... |
| E. Howard Hunt | ... ddy was put in charge of the operation. He was assisted by former CIA Agent | and CRP Security Coordinator James McCord. John Mitchell resigned as Attor ... |
| Dornford Yates | ... uel Mercer; and her nephew, Cecil William Mercer, became a famous writer as | . Charles Munro was an Inspector-General for the Burmese Police |
| Barry Goldwater | ... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
| Brian Cooke | ... End in January 2004. Based on the original radio scripts, it was adapted by | , the last surviving writer from the series, and directed by Michael Kings ... |
| Kerry Armstrong | ... icture, Best Director, Best Actor for Anthony LaPaglia and Best Actress for | |
| Stephen Leacock | In Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. | was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ... |
| Dicuil | ... osiers in Iceland when they arrived. This is also hinted at in the works of | . The Norse called the priests papar, a name found as an element in many p ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... licence, or in some cases cloned, on several continents. Former Iraqi ruler | often carried a Browning Hi-Power. Former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi car ... |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough | ... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with | . Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
| John Selden | ... ked with the great heroes of classical learning. Before him there were only | , and, in a more restricted field, Thomas Gataker and Pearson. "Bentley in ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
| Wendy Wasserstein | ... ival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of | 's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters ... |
| William Hazlitt | ... lic meetings and seditious writings. Wilberforce's actions led the essayist | to condemn him as one "who preaches vital Christianity to untutored savage ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the | . He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Joh ... |
| Rachel Ward | Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with | in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Strachey | ... othed that came from roonock" were living in an Iroquois site on the Neuse. | , a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in his The historie of travai ... |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... c after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to give generously; and | expressed a generous hospitality by staging two Christmas dinners after re ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... awrence, William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. | was another influence, especially on Snyder's earliest published work. Sta ... |
| Andrew Breitbart | TenNapel is politically conservative and has written articles for | 's "Big Hollywood" blog |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, | , and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress. T ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic | came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabili ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... e played Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside Frank Langella (as Ostap Bender) in | ' version of The Twelve Chairs (1970). In 2003, he starred in the black co ... |
| Augustine | ... (Modern Skikda); Hippo Regius or (near Bône), well known as the see of St. | . To the south in the interior military roads led to Theveste (Tebessa) an ... |
| Michael MacLaverty | ... t Belfast Festival 2010 in celebration of his mentor, the poet and novelist | , who had helped Heaney to first publish his poetry |
| Daan Jippes | ... of Disney comics. The first Dutch Disney comics appeared in 1953. In 1975, | became the art director for production of these comics, and created a heav ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... nfluenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced | , Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse |
| Pierre Corneille | ... w of Hector, and her fate following the Trojan War. Amongst his rivals were | and his brother, Thomas Corneille. Tragedians often competed with alternat ... |
| Taliesin | ... ass of the period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like | , Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... published work. Starting in high school, Snyder read and loved the work of | , his predecessor in poetry of the landscape of the American West; but, wh ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | Both the stage and TV versions starred | (Horne), Robin Sebastian (Williams), Kate Brown (Marsden), Nigel Harrison ... |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | ... period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, | and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, L ... |
| John Lindow | Regarding Heimdallr's whiteness and the comparison to the Vanir, scholar | comments that there are no other indications of Heimdallr being considered ... |
| Noël Coward | ... Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, | , and P. G. Wodehouse |
| Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
| Terry Pratchett | In the United Kingdom, a popular modern satirist is Sir | , author of the internationally best-selling Discworld book series. One of ... |
| Ruth Padel | ... in 2006 which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judge | described the work as "a collection of painful, honest, and delicately wei ... |
| Bill Gothard | ... ng with Taylor tradition, took aim once again at religious leaders, such as | ("I Manipulate"), greedy TV evangelists (again) ("You Don't Owe Me Nothing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by | , Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king Dyggvi ... |
| James I | ... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as | of the House of Stuart |
| 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 ... |
| Patti Smith | ... eet Band, Jon Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, | , Arthur Pryor, Count Basie, Gary U.S. Bonds, along with many more |
| Lamarck | ... er was critical of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of on ... |
| Konstantin Batyushkov | Early Russian Romanticism is associated with the writers | (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1 ... |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... s Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and | |
| Paulo Coelho | ... is document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, | , Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
| Thomas Corneille | ... g the Trojan War. Amongst his rivals were Pierre Corneille and his brother, | . Tragedians often competed with alternative versions of the same plot: fo ... |
| Daniel Defoe | Writer | devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great ... |
| Thomas Malory | ... opular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, Chrétien de Troyes and | wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galaha ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to | , "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation", he soon re ... |
| Vasily Zhukovsky | ... writers Konstantin Batyushkov (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), | (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and Nikolay Karamzin (Poor Liza, 1792; Ju ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... passive. The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popular | was regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popul ... |
| Alexander Pope | The dedication of his Rural Sports (1713) to | was the beginning of a lasting friendship. In 1714, Gay wrote The Shepherd ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
| Harry Morgan | ... o deal with the situation. Mildrid Fuller (Eve McVeagh) wants her husband ( | ) to speak with Kane when he comes to their home, but he makes her claim h ... |
| Marcel Duchamp | In the early 20th century | exhibited a urinal as a sculpture. His point was to have people look at th ... |
| Jean Froissart | A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as | , Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clarence Day | ... as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program. The episode also adapted | 's Life with Father |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by | and others). It is also designated Uranus IX |
| 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 ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... rizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Governor | (R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while fo ... |
| Angus Deayton | ... iz show Have I Got News For You and was subsequently described by presenter | as the funniest guest in the show's history. A particular highlight of the ... |
| Bill Pertwee | ... neth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody (soon succeeded by | ). Around the imperturbable establishment figure of Horne the other perfor ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... satiric. Refer to the careful definition of satire that heads this article. | ’s television program, The Colbert Report, is instructive in the methods o ... |
| Orson Welles | A radio adaptation starring | aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on th ... |
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... mbers of a third sex in Europe from at least the 1860s with the writings of | and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in | 's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and ... |
| George Meyer | ... he Leftorium" first appeared in "When Flanders Failed". It was suggested by | , who had had a friend who had owned a left-handed specialty store which f ... |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | ... er became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by | and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cou ... |
| Zosimus | Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and | refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. Ammianus Marcellinus a ... |
| Levon Helm | ... fferent running order. These albums resulted from five days of recording at | s Studio in Woodstock, and presents a combination of new material and a fe ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... orenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, | and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers ... |
| John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
| Stendhal | ... or her novels and criticism and her affairs with Chopin and several others. | is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, ... |
| Adam Hochschild | In King Leopold's Ghost (1998), | argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspe ... |
| Bill Walsh | ... by Ted Osborne (1934–49), Merrill De Maris (1934–42), Dick Shaw (1942–43), | (1943–64), Roy Williams (1964) and Del Connell (1968–82). There were a var ... |
| Dorothy Parker | ... s considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and | . Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influe ... |
| Tommaso Campanella | ... f the Sun (; ) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher | . It is an important early utopian work |
| Saxo Grammaticus | ... An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by | , is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various M ... |
| Barack Obama | ... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote for | in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ... |
| Ron Moody | ... s supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and | (soon succeeded by Bill Pertwee). Around the imperturbable establishment f ... |
| Orson Bean | ... then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee". | , who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a ga ... |
| John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
| O. Henry | ... culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to | and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, ... |
| Natsume Sōseki | ... ura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and | studied in the West and introduced a more modern view of human life |
| Israel Zangwill | ... ibe the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side in | 's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... on and received an unexpected boost after the assassination of US President | . As a result, the Coalition easily defeated Labor. Whitlam had hoped Calw ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s he traveled for six months through India with his wife Joanne, | , and Peter Orlovsky. Snyder and Joanne Kyger separated soon after a trip ... |
| Cem Kaner | | and Grady Booch have publicly stated that the document could be improved. ... |
| Plato | ... library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including | 's Republic, and More's Utopia. This would be the beginning of Herbert Geo ... |
| Michelangelo | ... nzo in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by | , Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician a ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Gay | ... of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and | , in particular) |
| Averroes | ... k and Roman ancient writers, while contemporaries cultural figures included | and the Jewish philosopher Maimonides |
| Kim Newman | The Anno Dracula series by | —named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fan ... |
| Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore | ... in which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are | (one of the proprietors of Maryland ) |
| Mori Ōgai | ... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. | and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ... |
| George Sand | ... , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872. | took over from Germaine de Staël as the leading female writer, and was a c ... |
| Roseanne Barr | ... roles, working opposite such actors as Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger), | (Roseanne), and Tracey Ullman (Tracey Takes On...). Eventually, Maguire wa ... |
| Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| Francis French | ... and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by Colin Burgess and | , including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleagues |
| Okakura Kakuzō | ... ochika adopted western painting styles while continuing to work in ukiyo-e. | kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and Natsume S ... |
| Diego Álvarez Chanca | Chilies were cultivated around the globe after Columbus. | , a physician on Columbus' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, broug ... |
| Washington Irving | ... the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, | 's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book (1820) describing the ... |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | ... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain | , justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation ( | and John Gay, in particular) |
| Théophile Gautier | ... lfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant | , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872 ... |
| Chinua Achebe | In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer | , author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ... |
| John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | ... 6, when Robert Goddard considered the possibility in his personal notebook. | published the idea in 1911 |
| Melvin Van Peebles | ... come in California. By the time production wrapped, Cinemation had released | ' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song to considerable success, despite the X ... |
| Mike Scully | ... st few episodes that it was decided Flanders would be a faithful Christian. | noted that Flanders is "everything Homer would love to be, although he'll ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... of most soviets at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, while he and | simultaneously led the October Revolution. As a matter of political pragma ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
| Barack Obama | ... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for | 59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The most famous adaptation is | 's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Cong ... |
| Kobayashi Issa | He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from | , a famous Japanese haiku poet. The result is known as Issa's theorem in c ... |
| Graham Stark | ... it of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: | , for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Bet ... |
| Mariel Hemingway | ... lm, The Golden Boys, starring Bruce Dern, David Carradine, Charles Durning, | , and Rip Torn, also included Edwards as Reverend Perley. It is a romantic ... |
| Matt Groening | ... ed after Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator | . Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as "just a guy who was t ... |
| Edward Carpenter | ... the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John Addington Symonds, | , Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselves and those like ... |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | ... tic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, | and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various for ... |
| Davies Gilbert | ... Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of | 's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), William B. Sandys's Selection of ... |
| Shakespeare | ... han three hundred years. It was so widely used by Elizabethan scholars that | was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of Titus Andronicus, ... |
| Ketan Mehta | ... ater, he made his adult acting debut in a role that went quite unnoticed in | 's Holi (1984) |
| Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | The Spanish record two different stories about what happened next. | writing in the 17th century, records that Olid's soldiers rose up and murd ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
| Ron Paul | ... ent of the vote in Franklin County. Libertarian-leaning U.S. Representative | (R-Texas) finished a distant fourth with 4.07 percent in Franklin County |
| Gérard de Nerval | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, | , Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolif ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | ... Stoltenberg. He was raised in the Waldorf Education system as formulated by | , and educated at the Oslo katedralskole and the University of Oslo. He li ... |
| John Addington Symonds | ... richs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, | , Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselv ... |
| Marty Feldman | ... replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and | . Horne remained the genial and unflappable focal figure, and the writers ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... apparent leader of the Italian unification movement was Italian nationalist | . He was popular amongst southern Italians. Garibaldi led the Italian repu ... |
| Alfred de Musset | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include | , Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gau ... |
| Mikhail Bakunin | ... om the Mutualists who opposed communism and statism. However, shortly after | and his followers (called Collectivists while in the International) joined ... |
| Magnus Hirschfeld | ... of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with | , John Addington Symonds, Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These wr ... |
| Stewart Stern | ... use 90 aired a 90-minute loose adaptation in 1958. This version, written by | , uses the encounter between Marlow (Roddy McDowall) and Kurtz (Boris Karl ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by | |
| Kyokutei Bakin | On the other hand, the famous 18th century writer | renounced his allegiance to Matsudaira Nobunari, in whose service Bakin's ... |
| King James I | ... and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under | . His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ... |
| Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nasir Hussain | ... al decades. His father, Tahir Hussain, was a film producer while his uncle, | , was a film producer as well as a director and an actor. His family on hi ... |
| Camille Paglia | Like Gloria Steinem and | , Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist th ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... etts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while former Governor | (R-Arkansas) finished third with 27.70 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
| Nicolas Boileau | ... ing with poetry yielded high praise from France's greatest literary critic, | with whom Racine would later become great friends, and Boileau would often ... |
| Fred Hoyle | ... me to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948, | set out his opposing steady state theory in which the universe continually ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... -sequenced Among Us , a CD by Simon Townshend, younger brother of the Who's | |
| William Shakespeare | ... Side in Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of | 's Romeo and Juliet set by Zangwill in New York City in 1908. The iconic F ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and | , the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John ... |
| Tahir Hussain | ... lved in the Indian motion picture industry for several decades. His father, | , was a film producer while his uncle, Nasir Hussain, was a film producer ... |
| Gloria Steinem | ... olithic feminist orthodoxy", noting in response that she has disagreed with | about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion |
| George W. Peck | ... h. The first known printed use of donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by | , published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... d by 1981's World War I drama Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring | . These films, now considered classics of Australian cinema explored conte ... |
| Princess Elizabeth | ... of Northumberland had employed Cecil in the administration of the lands of | . Before Mary died he was a member of the "old flock of Hatfield", and fro ... |
| Naomi Wolf | ... n response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and | about abortion |
| Steven Spielberg | ... he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and | . He soon accused Krantz of ripping him off, which the producer denied |
| Alfred de Vigny | ... t known as the originator of the story of Carmen, with his novella of 1845. | remains best known as a dramatist, with his play on the life of the Englis ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... with the second Red Scare and the Korean War. Writer, producer, and partner | was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) while ... |
| Pepys | ... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790) | ;'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year. | of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in w ... |
| Walt Disney | ... four-month-old Mickey Mouse comic strip. It had originally been scripted by | and drawn by Ub Iwerks who was succeeded by Win Smith. In May, Disney had ... |
| Gloria Steinem | Like | and Camille Paglia, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in ac ... |
| Marco Polo | ... eliable attendants working for the mail service. Foreign observers, such as | , have attested to the efficiency of this early postal system |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... llow directors with whom he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, | and Steven Spielberg. He soon accused Krantz of ripping him off, which the ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... lay and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States | . Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was directed by Steve Bin ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... al; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by | ; in the poetry of skalds; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... ere inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis, | , and Pierre Clastres |
| Andy Warhol | ... st is as associated with the downtown pop art movement of the late 1970s as | , who socialized at clubs like Serendipity 3 and Studio 54 |
| David Thomson | ... for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger. According to | "if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of w ... |
| King James I | ... to return without even making it to Roanoke Island. Having been arrested by | for treason, Raleigh was unable to send any further missions |
| John Edwards | ... eit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator | (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | A second individual of unusual insight was | , whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of | , star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked wi ... |
| H. G. Wells | The topic of heat death was explored in science fiction as early as 1895 in | ' The Time Machine, which includes an evocation of the heat death of the u ... |
| Eleanor Bron | ... . Other significant influences in 1960s British satire include David Frost, | and the television program That Was The Week That Was. Paul Krassner's mag ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... ht advice from fellow directors with whom he had become friendly, including | , Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg. He soon accused Krantz of rip ... |
| Jim Cairns | ... m was elected leader of the party, defeating leading left-wing candidate Dr | |
| Prosper Mérimée | ... ch Romanticism, stating that "there are no rules, or models". The career of | followed a similar pattern; he is now best known as the originator of the ... |
| Charles Darwin | Local attractions include Down House (the home of | ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of William Pitt the Younger) ... |
| 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). ... |
| Otto von Bismarck | ... ppe Garibaldi, a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister | offered Victor Emmanuel II an alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia in the ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
| Bill Oakley | ... Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short existed. | and several other writers loved the short so much that they wanted to do m ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
| Sir William Temple's | ... was appointed a commissioner of the treasury in March 1679, was included in | new modeled council the same year, and was a member of the inner cabinet w ... |
| Marty Feldman | ... kly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by Barry Took and | - with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to perfo ... |
| Cornelius Castoriadis | ... t modern thinkers who were inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: | , Hannah Arendt, and Pierre Clastres |
| Sam Raimi | ... 980s. While perhaps best known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in | 's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), he has also appeared in films such ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... se American members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, among them Senator | . In 2005, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless. | and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ... |
| Wes Craven | After On The Line, Bass appeared in Zoolander and | 's Cursed as himself, and played a wedding singer in I Now Pronounce You C ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... Sraffa is known also for his close friendship with Italian Marxist thinker | and for being instrumental in securing Gramsci's Prison Notebooks from the ... |
| Wakako Hironaka | Hironaka is married to | , a politician, and they have two children |
| John W. Cunningham | ... imilarities between Foreman's outline and the short story "The Tin Star" by | , which led Foreman to purchase the rights to Cunningham's story and proce ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-U.S. Senator | (D-Illinois) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democ ... |
| Heinrich Mann | Albert Einstein and | sent a letter to the International League for Human Rights in Paris appeal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madonna | ... its bands. Over the decades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, | , David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many ... |
| Sam Simon | ... by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by Mike Reiss, Al Jean and | . Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short existed. Bill ... |
| Barry Took | ... r series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by | and Marty Feldman - with others contributing to later series after Feldman ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... e Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Chief Minister of Victor Emmanuel, and | , a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bi ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... total dispersal of Galileo's plutonium in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientist | , for example, a strong supporter of the Galileo mission, said in 1989 tha ... |
| Tony Hancock | Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with | in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ... |
| Chuck Jones | ... out of the studio the next day, Krantz called several directors, including | , in search of a replacement. Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial ... |
| 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). ... |
| William Bunn | ... named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of | , Idaho's Territorial Governor. As a young officer in the Civil War, Bingh ... |
| Chuck Norris | ... iety of commercials and TV and movie roles, working opposite such actors as | (Walker, Texas Ranger), Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), and Tracey Ullman (Trace ... |
| Yu Xin | ... ty literature was rougher and more straightforward. Notable writers include | , Xing Fang, Wei Shou, and Wen Zisheng of the Northern Dynasty. In the Sou ... |
| Barry Took | ... Ken. This show was written by Eric Merriman and, for the first two series, | ; Horne's supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Ma ... |
| Jonathan Miller | ... s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, | , and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe was a hit not only ... |
| Bill Pertwee | ... arred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and | . The show's announcer was Douglas Smith and from time to time he took par ... |
| Al Jean | ... was scripted by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by Mike Reiss, | and Sam Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short ... |
| Todd Slavkin | ... g adults living in a West Hollywood apartment complex. Smallville producers | and Darren Swimmer wrote the pilot script and became the executive produce ... |
| Corneille | ... the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and | ), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was p ... |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis | ... often entertained by telling stories to his admirers. As writer and editor | wrote, "With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and Omoo, just ... |
| Harry Turtledove | ... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in | 's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium |
| Isabella Rossellini | ... re length silent film Silent life started in 2006, features performances by | and Galina Jovovich, mother of Milla Jovovich, will premiere in 2012. The ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When | was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Ni ... |
| Michael Longley | ... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with | , Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ... |
| Huygens | ... ad to be justifiable in terms of direct physical action, a position held by | and the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who, while following in the ... |
| Tori Spelling | In guest appearances, Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty and | reprised their roles as Kelly Taylor, Brenda Walsh and Donna Martin, respe ... |
| Mike Reiss | ... the episode was scripted by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by | , Al Jean and Sam Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why ... |
| Tina Turner | ... enor saxophone solos by 17-year-old Raymond Hill (later to be the father of | 's first child, before she married Ike). Willie Sims played drums for the ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... pa John Creech of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna). Other tracks included " | 's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the Flan ... |
| Angelus Sabinus | ... e by the Turks. He then went on to Italy, where he attended the lectures of | , Sulpitius Verulanus and Pomponius Laetus at Rome, and of Egnatius at |
| Philip José Farmer | ... period. The metafictional style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of | , and Neil Gaiman helped develop the series (and was originally going to b ... |
| Zosimus | Orosius (Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34) and | (New History 4, 34, 3-5) affirm this, but a more reliable source, Ammianus ... |
| Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... the early 1960s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, | , Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe wa ... |
| Kenji Miyazawa | ... d a section at the end of the book to his translations of eighteen poems by | |
| Eric Merriman | ... his three major BBC radio series, Beyond Our Ken. This show was written by | and, for the first two series, Barry Took; Horne's supporting players were ... |
| René Laennec | The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by | at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. It consisted of a wooden ... |
| Minucius Felix | ... een reprinted several times, both separately and along with the writings of | , Cyprian or Arnobius. The Neoplatonist work was first printed by Aldus Ma ... |
| Michael Psellos | ... ound, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor | . They conspired to keep Romanos from regaining power after his release fr ... |
| Melody Maker | ... r, it reached the top spot in the musical magazines New Musical Express and | but not on the chart published by Record Retailer (now Music Week). On the ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... atermass 2. He also had a supporting part as a TV advertisement producer in | 's A King in New York (1957) and played Master Henry in Outlaw Money an ep ... |
| James Joyce | ... me as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own ingenious wordplay. | , author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player. For ... |
| Eric Chaisson | ... irections distinct from the scenarios set out by Dyson. Theoretical work by | finds that an expanding spacetime gives rise to an increasing "entropy gap ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... sm of Henry Corbin, Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by | in Labyrinths. According to Irenaeus, a certain sect known as the "Cainite ... |
| Peter Cook | ... n the UK in the early 1960s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as | , Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond ... |
| Carl Barks | ... ic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as | had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades after his death, his memory was ... |
| Orosius | ... l allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state. | (Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34) and Zosimus (New History 4, 34, 3-5) af ... |
| Nicolas Roeg | On March 13, 1993, TNT aired a new version of the story directed by | , starring Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz |
| Lionel Chetwynd | ... t High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents, written, produced, and directed by | , Foreman's role in the creation and production of High Noon has over the ... |
| Ma Fuxiang | ... northern provinces of Ningxia and Suiyuan in China, Chinese Muslim General | both prohibited and engaged in the opium trade. It was hoped that Ma Fuxia ... |
| Barack Obama | ... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat | won Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ... |
| Chris Heimerdinger | The curelom and cumom have appeared in Mormon literature. For example, | , a popular LDS novelist, chose to make cureloms mammoths in his time-trav ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
| Albert Goldman | ... nville, this time interviewing him for the local media. According to author | , Axton made writing Presley's first big hit one of her ambitions |
| John McCain | ... Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over Republican | - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when Lyndon ... |
| Josh Fisher | One of the licensees of the Multiflow technology is Hewlett-Packard, which | joined after Multiflow's demise. Bob Rau, founder of Cydrome, also joined ... |
| Elizabeth I | On March 25, 1584, Queen | granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ... |
| William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |
| Jordanes | ... unexpectedly came to the East Roman capital of Constantinople. According to | , he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... s death came just a little less than a week after Michael Kennedy, a son of | , died in a similar skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. After Bono's death ... |
| Don DeLillo | ... autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray" in | 's 1991 novel Mao II. (DeLillo was a friend of Gaddis.) The characters "Ri ... |
| Thomas Hood | ... d the uncharitable ... a dainty dish to set before a King." Poet and editor | wrote, "If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social ... |
