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Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his untiring work, he received two honorary doctorates. Born in La Jose (now Newburg), a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion experience was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he ...

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• Aiden Wilson Tozer - Quotes from Tozer:

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See also: 2003 in literature, other events of 2004, 2005 in literature, list of years in literature. 2004 in literature - Events. Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation. June 1 - Sasebo - Controversy briefly surrounded Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story (known on the internet as Nevada-tan) murdered her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimicked a scene from the story. [1] [2]Including:

• 2004 in literature - Events
• 2004 in literature - New books
• 2004 in literature - New drama
• 2004 in literature - Non-fiction
• 2004 in literature - Deaths
• 2004 in literature - January-February
• 2004 in literature - March-August
• 2004 in literature - September-December
• 2004 in literature - Awards

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Mestrius Plutarchus (ca. 46- 127) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, including twice to Rome. Due to his parents' wealth, after 67, Plutarchus was able to study philosophy, rhetoric, and mathematics at the Academy of Athens. He had a number of influential friends, including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, both important Senato ...

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• Plutarch - Work as magistrate and ambassador
• Plutarch - Parallel Lives
• Plutarch - Life of Alexander
• Plutarch - Other works
• Plutarch - The Moralia
• Plutarch - Quaestiones
• Plutarch - Plutarch's influence
• Plutarch - Quotations

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Alanna Nash (born 1950) is an American journalist and biographer. Alanna Nash holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of several acclaimed books. A feature writer for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Weekend, in 1994 Ms. Nash was named the Society of Professional Journalists' National Member of the Year In 1977, her job afforded her the opportunity to become the first journalist authorized to view the remains of Elvis Presley. Although a countr ...

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Alexander Boswell (1706-1782), lord of Auchinleck, was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland. He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell. Most noted for rescuing of the Auchinleck Manuscript 1740 from a professor of Aberdeen University who was in the process of destroying it. He donated the manuscript to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. Sir Alexander Boswell, (1775-1822), grandson of the preceding, was an antiquary and song writer, son of James Boswell, of Auchinleck, Johnson's biographer ...

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English political writer and novelist, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought. He is also famous for the women in his life: he married the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and together with her had one daughter, also named Mary, author of Frankenstein, whom he brought up on such strict principles of rational enlightenment that her only possible rebellion was to elope at ...

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Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was a twentieth-century movie star, sex symbol and pop icon. Known for her comedic skills and remarkable screen presence, many now consider her a legendary screen actress. Marilyn Monroe - Early life. Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her registered name was Norma Jeane Mortenson, but her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized as Norma Jeane Ba ...

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• Marilyn Monroe - Early life
• Marilyn Monroe - Career
• Marilyn Monroe - Marriages
• Marilyn Monroe - James Dougherty
• Marilyn Monroe - Joe DiMaggio
• Marilyn Monroe - Arthur Miller
• Marilyn Monroe - Death and aftermath
• Marilyn Monroe - Miscellaneous
• Marilyn Monroe - Awards and nominations
• Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe in popular culture
• Marilyn Monroe - Depictions/Movie References
• Marilyn Monroe - Films
• Marilyn Monroe - Television

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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", was an American singer, song producer and actor. Rolling Stone magazine claimed "Elvis Presley is rock 'n' roll" and called his body of work "acres of perfect material." During an active recording career that spanned more than two decades, Presley set and broke many records for both concert attendance and sales. Some of those records have since been matched and/or broken by other artists, but some of his records w ...

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• Elvis Presley - An American phenomenon
• Elvis Presley - Birth & Childhood
• Elvis Presley - The Sun recordings
• Elvis Presley - The management of Colonel Tom Parker
• Elvis Presley - Military service
• Elvis Presley - Comeback
• Elvis Presley - 1969 onward
• Elvis Presley - Movies
• Elvis Presley - Gospel roots
• Elvis Presley - Relationships
• Elvis Presley - High school and early stardom
• Elvis Presley - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and some other relationships
• Elvis Presley - Later years
• Elvis Presley - Abuse of drugs
• Elvis Presley - Death and burial
• Elvis Presley - Lasting legacy
• Elvis Presley - Elvis in the 21st century
• Elvis Presley - Musical milestones
• Elvis Presley - Trivia
• Elvis Presley - Quotes from Elvis
• Elvis Presley - Quotes about Elvis

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Leslie Townes Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), otherwise known as Bob Hope, was a famous American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies and in U.S. Army concerts. Bob Hope - English origins. Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer. The family lived in Weston-super-Mare, then Whitehal ...

