A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 somewhere in Bleecker Street, New York. It was first recorded in Columbia Records' Studio A on the 6th December 1962 for his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The lyric structure is based on the traditional ballad Lord Randall. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis. The ballad is made up of five considerable stanzas of metaphor and imagery. The song was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the bleakness ...

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Elective monarchy, Elective monarchy - Some examples from History, Elective monarchy - When it was usual, Elective monarchy - Current, Elective monarchy - Elective monarchies in fiction

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Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - 1992) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. Audre Lorde - Life. Lorde was born in New York City to parents of West Indian heritage; Frederick Byron Lorde and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde. Lorde was nearsighted and legally blind. The youngest of five children, she grew up in Harlem during the Depression, hearing her mother's stories about the West Indies. She learned to talk while she learned to read, at the age of four. Her mother taught ...

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The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child. The ballads vary in age. While many of them had been individually printed, eg as broadsides, Child's late 19th century collection was far more comprehensive than any previous collection. The Child Ballads deal with subjects typical to many ballads: romance, supernatural experiences, historical events, morality, riddles, murder, and folk heroes (there are an inordinate number abou ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1828 - Events. January 4 - France: The Vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France. January 22 - UK: The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. May 26 - Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany. ...

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This is a list of film-related events in 2004. 2003 in film 2004 in film 2005 in film 2003 in home video 2004 in home video 2005 in home video 2003 in television 2004 in television 2005 in television 2004 in film - Events. 11: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 10: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World < ...

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A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, political (affected by the previous three types mentioned, refers to either glorifying the exploits or causes of a particular leader or group, and is typical of totalitarian political systems), almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person, usually with foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines ('ballad meter') and simple repeating rhymes, and often wit ...

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A whodunit or whodunnit (for "Who done it?" and sometimes referred to as a Golden Age Mystery novel) is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is paramount. The reader is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime may be deduced before the solution is revealed in the final pages of the book. The investigation is usually conducted by an eccentric amateur or semi-professional detective. The locked-room m ...

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BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporation's newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. It claims to be the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world and produces almost 100 hours of output daily. The current director is Helen Boaden. BBC News carries out a key objective of the BBC's Royal Charter: to "collect news and information in any part of the wo ...

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(Through hard work, great things are achieved) The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. It was founded in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and is thus the earliest of the "Redbrick" universities. A major research-led institution, it currently has nearly 17,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students. University of Birmingham - About the university. Its main campus, in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, is arranged around the ...

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Notable film celebrities who died in 2004 include actors Marlon Brando, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan and Fay Wray. A more complete list of notable deaths is as follows: 2004 in film - January-April. 2004 in film - May-June. 2004 in film - July. 2004 in film - August-September. ...

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2004 in film, 2004 in film - Events, 2004 in film - Top grossing films, 2004 in film - Deaths, 2004 in film - January-April, 2004 in film - May-June, 2004 in film - July, 2004 in film - August-September, 2004 in film - October-December, 2004 in film - Wide-release movies, 2004 in film - January - March, 2004 in film - April-June, 2004 in film - July-September, 2004 in film - October-December, 2004 in film - Other movies released

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Under the Act of Union of 1800, Irish peers elected twenty-eight representative peers, who served for life. The Chamber of the Irish House of Lords housed the first election, with the peers or their proxies attending. The Clerk of the Crown in Ireland was responsible for electoral arrangements; each peer voted by an open and public ballot. The results of the first election were announced by the Clerk of the Crown. After the Union, new elections were held whenever vacancies occurred due to the death of any peer. The Lord Chancellor of Great B ...

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Representative peer, Representative peer - Scotland, Representative peer - Ireland, Representative peer - House of Commons

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The ballad is made up of five considerable stanzas of metaphor and imagery. The song was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the bleakness of the lyrics reflects the worried mood of the time. However, the meaning behind the words has stayed relevant throughout the years as they seem to have a broader sweep in their descriptions of injustice, suffering and warfare. Some have suggested that the refrain of the song refers to nuclear fallout, however Dylan himself refutes that this was a specific reference: "It's not atomic rain, it's not fallout rain... I ...