| 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 ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... dy the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the Renaissance astronomer | , it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on th ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | ... one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured | as Horne |
| William Trevor | ... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in | 's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ... |
| Sinclair Lewis | ... ed as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Novelist | was known for his satirical stories such as Babbitt, Main Street, and It C ... |
| Griselda Pollock | ... was over, and that the new artistic era is post-liberal and post-progress. | studied and confronted the avant-garde and modern art in a series of groun ... |
| DuBose Heyward | Based on the novel Porgy by | , the action takes place in the fictional all-black neighborhood of Catfis ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... famously The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both of 1844. | published as a poet in the 1820s before achieving success on the stage wit ... |
| David Gerstein | ... blication of the series. The volumes of this Library published to date are: | (co-editor of the series) notes there are enough Gottfredson daily strips ... |
| Sarah, Duchess of York | In May 2010, | was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ... |
| Aesop | The 6th century BC Greek scribe | featured corvids as intelligent antagonists in many fables. Later, in west ... |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | West European social critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, | , Louis Blanc, Charles Hall and Saint-Simon, were the first modern sociali ... |
| King Diamond | Conspiracy is a name of a concept album by | , being the second part of a story that begun on the album "Them". It was ... |
| Nasir Hussain | Starting his career as a child actor in his uncle | 's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973), Khan began his professional career eleve ... |
| Ben Travers | ... appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in | 's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and S ... |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness is a novella written by | . Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) i ... |
| Flannery O'Connor | ... rrison's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the | inspired "Harder to Believe Than Not To". Some stores also pulled the albu ... |
| Britney Spears | ... ured a soundtrack which included previously unreleased songs by 'N Sync and | . Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and Tru ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... s" in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in | 's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray ... |
| Walt Disney | ... box office. Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since | to have two financially successful movies released consecutively. Heavy Tr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Olaudah Equiano | ... ks and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves Ottobah Cugoano and | , who had published influential works on slavery and the slave trade in 17 ... |
| Joseph Heller | ... thousand syllogisms" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. | 's most famous work, Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and ... |
| Darren Swimmer | ... n a West Hollywood apartment complex. Smallville producers Todd Slavkin and | wrote the pilot script and became the executive producers on the series. T ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | For Saint | (who also taught the Perfection of Christ) the "'Son of God' is God as kno ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Burns | ... rstood any of his jokes. Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with | in the television Special Joys in 1976 |
| Jean Chrétien | ... sement of Bush for president. (The Prime Minister of Canada at the time was | ). None of the interviewees noticed the insertion of "Poutine. |
| Mark Evanier | ... was pushing their weak father beyond his physical and mental limits. Writer | concurred. Fleming's influence on Marx was controversial. Many close to hi ... |
| Queen Latifah | ... female rap stars, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, | , Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lop ... |
| James Dobson | ... video contained "no reference to sex, sexual lifestyle or sexual identity." | of Focus on the Family accused the makers of the video of promoting homose ... |
| Edward de Vere | ... ich supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by | . His part largely revolves around his being father-in-law to de Vere, and ... |
| Jewel Kilcher | In Ride with the Devil (1999), Maguire performed as Jakob Roedel, opposite | . Here he played the son of a unionist German immigrant who joins his sout ... |
| Joseph Jacobs | ... e Christian groups first called "gnostic" a branch of Christianity, however | and Ludwig Blau (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1911) note that much of the terminol ... |
| Alexander Bashlachev | ... abri (the Great Octobers), a rock band. Dyagileva was greatly influenced by | , who was her friend, and Letov, her lover and mentor. Her songs were a mi ... |
| Corneille | ... s after the enemy has fled. These discrepancies – and others besides, which | admits to in his Examen of the play – are obvious even to the most inatten ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... resident Barbara Fritchie was commemorated in the poem of the same name by | . Union Major General Jesse L. Reno's IX Corps followed Jackson's men thro ... |
| Jon Crosby | ... ter and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist | . The band is signed to 2blossoms, an independent record company created b ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
| Aristotle | ... socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and | |
| Matt Groening | ... mes from Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator | . When he was created, he was intended to just be a neighbor who was very ... |
| Dorothy Parker | ... atire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, | and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in partic ... |
| Vardis Fisher | ... to the canyon of the Boise River near Caldwell. However, both John Rees and | believed it was named for the Snake River canyon which forms a natural bou ... |
| Ron Sexsmith | ... l Theatre, New York, in Steve Nieve's opera Welcome to the Voice, alongside | and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. In 2001, Costello was artist- ... |
| Dayanita Singh | ... jras visiting Humsafar clinics are nirwaan (castrated). Indian photographer | writes about her friendship with a Hijra, Mona Ahmed, and their two differ ... |
| Robert Cantwell | Critic | wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly |
| Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
| Chandler Brossard | Characters based on Gaddis include "Harry Lees" in | 's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in Jack Kerouac's autobi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... ubjectively aware of by way of introspection. Rey suggests that people like | are wrong to view "beliefs" as only being useful instruments by which Folk ... |
| Emeric Pressburger | ... dramas. In 1949 he played the alcoholic hero's barman in Michael Powell and | 's The Small Back Room |
| John Dewey | ... He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and | and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in th ... |
| Molière | ... tist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with | and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adam Hochschild | ... historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in | 's King Leopold's Ghost |
| George Lakoff | ... s can be understood in the book Philosophy in the Flesh by Mark Johnson and | . They argue that the contents of human thoughts are to some degree depend ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by | ) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ... |
| Benjamin Disraeli | ... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating that | had been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ... |
| James VI and I | ... of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. | , the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark, ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President | in 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ta. Asked how it felt having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like bei ... |
| Brenda Maddox | ... blish two additional papers from King's College along with the helix paper. | suggested that because of the importance of her experimental results in Wa ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
| Fredric Jameson | American Marxist philosopher | argues that the condition of life and production will be reflected in all ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... tates. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on | . Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and ... |
| Frederick II | King | of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Siles ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joshua Reynolds | ... le:Sir Joshua Reynolds 008.jpg|Colonel John Hayes St. Leger (detail) by Sir | File:Thomas Rowlandson (12).jpg|Rowlandson often satirised the military Fi ... |
| Bill Pertwee | ... droid in the BBC radio programme Round the Horne in the 1960s, performed by | . At the time Andrews hosted a chat show on ITV. He was also famous for sw ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... in many fables. Later, in western literature, popularized by American poet | 's work "The Raven", the Common Raven becomes a symbol of the main charact ... |
| Hector Boece | | in his Latin history of Scotland (1516), makes the Culdees of the 9th to t ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill a ... |
| Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
| Plato | ... ements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers | and Aristotle |
| Hugo Gernsback | ... n writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and | , Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction" |
| François de La Rochefoucauld | ... the rise of literary giants like Molière, Jean de La Fontaine, Boileau, and | as well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the Palace of Versailles, ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Williamson | ... screenplay along with its original author Christopher Koch, and playwright | . Williamson rose to prominence in the early 1970s, and has gone on to wri ... |
| Edgar Lee Masters | ... rt Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. It was the home of famous poet/writer | in his early days; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology (1915). Fulto ... |
| Jerry Lewis | ... cter who was goofy and optimistic in a style similar to that made famous by | |
| Charles Darwin | ... from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up until | published On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's de ... |
| Ted Osborne | ... ck to plotting the stories and doing the penciling. Scripts were written by | (1934–49), Merrill De Maris (1934–42), Dick Shaw (1942–43), Bill Walsh (19 ... |
| Jo Benkow | ... tinian areas". One of the critics, his long-time friend and party colleague | , commented that "On this topic, Willoch must be the most partisan public ... |
| David Storey | ... , as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in | 's Home, in both London and on Broadway |
| Jules Verne | ... commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with | and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science F ... |
| Jerry Stiller | ... ny, A Happy Place (later renamed Bacon & Eggs), and featured appearances by | , Al Green, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, former WWE wrestler Chyna, ... |
| Tony Hancock | ... ) was a British-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as | 's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On ... |
| T. S. Eliot | | 's use of a quotation from The Heart of Darkness—"Mistah Kurtz, he dead"—a ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... war films of all types were showing throughout the world, notably those of | who actively promoted war bonds and voluntary enlistment |
| Ivan Illich | ... ises and efficacy of compulsory schooling, including Deschooling Society by | , 1970 and No More Public School by Harold Bennet, 1972 |
| Stephan Elliott | ... Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s. | 's 1994 film Priscilla Queen of the Desert mixed traditional outback cinem ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... throughout Europe and United States. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by | is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl ... |
| James I | ... n Burghley House and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with | for Hatfield House). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor ... |
| Peter Bogdanovich | ... he people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies. | 's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent fil ... |
| Fredric Jameson | ... h elements are common characteristics of what is defined as postmodern art. | suggests that postmodern works abjure any claim to spontaneity and directn ... |
| Marie Roch Louis Reybaud | The term socialism is attributed to Pierre Leroux, and to | ; and in Britain to Robert Owen in 1827, father of the cooperative movemen ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... hree women left Germany in the 1930s and went to England, after the rise of | . Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later pu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Jablonski | ... ershwin was not "a notorious hypochondriac," as suggested by his biographer | (who wrote, in a letter to the editor, that "Gershwin was a notorious hypo ... |
| John L. Allen, Jr. | ===Vatican responses=== | , Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has commented ... |
| Joseph McElroy | ... de Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), | (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elkin (The Magic Kingdom) |
| 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 ( ... |
| Paul Green | Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright | wrote The Lost Colony in 1937 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the ... |
| Charles Gordone | ... types. Bakshi cast Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White and | in live-action and voice roles, cutting in and out of animation abruptly r ... |
| Brian Friel | ... ish. Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's production of | 's Translations, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors i ... |
| Joanne Kyger | ... zendo, with about six regular participants. In early June, he met the poet | . She became his girlfriend, and eventually his wife. In 1959, he shipped ... |
| Laura Nyro | ... ichard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by | , was a major hit for Streisand |
| Alan Alda | ... logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit). | often vamped in a Groucho-esque manner on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... story Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, | 's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Miguel de Cervantes' La Gitanilla.The R ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
| John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
| Plato | ... the comparison of "practical" (praktikos) and "intellectual" (gnostikos) in | 's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ... |
| George Orwell | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as Aldous Huxley and | to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sw ... |
| Rob Sitch | ... Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by | (which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role), and Baz Lurhmann' ... |
| 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 ... |
| Boris Akunin | In | 's novel, The Diamond Chariot, Erast Fandorin investigates the plot to ass ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
| Hannah More | ... 1781, and there met Sir Charles Middleton, Lady Middleton, Thomas Clarkson, | and others, a group that later became known as the Testonites. Interested ... |
| Noël Coward | ... lted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir | 's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard i ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... of World War II. By 1940 Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. | had promoted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to a ... |
| Stanley Elkin | ... avid Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and | (The Magic Kingdom) |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... ws was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright | . He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name c ... |
| Will Eisner | ... hern California at the age of 81. In 2006 Gottfredson was inducted into the | Comic Industry Awards' Hall of Fame. He also was awarded an Inkpot Award i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Temple | ... n astronomers. They also refer to a third star accompanying Sirius A and B. | 's 1976 book The Sirius Mystery, credits them with knowledge of the four G ... |
| John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
| John Witherspoon | ... l, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." | , one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said "Pure democr ... |
| Quintilian | ... ch stood as a standard work until superseded by Madvig's in 1844. He edited | 's Institutio Oratoria (1831), Cicero's Verrines and De officiis (1837), a ... |
| Robert Olen Butler | Past residents include | , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journal ... |
| Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | ... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which | , the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ... |
| Prosper Mérimée | ... t of criminality.Particularly notable are classics like the story Carmen by | and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of ... |
| 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. |
| Theodore Martin | Even the caustic critic | (who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens), spoke well of the book, n ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
| Virgil | ... he population was 2,401 at the 2010 census. The name is from the Roman poet | . It is the birthplace of Groton, NY, mayor Brandon Wing |
| David Markson | ... rs clearly influenced by Gaddis include Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), | (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elk ... |
| Ottobah Cugoano | ... English-language books and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves | and Olaudah Equiano, who had published influential works on slavery and th ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egil ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with | 's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ... |
| Joan Roughgarden | Evolutionary biologist | argues that, in addition to male and female sexes (as defined by the produ ... |
| Nick Cave | ... elicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include | , Paul Kelly, The John Butler Trio and |
| William Cullen Bryant | Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, | , poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of , and Natalie Portman |
| Filarete | ... d increased progressively. In the 1450s and 1460s scholars such as Cusanus, | and Facius referred to him in superlatives: 'the greatest', 'the most nobl ... |
| Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
| Alfred Lansing | ... ulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, | , author of , and Natalie Portman |
| Robert Bork | ... gest battles in the Senate came with Reagan's July 1987 nomination of Judge | to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy saw a possible Bork appointment as lead ... |
| Sophocles | ... ord and University of Cambridge. In 1990, The Cure at Troy, a play based on | 's Philoctetes, was published to much acclaim, followed by Seeing Things i ... |
| Werner Herzog | ... f Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu (1922). | honored the same film in his own version, (1979) |
| David McKenna | ... pic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. | and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Tow ... |
| Michael Powell | ... (1947), both crime dramas. In 1949 he played the alcoholic hero's barman in | and Emeric Pressburger's The Small Back Room |
| Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... CD, Liver, in the mid-1990s. Squint included the track "Smug", which mocks | and Barbra Streisand as iconic masters of smugness. The album also include ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by | , with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of | ). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ... |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | ... feelings; and a peep at the Frontispiece sets the animal spirits capering". | in Fraser's Magazine (February 1844) pronounced the book, "a national bene ... |
| Jonathan Franzen | ... 2) likely are based on Gaddis. Authors clearly influenced by Gaddis include | (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A ... |
| 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 ... |
| Poe' | ... d not refer to these categories himself, he did once write, "There are my ' | pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces ... |
| Bert Coules | ... in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (a pastiche series written by | ) in the 2002 episode "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square" |
| Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
| Johnny Speight | ... a lot of silly fuss about a silly moo" which was overheard by script writer | and became the series most enduring catchphrase |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... e first ridge of the Appalachians, Catoctin Mountain. The abolitionist poet | immortalized this view of Frederick in his poem to Barbara Fritchie: "The ... |
| Jenny Hocking | ... Parliamentary Joint Committee on Constitutional Review in 1956. Biographer | calls his service on the Committee, which included members from all partie ... |
| Charlotte Mason | ... ncluding unit studies, Classical education (including Trivium, Quadrivium), | education, Montessori method, Theory of multiple intelligences, Unschoolin ... |
| Samuel Richardson | ... cal articles and newspapers. Almost by accident, in anger at the success of | 's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Fielding took to writing novels in 1741 and ... |
| Lindsay Anderson | ... of the Victorian period. The school was the setting in 1968 for the classic | film . It also hosts the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, first staged ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... ringing the giant lake's plight to national attention. Speaker of the House | made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake on Bono's beh ... |
| Carl Barks | ... n audio interview with Gottfredson and Disney Donald Duck-comic book artist | . During the 1970s Gotfredson attended the OrlandoCon and also the 1983 Sa ... |
| Douglas Marland | ... ough facing the full length of Another and One Life to Live once again, the | era of 1985 to 1993 saw a resurgence in ratings, and by 1991 it was back i ... |
| 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 ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... amples of Victorian satire, however, are to be found in the Savoy Operas of | and Sir Arthur Sullivan. In fact, in The Yeomen of the Guard, a jester is ... |
| David Maraniss | In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, | and Michael Weisskopf credit Bono with being the first person to recognize ... |
| Elio Vittorini | ... he passed four exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by | , Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works ... |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... e Irgun founded a new headquarters, staffed by Moshe Rosenberg at the head, | as secretary, David Raziel as head of the Jerusalem branch, Hanoch Kalai a ... |
| Peter of Blois | ... bury Cathedral after Walter's death. Another scholar employed by Walter was | , who served both Walter and his predecessor as a Latin secretary |
| Mike Shinoda | ... nese-American family's experience during the internment period. Lead singer | 's paternal grandparents were interned during World War II, along with his ... |
| John Macadam | ... trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and | . The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the means by which the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rabindranath Tagore | ... 35, after finishing school, Indira joined Shantiniketan, a school set up by | . Subsequently, she went to England and sat for the University of Oxford e ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... sador for the ScreenSingapore 2011 film festival, joining American director | |
| Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | One evening in September, Merton was reading a book about | ' conversion to Catholicism and how he became a priest. Suddenly he could ... |
| Stuart Gordon | ... rs Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, | , and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. ... |
| Steven Pinker | ... tribution makes it impossible to hold others responsible for their actions. | 's view is that fear of determinism in the context of "genetics" and "evol ... |
| Fulke Greville | ... erary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets | , Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictiti ... |
| Livy | ... the Romans. After the loss of the battle the forces of Veii returned home. | writes that later in 509 BC, consul Publius Valerius Publicola returned to ... |
| Paul Reubens | ... anka Potente), an airline stewardess, who introduces them to Derek Foreal ( | ), the main dealer. With Derek's help, George and Tuna make a lot of money ... |
| Vincenzo Gioberti | ... , different groups could not agree on what form a unified state would take. | , a Piedmontese priest, had suggested a confederation of Italian states un ... |
| Herodotus | ... contains numerous tumuli – typical for IE originators.The Chernoles culture | is "sometimes portrayed as either a step in the development of the Slavic ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | ... rld War I, with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type. | , who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 ... |
| Junji Ito | ... John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist | , and artist H. R. Giger |
| Peter Singer | ... The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, the utilitarian philosopher | argues that fundamentally utilitarian ethical reasoning has existed from t ... |
| Ryan Murphy | ... "Best TV Series-Comedy Or Musical" at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, creator | quipped on stage, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbr ... |
| Eugenio Montale | ... exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, | , Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, We ... |
| Ivan Turgenev | ... es (1867), L'ogre (1868), and Le dernier sorcier (1869), all to libretti by | - and over fifty lieder. Her remaining two salon operas - Le conte de fées ... |
| William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... G. M. Anderson, starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and | . Allan Dwan was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed ... |
| Aaron Sorkin | ... performing arts include Dick Clark, Taye Diggs, Peter Falk, Frank Langella, | , and Vanessa L. Williams |
| Darwin | ... fish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by | , who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosi ... |
| Bob Dylan | In late summer 1965, | was looking for a backup band for his first U.S. "electric" tour. Levon an ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death of | falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ime teacher on campus named Daniel Walsh, so he decided to take a course on | with Walsh. Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to Jacques Maritain at a ... |
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| Stephen Fry | ... ns, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and | in the movie version), also provides general narration |
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| Carl Barks | Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
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| Fred Schepisi | ... l to cinematic audiences. 1976's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith directed by | was an award winning historical drama from a book by Thomas Keneally about ... |
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| Phaedrus | ... his most determined his reputation. In 1726 he also published the Fables of | and the Sententiae of Publilius Syrus |
| Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
| Aristotle | ... introduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which | had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later m ... |
| Jacques Maritain | ... ourse on Thomas Aquinas with Walsh. Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to | at a lecture on Catholic Action, which took place at a Catholic Book Club ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
| John Betjeman | Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by | to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made pop ... |
| Richard Cumberland | ... eterborough, and himself later a bishop of the Church of Ireland. Their son | developed as a prolific dramatist, while earning his living as a civil ser ... |
| 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. D. Frazer | Drawn and authored by | , a.k.a. "Illiad", it has been running since November 17, 1997. Frazer is ... |
| Hilary Mantel | ... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelist | portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ... |
| Moses | ... lars believe that Exodus 3:13-15 describes the moment when YHWH first tells | that he is the same god as El, the supreme being. This could be the recoun ... |
| Eric Frank Russell | ... (For more information see the History of Socialism article.) Also consider | 's book The Great Explosion (1963) whose last section details an economic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
| Rainer Knopff | ... without its critics. Alberta politician Ted Morton and political scientist | have been very critical of this phenomenon. Although they feel the basis f ... |
| Thomas Keneally | ... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book by | about the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger |
| Pope John Paul II | ... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and | . The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
| Dave Marsh | ... reat", half as "nonsense" and worse. In the New Rolling Stone Record Guide, | argued, "Sandinista! is nonsensically cluttered. Or rather seems nonsensic ... |
| Siegfried Linkwitz | ... design, as the components interact in complex ways. Crossover design expert | said of them that "the only excuse for passive crossovers is their low cos ... |
| Adamantios Korais | ... nated by the Ottoman authorities in 1798. Other influential figures include | and Anthimos Gazis |
| 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 ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... including the philosophers François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire, 1694–1778) and | (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Je ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
| Aaron Zelman | ... ishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and repressive in politics". | 's non-fiction book The State Versus the People includes a comparison of U ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905, | proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... re chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of "Freedom works!". | became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Ter ... |
| Malcolm X | ... including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like | , sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed ... |
| Johnny Depp | The film opens to a young George ( | ) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths) of Weymo ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... "refuses to play the game" of other dramatists of the period, for instance | , who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals |
| Mike Mignola | ... ific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and | , film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, ho ... |
| John Carpenter | ... ng, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors | , Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, an ... |
| Stephen Fry | ... rlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with | |
| Alfred Rosenberg | ... rom Jewish collections, libraries, and museums throughout Europe. Headed by | , the task force set up a collection centre and headquarters in Paris. Som ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and | (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ... |
| Zoroaster | ... tire legal codes in his memory. He also wrote a Summary of the Doctrines of | and Plato, which detailed his own eclectic polytheistic beliefs. These wor ... |
| Marco Polo | ... uan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until | visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy |
| Galileo Galilei | ... een raging for at least 340 years, having first been observed by astronomer | . Neptune also had its own lesser known Great Dark Spot |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... , into the politically influential Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi's father was | and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prom ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featuring | . Eventually the studio moved all operations to Los Angeles |
| Dharmakirti | ... t millennium BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists | and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... an Connery overlooking the maze, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring | and V for Vendetta with Stephen Fry |
| Stephen Hawking | ... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicist | describes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ... |
| Jean Genet | ... ame, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, | , and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' co ... |
| Peter Ackroyd | Other biographers, such as | , have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ... |
| Peter Carey | ... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and | , from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ... |
| Dignāga | ... , and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and | during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, | , was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India |
| Robin Scott Wilson | ... held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, USA, it was founded in 1968 by | at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm we ... |
| Elizabeth | ... e Fall 2001 issue of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was his wife | 's idea to create a female superhero: "William Moulton Marston, a psycholo ... |
| Jorge Ramos | ... o Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, | , Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayan ... |
| Samuel P. Huntington | The Clash of Civilizations is a theory, proposed by political scientist | , that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary sour ... |
| Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree. He also appears as a ghost in Rosa's The Life and Tim ... |
| Tatian's | ... spel while 3.11.9 acknowledges that some use more than four. The success of | Diatessaron in about the same time period is "...a powerful indication tha ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Blake | ... rd Catholicism. While doing his graduate work, he was writing his thesis on | , whose spiritual symbolism he was coming to appreciate in new ways |
| George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
| John Gambril Nicholson | The name Ernest, it has been posited, might also have an ulterior meaning. | wrote in 1892, "Though Frank may ring like silver bell, And Cecil softer m ... |
| Carl Barks | Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree. He also appears as a gh ... |
| George Lucas | ... he film. At the same time, Ladd was dealing with similar budget problems on | 's . Bakshi and Lucas had negotiated contracts entitling them to franchise ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... been imagined by the opposite side of the political spectrum. For example, | 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertaria ... |
| Heron Carvic | ... ber 1968. It starred Anthony Jackson as narrator, Paul Daneman as Bilbo and | as Gandalf. The series was released on audio cassette in 1988 and on CD in ... |
| Daniel Dennett | | uses the case of the Three Mile Island accident as an example of the diffi ... |
| Arthur Adamov | ... esco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and | . Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' concept of the absurd ... |
| George Washington | ... r shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, | , and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice c ... |
| Isaac Rosenberg | ... oets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, | and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature, producing a sl ... |
| Don Rosa | ... artists include Carl Barks, Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, William Van Horn, and | . Van Horn and Rosa now work for European publishers |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | ... ttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, | , and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and | . She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ... |
| Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
| Arch Oboler | ... ild Theater on January 8, 1939; Good News; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on | 's Lights Out; The Word on Everyman's Theater (1941); Chained on the Lux R ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... uture US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) | ;(1706–1790); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muska ... |
| William Van Horn | ... comic book writers and artists include Carl Barks, Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, | , and Don Rosa. Van Horn and Rosa now work for European publishers |
| Robert Russa Moton | ... tial aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with | , the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as pres ... |
| Aeschylus | ... s 120 ships from the Greeks of Thrace and nearby islands as reinforcements. | , who fought at Salamis, also claims that he faced there 1,207 warships, o ... |
| Saint Augustine | ... rio Pontificio gives both forms, as alternatives. Eusebius, Saint Irenaeus, | and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the same individual. On t ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
| Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau | ... son (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist | ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nich ... |
| Jean Chrétien | In late 2004, Niyazov met with former Canadian Prime Minister | to discuss an oil contract in Turkmenistan for a Canadian corporation. In ... |
| Romeo Muller | ... /Bass, debuted as a television movie in the United States in 1977. In 1978, | won a Peabody Award for his teleplay for The Hobbit. The film was also nom ... |
| Plotinus | ... ag Hammadi texts, which shed light on some of the more puzzling comments by | and Porphyry regarding the Gnostics. More importantly, the texts help to d ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... ance in the defence of Riga against the French army, where he meets General | of the Prussian Army |
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| 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 ... |
| Norman Corwin | ... The Word on Everyman's Theater (1941); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and | 's Document A/777 (1948). She appeared in episodes of anthology television ... |
| Hester Thrale | Baretti was a frequent visitor at the home of | , and his name occurs repeatedly in Boswell's Life. In 1769 Baretti was tr ... |
| Joe Clark | ... e government, though they were now in a minority situation, the first since | 's tenure in 1979-80 |
| Albert Speer | ... his part of the trial, Göring claimed that he was not antisemitic; however, | reported that in the prison yard at Nuremberg, after someone made a remark ... |
| Booker T. Washington | ... a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to | as president of the . In exchange for keeping the suffering of African-Ame ... |
| Walker Percy | The protagonist of | 's novels, Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome, is "Dr Thomas More ... |
| Plotinus | ... late antique philosophy, and were rebuffed by some Neoplatonists, including | |
| Andy Warhol | ... music, Mothersbaugh still paints – in a style influenced by surrealism and | |
| Mary Sidney | ... and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, | , married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Mary Sidney, who upon her m ... |
| Quentin Tarantino | ... has since gained a cult following through cable television and home video. | stated that he preferred Hey Good Lookin' to Martin Scorsese's Mean Street ... |
| Donald Mitchell | ... Weimar performance in 1894, and it was not discovered again until 1966 when | unearthed it. The following year, Benjamin Britten conducted the first per ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... n landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau; the Italian statesman | (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–18 ... |
| Phillip Noyce | ... 986) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, | and Bruce Beresford |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... songs, experiments with sound collage, and a spoken word vocal by Beat poet | , it contained two "radio friendly" tracks. The leadoff single in the US w ... |
| Howard Dietz | The songs were written by Arthur Schwartz and | , and some were created for the original 1931 Broadway musical also called ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fritz Leiber | ... contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and | . Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including autho ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhi was the only child of | , the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ... |
| Epicurus | ... w that contemplation was the greatest pleasure; the latter aligned him with | , Plethon argued, and he attributed this same pleasure-seeking to monks, w ... |
| Rigas Feraios | ... eece's struggle for independence as well as the modern Greek Enlightenment. | , the first revolutionary to envision an independent Greek state, publishe ... |
| Plutarch | ... , Romulus, the Fidenates and the Veientes were defeated in a war with Rome. | , Life of Romulus, says of them: The first (to oppose Romulus) were the Ve ... |
| Plotinus | As a pagan mystic | considered his opponents heretics and elitist blasphemers, arriving at mis ... |
| George S. Kaufman | ... e original 1931 Broadway musical also called The Band Wagon, with a book by | and starring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. (Fred Astaire also stars i ... |
| Charles Donnelly | ... It suffered 120 killed and 175 wounded. Amongst the dead was the Irish poet | and Leo Greene |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Barks | Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Singer | A reason for an egoist to become a utilitarian was proposed by | in Practical Ethics. He presents the paradox of hedonism, which holds that ... |
| Lin Huiyin | Zhang has been cast in the role of | in a 2011 film |
| Rob Reiner | The 1987 film The Princess Bride by | , starring Cary Elwes, was filmed in Derbyshire and includes scenes at Had ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
| Peter III of Aragon | ... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King | . Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ... |
| Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
| Clive Barker | ... r figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist | , prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gai ... |
| Junji Ito | ... iters, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, | , F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have ... |
| George Washington | ... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when | returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city |
| Mark Evanier | ... lations between Dell and Western had become strained. Former Western writer | states part of this was due to "... a small battle going on between the tw ... |
| 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 |
| Suzanne Curchod | ... of a French officer. But while on a visit to Geneva, Madame de Verménou met | , who was the daughter of a pastor near Lausanne and who had been engaged ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | Leading war poets included: | , Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jone ... |
| Yoweri Museveni | ... " that would accomplish the goals of the African Renaissance were President | of Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda |
| Grant Gilmore | ... nd fiercely litigated sections of the UCC is Section 2-207, which Professor | called "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." It governs a "b ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... mpany v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999). President | , in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional con ... |
| Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
| Parmenides | ... in the Nag Hammadi Library, is "the same doctrine as found in the anonymous | commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to Porphyry [...] and is also ... |
| Plotinus | ... ary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to Porphyry [...] and is also found in | ' Ennead 6.7, 17, 13-26. |
| Michael Powell | The Battle of the River Plate had its genesis in an invitation to | and Emeric Pressburger to attend a film festival in Argentina in 1954. The ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... iginal cast (Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon), and | , wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that 'Earnest' held any sexual ... |
| Saxo Grammaticus | In | ' 12th century work Gesta Danorum, where gods appear euhemerized, Ollerus ... |
| Michael Ian Black | A VH1 promo for I Love the 90s featured Hal Sparks and | sitting in the Peach Pit, with Beverly Hills, 90210s theme music playing. ... |
| Eugene McCarthy | ... hnson for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election. Once | 's strong showing in the New Hampshire primary led to Robert's presidentia ... |
| Wilfred Owen | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, | , John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar m ... |
| Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
| F. Paul Wilson | ... uding Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, | , Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft ... |
| Lewis A. McArthur | ... er below the outlet of Wallowa Lake. The author of Oregon Geographic Names, | , said that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great we ... |
| Barack Obama | Although | got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
| Aeschylus | According to the Athenian playwright | , who actually fought at Salamis, the Greek fleet numbered 310 triremes (t ... |
| Peter Jackson | ... oduced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and New Line Cinema, produced and directed by | . and are scheduled to be released on 14 December 2012 and 13 December 201 ... |
| James George Frazer | ... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas. | asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ... |
| Malcolm Arnold | ... r works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, | , Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
| Jackie Chan | ... and Taiwanese media hinted at ties between Zhang and her Rush Hour co-star | , and also publicly linked Zhang with Erik Fok, grandson of Hong Kong busi ... |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... tand). The anthem adopted by the Irgun was "Anonymous Soldiers", written by | who was at the time a commander in the Irgun. Later on Stern defected from ... |
| John McCrae | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, | , Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occur ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ogical commentaries, had a great influence on Medieval philosophers such as | . Scholastic European scholars, who sought to reconcile the philosophy of ... |
| Hannah Glasse | The 1751 edition of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by | features a recipe for ice cream. OED gives her recipe: H. GLASSE Art of Co ... |
| Livy | ... Battle of Silva Arsia. The Roman army was victorious, and it is recorded by | that although the forces of Tarquinii fought well on the right wing, initi ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | ... considered one of the most important influences on the Italian Renaissance. | , the Florentine humanist and the first director of the Accademia Platonic ... |
| Michael Almereyda | ... artin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker | . Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road ... |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
| Fulke Greville | An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, | |
| Brian Lumley | ... ng, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, | , Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of thei ... |
| Dennis Spooner | ... e written for Keel was simply transferred to her. Said series script writer | "there's the famous story of how Honor Blackman played Ian Hendry's part, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ed Harris | The film Knightriders (1981) by George A. Romero starring | used scenes shot in Fawn Township (1980) for the movie |
| Rupert Brooke | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, | , Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ... |
| Bryn Terfel | ... olitan Opera began a new Ring Cycle in 2010, conducted by James Levine with | as Wotan. Deborah Voigt was Brünnhilde in the April 2011 production of Die ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stefan Printz-Påhlson | ... eart returned to prominence in 1979, when Egmont editors Lars Bergström and | decided to revive the character. Since then Flintheart Glomgold has appear ... |
| Carl Barks | Sir Swamphole McDuck is one of the ancient McDucks, created by | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
| Ken Kesey | ... House, a deteriorating house on the Siuslaw River that is said to have been | 's inspiration for the Stamper House in his novel Sometimes a Great Notion ... |
| Arrian | ... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57 | ;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ... |
| Gavin de Beer | ... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of | 's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception |
| William Shakespeare | The name "Horatio" was inspired by the character in | 's Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary fig ... |
| Joe R. Lansdale | ... modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, | , Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, ... |
| St. Augustine's | The most notable titles are a 12th century manuscript, | Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer ... |
| Philo | ... the Nazarenes (sect), Ophites or to the sectarian group called heretics by | |
| Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
| Don Rosa | This family tree is based on | 's McDuck Family Tree, and shows the relationship to the Duck family. It i ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ich was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, | , and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being cens ... |
| Sheldon Mayer | Editor | replaced the name "Suprema" with "Wonder Woman", and the character made he ... |
| Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
| George Steiner | ... ewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, | , and James Fenton |
| Oliver Stone | ... tion", or a black box called "E.P. Collection '84 - '90". In 1991, director | offered Astbury the role of Jim Morrison in Stone's film The Doors. He dec ... |
| Bentley Little | ... n cartoons. Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, | , Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Ca ... |
| Anthony Munday | ... Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, | , William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary ... |
| Averroes | ... ch as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and | (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the context of their religion. ... |
| Bette Davis | ... rly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire | into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to ... |
| Edward Said | ... oups share (or do not share), regardless of cultural or religious identity. | issued a response to Huntington's thesis in his "The Clash of Ignorance". ... |
| Roger of Wendover | ... collected from both lay and ecclesiastical persons. The medieval chronicler | said that the king "had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in ... |
| Xenophon | ... 's mind or taking him away from the career path his father had set for him. | has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a pu ... |
| Barry Dennen | ... y the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks. When her boyfriend, | , helped her create a club act — first performed at The Lion, a popular ga ... |
| Fujiwara no Teika | ... writing over 700 poems between the ages of 17 and 22 while being tutored by | , even having one of his tanka included in the anthology Ogura Hyakunin Is ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alex Barris | ... proved ill at ease in the moderator's seat, so both Fred Davis and panelist | rotated as guest hosts in the early part of the fall before Davis was chos ... |
| Jeffrey Goldberg | ... repare for more fighting rather than peace. The Atlantic magazine columnist | , along with other analysts, believes Hamas may be incapable of permanent ... |
| France Prešeren | ... published with some changes in 1848, is a poem by the Slovene Romantic poet | , considered the national poet of Slovenes. On 27 September 1989, it becam ... |
| Craig Raine | ... king Jews undesirable." Eliot never re-published this book nor the lecture. | , in his books In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2001) and T. S. Eliot (2006), has ... |
| Francis X. Bushman | ... the future) as George Periolat, Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, | , Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold ... |
| Fan S. Noli | ... (Step of Tujan). In 1924, Tirana was at the center of a coup d'état led by | . Since 1925, when they were banned in Turkey, the Bektashis, an order of ... |
| Jenny Hocking | ... about any other Australian prime minister. According to Whitlam biographer | , for a period of at least a decade, the Whitlam era was viewed almost ent ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
| Diogenes Laërtius | ... re named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, Polus, and Alcidamas, | mentions Antisthenes, and according to Philostratus, "I understand that he ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... Morrison was represented in the film, and the role was ultimately played by | |
| Alan Moore | ... d fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, | , Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Ga ... |
| Josephus | ... . 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6 | ;, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; P ... |
| Mark Van Doren | ... 18th Century English literature course during the spring semester taught by | , a professor with whom he maintained a friendship until death. Van Doren ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... ly passing on to Western Europe where they were studied by scholars such as | and Witelo |
| Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
| Charles Darwin | | 's On the Origin of Species was successful in convincing most biologists t ... |
| Mohammad Khatami | ... al attention. The concept, which was introduced by former Iranian president | , was the basis for United Nations' resolution to name the year 2001 as th ... |
| Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
| Erasmus | ... ace, and also a collection of books by the Dutch philosopher and theologian | published from 1545 to 1548 |
| Philemon | ... the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of Menander and | . He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileutherus Lipsiensi ... |
| Robert Bolt | The 20th-century agnostic playwright | portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Se ... |
| Adam Czartoryski | ... f Napoleon, a new European order was established at the Congress of Vienna. | became the leading advocate for the Polish national cause. The Congress im ... |
| Gene Hackman | ... raffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( | ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car followi ... |
| Plutarch | ... orus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7 | ;, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... tion '84 - '90". In 1991, director Oliver Stone offered Astbury the role of | in Stone's film The Doors. He declined the role because he was not happy w ... |
| Carl Barks | In the early 1950s | was in his second decade of creating comic book stories starring Donald Du ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrea Palladio | ... nspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects | (1508–1580) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616). The house is ... |
| Martin Scorsese | ... eaturing numerous musical celebrities. This performance was immortalized in | 's 1978 documentary The Last Waltz. The Band reformed in 1983 without guit ... |
| Guido Bonatti | 13th century astrologers include Johannes de Sacrobosco and | |
| Zeno | ... oics in a later period in order to provide a succession linking Socrates to | , via Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates. These tales were important to the ... |
| Colen Campbell | ... dio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect | had offered Lord Burlington a design for a Villa very closely based on the ... |
| Jack Webster | ... was also part of each episode. In 1990, journalist and radio/TV personality | joined the show as its permanent fourth panelist |
| John Dryden | ... en blamed them for its destruction. For example, English Enlightenment poet | wrote, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, / Did all the matchl ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... een a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported | 's "Bull Moose" Progressive Party. Now he declared himself a Republican an ... |
| Bette Davis | ... y Jane? (1962). Despite the actresses' earlier tensions, Crawford suggested | for the role of Jane. The two stars maintained publicly that there was no ... |
| Wang Ming | ... rization of Stalin and Comintern, the delegation of CPC to Comintern led by | issued a manifesto urging Chinese to set up a new united front against the ... |
| Johannes de Sacrobosco | 13th century astrologers include | and Guido Bonatti |
| 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 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his brother, President | , had been shot; his brother Robert soon told him that the President was d ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... n years of U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia, cited among reasons by Saudi-born | for his September 11, 2001 attacks on America, most of U.S. forces were wi ... |
| Plutarch | Numerous ancient sources, including | 's Life of Alcibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship ... |
| Empedocles | ... generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of | , although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophis ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... n/Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by | |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | ... 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by | . All of them were included in later complete collections, although some o ... |
| James De Mille | ... by Leonid Andreyev and "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by | |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... spects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. As | sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted of the last opera Götterdämmeru ... |
| Jack T. Chick | ... l houses", themed pamphlets, or comic-style tracts such as those created by | in order to make use of Halloween's popularity as an opportunity for evang ... |
| Jonathan Larson | ... rg owns a production, such as the case of Larson and Thomson. Lynn Thomson, | 's dramaturg on the musical Rent, claimed that she was a co-author of the ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ived 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Democrat | |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Whittington | ... ero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons. The title being drawn from what | in 1520 wrote of More |
| Plato | ... sm are still obscure and disputed, but they probably include influence from | , Middle Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism academies or schools of thought, ... |
| Vincenzo Scamozzi | ... th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) and his assistant | (1552–1616). The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas Adams | ... chhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by | . Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later ... |
| Queen Latifah | ... es and San Francisco with artists such as Soundgarden, Ice-T, Indigo Girls, | , Iggy Pop, The Charlatans, The Cramps and Public Enemy appearing. This tw ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health. | accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ... |
| Herodotus | ... ed by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54 | ;, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp ... |
| Sebastiano Serlio | ... cates. He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as | and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French archit ... |
| Xenophon | Plato's Apology, and likewise that of | , lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates. ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
| W. H. Auden | ... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. | , in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ... |
| John Milton | ... ed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from | 's Paradise Lost and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian an ... |
| George Washington | ... oad). It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of | 's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during th ... |
| Helvétius | ... s greatly frequented as the Mondays of Mme Geoffrin, or the Tuesdays of Mme | . In 1773, Necker won the prize of the Académie Française for a defense of ... |
| Paul Berman | In his Terror and Liberalism, | proposes another criticism of the civilization clash hypothesis. According ... |
| Milton | ... wo mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as | 's birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great ... |
| Aristotle | ... d the profits made from his performances and rhetoric classes. According to | , his students included Isocrates. (Other students are named in later trad ... |
| R. A. Lafferty | Catholic science fiction writer | wrote his novel Past Master as a modern equivalent to More's Utopia, which ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... egel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and | . The campus is situated in two urban areas and several buildings. In nume ... |
| Robert Aldrich | ... under her clothes in a scene in which Davis had to carry her. The director, | , explained that Davis and Crawford were each aware of how important the f ... |
| Peter Oresick | ... est for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Town (1952). The poet | has also written about it in The Story of Glass (1977). A pictorial histor ... |
| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... eased 1969) inspired many later developments in electronic music, including | 's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Ril ... |
| Ptolemy | ... and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: | , iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. ... |
| Chiaki Kawamata | ... oshi no Daichi, were published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Emblem of Roto, by | and Junji Koyanagi, with art by Kamui Fujiwara, consists of twenty-one vol ... |
| Matthew Paris | ... g's election by the people. This story is only contained in the writings of | , however, and although it seems certain that Walter made a speech, it is ... |
| Carl Barks | Notable American Disney comic book writers and artists include | , Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, William Van Horn, and Don Rosa. Van Horn and Ro ... |
| Don Rosa | In 1987 | , a long-time fan of Carl Barks and personal friend of Mark Worden, starte ... |
| Johannes Hartlieb | ... seven artes magicae or artes prohibitae or arts prohibited by canon law by | in 1456 were: nigromancy (which included "black magic" and "demonology"), ... |
| Peter Bogdanovich | ... s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer president Dan Melnick, who interrupted a meeting with | when he learned that Bakshi wanted to discuss acquiring the rights to The ... |
| Eoin Colfer | ... ogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by | in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three ... |
| Plutarch | ... ies initially appeared to back their ships away as if in fear. According to | , this was to gain better position, and also in order to gain time until t ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey murder mystery novel that | began writing but abandoned, and which remained as fragments and notes at ... |
| Bebe Daniels | ... Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, | , Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pa ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders from | and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
| Henri Grégoire | The term Vandalisme was coined in 1794 by | , bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the Fr ... |
| Jill Paton Walsh | ... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed by | and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ... |
| J. B. S. Haldane | ... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, | , Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ... |
| Elizabeth Holloway Marston | ... e component of the modern polygraph. According to their son, Marston's wife | was also involved in the development of the systolic blood-pressure test: ... |
| Leon Battista Alberti | ... by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and | and his library contained books by French architects,sculptors, illustrato ... |
| Elizabeth I | In 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with | saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ... |
| Nathan Zuckerman | ... at these parlor games in his 1981 novel Zuckerman Unbound, where alter-ego | is continually accosted by clueless strangers who cannot believe he was ex ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ts to increase the duration of their recordings. The breakthrough came with | 's "Like A Rolling Stone", although CBS tried to make the record more "rad ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which | 's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ... |
| 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 ... |
| Boris Pahor | ... necessary for Slovenia to use the entire poem as its anthem. Slovene writer | suggested that using a combination of verses of the seventh and the second ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ps the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer | wrote the Almagest, a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basi ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he was not an existentialist and often criticized existentialist figurehead | . Although Ionesco knew Beckett and honored his work, the French group of ... |
| Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
| Apollonius of Tyana | ... ari islands. His forge was moved there by the poets. The first-century sage | is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the ear ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The philosopher | claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness. ... |
| Plato | ... arning modelled by Murat on the caliphates of Cairo and Baghdad. He admired | so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon. In c14 ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ly of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of | used the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay o ... |
| Mo Mowlam | The Labour politician | was educated in Coventry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Soci ... |
| Carl Barks | ... t of Clan McDuck is the McDuck Castle. The castle was first featured in the | story The Old Castle's Secret in Donald Duck Four Color #189. Barks' only ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Edwards | ... , military, science, academia, business, arts, and athletics, among others. | , former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt J ... |
| 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 ... |
| Archimedes | In the 3rd century BCE, the Greek mathematician | laid the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and the explanation of the p ... |
| Dickens' father | ... the dual personality of the tale's protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. In 1824, | was imprisoned in the Marshalsea and twelve-year-old Charles was forced to ... |
| Pierre Berton | ... tured a remarkably stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian | , Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who la ... |
| Michael Mulhall | ... heritage. Previously to The Southern Cross Dublin-born brothers Edward and | successfully published The Standard, allegedly the first English-language ... |
| Ted Osborne | ... Grant (Merry Menagerie). Writers included Merrill De Maris (Mickey Mouse), | (Mickey Mouse), Bill Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald D ... |
| Douglas Carter Beane | ... h plans to bring the show to Broadway. Gary Griffin directs, with a book by | and choreography by Warren Carlyle. The cast includes Patrick Page as the ... |
| Karl Zuchardt | ... t moment right at the end. I cannot think of anyone else who ever had one." | 's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with Kin ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... hey recognised the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences. | , for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that come ... |
| Shakespeare | ... s: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, | , Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 Calvino publ ... |
| Algernon Blackwood | He also cited | as an influence, quoting The Centaur in the head paragraph of The Call of ... |
| Plato | ... secutors of the philosopher Socrates, and is depicted as an interlocutor in | 's Meno |
| Ralph of Coggeshall | ... ess that permitted a reconciliation with his monks. The medieval chronicler | described his death as taking four days, and related that he gave vestment ... |
| 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 ... |
| Diana Trilling | ... Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as Irving Howe and | |
| William Butler Yeats | ... erhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like | , Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
| Leonid Andreyev | ... d in Lovecraft's Library by S. T. Joshi) was "The Seven Who Were Hanged" by | and "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by James De Mille |
| George Washington | ... torial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, | , in 1849. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of ... |
| John McCain | ... received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in which | received 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Dem ... |
| Michael Jackson | | in his music video for "Smooth Criminal" pays tribute to the Fred Astaire ... |
| E. B. Ford | ... clude R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, | , Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, ... |
| Philibert de l'Orme | ... s,sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, | , Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, Roland Fréart de Chambray, ... |
| John Peel | There was a 1990 novel, Too Many Targets by | , that featured all of Steed's partners except Venus Smith and Dr Martin K ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
| Bob Karp | ... Mouse), Ted Osborne (Mickey Mouse), Bill Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), | (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), Carl Fallberg (Treasury of Classic Tales, ... |
| Hipparchus | ... ents survived. Although he wrote at least fourteen books, almost nothing of | ' direct work survived. Of the 150 reputed Aristotelian works, only 30 exi ... |
| Bob Costas | ... ic Communications produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including | , Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at M ... |
| Aristotle | ... was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Plato and | s' conceptions of God. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced t ... |
| Ivan Turgenev | The Villa Viardot in Bougival, near Paris, a gift to the Viardots by | in 1874, where so many musicians, painters and poets came, was restored in ... |
| Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Two prominent radical figures in the unification movement were | and Giuseppe Garibaldi. The more conservative constitutional monarchic fig ... |
| Aristotle | ... ith treason. According to the Constitution of the Athenians associated with | , he was later acquitted by bribing the jury. Anytus later won favor by pl ... |
| Damon Knight | ... ded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. | and Kate Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 th ... |
| Michael Abrash | An undocumented but popular technique nicknamed Mode X (first coined by | ) or "tweaked VGA" was used to make programming techniques and graphics re ... |
| Len Berman | ... tions produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, | , Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry James | ... lay of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by | . The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Ol ... |
| Sueton | ... glect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by Augustus ( | . Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
| Toby Robins | ... storian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), | (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnis ... |
| Richard Marius | A number of modern historians and writers, such as | , have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him fo ... |
| William Wyler | ... n the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by | , with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, M ... |
| Jean-Georges Noverre | Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of | (1727–1810), François Delsarte (1811–1871), and Rudolf Bode (1881-1970), w ... |