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• Bob Hope - English origins
• Bob Hope - Personal life
• Bob Hope - Thanks for the Memory
• Bob Hope - Hope's film career
• Bob Hope - Tours of duty
• Bob Hope - Hope for sport
• Bob Hope - Hope on the air
• Bob Hope - Hope's twilight
• Bob Hope - Conversion
• Bob Hope - Honors
• Bob Hope - Filmography

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The work measures 460 × 880 cm and can be found in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The theme was a traditional one for refectories, but Leonardo's interpretation gave it much greater realism and depth. The lunettes above the main painting, formed by the triple arched ceiling of the refectory, are painted with Sforza coats-of-arms. The opposite wall of the refectory is covered by a Crucifixion fresco by Donato Montorfano, to which Leonardo added figures of the Sforza family in tempera. (These figures have d ...

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The Last Supper Leonardo, The Last Supper Leonardo - Composition and meaning, The Last Supper Leonardo - Medium, The Last Supper Leonardo - Damage and restorations, The Last Supper Leonardo - Major restoration, The Last Supper Leonardo - The Last Supper in culture

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Alfred Leslie Rowse was born in Tregonissey near St Austell, Cornwall, the son of Dick Rowse, a china clay miner, and Annie (née Vaston). His parents were very poor and virtually illiterate. Despite this handicap and fragile health, he attended St. Austell grammar school and won a scholarship to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1921. Rowse had planned to study literature, having developed an early love of poetry, but was persuaded to read modern history. Whilst an undergraduate he developed a reputation for his devotion to speaking p ...

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A. L. Rowse, A. L. Rowse - Life, A. L. Rowse - Work, A. L. Rowse - Selected works

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Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States on April 15, 1894, Bessie Smith was one of six surviving children of William and Laura Smith. According to Smith's biographer Chris Albertson in his seminal book Bessie (1972, revised in 2003), William Smith was a laborer who also worked as a part-time Baptist preacher, but he died before Bessie could remember him. By the time Bessie was nine, she had lost her mother as well, and her older sister Viola was left in charge of caring for the younger sisters and brothers. As a way of earning m ...

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Bessie Smith, Bessie Smith - Biography, Bessie Smith - Rumors surrounding her death, Bessie Smith - Artistic legacy, Bessie Smith - External link

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Cecil Woodham-Smith was born in 1896 in Tenby, Wales. Her family, the Fitzgeralds, were a well-known Irish family, one of her ancestors being Lord Edward Fitzgerald, hero of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Her father Colonel James FitzGerald had served in the Indian Army during the Sepoy Mutiny; her mother's family included General Sir Thomas Picton, a distinguished soldier who was killed at Waterloo. She attended the Royal School for Officers' Daughters in Bath, until her expulsion for taking unannounced leave for a trip to the National ...

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Cecil Woodham-Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith - Early life, Cecil Woodham-Smith - Career

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His best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged as dyads to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair containing one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives. As he explains in the first paragraph of his Life of Alexander, Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character — good or bad — on the lives ...

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Plutarch, Plutarch - Work as magistrate and ambassador, Plutarch - Parallel Lives, Plutarch - Life of Alexander, Plutarch - Other works, Plutarch - The Moralia, Plutarch - Quaestiones, Plutarch - Plutarch's influence, Plutarch - Quotations

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2004 in literature - January-February. January 4, John Toland, author and historian January 4, Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase January 4, Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett January 10/11?, Spalding Gray, actor and author January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author January 15, Olivi ...

