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Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Writing career

At age 21, he published his first novel, Williwaw, based upon his military experiences in the Alaskan Harbor Detachment. The book was well received. A few years later, his novel The City and the Pillar, which dealt candidly with gay themes, caused a furor, to the extent that the daily New York Times refused to review a number of his later books. The book was dedicated to "J.T." who, after rumors were published in a magazine, Vidal was eventually forced to confirm was his St. Albans love Jimmie Trimble and who the book cl ...

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Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal - Biography, Gore Vidal - Writing career, Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views, Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001, Gore Vidal - Essays and Non-Fiction, Gore Vidal - Plays, Gore Vidal - Novels, Gore Vidal - Under Pseudonyms

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories, and his victory in the 1860 presidential election further polarized an already divided nation. Before his inauguration in March of 1861, seven southern slave st ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - September 11, 2001 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which hijackers took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City — one into each of the two tallest towers, about 18 minutes apart. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed. The hijackers crashed the third aircraft into the U.S. Department of Defe ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - 1960s

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - September 11 2001 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which hijackers took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City — one into each of the two tallest towers, about 18 minutes apart. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed. The hijackers crashed the third aircraft into the U.S. Department of Defe ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Creation book

Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal which was published in 1981. The plot follows the adventures of a Persian diplomat in the 5th century BCE, who travels the known world comparing the political and religious beliefs of various nation states of the time, and meeting influential philosophical figures such as Zoroaster, Socrates, the Buddha, Mahavira, Laozi and Confucius. Vidal evokes a theme which Robert Graves had previously explored, a skepticism of the reported facts and interpretations of our un ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - 1979 in film

1978 in film 1979 1980 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1979 in film - Events. March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark. December 7 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that would span 10 films over the next 23 years. It also would eventually lead to t ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from the U.S. state of Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a flair for public speaking before entering politics, first in the Ohio Senate (1899–1903) ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Aviator

Aviators are people who fly aircraft either for pleasure or for a job. The term is normally applied to pilots but it can be applied more broadly, for example to include people such as wing-walkers who regularly take part in an aerobatic display sequence. The term aviatrix is sometimes used of women flyers, reflecting the word's Latin root. The term was more commonly used in the early days of aviation and has connotations of bravery and adventure. As Steve Fossett has shown with his 2002 solo flight around the glob ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and adventurer. He was a major formative member of the Democratic-Republican party in New York and a strong supporter of Governor George Clinton. He is remembered not so much for his tenure as the third Vice President, under Thomas Jefferson, as for his duel with Alexander Hamilton and his trial and acquittal on charges of treason. Burr was born in Newark, New Jersey, to the Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr., who was the second president of the College of N ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - 9/11 Truth Movement

The 9/11 Truth Movement refers to a movement by people who disagree to varying degrees with the official account of what occurred during the September 11, 2001 attacks, feel that the truth is not yet known by the general public, and wish to bring new evidence and analysis to their attention. 9/11 Truth Movement - History. Soon after the attacks, allegations of government complicity began to spread on the Internet. The first such exposé in book form (9/11 The Big Lie) was published in ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Creation

Creation is the following: Generally, creation is the act or result of bringing something into existence from nothing at all. In theology, Creation is God's act of bringing the universe into existence from nothing. Creationism is the belief that the natural universe, life, and humanity was created by a supreme being's supernatural intervention. Creation is a yearly Christian music festival which happens in the Eastern and Western parts of the United States. It's also kn

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Burr novel

Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal. Burr challenges the traditional iconography of American history through a fictional narrative and memoir by Aaron Burr, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War, a lawyer, and the vice president during Thomas Jefferson's first term as president of the United States. Burr generally presents its namesake character as a fascinating, heroic, and honorable gentleman, while skewering most of the other U.S. historical figures who appear in the story, inclu ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Contributions to liberal theory

This is an (partial) overview of individuals that contributed to the development of liberal theory on a worldwide scale and therefore are strongly associated with the liberal tradition and instrumental in the exposition of political liberalism as a philosophy. The contributors are listed in approximately chronological order, beginning from the roots of realism, rationalism and humanism in the Renaissance, all movements which were influential in the creation of what is thought of as liberal political theory. These include Desiderius Erasmus, ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia - Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator and educationalist. Born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East, the Enderby cycle of comic ...

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Theodore Roosevelt - Presidency

McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, on September 6, 1901, and died September 14, vaulting Roosevelt into the presidency. Roosevelt took the oath of office on September 14 in the Ansley Wilcox House at Buffalo, New York. One of his first notable acts as President was to deliver a 20,000-word address to the House of Representatives on December 3, 1901 [1], asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits." For this and subseq ...