| Colin Jordan | ... ntry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Socialist Movement leader | also came from the city |
| Maxim Gorky | ... e of the "Ten Most Important Living Americans". In July 1922, Soviet author | wrote to Hoover |
| Elizabeth I | ... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life of | in 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role |
| Ron Sexsmith | ... documentaries about singers Dusty Springfield, Brian Wilson, Wanda Jackson, | and Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records. He has also interviewed one of ... |
| Alfred Jarry | Ionesco claimed instead an affinity for ’Pataphysics and its creator | . He was also a great admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially ... |
| Irving Howe | ... n uproar in the Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as | and Diana Trilling |
| Don Rosa | ... ly other story to have McDuck Castle was in The Hound of the Whiskervilles. | used the castle in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Parts 1, 5, and 9 ... |
| Horace | ... d and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence | 's famous statement: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Greece, although ... |
| William of Ockham | However, some philosophers follow | in holding that necessity and possibility are defined with respect to a gi ... |
| Jonathan Swift | Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of | 's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either or .. (Swif ... |
| Plato | Chronologically, the first recorded utopian proposal is | 's Republic. Part conversation, part fictional depiction, and part policy ... |
| André Breton | ... ryman Tristan Tzara. Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, | , whom he revered. In Present Past, Past Present, Ionesco wrote, "Breton t ... |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of | comedies of 1915 |
| Thucydides | ... had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world. Ancient historian | also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. Hi ... |
| Michelangelo | ... entrates on sculpture works by artists including Donatello, Giambologna and | ; the Palazzo Pitti, containing part of the Medici family's former private ... |
| Thomas Moore | ... nal single version has an additional intro of a Celtic fiddle solo, playing | 's Irish folk song Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms |
| Hobbes | ... n physics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to | ) into proof of the existence of an intelligent Creator. He had some corre ... |
| Mike Tirico | ... sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and | . Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio broadcaster for Cle ... |
| Colin Dexter | ... aying that he "used to drive the Aga Khan". The author of the Morse novels, | , is a fan of cryptic crosswords, and Morse is named after champion setter ... |
| Ruth Rendell | ... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist | , writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ... |
| 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 ... |
| Max Beerbohm | ... f Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and continually revived today. | called this play Wilde's "finest, most undeniably his own", saying that in ... |
| Steve Martin | ... ackson notably pays homage to the film on at least three successive albums. | and Gilda Radner perform a seriocomic parody homage to the "dancing in the ... |
| Jasper Ridley | ... ave criticised him for Anti-Protestantism and, "intolerance." The historian | , author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and | . Utilitarianism was described by Mill as "the greatest happiness principl ... |
| Elizabeth Holloway Marston | ... mic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife | and Olive Byrne (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship), ... |
| Virgil | ... . But of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there was no issue, unless | was serious when he said that Eros was their child. Later authors might ex ... |
| Lew Wallace | ... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer | , the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... ed several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, | , and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio br ... |
| Kate Wilhelm | ... bin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Damon Knight and | were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 the workshop moved ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ter unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence (by reciting the lyrics of | 's "It Ain't Me Babe" and insisting that he did no more than "cross an ima ... |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... inent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and | . The more conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Ca ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology. | invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plutarch | ... ch in turn revolved around the Sun. Though the arguments he used were lost, | stated that Seleucus was the first to prove the heliocentric system throug ... |
| Marsilio Ficino | ... influenced Cosimo de' Medici to found a new Platonic Academy, which, under | , would proceed to translate into Latin all Plato's works, the Enneads of ... |
| Joseph Addison | ... ny letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like | and Jonathan Swift |
| Peter Singer | | , along with many animal rights activists, has argued that the well-being ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... ch to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and | |
| Brian Moynahan | Several authors have criticised More for his war against Protestantism. | , in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writin ... |
| Roland Fréart de Chambray | ... Cotelle, Philibert de l'Orme, Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, | , Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of Claude ... |
| Pierre Boulle | ... ed in his society and the reversal of roles, and a possible inspiration for | 's novel Planet of the Apes |
| Edward Bellamy | ... tivation of the arts and sciences. One classic example of such a utopia was | 's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is William Morris' News from ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and | , cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... nvolved in ALP attempts to raise $500,000 during the election from the pre- | government of Iraq. No money had actually been paid, and no charges were f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gilda Radner | Steve Martin and | perform a seriocomic parody homage to the "dancing in the dark" dance segm ... |
| Cervantes | ... ical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, | , Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ril 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President | , an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the ... |
| August Derleth | ... al newspapers. His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the | Society |
| Robert Lax | ... the Jester and the Columbia Review. Also on the Jesters staff were the poet | and the journalist Ed Rice. Lax and Merton became best friends and kept up ... |
| Carl Fallberg | ... Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), | , Frank Reilly (Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday), Milt Banta (Mickey Mo ... |
| Jack Vance | In the novelette Rumfuddle (1973), | presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia. His hero invents paratime ... |
| 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 ... |
| Comte de Mirabeau | ... sman. Believing that he could save France alone, he refused to act with the | or Marquis de Lafayette. He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... of creation, a day that would every day be the first day of new creations." | , a former associate of Breton and a champion of Ionesco's work, was a mem ... |
| John Boorman | In late 1976, Bakshi learned that | was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations", but judged it a failure. | in the New York Times called the book "engrossing, intelligent and provoca ... |
| George Washington | ... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents | and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ... |
| Karen Black | The novel was adapted into a movie starring Richard Benjamin and | in 1972 |
| Dante | ... s interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, | , Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giaco ... |
| Dimitri Kitsikis | ... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated by | and published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ... |
| Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary. A Roman embassy of Emperor | (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of ... |
| Rush Limbaugh | ... ic senators, complaining about comments made by conservative talk show host | . The winning bid was $2,100,100, with 100 percent of the proceeds going t ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister | , having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ... |
| Bob Lewis | ... ent State as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Jerry Casale and | . In early 1970, Lewis and Casale formed the idea of the "devolution" of t ... |
| John D. Winters | ... nsorship of the American Missionary Association. According to the historian | of Louisiana Tech University, the students "ranged in age from four to for ... |
| Horace | ... directly to the Crown, and backed his application with a dedication of his | to the lord treasurer (Harley) |
| Ovid | In Metamorphoses, the poet | wrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction |
| Parmenides | The argument has largely been seen as an ironic refutation of | ' thesis on Being. Gorgias set out to prove that it is as easy to demonstr ... |
| Richard Marius | ... nt religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as | , have been more critical, believing that such persecutions were a betraya ... |
| Michael J. Fox | ... n taken must choose a new name. Notable examples include Michael Keaton and | , whose birth names "Michael Douglas" and "Michael Fox", respectively, wer ... |
| Aristotle | ... nics, but it is by no means certain that he would have recognized the term. | , writing a generation later refers several times to Antisthenes and his f ... |
| Rupert Hughes | ... f whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: "Chambers is like | and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and educati ... |
| Tsui Hark | ... renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, | , Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
| Aristarchus of Samos | ... y estimated its circumference. In contrast to Aristotle's geocentric views, | (; 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) presented an explicit argument for a heliocentri ... |
| Markos Moulitsas | The Hill published an op-ed piece by | of the liberal blog Daily Kos titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The co ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend | (who was on holiday in Algiers at the time), had planned to disrupt the pl ... |
| Yuri Felshtinsky | According to | and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexand ... |
| Richard Adams | ... asual manner. This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as | ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into ... |
| Orson Welles | ... gene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and | |
| Constantine VII | ... l record of Romanians in the Istria region, however, dates back to 940 when | recorded the Romance-language speakers in this area in De Administrando Im ... |
| Livy | ... ally long tunnels leading into the mound of the city, which may corroborate | 's account of the Roman victory in the Battle of Veii |
| Claude Lelouch | ... 1983, Cerdan and Piaf had their lives turned into a big screen biography by | . The film, Édith et Marcel, starred Marcel Cerdan, Jr. in the role of his ... |
| Aristotle | ... Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Of the three divisions of rhetoric discussed by | in his Rhetoric (forensic, deliberative, and epideictic), the Encomium can ... |
| Menander | ... mendations on the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of | and Philemon. He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileuther ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... s (or "dramas" to use the composer's preferred term) by the German composer | (1813–83). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas ... |
| 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. |
| Albert Einstein | ... he aging difference, not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by | and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a ... |
| Aristophanes | ... the following year, he published his emendations on the Plutus and Nubes of | , and on the fragments of Menander and Philemon. He published the last wor ... |
| Lou Ye | ... irectors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, | , Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
| President Harry S. Truman | ... ngressional charter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which | signed on October 26, 1949. Finley served as the National Trust's first ch ... |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Her tale is also mentioned in | 's Tanglewood Tales. Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely a ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about | during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that does not survive |
| Vladimir Pribylovsky | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and | , top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plo ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The biggest influence was | . Lovecraft had many similarities with Poe; they both lost their fathers a ... |
| Pliny | ... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era. | says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
| John Lloyd | ... are changed. Much of parts five and six of the radio series were written by | , but his material did not make it into the other versions of the story an ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | On September 27, 1786, Mason wrote to | that he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ... |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ong doing while placing some blame for the scandal on former Prime Minister | for lack of oversight, although it acknowledged that Chrétien had no knowl ... |
| Henry Williamson | ... three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and | |
| Jonathan Swift | ... as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and | , which are more often considered adult literature. The Hobbit has been ca ... |
| René Descartes | ... calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and | . Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calculus and integral ca ... |
| George Washington | ... of the numerous trees and undergrowth. During the American Revolution, Gen. | and many of his troops camped at Malin Hall here. They were preparing for ... |
| Blake | ... ar in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as | in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century." The term In ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of | , who were considered Hollywood royalty. Fairbanks Sr. and Pickford were o ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar — this is a reference to | 's poem "The Raven". Poe replaces Ratface from the comics. A similar refer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edgell Rickword | ... omment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, | and Henry Williamson |
| Gertrude Barrows Bennett | Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as | (who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publi ... |
| Plato | Much debate over both the nature and value of rhetoric begins with Gorgias. | ’s dialogue entitled Gorgias presents a counter-argument to Gorgias’ embra ... |
| Plato | ... stronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras, | , Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lecturing ... |
| Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
| Colin Dexter | ... nal character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author | , as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same na ... |
| Chrissie Hynde | ... d Masters of the Backside, which also included future Pretenders frontwoman | . Brian James (Brian Robertson) had been a member of the Crawley-based gar ... |
| Bennett Cerf | ... about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist | said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode; t ... |
| Carl Barks | ... ald's cousin Fethry Duck and the hillbilly hermit Hard Haid Moe. Also while | created John D. Rockerduck, he used the character only in a single story ( ... |
| Wordsworth | ... en 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and | at the turn of the century." The term Industrial Revolution applied to tec ... |
| Martin Luther | ... ntact. A few months after the proclamation of the 95 Theses, in April 1518, | was received in Heidelberg, to defend them. In 1537, the castle located fu ... |
| Hesketh Pearson | ... thuasists". Allan Aynesworth, who played Mr Algernon Moncrieff, recalled to | that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triump ... |
| Thomas Pynchon | Mason is one of the titular characters of | 's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon |
| Eratosthenes | ... arth is a sphere ("round"), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, | (276 BCE – 194 BCE) accurately estimated its circumference. In contrast to ... |
| Ben Bova | ... Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by | was published in 1971 |
| Wong Kar-wai | ... name, she has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, | , Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
| Robert W. Chambers | ... tually "emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes"[20]), Oswald Spengler, | (writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clar ... |
| Herodotus | According to | ' rationalizing approach, Europa was kidnapped by Minoans who were seeking ... |
| Gloria Estefan | ... official state song, at the opening ceremony. The closing ceremony featured | singing "Reach", the official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. At the clos ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... , St. Augustine's Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of | . Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Bo ... |
| Linda Porter | ... arch of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan James and | for their biographies on Catherine confirm that she married the 2nd Baron' ... |
| Randolph Carter | ... theism common within academic circles. Also in The Silver Key the character | attempts after losing access to dreams to seek solace in religion, specifi ... |
| Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ... |
| Jonathan Glazer | ... C series Ashes to Ashes, while "Peaches" appeared in Sexy Beast by director | . "Golden Brown" featured in Guy Ritchie's film Snatch and was used extens ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... released in August 1971. The album has origins in a rock opera conceived by | called Lifehouse. The ambitious, complex project did not come to fruition ... |
| Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... e elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by Democritus. | (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of Plato, promoted the conc ... |
| James Lipton | In an Actors Studio interview with | , Sheen admitted to being arrested 64 times for protests. "I don't look fo ... |
| Robert Mitchum | ... in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, | , and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Raff ... |
| Spencer Brown | ... directed by Deep Sehgal, starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Arthur Dent, alongside | as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as t ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | Important influences were Henry David Thoreau, | and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, an ... |
| Aristotle | ... rical, political, or other. A number of these are referred to and quoted by | , including a speech on Hellenic unity, a funeral oration for Athenians fa ... |
| John Hughes | The duo express a great interest in | ' films such as Sixteen Candles, the film Purple Rain, the heavy metal mus ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... rk City, although neither apparently was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son of | and the stepson of Mary Pickford, who were considered Hollywood royalty. F ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
| Plato | Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of | , promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultima ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Bragg | Fronted by | (whose 1985 Jobs for Youth tour had been a prototype of sorts for Red Wedg ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and fellow War poet | . It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the ... |
| Michelangelo | ... he Uffizi and over the Ponte Vecchio. The Galleria dell' Accademia houses a | collection, including the David. It has a collection of Russian icons and ... |
| Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
| Joe Cornish | ... voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Buxton and | as Loonquawl and Phouchg |
| Southey | ... he idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in | and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the ... |
| Hume | ... s a metaphysician he starts from what he terms the higher scepticism of the | -Kantian sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in Locke's ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
| 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 ... |
| Michael D. Higgins | Sheen maintains links with Galway and "heartily" supported | in the Irish presidential election, 2011, having become a "dear friend" of ... |
| Morgan Llywelyn | ... novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths. | 's book Finn Mac Cool tells of Fionn's rise to leader of the Fianna and th ... |
| Alison Bechdel | ... t the 2000 census. It is the setting for Fun Home, a 2006 graphic memoir by | , who grew up there. Brittani Kline, winner of America's Next Top Model, C ... |
| William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
| Ptolemy | ... 4), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), | (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). The city was the capita ... |
| Joe Clark | ... h the failure of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of | and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
| Gottfried Leibniz | It was independently developed by | and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ... |
| Raymond Carver | ... he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or | . With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created ... |
| Chatral Rinpoche | ... in India on three occasions, and also the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen master, | , followed by a solitary retreat near Darjeeling.In Darjeeling, he befrien ... |
| Eugene O'Neill | ... rs in the U.S. (as well as white writers exploring black themes), including | , James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Well ... |
| Georgius Agricola | ... re metallica in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author | is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical ... |
| Leonard Cohen | On 26 February 2012, Costello paid tribute to music legends Chuck Berry and | who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting exc ... |
| Madonna | ... e an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, | and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character ... |
| Plato | ... second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on | in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and Theopompus even said tha ... |
| William Empson | ... e one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century. The critic | once said, "I do not know for certain how much of my own mind [Eliot] inve ... |
| Emil Cioran | ... from 1928 to 1933 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met | and Mircea Eliade, and the three became lifelong friends |
| Max Beerbohm | ... ed by Alexander in St. James's; he and Aynesworth resumed their lead roles. | said that the play was sure to become a classic of the English repertory, ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and | (s. v.). The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome, situated at the p ... |
| Democritus | ... , indivisible elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by | |
| Claude Perrault | ... Chambray, Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of | 's Treatise of the Five Orders. Whether Palladio's work inspired Chiswick ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
| Henry David Thoreau | Important influences were | , Leo Tolstoy and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
| Mike Myers | ... in the recurring skit Coffee Talk where character Linda Richman, played by | , hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Str ... |
| Geoffrey Jellicoe | ... iam Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by | |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | ... for the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. It was then-Disney Studio President | who insisted the film should be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale with ... |
| Diana Gabaldon | ... ing its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, | and Mark Evanier were among those who at some point did scripts for it. Fr ... |
| Conrad Aiken | ... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, | , and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ... |
| Barack Obama | ... outnumbers that of the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, | defeated John McCain in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. ... |
| John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... us Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer | , s. v. |
| John D. MacDonald | ... the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, | , Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winnin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope Gregory I | ... er embellishment of his legend: it was commonly said in medieval times that | , through divine intercession, resurrected Trajan from the dead and baptiz ... |
| Diogenes Laërtius | ... the use of Athenians born of foreign mothers, near the temple of Hercules. | says that his works filled ten volumes, but of these, only fragments remai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sheck Exley | ... ves carried out using technical diving techniques. This term, first used by | , is mostly used by Technical Diving International |
| Eliot Asinof | The book Eight Men Out by | and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being gr ... |
| Luciano Violante | ... er 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided by | about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti. H ... |
| Shirley Jackson | ... "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, | , and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Ca ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), | (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ... |
| Gilbert Seldes | ... Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, Conrad Aiken, and | thought it was the best poetry being written in the English language while ... |
| George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
| Sebastiano Serlio | ... ced in his choice of octagon from the drawings of the Renaissance architect | (1475–1554), or from Roman buildings of antiquity (for example, Lord Burli ... |
| Alan K. Simpson | ... 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator | – the two had met while Mineta was interned at a camp in Wyoming – which p ... |
| Guy Bolton | The movie was adapted by | and Arthur Laurents from the play by Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. The str ... |
| John McCain | ... Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama defeated | in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. This was despite Obam ... |
| Mark Evanier | ... ; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, Diana Gabaldon and | were among those who at some point did scripts for it. From the late 1970s ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister | 's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ... |
| Levon Helm | ... drums, baritone saxophone, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and | (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals). All five members were notable musicians ... |
| Barry E. Jackson | ... s crew included character layout and design artist Louise Zingarelli, Vita, | , and Marcia Adams. Bakshi again used rotoscoping, in an attempt to captur ... |
| Ofra Haza | | from Israel, who took the second place, had an enduring success with her s ... |
| Shaw | Like | and Brecht, Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... rol. Together they helped force an end to the occupation in 1934. President | sent a commission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under ... |
| Tiger Woods | ... o had worked during the strike. SAG trial boards found Elizabeth Hurley and | guilty of performing in non-union commercials and both were fined $100,000 ... |
| Dick Kinney | ... e artists during its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, | , Diana Gabaldon and Mark Evanier were among those who at some point did s ... |
| Guy Ritchie | ... eared in Sexy Beast by director Jonathan Glazer. "Golden Brown" featured in | 's film Snatch and was used extensively in the Australian film He Died Wit ... |
| Archimedes | ... egan in Antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as | and Ptolemy. Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, f ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... on, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger; the "pop princess" | , Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the Joh ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot, | , was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ... |
| Herodotus | The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian | . Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 ... |
| Agathon | ... lcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. | too, the tragic poet, whom Comedy regards as wise and eloquent, often Gorg ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
| 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 ... |
| John Cage | Riley also cites | and "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davi ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... is, immortalized in the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists | , John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pu ... |
| Brecht | Like Shaw and | , Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical writings (W ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... thic archetypes regarding initiation and male coming-of-age as described by | . Chance compares the development and growth of Bilbo against other charac ... |
| Thucydides | ... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with | . Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ... |
| Sir Patrick Moore | ... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, | as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ty with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and | . Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, focused on e ... |
| Gérard Bouchard | ... son of Alice (née Simard) and Philippe Bouchard. His brother is a historian | . Lucien Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959, and ... |
| Alex Massie | Scottish journalist | wrote in National Review |
| Critias | ... tus, "I understand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, | and Alcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were alread ... |
| Billy Dee Williams | ... the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. The movie co-starred | as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard P ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... mpositions as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, | , Neil Young, and others |
| Herodotus | ... attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including | (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9 ... |
| Martin Luther | ... s whether or not their actions are determined. "Hard determinists", such as | and d'Holbach, are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and rejec ... |
| John Amaechi | ... n and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. | , who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Ca ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tara Singh Hayer | On 18 November 1998, the Canada-based Sikh journalist | was gunned down by the suspected Khalistani militants. The publisher of th ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... tion of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest. | 's play The Tempest (1611) was based on the following incident. Sir Thomas ... |
| Paul Samuelson | ... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England." | coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21 | ;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ... |
| Jonathan Swift | More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer | . Swift wrote that More was "a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... an't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones, "All the Tired Horses" by | , "Rumble" by Link Wray, "Glad and Sorry" by Faces, "Strange Brew" by Crea ... |
| Gladys Knight | ... Club, Spelman College Glee Club and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus). | sang "Georgia on My Mind", Georgia's official state song, at the opening c ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in | 's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ... |
| Nick Mason | ... d album Music For Pleasure. They settled for Barrett's Pink Floyd bandmate, | , who they reported was generally uninterested in the task. Music for Plea ... |
| d'Alembert | Several mathematicians, including Maclaurin and | , attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it would be 150 ye ... |
| Neil Young | ... ians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, | , Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Ha ... |
| Hesiod | ... Charis "the grace" or Aglaia "the glorious", the youngest of the Graces, as | calls her |
| Neil Young | ... as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, Bob Dylan, | , and others |
| Plotinus | The Neoplatonic philosopher | taught that above the gods of traditional belief was "The One" and polythe ... |
| Timothy Leary | ... featured internationally known controversial figures to match the likes of | , Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' a ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | The English Roman Catholic writer | said of More that "He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or a ... |
| Thucydides | ... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, and | and Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... cal view mainly in the writings of American anarchist and transcendentalist | . In his book Walden he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among ... |
| Laura Ziskin | ... itute friend on the bus to Disneyland. These traits, considered by producer | to be detrimental to the otherwise sympathetic portrayal of her, were remo ... |
| Tacitus | ... Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11 | ;, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by ... |
| Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
| Henry Chettle | ... e 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by | , Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only ... |
| Gloria Trevi | ... ardo Díaz discussed allegations of abuse with Ralphy Rodríguez. In another, | spoke about her life |
| Brian May | ... n Europe. Following one such performance at the Royal Albert Hall Jarre met | , who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year ... |
| John Crowe Ransom | ... enging poem like "The Waste Land." Of course, there were some critics, like | , who wrote mostly negative criticisms of Eliot's work but who also had so ... |
| Alice Sebold | ... elling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and | ; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian ... |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Since 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in the | Library, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register |
| Arthur Laurents | The movie was adapted by Guy Bolton and | from the play by Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. The structure of the play c ... |
| Anténor Firmin | ... 1892, the German government supported suppression of the reform movement of | . In January 1914, British, German and US forces entered Haiti, ostensibly ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.” | ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | Theologians, such as | , discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. In the Divine Comedy ... |
| Jack Vance | ... novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by | 's Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyma ... |
| Fulgentius of Ruspe | ... pression given by ancient sources such as Victor of Vita, Quodvultdeus, and | was that the Vandal take-over of Carthage and North Africa led to widespre ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... an accompanying “Editor’s Note” giving mild approval. He was seen as one of | 's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader Liu Sha ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | The Ring has been the subject of myriad interpretations. For example, | , in , argues for a view of The Ring as an essentially socialist critique ... |