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2004 in literature, 2004 in literature - Events, 2004 in literature - New books, 2004 in literature - New drama, 2004 in literature - Non-fiction, 2004 in literature - Deaths, 2004 in literature - January-February, 2004 in literature - March-August, 2004 in literature - September-December, 2004 in literature - Awards

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Jenkins has authored more that 150 books, 16 of which have reached the New York Times bestseller list. His writings have appeared in many periodicals, including Reader's Digest, Parade, and Guideposts. He is a "writer-at-large" for Moody Bible Institute. He had previously worked as Editor of Moody Magazine and as vice-president of publishing for Moody Bible Institute. Jerry B. Jenkins - Biographer. He has written "as-told-to" biographies of Hank Aaron, Brett Butler, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Lui ...

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Jerry B. Jenkins, Jerry B. Jenkins - Work as a writer editor and publisher, Jerry B. Jenkins - Biographer, Jerry B. Jenkins - Comic strip author, Jerry B. Jenkins - Left Behind author, Jerry B. Jenkins - Personal

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List of polymaths - A to J. Jeremy Bentham, jurist, inventor, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political commentator William Blake, poet, painter, engraver, visionary mystic Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, and poet Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer, linguist, anthropologist, diplomat and swordsman Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, invento ...

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List of polymaths, List of polymaths - Ancient and mediæval, List of polymaths - Renaissance, List of polymaths - Enlightenment and early post-Enlightenment, List of polymaths - A to J, List of polymaths - K to S, List of polymaths - T to Z, List of polymaths - Contemporary, List of polymaths - A to D, List of polymaths - E to K, List of polymaths - L to R, List of polymaths - S to Z, List of polymaths - Legendary/Culture Heroes

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Douglas Botting was born in South London. Having witnessed the London Blitz firsthand, he went on to make documentaries and write historical records of World War II and Aviation. Botting got an early flavour of travel when he worked as an infantry subaltern for the King's African Rifles in Kenya, as part of his National Service. He went on to study at Oxford University, during which time he undertook a pioneering exploration of the little-known island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. His first book - Island o ...

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Douglas Botting, Douglas Botting - Short Biography, Douglas Botting - Explorations, Douglas Botting - Bibliography, Douglas Botting - Filmography

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The son of a poor bookseller, Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He attended Lichfield Grammar School. A few weeks after he turned nineteen, on October, 31st 1728, he entered Pembroke College, Oxford; he was to remain there for thirteen months. Though he was a formidable student, poverty forced him to leave Oxford without taking a degree. He attempted to work as a teacher and schoolmaster; initially turned down by Revd. Samuel Lea MA (headmaster of Adams' Grammar School) he found work at a school in Stourbridge, but these ventures were not successful. At the age of twenty-five, he married Elizabeth "Tet ...

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Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson - Life and work, Samuel Johnson - Major works, Samuel Johnson - Biography criticism lexicography prose, Samuel Johnson - Essays pamphlets periodicals, Samuel Johnson - Poetry, Samuel Johnson - Notes

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Setting: Catfish Row, a fictitious suburb of Charleston, South Carolina in the 'recent past' (c.1930). Porgy and Bess - Act I. Scene 1 - Catfish Row, a summer evening. The opera begins with a short introduction which segues into an evening in Catfish Row. Jabso Brown entertains the community with his piano playing. Clara sings a lullaby to her baby ("Summertime") as the working men prepare for a game of craps. Clara's husband, Jake, tries his own lullaby ("A woman is a som ...

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Porgy and Bess, Porgy and Bess - Plot, Porgy and Bess - Act I, Porgy and Bess - Act II, Porgy and Bess - Act III, Porgy and Bess - Characters, Porgy and Bess - Compositional history, Porgy and Bess - Productions, Porgy and Bess - Original Broadway cast, Porgy and Bess - Crawford's Broadway revival, Porgy and Bess - European premieres, Porgy and Bess - 1952 production, Porgy and Bess - Houston Grand's 1976 production, Porgy and Bess - Subsequent productions, Porgy and Bess - Racial controversy, Porgy and Bess - Musical elements, Porgy and Bess - Use of leitmotif, Porgy and Bess - Recordings, Porgy and Bess - Adaptations, Porgy and Bess - Film and television, Porgy and Bess - Suites, Porgy and Bess - Songs, Porgy and Bess - Notes

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