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Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt - Childhood and education, Theodore Roosevelt - Life in the Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt - Return to public life, Theodore Roosevelt - Vice Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Progressivism, Theodore Roosevelt - Conservation, Theodore Roosevelt - Race, Theodore Roosevelt - Foreign policy, Theodore Roosevelt - Cabinet, Theodore Roosevelt - Supreme Court appointments, Theodore Roosevelt - Growing Split inside Republican Party, Theodore Roosevelt - Progressive Party Candidate in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt - Roosevelt and the First World War, Theodore Roosevelt - Post-Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Personal life, Theodore Roosevelt - Legacy, Theodore Roosevelt - Quotes, Theodore Roosevelt - In popular culture, Theodore Roosevelt - Presidential firsts, Theodore Roosevelt - Media, Theodore Roosevelt - Scholarly Secondary Sources, Theodore Roosevelt - Primary Sources

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Memorable moments and catchphrases

The show gave considerable publicity to singer Tiny Tim, an unusual-looking man with long hair who sang in a falsetto voice while accompanying himself on ukulele. Thanks to his appearances on the show, he achieved a hit single with his piercing version of the vintage 1920s song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Tiny Tim was later married on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to a woman known as Miss Vicky. Other musical moments came in the first season with some of the first music videos ever seen on TV, with cast members appearing in film clips set to the music ...

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - A typical episode's format, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Memorable castmembers/guests and their running gags, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Memorable moments and catchphrases, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Cast comings and goings, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Regular Performers with season numbers where known, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Regular guests, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - More Celebrities Who Have Guest-Starred

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - 1960s - Events and trends

Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic changes brought about by the baby boom generation, the height of the Cold War, and the dissolution of European colonial empires. The rise in social revolution, civil rights movements, human rights movement, anti-War movements, and the Counterculture movement are only some of the characteristics that defined the 1960s. Many experts attribute the 1960s "counter-culture revolution" as being the result of the major social and political factors that rose in the 1950s like brinksmanship, ...

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1960s, 1960s - Events and trends, 1960s - Technology, 1960s - Science, 1960s - War peace and politics, 1960s - Economics, 1960s - Culture, 1960s - Others, 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties, 1960s - In the United States, 1960s - In other Western countries, 1960s - In non-Western countries, 1960s - People, 1960s - World leaders, 1960s - Writers and intellectuals

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - September 11 2001 attacks - The attacks

The attacks started with the hijacking of four commercial airliners. With jet fuel capacities of nearly 24,000 U.S. gallons (91,000 litres) per aircraft [2], the aircraft were turned into flying incendiary bombs. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) at 8:46:40 AM local time (12:46:40 UTC). At 9:03:11 AM local time (13:03:11 UTC), United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower, an event covered live by television broadcasters that had their cameras trained on the N ...

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September 11 2001 attacks, September 11 2001 attacks - The attacks, September 11 2001 attacks - The fourth aircraft, September 11 2001 attacks - 9/11, September 11 2001 attacks - Fatalities, September 11 2001 attacks - Responsibility, September 11 2001 attacks - Motive, September 11 2001 attacks - Aftermath, September 11 2001 attacks - International reaction, September 11 2001 attacks - Public response in the United States, September 11 2001 attacks - Economic aftermath, September 11 2001 attacks - Rescue recovery and compensation, September 11 2001 attacks - Potential health effects, September 11 2001 attacks - Collapse of the World Trade Center, September 11 2001 attacks - Survivors, September 11 2001 attacks - Congressional inquiries, September 11 2001 attacks - Speculation alternative theories and claims of further conspiracies, September 11 2001 attacks - 20th hijacker, September 11 2001 attacks - Other planned attacks, September 11 2001 attacks - The War on Terrorism, September 11 2001 attacks - Memorials, September 11 2001 attacks - Arts and literature, September 11 2001 attacks - Media, September 11 2001 attacks - Victims

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - The Celluloid Closet - Impact

Russo was one of the first people to persuade gay and straight people to examine the role that popular culture plays in shaping our attitudes about sexual orientation and gender identity. It started a genre of research that examines how movies, television shows, comic books, and video and computer games depict depicted LGBT people. The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance Against Defamation has since given awards to openly gay or lesbian people within the Hollywood industry ...

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The Celluloid Closet, The Celluloid Closet - DVD, The Celluloid Closet - Impact, The Celluloid Closet - Credits

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