| George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
| Brendan Mullen | ... became the first British punk band to tour the United States. According to | , founder of the Los Angeles club The Masque, the Damned's first tour of t ... |
| Steven Spielberg | Baseline Studio Systems announced in January 2010 that | may direct a biopic about the composer's life, which is scheduled for rele ... |
| William Safire | ... sts Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold | ;, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Fi ... |
| China Miéville | ... it, that our mechanical and industrial age is one of frank decadence" (see | 's introduction to "At the Mountains of Madness", Modern Library Classics, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jordanes | ... istoriographers under Justinian I (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, | and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... wks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, | recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for h ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ormation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope. In 2000, | declared More the "heavenly patron of statesmen and politicians". In 1980, ... |
| Paul Williams | ... nd Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer (together with lyricist | ) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976 |
| William Dufty | ... Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and | . The movie co-starred Billy Dee Williams as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Euripides | ... and Joshua Barnes with a warning as to the spuriousness of the Epistles of | . Barnes printed the epistles anyway and declared that no one could doubt ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... e is used by folk musicians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as | , Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singer ... |
| Don Rosa | According to | 's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed m ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... , during the Persian Gulf War, speculation on the survival of the regime of | in Iraq. Similar political stability concerns have from time to time drive ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants." | |
| Bishop Berkeley | ... s fiercely criticized by a number of authors, most notably Michel Rolle and | . Berkeley described infinitesimals in his book The Analyst in 1734 |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ues. An important early influence was the thought of the American anarchist | and his book Walden. In the late 19th century there emerged anarcho-naturi ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... owed the work on the structure and distribution of coral reefs conducted by | in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor Edgewo ... |
| Quintilian | ... societies of Plato and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, | , epideictic oratory), it continued into the Enlightenment. Utopias origin ... |
| Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Others, such as | , reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ... |
| Lewis Mumford | ... nthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as | , Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and ... |
| Orson Welles | On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by | , who two years previous had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The ... |
| David Hume | ... will, desire, or inclination to do." In articulating this crucial proviso, | writes, "this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to eve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Dawkins | In The Selfish Gene, author | asserts the gene is the only true unit of selection. (Dawkins also attempt ... |
| Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
| Anne Cecil | ... l, to Lord Rich. Sidney was knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry | , daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen t ... |
| James Laughlin | ... pt Merton had given to friend Robert Lax the previous year was published by | at New Directions: a book of poetry titled Thirty Poems. Merton had mixed ... |
| Plotinus | ... lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, Aristotle and | . This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as well |
| Bobby Jindal | ... 2007, however, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Representative | , polled a plurality of 40 percent in Tensas Parish. The parish gave a plu ... |
| Hesiod | ... s was born of the union of Zeus and Hera. In another tradition, attested by | , Hera bore Hephaestus alone |
| Carl Barks | Glomgold was created by | and first appeared in The Second-Richest Duck, first published in Septembe ... |
| Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
| Aristotle | ... ovement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of Plato and | with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory) ... |
| Noël Coward | ... f the human story of the film. Powell's work on this film was influenced by | 's film (1942) |
| 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 ... |
| Romano Scarpa | ... ff Voorhees, Al Hubbard, Jack Bradbury, Carson Van Osten, Ellis Eringer and | were among the artists during its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman ... |
| Jim Cairns | ... also rose significantly. Unease within the ALP led to Barnard's defeat when | challenged him for his deputy leadership. Whitlam gave little help to his ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | Most "classical compatibilists", such as | , claim that a person is acting on the person's own will only when it is t ... |
| Jostein Gaarder | ... ildren's books that has been accepted into mainstream literature, alongside | 's Sophie's World (1991) and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997–200 ... |
| Aristotle | ... nt, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, | and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as w ... |
| Plato | ... aissance movement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of | and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epide ... |
| Iain Banks | ... nnjin. The name is inspired by the science fiction novel Feersum Endjinn by | , an author whose novel The Wasp Factory was conceptual inspiration for Lu ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the other characters. In addition to having his name be a reference to the | poem "The Raven", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word "nevermore" |
| Parmenides | ... -Existence is taken to be critical of the Eleatic tradition and its founder | , describes philosophy as a type of seduction, but he does not deny philos ... |
| Robert Lax | ... and leather belt. In November 1944 a manuscript Merton had given to friend | the previous year was published by James Laughlin at New Directions: a boo ... |
| Stephen Colbert | Costello appeared in | 's television special . In the program, he was eaten by a bear, but later ... |
| 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 | |
| Gypsy Rose Lee | ... are The Screaming Mimi (which became a 1958 movie starring Anita Ekberg and | , and directed by Gerd Oswald, who also directed the "Fun and Games" episo ... |
| 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). ... |
| Gabriel Harvey | ... is friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and | , of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classi ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo a satirical biography mocking | 's status as a great figure in French literature. The Hugoliade includes e ... |
| Robert Byrd | ... hip when he lost the support of several members and was defeated by Senator | of West Virginia, 31–24. Kennedy would later tell Byrd that the defeat was ... |
| 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 ... |
| Victor Schoelcher | ... ) – an indemnity for profits lost from the slave trade. French abolitionist | wrote, "Imposing an indemnity on the victorious slaves was equivalent to m ... |
| Nennius | Twelve of King Arthur's battles were recorded by | in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of Tribruit (the 10th battle), has been ... |
| Prosper of Aquitaine | The chronicler | offers the only fifth-century report that on 2 June 455, Pope Leo the Grea ... |
| Edward Dyer | ... ncluded membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, | , Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopag ... |
| Plato | ... the point, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of | , Aristotle and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via N ... |
| William Goldman | ... is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by | (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Bas ... |
| Carson Van Osten | ... ries more variety.” Tony Strobl, Cliff Voorhees, Al Hubbard, Jack Bradbury, | , Ellis Eringer and Romano Scarpa were among the artists during its early ... |
| Pliny the Younger | ... e same acclaim as before. It was during this time that he corresponded with | on the subject of how to deal with the Christians of Pontus, telling Pliny ... |
| Eric Rücker Eddison | ... hompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, | 's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer nov ... |
| Garry Marshall | ... film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by | , this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also He ... |
| John Maynard Smith | ... ent in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, George C. Williams, | and others led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution in ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... o television special, Diana!, featuring guest appearances by The Jackson 5, | and Danny Thomas |
| Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
| Jane Austen | In | 's novel Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley—the country home of Fitzwilliam Da ... |
| Emeric Pressburger | ... e of the River Plate had its genesis in an invitation to Michael Powell and | to attend a film festival in Argentina in 1954. They decided they couldn't ... |
| Plato | | is one of Gorgias’ greatest critics. Plato’s dislike for sophistic doctrin ... |
| Edwin Muir | Many critics were particularly enthusiastic about it. | maintained that it is one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhap ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... draft of The Arcadia and A Defense of Poetry. Somewhat earlier, he had met | , who dedicated the Shepheardes Calendar to him. Other literary contacts i ... |
| Barack Obama | ... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-elect | prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ... |
| John D. Winters | ... ish provided considerable support for units formed in the parish. Historian | in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), describes Sabine as "a poor piney-hi ... |
| C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
| Bob Gregory | ... d in business. In the 1988 DuckTales comic book story "The Smart Nephew" by | , Cosme Quartieri and Jorge Sanchez, another nephew of Glomgold appears: t ... |
| Thalía | ... d Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, | , Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan T ... |
| Wong Kar-wai | ... he British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2046 (2004), directed by | , starring many of the best-known Chinese actors and actresses, Zhang was ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of | . Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ... |
| Nennius | ... y a missionary. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian | , the name Caer Peris occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to ha ... |
| William Kotzwinkle | ... cluding adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, | 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... he title The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, together with photographs taken by | and |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ration of Ireland in a lengthy document. More seriously, he quarrelled with | , probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de ... |
| George Orwell | ... lves destroying gentler, more-human places such as gardens. In 1984, author | described the Ministry of Truth as an "enormous, pyramidal structure of wh ... |
| Barack Obama | ... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democrat | of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ... |
| James George Frazer | ... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and | , which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ... |
| J. J. C. Smart | In modern times, | has described the problem of admitting indeterminism |
| Dumas | ... character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and the mention in | 's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of branding a criminal with the ... |
| King James I | ... uilt in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to | and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a prime exampl ... |
| Robert Burns | ... the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing | ' Halloween 1785. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn hu ... |
| Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
| Kevin Jarre | ... er Stéphanie Jarre, from Maurice Jarre's other marriages. His half-brother, | , died in 2011. Although Maurice and Jean-Michel remained estranged, follo ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
| James I | ... facto capital of Scotland for much of the period until the assassination of | in 1437. Following her marriage to King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret encour ... |
| Orrin Hatch | ... letics, such as gold-medal wrestler Kurt Angle; politics, such as Utah Sen. | ; business, such as self-made billionaire Mark Cuban; and science, such as ... |
| Vitruvius | ... benefit of the Roman people. The Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (‘ | ’) was also writing in the age of Augustus, a fact not lost on Lord Burlin ... |
| Fazil Iskander | According to Soviet writer | , "Under the totalitarian regime, it was as if you were forced to live in ... |
| John Mayne | ... one of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet | , who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween; "What fearfu' pranks ens ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of | , when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama film co-written, edited, and directed by | . The film takes place in 1587 during the Warring States Period of Japan. ... |
| Georgette Heyer | ... rge Eliot's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth. | 's detective/romance novel The Toll-Gate is set in 1817 around a fictional ... |
| H. Rider Haggard | Sir | , novelist, was born in Bradenham, and later in his life spent his summers ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mahmud al-Kashgari | ... inguistic groups. In the eleventh century, the renowned Muslim Turk scholar | described the language of the Oghuz and Turkmen as distinct from that of o ... |
| Greek dramas | The cycle is modelled after ancient | that were presented as three tragedies and one satyr play. The Ring proper ... |
| Plotinus | ... s of inward "knowing" or self-exploration, comparable to that encouraged by | (c. 205–270 AD). This is what helps separate Gnosticism from proto-orthodo ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... ed until a few established writers and critics, among them Jean Anouilh and | , championed the play |
| Douglas Adams | The "Deep Thought" episode in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by | appears to be a parody of his short story "Answer" |
| 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 ... |
| George Eliot | ... hen a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lover. | 's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth |
| Aeschylus | ... Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright | . Archaeological evidence, such as the , also supports some of Herodotus's ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale by | and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
| D. H. Lawrence | Alfreton is mentioned in the novel Sons and Lovers by | , when a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lo ... |
| Gloria Trevi | ... n Taunton, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., | , Chayanne, Ricky Martin, RBD, Niurka, Noelia, Anaís, George Lopez, Jennif ... |
| James I | Elizabeth's successor | did not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) c ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as a footnote to the spate of barbarian films that followed in the wake of | 's appearance as Conan. |
| Jacques Lanctôt | ... icted of murder. On February 26, 1970, two men in a panel truck – including | – were arrested in Montreal when they were discovered with a sawed-off sho ... |
| George Washington | ... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) | . Its county seat is |
| 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 ... |
| Plato | ... ing both from the exact meaning of the original Greek term and its usage in | nist philosophy |
| Jean Anouilh | ... and went unnoticed until a few established writers and critics, among them | and Raymond Queneau, championed the play |
| Bob Dylan | ... hortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of | , George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by d ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as | before she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ... |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin | ... iction of totalitarian society, as is their lesser-known predecessor, We by | . Additional totalitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Ha ... |
| Kevin Smith | Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and | , respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe c ... |
| Martin Luther | In 1520 the reformer | published three works in quick succession: An Appeal to the Christian Nobi ... |
| Gloria Estefan | ... lejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ramos, | and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayanne, Ricky Martin, ... |
| Tom Stoppard | The events of the play Arcadia, by | , take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | The astronomer | was first to demonstrate to the world that the Earth is moving and the Sun ... |
| J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
| Carl Fallberg | ... lis Eringer and Romano Scarpa were among the artists during its early years | ;, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, Diana Gabaldon and Mark Evanier ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | | might have consulted with a native speaker of Hawaiian in Berlin, Germany, ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... of its genre and a superior example of it. It may have provided a model for | when he later created his own stories set in alternate personal realities. ... |
| Michael Ignatieff | ... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by | , who quickly distanced the party from the coalition |
| Julian of Norwich | ... nd language of such figures as Dante, and mystics St. John of the Cross and | . The "deeper communion" sought in East Coker, the "hints and whispers of ... |
| Patrick O'Leary | Among others, writers Neil Gaiman and | have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: "Forget 'Speculativ ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... tic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of | " |
| George MacDonald | ... like Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie and The Princess and the Goblin by | , both of which influenced Tolkien and contain fantasy elements, it is pri ... |
| William Ernest Henley | | is known to most people by virtue of this single poem |
| John Hughes | ... ide to go to be the "blunt connection" in Shermer, Illinois, (where most of | ' films are set) because they believe that all the guys there are jerks an ... |
| Paul Hasluck | ... at stake; Whitlam agreed to Gair's request and had the Governor-General Sir | appoint him Ambassador to Ireland. Word leaked of Gair's pending resignati ... |
| Thomas Middleton | ... of Elizabethan and Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, | , William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... ounts of food, the health of such methods is questionable, according to Dr. | . A true fast, he contends, consists of an intake solely of water, and can ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... e to operate the Mexico City-Tuxpan-Tampico-Brownsville, Texas, USA, route. | piloted the first flight on this route |
| Dicaearchus | ... the words of Cicero), was ascribed to Aristoxenus (fr. 118-121 Wehrli) and | . This theory is comparable to the one offered by Simmias in Plato's Phaed ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | ... only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing." | , who collaborated in a complete edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's work, wr ... |
| Ron Powers | Pulitzer Prize winner | states in his Twain biography (Mark Twain: A Life) that "Huckleberry Finn ... |
| Rudolf Simek | ... originally simply meant "grave," and that "the personification came later." | theorizes that the figure of Hel is "probably a very late personification ... |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch | ... patron. The title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by editor | when the poem was included in The Oxford Book of English Verse |
| Wes Anderson | ... and television. In film, Mothersbaugh has worked frequently with filmmaker | , and scored most of his feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal ... |
| Vitruvius | ... udged, not as the Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. | in his De architectura paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. H ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... nic fasting helps eliminate hypertension. Natural Hygienist doctors such as | continue to use this method |
| William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet | (1849–1903) |
| Ezekiel | ... Heliopolis and burn the temple of the sun in fire. Jeremiah’s contemporary | , reinforced this message by saying that the "young men of Aven (or Beth-A ... |
| Margaret Roper | ... "prison-letters" (in English) which he exchanged with his oldest daughter, | while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London awaiting execution |
| Yang Wanli | ... f China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ice cheese) was written by the poet | . Actually, this poem was named "詠酥” (Ode to the pastry; 酥 is a kind of fo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Guérin | ... hism was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. So | in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how "Spanish anarcho-syndica ... |
| Lloyd Alexander | ... ou Trust Your Wife?", then "The Tonight Show". Well-known children's author | also lived in Drexel Hill with his wife and several cats |
| James Gurney | ... ng sessions to the final shoot. The film's crew included background artists | and Thomas Kinkade, layout artist Peter Chung, and established Bakshi Prod ... |
| Ernesto Cardenal | ... ion was published in 1961. In a letter to a Latin-American Catholic writer, | , Merton wrote: "The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, ... |
| Akira Kurosawa | The film was the first samurai film that | had ever directed. He had originally wanted to direct a film about a singl ... |
| Don Rosa | ... s quitenlly powerful, with only her naivety being her proeminenty weakness. | 's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usu ... |
| Johnny Depp | ... o Crazy" and "Mama's Blues." She began playing at hip nightclubs like actor | 's Viper Room, New York's Algonquin Hotel and Michael's Pub and such Holly ... |
| Oliver Parker | ... mportance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and | 's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some material cut d ... |
| Shakespeare | ... olfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. | was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of | 's Stranger in a Strange Land |
| 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 ... |
| Eliphas Levi | Presumably following Herodotus' description, the occultist | in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855) called his goat-headed con ... |
| Georges Dumézil | ... ns have proven troublesome and enigmatic to interpret for scholars. Scholar | summarizes the difficulties as follows |
| Barack Obama | ... n 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007. | became the first president to personally attend Diwali at the White House ... |
| Carl Barks | ... d witch, her actual capability to wield magic varies from writer to writer. | ' incarnation is quitenlly powerful, with only her naivety being her proem ... |
| Bret Harte | ... nd For the Term of his Natural Life; an aunt had also given him a volume by | . Reading became a major source of his education because, due to his deafn ... |
| Terrence Malick | ... aith restored by a series of meaningful conversations in Paris in 1981 with | , the director of Sheen’s breakthrough film, Badlands (1973) |
| Julie Andrews | ... na Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madonna, Judy Garland, | , Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, ... |
| Mickey Spillane | ... for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The famous pulp writer | called Brown "my favorite writer of all time". Science fiction and fantasy ... |
| Julian of Norwich | ... l experience. From this background, the Quartets end with an affirmation of | : "All shall be well and/All manner of thing shall be well. |
| Theophrastus | ... aped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated | as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus h ... |
| Mack Sennett | In late 1914 Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from | 's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary and his own producti ... |
| Heinrich Joseph von Collin | ... named after a play, for example, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture (written for | 's tragedy), or Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... reer but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, father of | , an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of rotte ... |
| Plato | Like | does, Gnosticism presents a distinction between a supranatural, unknowable ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... United States intelligence agencies issued a report that announced aides of | managed to acquire Belarusian passports while in Syria. The same report me ... |
| John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... litics of his time, he was memorialised as the flower of English manhood in | 's Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies |
| Ayn Rand | ... its opening, which is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself. | singled out Brown for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The ... |
| Henry James | ... n in response to a request for a play "with no real serious interest". When | 's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his ... |
| Dave Filoni | ... an graduated and still resides in Mt Lebanon. The supervising director of , | grew up in Mt. Lebanon. The CEO of Chicago-based Groupon, Andrew Mason, al ... |
| Clare Dunne | ... 66's comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and | was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changi ... |
| George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
| Alfred Mombert | ... died of hunger and diseases. Among the deportees from Heidelberg, the poet | (1872–1942) left the camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Rein ... |
| 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 ... |
| Unno Juza | ... cs. Other writers involved in that genre Kozakai Fuboku, Yumeno Kyusaku and | |
| Richard Dawkins | ... e use of the "out" metaphor. This campaign is endorsed by prominent atheist | , who states "there is a big closet population of atheists who need to 'co ... |
| John Lindow | ... ume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention." | states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of ... |
| Stan Laurel | ... Chicago in 1953. G. M. Anderson became an independent producer, sponsoring | in a series of silent comedies. Anderson died in Los Angeles in 1971 |
| Gene Wolfe | ... by authors such as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of | and Jonathan Swift, which are more often considered adult literature. The ... |
| Iolo Morganwg | ... Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, but this is one of the discredited theories of | . There are two lakes near the abbey ruins, which was used for fish farmin ... |
| Brian Moynahan | ... ed violence or torture while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as | and Michael Farris, cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himse ... |
| Newton Arvin | ... uments and records for the day by day Melville Log (1951). In the same year | published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... d, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from | 's Engaged. Meticulous revisions continued throughout the Autumn—such that ... |
| Lloyd Alexander | ... igh fantasy include works for children by authors such as L. Frank Baum and | alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, which are more often ... |
| Aristotle | ... us of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of | , whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies. According ... |
| Herodotus | The ram deity of Mendes was described by | in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “. ... |
| Carl Jung | The Swiss Psychologist | wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louisa May Alcott | ... ritics, including Leslie Fiedler, Norman Mailer, and Russell Baker.) Writer | criticized the book’s publication as well, saying that if Twain "[could no ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... s ever written before 1965. His short story "The Waveries" was described by | as "what may be the most significant—startlingly so—story SF has yet produ ... |
| Dafydd ap Gwilym | ... it was once claimed to be the site of the grave of the medieval Welsh poet | , but this is one of the discredited theories of Iolo Morganwg. There are ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | ... te a chamber opera by the Danish Royal Opera, Copenhagen, on the subject of | 's infatuation with Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Called The Secret Songs it ... |
| Louis Henkin | Prominent critics in the human rights community, such as Prof. | (non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause) an ... |
| John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
| John Foxe | ... cs during his time as Lord Chancellor. The popular anti-Catholic polemicist | , who "placed Protestant sufferings against the background of... the Antic ... |
| Ernest Hemingway | Many subsequent critics, | among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolve ... |
| Giordano Bruno | ... cis Walsingham. In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with | , who subsequently dedicated two books to Sidney |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, | ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell. Michael Feingold, an American c ... |
| Carl Barks | ... iginally created in 1956 by the legendary Scrooge McDuck artist and creator | , the creator of much of the Duck universe. He is portrayed as an ambitiou ... |
| Thomas Kyd | ... witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and | in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every poet would like, I fan ... |
| Daniel Dennett | "Modern compatibilists", such as Harry Frankfurt and | , argue that there are cases where a coerced agent's choices are still fre ... |
| Cornell Woolrich | ... ) and The Far Cry, powerful noir suspense novels reminiscent of the work of | , and The Lenient Beast, with its experiments in multiple first-person vie ... |
| John Cage | ... n Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of | . There he also met Cage's collaborator, pianist David Tudor, who subseque ... |
| George Lucas | THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by | in his directorial debut. The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. I ... |
| John Lustig | ... s stated that both he and Scrooge are distantly related to Bogey McDivot in | and Vicar's comic book story "Family of Fore. |
| Russell T Davies | In 1999, | 's Queer as Folk, a popular TV series shown on Channel 4 (UK) debuted and ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... eam music, Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne music, and Edvard Grieg's music for | 's Peer Gynt. Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outsid ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ( ... |
| Aristotle | ... fl. 335 BC) of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of | . Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, hav ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, | and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every poet wo ... |
| Hesychius | ... othrace; they were identified with the crab (karkinos) by the lexicographer | , and the adjective karkinopous ("crab-footed") signified "lame", accordin ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... e definitions of high fantasy include works for children by authors such as | and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, ... |
| Jackie Chan | ... ovie was in Rush Hour 2, but because she did not speak English at the time, | had to interpret everything the director said to her. In the movie, her ch ... |
| David Brin | ... nsparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author | in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of pr ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. | , who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in Davos in 1880 at the recomme ... |
| Donald Wandrei | Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and | , often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works. On October 9, 1947, Der ... |
| David Hume | ... happen thereafter." This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which | had put in 1777 as "all inferences from experience suppose ... that the fu ... |
| Katharine Ross | ... ng. Sundance then leaves to visit his lover, the schoolteacher Etta Place ( | ). The next morning, Butch arrives on a bicycle, and takes Etta for a ride |
| Agnes Strickland | ... . Some blame for this mistake could be attributed to 19th century historian | 's book on the wives of King Henry VIII. Research of documents (including ... |
| Robert Christgau | | , writing in Creem, praised the album, saying "This boy has a lot more of ... |
| Adam of Bremen | Cnut died at Shaftesbury in 1035. Symeon of Durham and | suggest that Cnut had reserved the English throne for Harold, while the En ... |
| Jerome | ... a different person to the Apostle John. This opinion, although reported by | , was not held by all, as Jerome himself attributed the epistles to John t ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... taff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, | , Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free ... |
| Joe Simon | | was inspired at the moment he was considering an appropriate villain for C ... |
| 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 ... |
| C. J. Dennis | ... ver 80 shorts and several stage productions. Notable collaborators included | , George Wallace and Frank Harvey. Film production continued only until 19 ... |
| Bruce Schneier | ... a magazine article by Brin in Wired in late 1996. In 2008, security expert | called the transparent society concept a "myth" (a characterization Brin l ... |
| John Zerzan | ... as been traced back through time, language, art, and symbolic culture – see | ). Agriculture introduced the concept of a surplus along with the conditio ... |
| Hippolochus | ... esteemed warriors: Sarpedon (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of | ) |
| Nipsey Russell | ... girl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, | and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wi ... |
| Tommaso Landolfi | ... Rome in Piazza Campo Marzio near the Pantheon and began editing the work of | for Rizzoli. Awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1981, he also accepted ... |
| Horace | ... rative realism admired by Greco-Roman connoisseurs, succinctly expressed in | 's words ut pictura poesis, "as is painting so is poetry." Apelles seemed ... |
| Orville J. Nave | Galion was the birthplace of | in 1841. Nave was a chaplain in the United States Army and the editor of N ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
| Raymond Williams | ... ncing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 book , | states in the entry for "Industry": "The idea of a new social order based ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", and | memorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... lowing him to play a video tape of Rene's new boyfriend, Shannon Hamilton ( | ), having sex with a minor. The film concludes with Brodie and T.S. each r ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... g, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and | |
| Paul Lucas | The first drawing of Karnak is found in | ' travel account of 1704, (Voyage du Sieur paul Lucas au Levant). It is ra ... |
| Joe Flaherty | ... Farce comedy troupe. On That '70s Show Mounties were played by SCTV alumni | and Dave Thomas. The British have also exploited the myth: the BBC televis ... |
| W. H. Auden | In a 1955 letter to | , Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... any of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, | , Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fa ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ind and neutralize "The Emir", an international terrorist leader modeled on | , while also serving as mentor and trainer to Jack's son Jack Jr., a Campu ... |