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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Live performance, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Covers

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Ormonde was faced with a difficult task in reconciling all the different factions in Ireland. The Old (native) Irish and Catholic Irish of English race ("Old English") were represented in Confederate Ireland—essentially an independent Catholic government based in Kilkenny—who wanted to come to terms with King Charles I of England in return for religious toleration and self-government. On the other side, any concession that Ormonde made to the Confederates weakened his support among English and Scottish Protestants. Ormonde's negotiations with hte Confederates were t ...

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James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Early Life, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Rebellion and Civil War, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Negotiations with the Irish Confederates, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Commander of Royalist Alliance, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Restoration Career, James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde - Family

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The Telegraph is known for its right-wing politics. Within this classification it takes a roughly central position on the authoritarian/libertarian axis. It is less traditionalist and more libertarian than The Spectator but more traditionalist and less libertarian than The Economist. Personal links between the editorial team and the leadership of the Conservative Party (the Tories) vary in strength but the combination of these links with the paper's influence over Conservative activists result in the paper often being jokingly referred to as the Daily Torygraph.

The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph - Editorial history, The Daily Telegraph - Editors, The Daily Telegraph - Founding history, The Daily Telegraph - The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph - Editors, The Daily Telegraph - Recent history, The Daily Telegraph - Notable mistakes, The Daily Telegraph - Notes

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1828 - Exact month/day of birth unknown. Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader (d. 1890) ...

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Baker has played character parts on television (including Captain Redbeard Rum in the second series Blackadder episode "Potato" and Puddleglum in the BBC's production of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair) and radio (including John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall in which Baker plays Britain's most celebrated criminal barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall). He has also hosted the children's literature show The Book Tower. He became mostly known, however, for doing advertising voiceovers. ...

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Tom Baker, Tom Baker - Early life and career, Tom Baker - Baker in Doctor Who, Tom Baker - Post Doctor Who career, Tom Baker - Miscellaneous

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Among the earliest Middle English or Scots literature is John Barbour's Brus (14th century), Whyntoun's Kronykil and Blind Harry's Wallace (15th century). From the 15th century much literature was produced by writers based around the royal court in Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews. Alexander Montgomerie, the 16th century poet, for example, was in the service of King James VI. James I of Scotland himself wrote The Kingis Quair. Versions of popular continental romances were also prodd ...

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Scottish literature, Scottish literature - Earliest Scottish literature, Scottish literature - Earliest Literature from within Scotland, Scottish literature - Medieval Scottish Literature, Scottish literature - Romance Literature, Scottish literature - Late Medieval Anglo-Scottish Literature, Scottish literature - The Seventeeth to early Nineteenth Century, Scottish literature - The nineteenth and early twentieth century, Scottish literature - 1950s to the present

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Border ballads are a subgenre of folk ballads collected in the area along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially those concerned with border reivers and outlaws, or with historical events in the Borders. Notable historical ballads include "The Battle of Otterburn" and "The Hunting of Cheviot" or "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". Outlaw ballads include "Johnnie Armstrong", "Kinmont Willie", and "Jock o' the Side". Other types of ballads (including fairy ballads like "Thomas the Rhymer") are often in ...

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Ballad, Ballad - Origin and form, Ballad - Characteristics, Ballad - Broadsheet ballads, Ballad - Murder ballads, Ballad - Border ballads, Ballad - Literary ballads, Ballad - Ballad opera, Ballad - Jazz ballad, Ballad - Power ballad, Ballad - Famous ballads, Ballad - External Resources

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Randall Flagg - The Stand. Flagg made his first appearance in the 1978 apocalyptic novel The Stand. In it, he was an antichrist-like being who was trying to stop civilization in the United States from rebuilding after a devastating plague. Flagg is portrayed as the personification of evil set against Mother Abigail, the personification of good, and attracts many drawn to technology, law and order and dictatorship-sty ...

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Randall Flagg, Randall Flagg - Names appearance and role, Randall Flagg - Origins, Randall Flagg - Biography, Randall Flagg - The Stand, Randall Flagg - The Eyes of the Dragon, Randall Flagg - The Dark Tower series, Randall Flagg - Death, Randall Flagg - Other appearances, Randall Flagg - Aliases

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