| Mark Pattison | ... ary works. C.P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of | , a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrate ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... which it had been roused by the presence of Hannibal. Others, most notably | , feared that if Carthage was not completely destroyed it would soon regai ... |
| Thomas Mann | ... t skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is also the setting of the | novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain). Between 1936 and 1938, Ernst Lu ... |
| Woody Guthrie | ... ms - The Song Lyrics of Ralph McTell towards the end of 2005. Dedicated "to | , the man who started it all for me", Time's Poems contains "...all the so ... |
| Jack Kirby | ... #1 (cover-dated March 1941), written and drawn by the team of Joe Simon and | |
| Sheila Fitzpatrick | ... tly American left-wing historians, some of whose more prominent members are | , Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and J. Arch Getty. T ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... se War is on and Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by Count Witte ( | ) and Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... rie and The Country Blues', featuring his covers of songs by Woody Guthrie, | and black American blues artists such as Big Bill Broonzy. He also recorde ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including | and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ... |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
| William Blake | File:The Wood of the Self-Murderers.jpg| | , c. 1824–27, , Tat |
| Judith Butler | ... as living false, unhappy lives. Likewise, philosopher and critical analyst | (1991) states that the in/out metaphor creates a binary opposition which p ... |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, | , Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June ... |
| Ezra Pound | In 1915, | , overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the m ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... as a reactionary it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as | , Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie and |
| Tertullian | The earliest possible attestations for 3 John come from | and Origen of Alexandria. Tertullian, "On Monogamy" ch.vi quotes a brief p ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Joyce | ... p to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer | . Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a po ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... , Jay and Silent Bob have found out that comic book artists Holden McNeil ( | ) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) created a popular independent comic book s ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... s Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor | . He was later given the , which referred to the Gallic hooded tunic he ha ... |
| Laurence Olivier | ... ions and four wins), Jack Nicholson (twelve nominations and three wins) and | (ten nominations and one win) |
| Derrick Jensen | ... domestication or agriculture. Key theorists in the former category include | and John Zerzan while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the la ... |
| Robert M. Price | ... ." Wells' claim of a mythical Jesus has received support from Earl Doherty, | and others. The classical historian R. E. Witt, reviewing The Jesus of the ... |
| Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
| Cao Pi | ... CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By December his son | (187–226 CE) had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known po ... |
| John Zerzan | ... griculture. Key theorists in the former category include Derrick Jensen and | while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the latter, though the ... |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | ... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and | |
| Steven Spielberg | ... nations and three wins) and Laurence Olivier (ten nominations and one win). | purchased Davis's Oscars for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938) when they ... |
| Adam of Bremen | ... the fathers of Svein and Harold were respectively a priest and a shoemaker. | states that Svein and Harold were sons to Cnut and a concubina (but that C ... |
| Ernie Wise | ... 5) runners-up (and Brit Award 2010 British Breakthrough Act) JLS. Comedian, | , lived on Thorpe Avenue for many years, next door to Canadian baritone an ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
| Adolf Hitler | ... metimes spelled Shmidt), was a former Nazi general officer and confidant of | . He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D ... |
| Paul Graham | Arc is a dialect of the Lisp programming language now under development by | and Robert Morris |
| Gerald Warner | ... ry it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as H. L. Mencken, | of Craigenmaddie and |
| Eric Hoffer | ... tion seemed to fit reality better than the Friedrich-Brzezinski definition. | in his book The True Believer argues that mass movements like communism, F ... |
| John Ruskin | ... married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic | . The Severns had another child, Henry, who died as an infant in a crib ac ... |
| Maximilian Schell | In 2006, she appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and | in the mini-series The Shell Seekers |
| F. Hugh Herbert | ... r and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by | based on his 1951 play of the same title, the film is about a young woman ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former President | will surpass the length of Hoover's retirement on September 7, 2012. At th ... |
| Charles Eliot Norton | ... ting a separation from his wife for some time. When Harvard offered him the | professorship for the 1932-1933 academic year, he accepted and left Vivien ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in | 's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ... |
| John le Carré | ... after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate | , himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... . Arguably, the most distinguished Romantic poet of this part of Europe was | , who developed an idea that Poland was the Messiah of Nations, predestine ... |
| John Keats | ... 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside | . Both gravestones are still standing today. Shelley and Trelawny are also ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kevin Max | ... Vicker as Frank, Leigh Bingham Nash from Sixpence None the Richer as Clare, | as Ivory and Michael Tait as Buzz |
| Lazare Carnot | But not all the credit for the innovations of this period go to Napoleon. | played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to ... |
| Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
| Mike Tirico | ... its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, | , Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed al ... |
| Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle | ... (English: "War Song for the Army of the Rhine") was written and composed by | in 1792. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthe ... |
| Honoré de Balzac | ... es) and the University of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: | , Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyra ... |
| Edward Arnold | Actors known for their early support of SAG (besides the founders) include | , Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, ... |
| Helen Deutsch | ... uppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The screenplay by | was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by Paul Gallico ... |
| Paul Darrow | ... , Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and | as Mr. Tallboy. Rachel Herbert appeared as Lady Mary, Gwen Taylor as Pamel ... |
| Ralph Connor | In 1912, | 's Corporal Cameron of the North-West Mounted Police: A Tale of the MacLeo ... |
| Mickey Spillane | ... 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , | 's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. ... |
| Doug Marlette | ... ganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late | , and David Payne |
| 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 ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
| Bishop Atterbury | ... freemasonry, through his cousin Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, through | , through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of York), and via servants such ... |
| Lloyd Osbourne | ... 90, Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son | sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfa ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... was home to the Bulldogs. It was renamed Emerson High School for the writer | , when the two towns merged. Located on New York Avenue at 18th Street, th ... |
| H. Rider Haggard | ... shortly after. To counter the force of the North Sea and the winds off it, | sloped the cliff on the edge of his property and experimented with growing ... |
| Abraham Isaac Kook | ... ther Jews in the 14th century include Juan de Valladolid and Astruc Remoch. | , first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in then Palestine, held that a ... |
| Ovid Densusianu | ... ", I, Halle a.d.S., 1914, p. 122 and following). This opinion was shared by | (1873–1938), a Romanian folklorist, philologist, and poet who introduced t ... |
| Liev Schreiber | ... hn Clark has been portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Clear and Present Danger and | in The Sum of All Fears. As of now Paramount is trying to get Without Remo ... |
| Voltaire | ... letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to | as an epistolarian. Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fello ... |
| Tove Jansson | ... rated by pictures from many of the translated editions, including images by | . The edition also presents a number of little-known texts such as the 192 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludovico Ariosto | ... sity of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, | , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, an ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman and | and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers ... |
| Gina Cerminara's | One such example from | works |
| Noam Chomsky | ... aration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such as | and Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazine The Nation. ... |
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... red years before the Stonewall Riots, the German homosexual rights advocate | introduced the idea of self-disclosure as a means of emancipation. Claimin ... |
| Jamie Oliver | ... owever, the method was found on some Danish farms by British celebrity chef | in a television programme for the UK's Channel 4 in 2009 |
| David Berman | ... ocument pictured here, and still distributed today, was typeset by Ottawa's | intentionally in Carl Dair's Cartier typeface: at the time the most promin ... |
| Gary Snyder | ... Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and | . Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism consider Fredy Perlman ... |
| Miranda July | ... with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lois Maffeo and director/writer/performer | . The lineup later solidified around the trio of Johnson, bassist Chris Su ... |
| Allen Tate | ... , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage. | perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disapp ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... uarded by Satwant and Beant. She was to be interviewed by the British actor | , who was filming a documentary for Irish television. According to informa ... |
| Choe Bu | ... –864), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), the Korean official | (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) |
| James Oliver Curwood | ... he best-selling authors who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were | , Laurie York Erskine, James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of ... |
| T. S. Eliot | Merton alumni include four Nobel prize winners: poet | , physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist ... |
| Juan de Valladolid | ... tory by attempting the conversion of other Jews in the 14th century include | and Astruc Remoch |
| Charlie Chaplin | ... liards and watching Hollywood movies, especially those of Buster Keaton and | . He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and nove ... |
| Hitler | ... which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty | ;abrogated the Polish-German pact. Before the war broke out, Poland entere ... |
| Paul Gallico | ... Helen Deutsch was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by | which appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. ... |
| Richard Maltby, Jr. | Ain't Misbehavin is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and | , and music by various composers and lyricists. It is named after the song ... |
| Derrick Jensen | ... ters espousing green anarchism include those critical of technology such as | , George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; an ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... of the Pacific "Wall of the Missing" in Honolulu. In March 1963, President | did a wreath-laying ceremony at O'Hare Airport to honor Butch O'Hare. The ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... utive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman "Get | to play me in the movies" to which Holtzman replies "Too pretty, Nick Cage ... |
| Giacomo Leopardi | ... , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and | . Between 1972–1973 Calvino published two short stories, "The Name, the No ... |
| W. G. Sebald | German writer (and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia) | in his second book The Rings of Saturn details a coastal walk along the Su ... |
| Amédée Ozenfant | ... n 1912. His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of | and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), and made Gris an important e ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | In his short story, "The Secret Miracle", | describes how the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik, had translated the Sefer Ye ... |
| Francis Ford Coppola's | ... he feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and | new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was ... |
| Van Morrison | ... Richard Davis, upright bass player on "The Angel", also played the bass on | 's Astral Weeks |
| Jerome | ... ning his bones. However, the oldest sources on Clement's life, Eusebius and | , note nothing of his martyrdom |
| Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
| Ray Bradbury | ... thropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. He turned down offers to direct | 's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream ... |
| Caroline Dormon | ... come under the management of the State of Louisiana in 2007. The naturalist | helped to lay out the park |
| 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 Archer | ... "extremely funny" was Wilde's "first really heartless [one]". In The World, | wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of me ... |
| John Zerzan | ... de those critical of technology such as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and | ; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; and others including Alan Carter |
| Magnus Hirschfeld | ... ls to self-disclose to their family members and acquaintances. Years later, | revisited the topic in his major work The Homosexuality of Men and Women ( ... |
| Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be | (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ... |
| Lord Byron | ... et, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and | 's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny. Severn made a sketch of Tr ... |
| Eric Hobsbawm | ... time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. | held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt un ... |
| Dylan Thomas | ... mmissioned and broadcast The Boy With A Note - 'an evocation of the life of | in words and music'. It was re-recorded and released on McTell's Leola lab ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... luenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ( | ), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" m ... |
| Joseph Conrad | ... ld Guy Fawkes" of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of | and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, e ... |
| Theodore Dalrymple | ... es have themselves often been labeled innately "totalitarian". For example, | , a British author, physician, and political commentator, has written for ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
| William Blake | ... e eras, it has been periodically rediscovered by such later artists such as | , the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Joseph Southall. The 20th centur ... |
| Nina Bawden | ... Wireless Theatre Company. She appeared in a production of Carrie's War, the | novel, at the in 2009 |
| Sun Tzu's | ... arrows and fire incendiaries in India at Indus Basin in the 4th century BC. | "Art of War" (c. 500 BC) advises the use of fire weapons. In the 4th centu ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... ed down offers to direct Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and | 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He passed the latter to Ridley Sco ... |
| Plutarch | ... e minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus. | was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed accurately to repro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention by | in 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... o Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of | and Michelangelo |
| John Cleese | ... red in a production of Carrie's War, the Nina Bawden novel, at the in 2009. | said in an 8 May 2009 interview that the role of Sybil Fawlty was original ... |
| 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 ... |
| Allan Gurganus | ... tration of residents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, | , Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Dou ... |
| Madonna | ... onymous Messiah (2001, Vitamin Records). Other tributes include material by | and Blondie |
| Scamozzi | ... or made detailed drawings on the sites in Italy; he relied on Palladio and | as his interpreters of the classic tradition. Another source of his inspir ... |
| Edward John Trelawny | ... ors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and Lord Byron's friend, the adventurer | . Severn made a sketch of Trelawny in 1838 |
| Murray Bookchin | ... uch as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive | ; and others including Alan Carter |
| Bette Davis | ... es, James MacArthur, June Allyson, Liz Smith, and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. | supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made i ... |
| Michelangelo | ... Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of Leonardo da Vinci and | |
| Pliny the Elder | Much of what we know of Apelles is derived from | (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ... |
| Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
| Nellie Melba | Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame | and Dame Joan Sutherland; country music stars Slim Dusty (Australia's bigg ... |
| James Goldman | The film was adapted by | from the book by Robert K. Massie. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffne ... |
| Richard Wagner | On 17 April 1870 | visited Bayreuth, because he had read about the Margrave Opera House, whos ... |
| Annie Dillard | ... ionally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, | , Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
| Albert Einstein | ... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and | on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ... |
| Dante Alighieri | The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of | and refers to a number of literary works, including Hamlet and those of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by | , published in 1933. Most of the action takes place in an advertising agen ... |
| Murray Bookchin | Social ecology is closely related to the work and ideas of | and influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin. Social ecologists assert that ... |
| Rob Reiner | ... ocrats for Life of America's Pregnant Women Support Act. In 2004 along with | , Sheen campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and ... |
| Michael Malone | ... ents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, | , Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and ... |
| J. Arch Getty | ... Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and | . Though their individual interpretations differ, the revisionists have ar ... |
| Livy | According to | it was "the most memorable of all wars that were ever waged: the war which ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... evious experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in 1946 President | selected the former president to tour Germany to ascertain the food status ... |
| Madonna | "No More Words" was also included as the B-side of | 's #1 hit of 1985, "Crazy for You". Both songs were part of the soundtrack ... |
| Johannes Linnankoski | ... Porvoo and beside the Porvoo river. Suomenkylä has an old school founded by | in 1898. The village of Suomenkylä also has two burial places from Bronze ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... lian trained actors of renown include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, | , Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Led ... |
| J. D. Salinger | During this period, Bakshi reread | 's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as | . Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International styl ... |
| R. H. Barlow | ... s works, especially his later works. Lovecraft had specified that the young | would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had ... |
| Hal Crowther | ... uthors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, | , Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
| William Shakespeare | ... of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced | 's play Richard III. Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial ... |
| Constantine Porphyrogenitus | ... rly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of | and an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first t ... |
| Coretta Scott King | ... crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, | , George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written ... |
| Charles Howard Hinton | ... glish Dictionary, the word "tesseract" was coined and first used in 1888 by | in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek ("four rays"), referring ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Carmellini | ... five Project Runway competitor Stephen "Suede" Baum and New York City chef | |
| James Joyce | ... ern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, | 's Ulysses |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Aldington | ... anced himself from its vision of despair. On November 15, 1922, he wrote to | , saying, "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I ... |
| Scott Ritter | ... ation of UN mandates to justify more severe action. It should be noted that | , chief UN weapons inspector at the time, says that the inspectors were no ... |
| Marco Polo | | , the famed explorer, saw newborns exposed in Manzi. China's society pract ... |
| Michelangelo | ... naissance period up to 1500. For example, every surviving panel painting by | is egg tempera |
| Frances Mayes | ... ing Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, | , the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1890, | , his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on ... |
| Gus Kahn | #"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones/ | ) – 4:0 |
| Fynes Moryson | ... o hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce. | reported on these problems in his 1617 work An Itinerary |
| Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
| Lactantius | ... that apologists Tertullian, Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and | also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... either Immanuel Neumann or Yehoshua Supersky (of the General Zionists) and | or Eliyahu Ben Horin (of Hatzohar). The committee was in charge of the Irg ... |
| Steven Erlanger | New York Times journalist | reported that "Hamas rocket and weapons caches, including rocket launchers ... |
| Glen A. Larson | | , the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, said he had ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Montgomery Brown | Galion was also home to | , a bishop of the Episcopal Church who was tried by the church and convict ... |
| Mike Harding | ... included Billy Connolly, Georgie Fame, Simon Nicol with Dave Swarbrick, and | |
| Bruce Timm | ... cutives, Kricfalusi insisted that the artists add visual gags as they drew. | , Andrew Stanton, Dave Marshall and Jeff Pidgeon were among the artists wh ... |
| Sigvatr | ... instance, the following verse is attributed to her contemporary, the skald | |
| Roland Barthes | ... roir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met | , Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later ... |
| Richard Löwenthal | ... r, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, | , Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Frie ... |
| Richard Blackmore | ... ctories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from Queen Anne. | 's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in ... |
| Willie Rushton | ... ngs. McTell featured in three series alongside guests including John Wells, | , Kenny Lynch, Penelope Keith and Nerys Hughes. Mays Records released The ... |
| Hilaire Belloc's | ... removing obstacles to the growth of capitalism. (This point is also made in | The Servile State. |
| Hal David | ... for a Motion Picture (not a Musical); Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and | for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"); and Best Writing, Story and Scre ... |
| Christopher Anderson | ... ous journals that would eventually be cited in over a hundred other papers. | wrote in a 1992 news article in Nature that Hagelin, co-developer of one o ... |
| Dustin Lance Black | In March 2012, Sheen was featured with George Clooney in a performance of | 's play, '8' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned C ... |
| Isidore of Seville | ... egislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint | , is largely composed of forgeries. All of what it presents as letters of ... |
| John Lennon | ... made a considerable impact on the humour of The Beatles, and especially on | . On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for ... |
| Huan Tan | ... ed by scholars. Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), | (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) question ... |
| Wulfstan of Hedeby | Around the year 890, | (by his own account) undertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Tr ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US President | pledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat | in the 1948 election, by five to 15 percentage points. Gallup believed the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Rock | ... t Bob fill out their roles as prophets: they predict the arrival of Rufus ( | ), the thirteenth apostle, who was left out of the Bible because he was bl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madame de Staël | ... h as Goostree's and Boodle's in Pall Mall, London. The writer and socialite | described him as the "wittiest man in England" and, according to Georgiana ... |
| Hugh Cornwell | ... ng vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Jean-Jacques Burnel and | . Over time, their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated. S ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's legendary History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Bri ... |
| Moses | ... ined much unchanged since the wooden figurines (of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, | and Aaron) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was instal ... |
| John Keats | ... rtrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet | . He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, a ... |
| Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
| Ibn Tumart | The movement was started by | in the Masmuda tribe, followed by Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi between 1130 and h ... |
| Georges Perec | ... ure potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, | , and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production. Th ... |
| Abbie Hoffman | Steal This Book is a book written by | . Written in 1970 and published in 1971 the book exemplified the counter-c ... |
| Livy | ... under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. A fragment from | records a "pitiful embassy" in 178 BC from Lycia to the Roman Senate compl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Conquest | ... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, | , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ... |
| John L. Stevens | ... ount concluded in his report that the overthrow had utilized the aid of the | , United States Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from ... |
| Tarell Alvin McCraney | ... ecently had his or her professional debut in New York. The first winner was | for his play "The Brothers Size". In 2010, Dan LeFranc won for his play "S ... |
| Adam Gussow | ... lar sound of the harp. Overblowing is used by Howard Levy, Frédéric Yonnet, | , Chris Michalek, Paul Nebenzahl, and Jason Ricci and Carlos del Junco are ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... significant of which was his introduction to the acclaimed literary figure | . A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeting and on Septem ... |
| Emilio Estevez | He has played the father of sons | and Charlie Sheen in various projects: he played Emilio's father in The Wa ... |
| Sima Qian | ... er. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son | (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's St ... |
| Al Pacino | ... shall had initially considered Christopher Reeve for the role of Lewis, and | turned it down. Pacino went as far as doing a casting reading with Roberts ... |
| Hector Berlioz | "La Marseillaise" was arranged for soprano, chorus and orchestra by | in about 1830 |
| Michael Showalter | ... and the two try to scare away the figure, believing it's Lionel Pritchard ( | ), a local prankster. The brothers run screaming around the house to frigh ... |
| Joe Clark | ... th the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The federal PC Party under | rebuffed the initiative to "unite the right". In December 2003, the Canadi ... |
| Hugh Cornwell | ... personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist | and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist D ... |
| Chrétien | ... press their suspicions of this alliance in detail, accusing the Trudeau and | governments of funding litigious groups. For example, these governments us ... |
| James Wood | ... is told through the eyes of a sympathetic Thomas Cromwell. Literary critic | calls him "cruel in punishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and ... |
| Sima Qian | ... e diplomat Su Qin in 330 BC when discussing state boundaries. The historian | (145–90 BC) dated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it ... |
| David Crystal | There are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and | 's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ... |
| Andrew Stanton | ... cfalusi insisted that the artists add visual gags as they drew. Bruce Timm, | , Dave Marshall and Jeff Pidgeon were among the artists who worked on the ... |
| Christopher Reeve | ... retty Woman was a rather lengthy process. Marshall had initially considered | for the role of Lewis, and Al Pacino turned it down. Pacino went as far as ... |
| Hannah Arendt | ... eonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, | , Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan ... |
| John Antrobus | ... ge On The River Wye. They also appeared in the film version of Milligan and | ' The Bed Sitting Room |
| Bill Richardson | Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor | in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his cam ... |
| John Keats | ... board the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet | . Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only pa ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by | . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ... |
| Peter Straub | ... brary of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by | , and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the "definitive editi ... |
| Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. | , to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speaker | to Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in | 's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in ... |
| Frank Herbert | ... ouse Atreides is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by | . One of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the I ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... he Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by | . It was the first time the prize had been awarded in eight years and the ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According to | in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ... |
| Moses | ... ted over time and are no longer the original divine revelations as given to | , Jesus, and other prophets, which Muslims believe were all prophets of Is ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg | ... llaise", which can be heard on Part 2 of the Ken Burns TV documentary Jazz. | recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera" |
| Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
| John Stuart Mill | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as | and Catherine Helen Spence, Hare popularised the idea of proportional repr ... |
| Houston Stewart Chamberlain | ... itated keynote speaker Adolf Hitler to Wahnfried house. There he met writer | , son-in-law of Richard Wagner and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on tha ... |
| George Clooney | In March 2012, Sheen was featured with | in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment ... |
| Raymond Aron | ... u, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, | , Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl D ... |
| Ban Gu | ... d Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son | (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries ... |
| John Cage | ... n (often drawing equally on contemporary composers such as Anton Webern and | for inspiration) |
| Albert Einstein | ... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, | , and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas More | Sir | , in his 1516 work Utopia suggests that the practice of enclosure is respo ... |
| Alanis Morissette | ... ut by shooting his wings off with a MAC-10, turning him to a mortal), God ( | ) arrives, and proceeds to set things in order. After Jay spouts an obscen ... |
| Woody Guthrie | ... h initially reluctant to accept the offer, the fact that one of his heroes, | , had composed dozens of songs for children, convinced him it was worthwhi ... |
| John Clute | ... ough not a best-selling author, Wolfe is highly regarded by critics Such as | ; his The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction writes: “Though neither the most ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... e of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babylon) scandal. It had been owned by the | government, via front companies, and closed amidst much controversy and ba ... |
| Ben Elton | ... lled in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, | , Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and ano ... |
| Catherine Helen Spence | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as John Stuart Mill and | , Hare popularised the idea of proportional representation worldwide. The ... |
| Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | ... otable alumni with involvement in politics. Combining science and politics, | is the elected chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an orga ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Author | was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur |
| Henrik Wergeland | ... insbourg recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera". | wrote a Norwegian version of the song in 1831, called "The Norwegian Marse ... |
| Duke Ellington | ... a revitalization of cartoon style from the '20s and '30s. It was gonna have | and Fats Waller jazzing up the soundtrack." Nickelodeon was initially will ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronnie Barker | ... II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with | in the (original) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fluential lexicographers (dictionary writers) on each side of the Atlantic. | 's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as ... |
| Dictionary of National Biography | ... He was a member of the London-based Political Economy Club and the British | says of him |
| Graham Chapman | Similarly, in the introduction to | 's posthumous anthology (2006, p.xvii) Yoakum notes that while other radio ... |
| Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
| Janis Ian | ... year's theme: Being Out Rocks. Participating artists include Kevin Aviance, | , k.d. lang, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rufus Wainwright |
| Brian De Palma | The 1987 | film The Untouchables featured cooperation between the Treasury Department ... |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... rongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism. In English | was a highly influential essayist who turned historian, and both invented ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... ection was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring | , Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfie ... |
| Gertrude Stein | ... other than Picasso or Braque. Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, | wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that "Juan Gris was the only ... |
| Mel Gibson | Graham Hess ( | ) is a former Episcopalian priest. His wife Colleen (Patricia Kalember), w ... |
| Keith Murdoch | In October 1915, the journalist | reported on the situation in Gallipoli at Fisher's request, and advised hi ... |
| John Boswell | ... ] hold it shameful to kill any unwanted child." Modern scholarship differs. | believed that in ancient Germanic tribes unwanted children were exposed, u ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... ing four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and | . Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Hanks |
| Michael Jackson | ... iz; it used the exterior pedestrian ramps for a motorcycle chase scene with | and Diana Ross. The 1960s-style decorations were removed in 1980. The bank ... |
| Michael Swanwick | ... g American writer regardless of genre. Award-winning science fiction author | has said: "Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive ... |
| David M. Stern | ... third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so | decided to write a Marge episode, which became "Homer Alone" (season three ... |
| Craig Charles | ... organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, | , Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical pa ... |
| Eric Idle | ... terlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, | and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Ha ... |
| Deborah Grey | ... the Reform Party's fortunes rose. It first entered Parliament in 1989 when | won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding. The party achieved major suc ... |
| Tacitus | In his book Germania, | wrote that the ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition. He ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patti Smith | ... their opening for the first British tours of American punks The Ramones and | . Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in th ... |
| Ban Zhao | ... written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter | (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen ... |
| Terry Jones | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, | , Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Clevelan ... |
| Steele Rudd | ... uccessful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author | , which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, ... |
| Frank Borman | After | became president of Eastern in 1975, he moved Eastern's headquarters from ... |
| Josephus | ... corded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born children." | , whose works give an important insight into 1st-century Judaism, wrote th ... |
| Charles Oudinot | Time was at the essence and Masséna at once sent one of his aides-de-camp, | , the son of Marshal Duke of Reggio, with orders to bring forward the Guar ... |
| Michael Palin | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: | , Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, C ... |
| Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Swanwick | | published a critical monograph on Cabell's work, which argues for the cont ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... ights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of | 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... fried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-in-law of | and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on that day, met Hitler for the first ... |
| Pietro di Donato | ... istorical marker was dedicated on May 22, 2010 to novelist and screenwriter | , and placed at Bergenline Avenue and 31st Street, where di Donato once li ... |
| Xu Shen | ... Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by | (c. 58 – c. 147 CE) and the Fangyan by Yang Xiong. Biographies on importan ... |
| Harry Enfield | ... g Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and | , and another tour by the main musical participants along with The The, Ca ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... of Jonathan Swift, v. 13, Oxford UP, 1959, p. 123), a sentiment with which | agreed. Historian said in 1977 that More was "the first great Englishman w ... |
| John Cornford | ... y, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets Ralph Winston Fox and | were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taking the hydro elect ... |
| Matt Damon | ... holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki ( | ), from entering a church in New Jersey. The two angels were expelled from ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ession. This is the source of the River Avon, Warwickshire, associated with | |
| Richard Wagner | ... rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, for solo piano. | also quotes from "La Marseillaise" in his 1839–40 setting of a French tran ... |
| Jon Savage | ... e backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist | during a promotional event |
| Carl Barks | ... fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a sorceress created by | . She constantly steals or attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One D ... |
| Warren Beatty | ... had already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before. | was then considered, as was Marlon Brando, but the role of Sundance eventu ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... ing on foreign accounts. On a trip to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist | , he met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce ... |
| Tertullian | ... y new historical situation. This view influences later Ambrose of Milan and | , who wrote about the virgin birth of the Mother of God. The donor of a ne ... |
| Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
| Charles Perrault | ... rejected many tales they collected because of their similarity to tales by | , which they thought proved they were not truly German tales; Sleeping Bea ... |
| Glen A. Larson | Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by | . The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was ... |
| 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 |
| Tom Hanks | ... ic Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and | |
| Rexford Tugwell | Even so, New Dealer | later remarked that although no one would say so at the time, "practically ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... ionist Movement made up a popular backing for the underground organization. | , founder of Revisionist Zionism, was the commander of the organization un ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry McClintock | "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by | in 1928, is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of th ... |
| David Hume | ... rous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher | and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University ... |
| Michael Palin | ... r made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, | and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two ... |
| Augustan History | ... jan as his adoptive son and successor in the summer of 97. According to the | , it was the future Emperor Hadrian who brought word to Trajan of his adop ... |
| Candace Gingrich | ... atives, to promote awareness of LGBT families living honest and open lives. | became the spokesperson for the day in April 1995. Although still named "N ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... England never had and never again will have its like". Two centuries later | said he was "the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced" ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George's Day and the birthday of | ) in England and 1 March (St David's Day) in Wales are not currently recog ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... been charged with the holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby ( | ) and Loki (Matt Damon), from entering a church in New Jersey. The two ang ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of | , although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ... |
| Ibn Tumart | The Almohad movement originated with | , a member of the Masmuda, a Berber tribal confederation of the Atlas Moun ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... d the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as | , Michael Palin and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... becomes convinced that the phenomena are a result of extraterrestrial life. | , Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin star in principal roles ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the first two albums by | (Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... e Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Schmidt wound up serving the rooms of | himself. By chance, Schmidt was present by bringing refreshments when the ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | "Unlike her father | , who preferred to deal with strong chief ministers in control of their le ... |
| Hugh Walpole | ... book-length studies on Cabell were written during the period of his fame by | , W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. Edmund Wilson tried to rehabilitate h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Yordan | ... Donnell, Lee Grant, among others. The movie was adapted by Robert Wyler and | from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by ... |
| Richard Wagner | Image:La Muse - Wagner - by Fantin-Latour.jpg|La Muse ( | ), lithograph, 186 |
| Joe Clark | The federal Progressive Conservatives under | refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from m ... |
| Dean Devlin | ... urt Russell, in the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by | and Roland Emmerich. Colonel O'Neill has extensive experience in special o ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
| John Bunyan | It was the home and prison of | , the author of The Pilgrim's Progress |
| Lalitha Lenin | ... e, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, | , P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
| John, Lord Hervey | ... r been established and received much speculation. The memoirist and gossip, | , for example, described the newly built Villa as 'Too small to live in, a ... |
| James L. Brooks | ... d Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer | ' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts fo ... |
| Nandini Satpathy | ... veteran Gandhi supporters like Jagjivan Ram and her most loyal Bahuguna and | , the three were compelled to part ways and form a new political entity CF ... |
| James Connolly | ... uneral, Senator Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of the Easter Rising leader | , gave the oration |
| Matt Groening | | first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lo ... |
| Sam Peckinpah | ... hanged, in the film, to "The Hole-In-The-Wall Gang" to avoid confusion with | 's recently released film The Wild Bunch |
| Henry Aldrich | ... church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church | designed a new church; it is thought, however, that on some of the later f ... |
| W. H. C. Frend | ... been criticized by biblical scholars and ecclesiastical historians such as | and Robert E. Van Voorst. After reviewing criticisms from several authors, ... |
| Marcel Proust | He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France | mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Russian writer | wrote in his journal, in 1896, about a tiny shoot of burdock he saw in a p ... |
| Thomas Disch | When asked the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, | identified Isaac Asimov and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... , and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as | 's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutio ... |
| Jack Nicklaus | The small but growing satellite town of Kinloch, where a | golf resort is being constructed, is 20 kilometres west along the lake |
| Hedd Wyn | The Welsh poet | used Fleur de Lys as his pen name when he won his chair at the National Ei ... |
| Ronald D. Moore | ... ecember 2003, beginning with a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by | and David Eick. This led to a weekly TV series which ran for four seasons ... |
| Rob Cohen | ... was originally cast as Dorothy, Ross convinced Universal Pictures producer | to have Ross cast as Dorothy. Because of Ross' age, the script was modifie ... |
| Lao Tzu | ... e society was founded on men like Confucius, Mencius, Han Feizi (Legalism), | (Taoism), and Buddha (Buddhism). Whereas the Europeans believed that the u ... |
| Attoor Ravi Varma | ... sh, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), | , Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
| John Betjeman | ... in London, where he taught French and Latin—his students included the young | . Later he taught at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, a state schoo ... |
| Tertullian | ... ommand. So widely accepted was this teaching in Christendom that apologists | , Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and Lactantius also maintaine ... |
| Claudius Ptolemaeus | ... e Nile one must travel to reach it. Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century | ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14t ... |
| Jim Bouton | ... Tom Candiotti, and the Niekro brothers. In addition, some pitchers (such as | ) have had success as knuckleballers after their ability to throw hard dec ... |
| Bill Oakley | ... at episodes featuring Marge are among the most difficult episodes to write. | believes that the "junior" writers are usually given Marge episodes becaus ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... a in the Square de Châtillon. Nicknamed L'ironique amusé, he was invited by | in 1968 to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of e ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... al statements. He has been accused of making a remark in 1995 which praised | : "The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was ... |
| Joseph Mundassery | ... zhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, | |
| Anne Askew | ... me between Henry's death and the publication of the book. Her sympathy with | , the Protestant martyr who fiercely opposed the Catholic belief of transu ... |
| Roland Emmerich | ... the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by Dean Devlin and | . Colonel O'Neill has extensive experience in special operations, and he l ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
| William Wyler | ... from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by | |
| Michael Jackson | ... ool teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, | , Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 releas ... |
| Brothers Grimm | ... ew of nationalism inspired the collection of folklore by such people as the | , the revival of old epics as national, and the construction of new epics ... |
| Tom Minton | ... y morning block. Three days before the meeting, Bakshi, Kricfalusi, Naylor, | , Eddie Fitzgerald and Jim Reardon met to brainstorm. Bakshi remembers, "M ... |
| R. L. Stine | ... icago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, children's author | , cartoonist Paul Palnik, and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner. Also s ... |
| Burl Ives | ... y in 1949 when a sanitized version intended for children was re-recorded by | . It has been recorded by many artists throughout the world, but a version ... |
| Martin Luther | ... tyr". He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of | and William Tyndale |
| 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 ... |
| Anthony Berkeley | The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by | set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have foun ... |
| Sidney Kingsley | ... ed by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the 1949 play of the same name by | . It was directed by William Wyler |
| Richard Wagner | ... sical experiments for the V2. Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, | , was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945 ... |
| Jia Yi | Han scholars such as | (201–169 BCE) portrayed the previous Qin Dynasty as a brutal regime. Howev ... |
| Robert A. Heinlein | Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by | and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... en strict rules of bebop could be loosened or abandoned at will. Similarly, | , the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundarie ... |
| P. Bhaskaran | ... andan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, | , Joseph Mundassery |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | ... alitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era. Independence came in 1991, as | , a former local communist party boss, declared himself absolute ruler for ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
| Hannah Arendt | In The Origins of Totalitarianism, | argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of government, ... |
| Alberto Lecchi | ... fterwards. The incident was dramatized in a 1999 Argentine film directed by | , Operación Fangio |
| 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 ... |
| Heston Blumenthal | ... o be achieved with the more readily available "dry ice" and authors such as | have published recipes to produce ice cream and sorbet using a simple blen ... |
| Frank Kermode | ... earning his bachelor's degree after three years, instead of the usual four. | writes that the most important moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was ... |
| Johann Baptiste Horvath | ... ical approximation. A representative contemporary textbook was published by | . By the end of the century analytical treatments were rigorous enough to ... |
| Brothers Grimm | ... tales) on the basis of the question, "Is there an Italian equivalent of the | ?" For two years, Calvino collated tales found in 19th century collections ... |
| Ronnie Barker | Years later, Milligan collaborated with | on The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, in which the credits r ... |
| Michael Madsen | ... to star in Chamaco with Kirk Harris, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sanchez Parra and | . In November 2010 he filmed Stella Days in County Tipperary, Ireland, nea ... |
| Thomas More | ... ard III who is said to have confessed to the murder of the princes in 1502. | , a Tudor loyalist (and later Chancellor under Henry VIII), composed his H ... |
| William Blake | File:Blake - Albión.jpg| | , Albion Rose, 1794- |
| Harlan Ellison | ... te in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like | and Samuel R. Delany was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerf ... |
| Pete Townshend | ... Beck Group. Dave Davies of The Kinks, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, | of The Who, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck all pioneered the use of new guitar ... |
| Voltaire | ... inting. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, | , Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas H ... |
| Walter Benjamin | ... ped the means to replicate each and everything, including works of art (cf. | 's 1936 essay "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierba ... |
| Bill Murray | ... y first comedy segment was a sarcastic tour of the studio. The first guest, | , came out in confrontational fashion, throwing jibes and accusations at t ... |
| Boris Pasternak | ... all critics of Marxism as reactionary. One example of this took place after | was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago. O ... |
| János Apáczai Csere | ... erman professors brought in improve standards. Among the students there was | . He died in Gyulafehérvár |
| Lindsay Anderson | Davis appeared in the television film As Summers Die (1986) and | 's film The Whales of August (1987), in which she played the blind sister ... |
| Arthur Symons | ... tant moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was in 1908, when he discovered | 's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jul ... |
| Mahmoud Darwish | ... rming the municipality decision. In response, the Palestinian national poet | warned that "There are Taliban-type elements in our society, and this is a ... |
| Pope John Paul II | During his tour of America in October 1979, | was also among those hosted by Shea Stadium. On the morning of the Pontiff ... |
| Philip K. Dick | ... ho were heavily influenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, | and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderate ... |
| Philo | The practice was prevalent in ancient Rome, as well. | was the first philosopher to speak out against it. A letter from a Roman c ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... vels, has often been likened to the stand-up performances of 1960s comedian | |
| Donald Trelford | ... s best known are Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Didcot Power Station. | , journalist and academic, was born in Coventry and attended Bablake Schoo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Milton | ... n the depiction of Pandæmonium with its "Belched fire and rolling smoke" in | 's Paradise Lost. Of all the characters, Smaug's speech is the most modern ... |
| Tom DeSanto | ... the director and an executive producer of the X-Men movie, Bryan Singer and | , began developing a Battlestar Galactica TV miniseries under the auspices ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... it), Jorge Luis Borges (who included it in many of his short stories), and | , with figures such as Hermann Hesse being more moderatedly influenced. Re ... |
| Arsenio Lacson | With | becoming the first elected mayor in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior ... |
| Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is the American novel that turned its author | into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit ... |
| Algernon Blackwood | ... s wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, | , and Arthur Machen |
| Robert Aldrich | Director | cast Crawford and Davis in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). After a c ... |
| Scofield Thayer | ... tended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met | , who would later publish The Waste Land. He studied philosophy at Harvard ... |
| Reginald Berkeley | The first theatrical representations of Nightingale was | in his "The Lady with the Lamp", premiering in London in 1929 with Edith E ... |
| Matt Groening | ... Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Marge was created and designed by cartoonist | while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had ... |
| Glen A. Larson | ... of the television series Battlestar Galactica, composed by Stu Phillips and | . The LA Philharmonic also performed the first North American concert for ... |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | ... offering, which is then used to help people in need. The late LDS President | asked: “What would happen if the principles of fast day and the fast offer ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician | . Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ... |
| Hermann Hesse | ... t in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with figures such as | being more moderatedly influenced. Rene Guenon founded the gnostic review, ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... re, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially | . After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) ... |
| John Clute | ... s he was the most anthologized author alive) and much respected by critics. | wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers ... |
| Arthur Machen | ... ing cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, and | |
| James L. Brooks | ... d designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of | ' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on Li ... |
| H. C. Andersen | ... tomte would gain popularity. In the English editions of the fairy tales of | the word nisse has been inaccurately translated as goblin (a more accurate ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... Circus of Dr. Lao was influenced by Cabell's work. The Averoigne stories of | are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. Jack Vance's Dyi ... |
| Andrea Palladio | ... same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelleschi, Leone Alberti, | , and Bramante. Their works include Florence Cathedral, St. Peter's Basili ... |
| John Calvin | ... vention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, | , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson ... |
| Frank Oz | ... through the air, she is often smothering him in (usually unwanted) kisses. | assigned hooks or personalities to each Muppet. Miss Piggy's hook was a "T ... |
| Edward Arnold | ... rold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pallette, Florence Oberle, Virginia Valli, | , and Rod La Rocque. The mainstays of the organization, however, were stud ... |
| Ronald D. Moore | ... , a three-hour miniseries. Commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel, screenwriter | and producer David Eick were the creative forces behind it. Academy Award- ... |
| Pushkin | ... came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Soon after meeting | at a dinner, Tolstoy began reading his prose, and once had a fleeting dayd ... |
| Marilyn Manson | ... albums. The only track to make it on to a full Berlin release is a cover of | 's "The Dope Show", which is included on Berlin's 4play album as well as t ... |
| Akira Toriyama | ... rick Bags, and Dragons. Many monsters in the series were designed by | |
| Pliny | Authors of antiquity, such as Horace and | , were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their description ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Luther | ... of the Eucharist, but fasting is not necessary for receiving the sacrament. | wrote in his "Fasting and bodily preparation are certainly fine outward tr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Gilliam | ... the 1970s by Monty Python through the surreal animation inserts created by | |
| John Lennon | ... s signature song, "Piano Man". includes the harmonica throughout the piece. | played harmonica on early Beatles' hits as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me ... |
| Robert Duncan | The first prominent American to reveal his homosexuality was the poet | . In 1944, using his own name in the anarchist magazine Politics, he claim ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, | , Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. ... |
| George Whitefield | ... ce. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by John Wesley and | , often practice such regular fasts as part of their regimen |
| Choi Hong Hi | ... ollowing this demonstration, South Korean President Syngman Rhee instructed | to introduce the martial arts to the Korean army. By the mid-1950s, nine k ... |
| John Wesley | ... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by | and George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and | being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesiastical bodies which ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... gun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by | . According to Howard Sachar, "The policy of the new organization was base ... |
| Jean Chrétien | On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded | as leader of the Liberal Party and became prime minister on December 12, 2 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jamesian | ... s. And the book's narrative style, a huge departure from the stately, semi- | prose of Roth's earlier novels, has often been likened to the stand-up per ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Larkin | Other Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet | , actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ... |
| Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
| Tacitus | ... he ideas and customs of other peoples, which often diverged from their own. | recorded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born childre ... |
| Dolly Parton | ... amous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including Bob Hope, | , Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brad Pa ... |
| Choi Hong Hi | ... s unify under a single system. The name "taekwondo" was submitted by either | (of the Oh Do Kwan) or Song Duk Son (of the Chung Do Kwan), and was accept ... |
| Jackie Chan | In the movie Shanghai Noon, | is given the name "The Shanghai Kid" which is parody of "The Sundance Kid" ... |
| William Safire | ... re, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, | , environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, and environmental law atto ... |
| Tulsidas | ... rd of the gate of Bali Maharaja's planet Sutala and will remain so forever. | ' Ramayana too declares that Vamana became the "dwarpal" (gate-defender) o ... |
| Giordano Bruno | ... published Clavis artis Lullianae. He published the Artificium perorandi of | in 1610; and in the same year the Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ancesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, | , and Titian. The same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelles ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
| Jungian | ... world, may be seen as a Bildungsroman rather than a traditional quest. The | concept of individuation is also reflected through this theme of growing m ... |
| Martin Luther | ... ing as a purely external observance that can never gain a person salvation. | believed that a Christian may choose to fast individually as a spiritual e ... |
| Ellen Glasgow | ... maintained a close and lifelong friendship with well-known Richmond writer | , whose house on West Main St. was only a few blocks from Cabell's family ... |
| Philippe de Commines | The Croyland Chronicle, Dominic Mancini, and | all state that the rumour of the princes' death was current in England by ... |
| Harold Bloom | ... luenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and | , with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A ... |
| Akira Toriyama | ... eo game series to have a stable key development team; Yuji Horii (creator), | (artist) and Koichi Sugiyama (composer). The original concepts, used since ... |
| Michael Greenburg | John Symes approached | and Richard Dean Anderson of MacGyver fame. Although Anderson was never a ... |
| Mary Shelley's | ... "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". | novel Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be tw ... |
| Mark Hamill | ... d Silent Bob battle with Bluntman and Chronic's arch nemesis, Cockknocker ( | ), eventually cutting off his hand |
| John Calvin | ... t officially enforced, whereas individual voluntary fasting was encouraged. | went further in arguing that in general, instead of relying on designated ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... e Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find the common ground in the work of | , Raymond Lull, and Petrus Ramus. In 1612 Alsted edited the Explanatio of ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following | 's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework) |
| 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 ... |
| Julian Barnes | England, England (1998) is a satirical science fiction novel by | which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel is set in the Britai ... |
| Dr. Seuss | As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt | 's The Butter Battle Book for TNT. Ted Geisel had never been satisfied wit ... |
| Giorgio Bassani | In 1952 Calvino wrote with | for Botteghe Oscure, a magazine named after the popular name of the party' ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Maltby, Jr. | | | |
| Herman Cohen | ... Did (1965), another William Castle vehicle. She starred as Monica Rivers in | 's horror thriller film Berserk! (1967). After the film's release, Crawfor ... |
| Claude-Étienne Savary | ... tists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798–1799. | describes the complex rather detailed in his work of 1785; especially in l ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... hed at scientific academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as | , Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien- ... |
| Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
| Leo Tolstoy | ... ; ) (sometimes anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer | , published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The ... |
| Lee Child | ... lie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, and the author | |
| Barack Obama | ... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of | and Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ... |
| Mark Twain | ... abell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including | , Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. A ... |
| William Roper | | 's biography of More was one of the first biographies in the English langu ... |
| Natalia Ginzburg | ... he interviewed one of his literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, travelling with | to his home in Stresa |
| Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by | . The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... on was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with | in 1901 |
| Ptolemy | ... ds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken | 's "unshakable" geocentric system |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
| August von Kotzebue | Also in 1819, | was assassinated in Mannheim |
| Howard Colvin | ... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to | , "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ty and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and | over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In Canfield City ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sturgeon was a distant relative of | , and through his Waldo, Hamilton Dicker and Dunn ancestors, a direct desc ... |
| Christiaan Huygens | ... Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France | ;in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle in England |
| Jean Chrétien | ... , it refused to engage in a war on Iraq without UN approval. Prime Minister | said on October 10, 2002 that Canada would be part of any military coaliti ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of | (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out) |
| Dictionary of National Biography | ... , actor and author, "Sir" John Hill, credited with 76 separate works in the | , the most valuable of which dealing with botany, is also said to have bee ... |
| Al Taliaferro | ... assic Tales, Scamp, Uncle Remus, holiday), Carson Van Osten (Mickey Mouse), | (Donald Duck), Frank Grundeen (Donald Duck), Al Hubbard (Donald Duck), Kay ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... , the exterior pedestrian ramps were used for a motorcycle chase scene with | & Diana Ross |
| Plutarch | ... emeteries were merely the cremated remains of children that died naturally. | (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Paul Richter | In 1804, the author | moved from Coburg to Bayreuth, where he lived until his death in 1825 |
| Peter Cook | | is described as a "humourist much influenced by the Goons". Whilst at boar ... |
| Barack Obama | ... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008, | won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ... |
| William Blake | A number of 19th century thinkers such as | , Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Pike and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic th ... |
| Gerald Gardner | ... agic was heralded by the repeal of the last Witchcraft Act in 1951. In 1954 | published a book, Witchcraft Today, in which he claimed to reveal the exis ... |
| John Cleese | ... ame to be known as 'alternative'." In Ventham's (2002, p. 151) compilation, | notes that "In comedy, there are a very small number of defining moments w ... |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Theodore Sturgeon vividly recalled being in the same room with | , when Hubbard became testy with someone there and retorted, "Y'know, we'r ... |
| Joseph Hergesheimer | ... a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, | , and Jack Woodford. Although now largely forgotten by the general public, ... |
| Andy Warhol | ... I've done since". Eno had himself performed the piece as a student in 1960. | attended the 1962 première of the static composition by La Monte Young cal ... |
| Steve Scott | ... if I've been an encouragement to other artists." British poet and musician | , who worked closely with Norman at Solid Rock, maintains |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
| Michelangelo | ... i Bondone, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, | , Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian. The same is true for ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... or center of Neoplatonism. He studied there under Luca Pacioli, a friend of | |
| Petrarch | ... to devote himself to poetical composition. He is an undisguised follower of | , carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his Cants d'amo ... |
| Thomas Hobbes | ... , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, | , Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes the personal li ... |
| Glen A. Larson | ... g the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Battlestar Galacticas creator | to consider restarting the series. A suitable concept was needed to draw v ... |
| 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 |
| John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
| Margaret (Meg) Roper | ... idge for a month, according to the normal custom for traitors. His daughter | rescued it, possibly by bribery, before it could be thrown in the River Th ... |
| Sinclair Lewis | ... Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and | . His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 19 ... |
| Frederick the Great | ... ve Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of | . During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint- ... |
| Tristan Corbière | ... Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of | and his book Les amours jaunes, a work that affected the course of Eliot's ... |
| Venerable Bede | In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the | celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is v ... |
| Donald Wildmon | On June 6, 1988, | , head of the American Family Association (AFA), alleged that "The Littles ... |
| Booker T. Washington | ... st, a member in the House of Representatives, to dinner at the White House. | was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with T ... |
| Theodore Dreiser | ... th noted writers including H. L. Mencken, Ellen Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis and | , correspondence with family, friends, editors and publishers, newspaper c ... |
| John McCain | ... both Canfield City and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of | and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... |
| Timothy Leary | ... o, originally intended for an unsuccessful Skateboard Movie, which featured | ) |
| Floyd Gottfredson | Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were | (Mickey Mouse, Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday), Roman Arambula (Mickey ... |
| William Faulkner | ... kov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by | , who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is current ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and | in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Rob ... |
| Harold Bloom | ... ted in the religious philosophy of Hegel; one might compare literary critic | 's recent attempts to identify Gnostic elements in contemporary American r ... |
| Hate-Monger | ... S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into his skull-faced slaves. The Skull teamed with the | , a clone of Hitler, and trapped him in a flawed Cosmic Cube. The Skull le ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
| Katharine Ross | ... h Montgomery in the starring role, and Wanted: The Sundance Woman, starring | as Etta Place working with Pancho Villa. In addition a TV movie called The ... |
| Choi Hong Hi | The ITF was founded in 1966 by | as a splinter group from the KTA. After Choi's death in 2002, a number of ... |
| Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... nedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General | in the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ... |
| Alex Grey | ... ey was born in New York, the daughter of artists Allyson (born Rymland) and | . Her first role was in the Broadway play The Herbal Bed. In 1999, she had ... |
| John Clare | ... e Alcock, one of the most successful visual discoverers of novas and comets | ;, from Helpston, now considered to be one of the most important poets of ... |
| Agatha Christie | ... to follow suit. With her health stable, she traveled to England to film the | mystery Murder with Mirrors (1985). Upon her return, she learned that Hyma ... |
| Paul Verlaine | ... terature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, and | . Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of Tristan Corb ... |
| Carl Jung | ... tury thinkers who heavily studied and were influenced by Gnosticism include | (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), Jorge Luis Bor ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir | , Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the coll ... |
| Joanot Martorell | ... rn. March was twice married—first to Isabel Martorell (sister of the writer | ), and later to Joana Escorna |
| Walt Disney | Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring | characters |
| John Keble | Irenaeus' works were first translated into English by | and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond | The company was founded by | and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The ... |
| Regiomontanus | ... er. Novara in turn declared that his teacher had been the famous astronomer | , who was once a pupil of Georg Purbach. Novara was initially educate |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... rect physical action, a position held by Huygens and the German philosopher | , who, while following in the Cartesian tradition, developed his own philo ... |
| Donna J. Stone | ... from elementary school through 8th grade. The late poet and philanthropist | (née von Schoenweiler) grew up in Bullitt Park. The highly regarded Jewish ... |
| Aleister Crowley | ... or practice various forms of magic. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, | 's Thelema and their subsequent offshoots, influenced by Eliphas Levi, are ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... ofessional collaboration with his father. Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by | , jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, whi ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... clude Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), | (who included it in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ccultation of Aldebaran. Copernicus later used this observation to disprove | 's model of lunar distance |
| Walt Disney | One of Watonga's most notable citizens was Clarence Nash (1904–1985) whom | hired to be the voice of Donald Duck in the 1930s. Nash provided Donald's ... |
| Richard Pipes | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, | , Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jes ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... her, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, | , Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney General | appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ... |
| James Blish | ... his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction. | was a fan of Cabell's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of t ... |
| Woolf | ... riting "a major text of English feminism, a link between Wollstonecraft and | . |
| Tertullian | ... wide influence on the immediately following generation. Both Hippolytus and | freely drew on his writings. But his literal hope of an earthly millennium ... |
| Josephus | In the Antiquities of the Jews, | refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that hi ... |
| René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
| Jonas Mekas | ... was initially commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites film-maker | , who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere and claims that Warhol's sta ... |
| Albert Pike | ... number of 19th century thinkers such as William Blake, Arthur Schopenhauer, | and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic thought extensively and were influenc ... |
| Bossuet | ... s the "swan of Cambrai" ("le cygne de Cambrai"), in opposition to his rival | , the "eagle of Meaux" ("l'aigle de Meaux"), and he wrote his Maxims of th ... |
| Bill Cosby | ... s, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brad Paisley, Styx, The Goo Goo Dolls, | , Hank Williams Jr., and Peter Frampton |
| Jack Woodford | ... cluding Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and | . Although now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was remar ... |
| Samuel R. Delany | ... dia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and | was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally libe ... |
| Gloria Monty | ... well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer | readily agreed. Although Crawford did well in rehearsal, she lost her comp ... |
| Philo | ... AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and | . The Hebrew Bible also mentions what appears to be child sacrifice practi ... |
| Shakespeare | ... aders' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of Dickens and | . By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fiction may not ex ... |
| Arthur Rimbaud | ... olist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, | , and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have he ... |
| 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 ... |
| James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
| Will Ferrell | Federal Wildlife Marshall Willenholly ( | ) arrives to take over the case, as it involves the release of animals. Su ... |
| Nicolás Gómez Dávila | ... relations, with a strong role for the Church. Their utmost philosopher was | |
| Tom Clancy | ... n Clark (real name John Terrence Kelly) is a fictional character created by | who appears in many of Clancy's novels |
| Robert A. Heinlein | ... ll's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of the Cabell Society. | was greatly inspired by Cabell's boldness, and originally described his fa ... |
| Herman Melville | ... nostic thought extensively and were influenced by it, and even figures like | and W. B. Yeats were more tangentially influenced. Jules Doinel "re-establ ... |
| Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
| Frank Oz | Miss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by | on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing the role, alth ... |
| Jules Laforgue | ... ymons's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to | , Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he mig ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ray Bradbury | ... er and weaker. He was listed as a primary influence of the much more famous | . Kurt Vonnegut based his character Kilgore Trout on Theodore Sturgeon |
| Tertullian | Plutarch (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do | , Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and Philo. The Hebrew Bible also mentions what ... |
| Surdas | ... butter, Krishna tied to mortar especially in couplets written by poet-saint | , where her deep affection for Krishna becomes an epitome of 'Vatsalya Pre ... |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... he oldest "Stage" in Germany. In 1782 the premier of Die Räuber, written by | , was shown |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... minated by Germans, but also because it explicitly acknowledges its debt to | (himself a composer, amongst other things) and, by so doing, establishes a ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... t Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President | . It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest s ... |
| Philip José Farmer | The event was used by the science fiction writer | in his "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and ) as the ba ... |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | ... es. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include the Mars trilogy by | and The Platform by James Garvey |
| Appian | ... me discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of | , and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
| Joseph Conrad | In 1947, he graduated with a Master's thesis on | , wrote short stories in his spare time, and landed a job in the publicity ... |
| Herodotus | ... ng to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, | , who mentions them extensively, except legend. The stories of the early L ... |
| Jack Vance's | ... lark Ashton Smith are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. | Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cuge ... |
| Paul Tanner | Writers | , Maurice Gerow, and David Megill have suggested tha |
| Archimedes | ... ept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the studies of | on levers. The rotational analogues of force, mass, and acceleration are t ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... thiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, | , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a ... |
| Jess Stearn | Cayce has variously been referred to as a "prophet" (cf. | 's book, The Sleeping Prophet), a "mystic", a "seer". While giving a readi ... |
| Margaret | ... her in the areas of music and literature. More had four children with Jane: | , Elizabeth, Cicely, and John. When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almo ... |
| Steven Bayme | ... Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semitism". Professor | said gnosticism would be better characterized as anti-Judaism. Recent rese ... |
| Fritz Leiber's | ... medy of Justice), features Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei. | Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Charles G. Finney's famo ... |
| Ian McLellan Hunter | ... for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy but lost to | , Dalton Trumbo, and John Dighton for Roman Holiday |
| 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 ... |
| John Dighton | ... for Best Written Comedy but lost to Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo, and | for Roman Holiday |
| Woody Allen | ... , You've Got Mail, Ghostbusters, The In-Laws, Little Manhattan, and many of | 's films, such as Annie Hall, Bananas, and Manhattan. The city was also th ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | During the persecution of | , the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ... |
| Dalton Trumbo | ... d of America Award for Best Written Comedy but lost to Ian McLellan Hunter, | , and John Dighton for Roman Holiday |
| Chris Noonan | ... ve included Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! and | 's Babe. Other award winning productions include Picnic at Hanging Rock, G ... |
| Joseph Jacobs | The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) contains an article "Gnosticism" by | and Ludwig Blau which deals only with Jewish gnosticism. Jacobs and Blau c ... |
| Kevin J. Anderson | In the Brian Herbert/ | Legends of Dune novels, the Atreides family line goes back to the Greeks o ... |
| Paul Francis Webster | ... e Academy Award for Best Song for the title tune but lost to Sammy Fain and | for "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane |
| Sima Qian | According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by | during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first e ... |
| Samuel Huntington | ===Other views===Sociologists Peter Berger and | suggest that Opus Dei is involved in "a deliberate attempt to construct an ... |
| Brian Herbert | In the | /Kevin J. Anderson Legends of Dune novels, the Atreides family line goes b ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". | says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... d one of the wealthiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newb ... |
| James Blish | ... ny other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderson's The Big Rain, and | 's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include ... |
| John Clare | ... ns from the Jurassic period of international importance; the manuscripts of | , the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet as he was commonly known in his own ti ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elio Vittorini | ... the Arts Faculty. A year later, he was initiated into the literary world by | , who published his short story "Andato al comando" (1945; "Gone to Headqu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani | ... King Guy, both of whom Saladin ordered brought to his tent. The chronicler | , who was present at the scene, relates |
| Clemens Brentano | ... poets, such as Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Joseph von Görres, Arnim, and | . A relic of Romanticism is the Philosophers' Walk , a scenic walking path ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... th well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and | . The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen debate |
| Poul Anderson | ... ack Williamson, but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such | 's The Big Rain, and James Blish's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involv ... |
| Helen Hunt | ... 2010 census. It was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film Twister starring | and Bill Paxton in which Wakita was destroyed by an F4 tornado that was pa ... |
| Steven Spielberg | ... Gallery (which served as pilot to the series that followed), marked one of | 's earliest directing jobs. She starred on the big screen one final time, ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... her instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include | , Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of Th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herodotus | According to | , Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended ... |
| Joseph de Maistre | ... ists and left-wing Revolutionaries. Herein arose the clerical philosophers— | , Louis de Bonald, François-René de Chateaubriand—whose answer was restori ... |
| Peter Ustinov | At one point later in the series, | was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ... |
| Baz Luhrmann | ... ly successful Australian films have included Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, | 's Moulin Rouge! and Chris Noonan's Babe. Other award winning productions ... |
| Richard Wagner | ... ngle concerto". In the 19th century, the triangle was used in some music by | , such as the "Bridal chorus" from "Lohengrin" (opera) |
| Joos van Ghistele | ... y who visited only Lower Egypt and published their travel accounts, such as | or André Thévet, put Thebes in or close to Memphis |
| Jack Williamson | ... o naturally object to the process. The word itself was coined in fiction by | , but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderso ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... The Girl on a Motorcycle, the University being the ultimate destination of | 's character. Heidelberg is the home of a professional Quidditch team oper ... |
| Aristotle | ... pt marked a significant departure from the concept of mimesis formulated by | in the 4th century BC, which was only concerned with "imitation of nature" ... |
| Courtney Love | ... ted as "Rock Star" on the album Live Through This). The band's lead singer, | has the line: 'I went to school with Calvin,' a reference to Johnson's inf ... |
| Amy Huberman | ... by Irish Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars IFTA award winning actress | . The film sees Martin Sheen play parish priest, Daniel Barry, whose love ... |
| Augustine of Hippo | ... ed most modern wars, did not satisfy the just war requirements set by Saint | and other theologians. The method of total war (i.e. any non-accidental at ... |
| Elsie Janis | ... America ticket and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). | , the stage name for Elsie Beerbower, musical theatre star and "Sweetheart ... |
| 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 ... |
| Viktor Rydberg | ... Yule Nisse). In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published | 's poem "Tomten", where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas nig ... |
| Jared Leto | ... ed Cool and the Crazy. The picture, which aired September 16, 1994, starred | , Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Blanc and Matthew Flint. Reviewer Todd Ever ... |
| Julius Nyerere | Under the leadership of | , the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ... |
| Natalia Ginzburg | ... i. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, | , Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... rimental histories" by philosophical reformists such as William Gilbert and | , drew a significant following in the years leading up to and following Ga ... |
| Gina Cerminara | ... such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin. | published books such as Many Mansions and The World Within. Brian Weiss pu ... |
| Hanns Johst | ... unclear; it did not originate with him. The line comes from Nazi playwright | 's play Schlageter, "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browni ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... deal called the Kitchen Accord, negotiated by the federal Attorney General | , Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minis ... |
| Emperor Yang Guang | Between 604 to 609, | (or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ... |
| Rosalind Russell | ... ublic appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend | at New York's Rainbow Room. Russell was suffering from breast cancer and a ... |
| GCC compiler | ... 64-bit addressing and mandates use of the 64-bit GNU development tools. The | and the DIGNUS Systems/C++ and Systems/C are the only supported compilers ... |
| Olaf Stapledon | ... iens in his story The War of the Worlds change Earth for their own benefit. | 's Last and First Men (1930) provides the first example in fiction in whic ... |
| Brian Weiss | Gina Cerminara published books such as Many Mansions and The World Within. | published a bestseller regarding clinical recollection of past lives, Many ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... itch" and "clever fox" in his private communication with Secretary of State | (now released by the State Department). Indira signed the , resulting in p ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by | . Many who would not co-operate with the rulers of Nazi Germany were sent ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
| Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
| John Cornford | ... zzi and French from Commune de Paris Battalion. Among them was British poet | . Men were sorted according to their experience and origin, and dispatched ... |
| Isaac Alfasi | The Editio Princeps was printed in Venice in 1521 as an addendum to | 's Halakhot |
| Samuel Johnson | ... really start smuggling (cf. Adam Smith's approval of smuggling); and the " | Dining Experience" turns out to be a flop because Doctor Johnson is regula ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... d Myrna Loy. Upon her death there was found in her apartment photographs of | , whom she voted for in the 1960 presidential election |
| Jane Espenson | ... ad on October 27, 2009 and aired on January 10, 2010, on Sci Fi. Written by | and directed by Edward James Olmos, The Plan storyline begins before the a ... |
| Helen Deutsch | Lyrics for the song "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" were written by | for her previously-published short story "Song of Love." Kaper's setting o ... |
| Kevin J. Anderson | The prequel trilogy Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and | chronicles the upbringing of young Leto I prior to the events of Dune. Son ... |
| Plutarch | ... d by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and | 's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
| 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 ... |
| Irving Berlin | ... s included a number of famous people such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, | , and George Gershwin |
| H. G. Wells | ... g a planet for habitation precedes the use of the word 'terraforming', with | describing a reverse-terraforming, where aliens in his story The War of th ... |
| Joseph Haydn | ... estra since around the middle of the 18th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, | and Ludwig van Beethoven all used it, though sparingly, usually in imitati ... |
| Bernard of Clairvaux | ... only in 1631, and only as a commemoration on 20 August, the feast of Saint | . In 1687, it was moved to 2 September and remained there until the 1969 r ... |
| Herodotus | Thebes' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both | and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one ... |
| Arthur Schnitzler | Zweig was a very prominent writer in the 1920s and 1930s, and befriended | and Sigmund Freud. He was extremely popular in the USA, South America and ... |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | The position taken by | , one of the foremost Renaissance magicians, is ambiguous. The character o ... |
| Michael Grais | ... k Mancuso, Sr., had the screenplay rewritten in secret; the new version, by | and Mark Victor, was radically different from Bakshi's original. Paramount ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dolly Parton | In 1987, Miss Piggy was a guest star on | 's musical variety show, Dolly, singing and performing with Parton, while ... |
| Brian Herbert | The prequel trilogy Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson chronicles the upbringing of young Leto I prior to t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johannes Hartlieb | ... ontroversial during the Early Modern witch-hunts, with some authors such as | denouncing all magical practice as blasphemous, while others portrayed nat ... |
| Isabel Paterson | ... that it more united the Soviet and German dictatorships than divided them. | , in The God of the Machine (1943), used the term in connection with the S ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... raneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials, and books. | for example wrote that the trances of Cayce did happen, but the informatio ... |
| Newt Gingrich | ... "He understands the rules. He's a strong negotiator." Former House Speaker | (R) said he's "the smartest legislative politician I've ever met. |
| Armistead Long | At 5 p.m., however, Gen. | 's ammunition train in the rear was attacked by advance elements of Forres ... |
| Michel Houellebecq | ... ry There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contemporary French writer | wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called . Prolific American writer ... |
| Bill Walsh | ... iters included Merrill De Maris (Mickey Mouse), Ted Osborne (Mickey Mouse), | (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), Carl ... |
| Charlotte Champe Stearns | ... nd treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. His mother, | (1843–1929), wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator | , both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in act ... |
| John Cleese | ... ith the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by Michael Palin and | in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese recalls listening ... |
| Mary Karr | ... eiser, Professor of Philosophy, one of leading scholars of German idealism, | , the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, who has received a Gug ... |
| Pope John Paul II | The Holy See took a firm stance against the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. | 's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with ... |
| Harold Schechter | ... series of strokes. Gein was devastated by her death; in the words of author | , he had "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely al ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and | on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ... |
| Ellery Queen | Sturgeon ghost-wrote an | mystery novel, The Player on the Other Side (Random House, 1963). This nov ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer | wrote his short story There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contem ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President | and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ... |
| Marie de France | ... Mary, who became a nun and Abbess of Shaftesbury and who may be the poetess | . Adelaide of Angers is sometimes sourced as being the mother of Hamelin |
| Jonathan Swift's | Micropsia has also been related to | novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and ... |
| 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" ... |
| Historia Augusta | ... rsonal fashion, which spread to his army and his court. Cassius Dio and the | agree that his nickname was derived from his cloak, but do not mention its ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Marsden | ... Mao's Last Dancer; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of | 's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom ... |
| Pauline Kael | The movie was not universally liked, though | ;called it a "sickly whimsy" and referred to Mel Ferrer's "narcissistic, m ... |
| Bobby Jindal | ... Baton Rouge, also use the fleur-de-lis. On 9 July 2008, Louisiana governor | signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the s ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President | 's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United ... |
| Lily Tomlin | ... nstabled Theater run by Edith Carroll Canter and Woodie King, Jr.. (Actress | got her start in the same theater company the year Jim joined) |
| Olivia Williams | ... ologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night with his wife, Anna Crowe ( | ), after having been honored for his work. She says that everything in the ... |
| Marc Reisner | ... being allocated to river users than actually flows through the Colorado. As | , author of Cadillac Desert puts it, "[the Colorado is] a 'deficit' river, ... |
| Terry Pratchett | In the 2008 TV miniseries adaptation of | 's The Colour of Magic, the characters of Rincewind and Twoflower parody t ... |
| Egon Hostovský | Stefan Zweig was related to the Czech writer | . Hostovský described Zweig as "a very distant relative"; some sources des ... |
| Martin Short | ... one liners as an archetypal instrument that requires no skill to play. The | sketch comedy character Ed Grimley is the best known example. A triangle p ... |
| Vivian Beynon Harris | ... as eight years old his parents separated and he and his brother, the writer | , spent the rest of their childhood at a number of English preparatory and ... |
| Cao Cao | ... fled from Chang'an in 195 CE to the ruins of Luoyang. Xian was persuaded by | (155–220 CE), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and ... |
| Tertullian | Few details are known about Clement's life. According to | , Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a l ... |
| Selma Lagerlöf | ... An angry tomte is featured in the popular children's book by Swedish author | , Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Nils Holgersson's Wonderf ... |
| Michael Palin | ... radio and played with the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by | and John Cleese in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese re ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ted with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, | , Rabini Zami, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
| August Strindberg | ... ert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer | |
| 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 ... |
| Archimedes | ... e siege of Syracuse from 214 BC onwards. During this siege the ingenuity of | ' machines defeated all Roman attacks |
| Olav Hammer | ... urse with animals to produce giants which were as much as twelve feet tall. | wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin colour and tha ... |
| Emilio Estevez | ... . The company’s latest film is The Way, written and directed by Sheen's son | who also stars in the film as Martin’s on-screen son, who dies while hikin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stuart A. Wright | ... as follows and distinguished it from the defector and whistleblower roles. | , an American sociologist and author, asserts that apostasy is a unique ph ... |
| Gene Lockhart | ... es, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, | , Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morri ... |
| John of Damascus | In 746 | (sometimes St. John of Damascus) wrote the Fount of Knowledge part two of ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... stronomical observations—notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer | concerning the relative motions of the sun, earth, moon, and planets—indic ... |
| Brad Wright | ... ef cameo, and is expected to return for the third movie. Executive producer | stressed the importance of O'Neill's presence in the Stargate universe eve ... |
| Arnie Kogen | ... ublished in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by | in regular issue #136, July 1970 |
| George Orwell | ... p the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since: | wrote in 194 |
| Richard Wagner | ... estival at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer | are presented |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Jones | ... e traditional conventions of comedy. On p. 73 of the Pythons autobiography, | states "The Goons of course were my favourite. It was the surreality of th ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... l as a monoplane model—the Lockheed Sirius, the first of which was flown by | . The name was also adopted by Mitsubishi Motors for the Mitsubishi Sirius ... |
| Larry Cohen | ... symphony of misfired synapses." Her last performance was the title role in | 's Wicked Stepmother (1989). By this time her health was failing, and afte ... |
| David Brower | ... ew that it had much greater scenic value than Echo Park. Sierra Club leader | fought the dam both during the construction and for many years afterwards ... |
| Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | ... ngland and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, the latter especially via | pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? |
| John Wesley | ... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan and | both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ... |
| Giles Worsley | ... e by ‘Divine Right’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian | and others |
| Adélaïde Filleul | ... Flahaut de La Billarderie, beheaded at Arras in February 1793, and his wife | , afterwards Mme de Souza-Botelho. Charles de Flahaut was generally recogn ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... eld universally valid characterizations of motion. The Tuscan mathematician | was the central figure in the shift to this perspective. As a mathematicia ... |
| Norris | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins | and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. ... |
| H. G. Wells | ... approach by Wyndham (itself more than a little reminiscent of that taken by | in The War of the Worlds) was a reaction against what he described as the ... |
| Dr. King | ... hts leaders. This injunction temporarily halted civil rights activity until | defied it by speaking at on January 2, 1965 |
| Jerome | ... kes Clement the immediate successor of Peter. And while in one of his works | gives Clement as "the fourth bishop of Rome after Peter" (not in the sense ... |
| Liev Schreiber | ... most famous character John Clark has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and | . All but two of Clancy's solely-written novels feature Jack Ryan or John ... |
| Rabelaisian | ... y's New York Times obituary described him via a character sketch: "He was a | figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of w ... |
| Johann Michael Vansleb | ... ech Thévenot (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and | (The Present State of Egypt, 1678) |
| Ptolemy | ... ccusations by a rival artist that Apelles took part in a conspiracy against | . This almost led to the artist's execution. "In the Renaissance the exemp ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... f only more modestly with the 1982 album, Silk Electric. Ross' recording of | 's "Muscles" gave Ross another top ten hit. Ross' 1983 album, Ross, failed ... |
| Melchisédech Thévenot | ... elled though the area. Protais' writing about their travel was published by | (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and Johann Mich ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... en condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. In 1770 | wrote The Deserted Village, deploring rural depopulation. An anonymous pro ... |
| John Bunyan | ... cture began in the early 13th century, but little remains from that period. | and John Wesley both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and sp ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
| Mark Victor | ... d the screenplay rewritten in secret; the new version, by Michael Grais and | , was radically different from Bakshi's original. Paramount threatened to ... |
| Sam Shepard | In the 2011 movie Blackthorn, | plays an elderly Butch Cassidy who has survived the Sundance Kid and elude ... |
| Félix Guattari | ... ing him a canonical American writer. French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and | made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short st ... |
| Shakespeare's | ... 9 which led to the colonization of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for | The Tempest. William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611) was based on th ... |
| Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
| Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton | ... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet | , but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ... |
| Romain Rolland | ... of the Ministry of War, and soon acquired a pacifist stand like his friend | , recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915. Zweig remained a pacif ... |
| Ben Affleck | ... ve been turned into commercially successful films with actors Alec Baldwin, | , and Harrison Ford as Clancy's most famous fictional character Jack Ryan, ... |
| Moses | ... nerally agree that the Pentateuch (Torah or Tawrat) is the original work of | (Musa) but has been modified in translation, transliteration or transcript ... |
| Hardy Krüger | ... scene and then its German equivalent in quick succession. Johanna Matz and | , the stars of the German adaptation, briefly appear in the English langua ... |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... d military issues such as guerrilla warfare, tactics and laying land mines. | was notable among the cell organizers in Europe. In 1937 the Polish author ... |
| Ferenc Erkel | The last complete opera by the Hungarian composer | is István király (King Stephen) (1885). The best known representations of ... |
| Lucian | ... onification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by | , in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treach ... |
| Sima Qian | ... n Shi Huang" (秦始皇), appear in the Records of the Grand Historian written by | . The longer name "Qin Shi Huangdi" (秦始皇帝) appears first in chapter 5, tho ... |
| Alec Baldwin | ... f All Fears have been turned into commercially successful films with actors | , Ben Affleck, and Harrison Ford as Clancy's most famous fictional charact ... |
| Carl Jung | ... es occurred because Cayce had been reading other books from authors such as | , Ouspensky and Blavatsky. Gardner's hypothesis was that the trance readin ... |
| Antonia Fraser | ... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release of | The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ... |
| Gilles Deleuze | ... essentially declaring him a canonical American writer. French philosophers | and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and ... |
| James Freed | ... Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate | served as lead designer. Hoping to create a vibrant community institution ... |