Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - ParisFebruary 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. He is best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and his Shakespearean Hamlet (1868). Thomas' father was a musician and Ambroise learned to play the piano and violin as a child. He studied under Jean-François Le Sueur at the Paris Conservatoire, and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1832 for his cantata, Hermann et Ketty. His first opera, "La Doubl ...

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Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave (October 22, 1761 - November 29, 1793), was a French politician, one of the greatest orators of the first French Revolution. He was born at Grenoble in Dauphiné, of a Protestant family. His father was an advocate at the parliament of Grenoble, and his mother was well-born and educated. It was she who educated her son because, being a Protestant, he could not attend school. He was brought up to the law, and at the age of twenty-two made himself favourably known by a discourse pronounced before the ...

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André Marie Chénier (October 30, 1762 - July 25, 1794) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution. André Chénier - Life. He was born at Istanbul, in today's Turkey. His father, Louis Chénier, a native of Languedoc, after twenty years in the Levant as a cloth-merchant, was appointed to a position equivalent to that of French consul at Istanbul. His mother, Elisabeth Santi-Lomaca, whose sister was grandmother of Adolphe Thiers, was a Greek. When André was three years ...

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Andrew Harvey is a Shakespeare scholar and mystic who was born in India. He envisions true spirituality to be the divinization of earthly life through spiritual practice. These practices can take many forms and can be taken from any religious tradition. The process of divinization will result in the gradual elimination of ecological destruction and of all forms of prejudice, especially racism, misogyny, and homophobia. He lives in N ...

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Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. It is a West Germanic language and therefore is similar to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. It is also quite similar to Old Norse (and by extension, to modern Icelandic). Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of approximately 700 years – from the Anglo-Saxon migrations which created England in the fi ...

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• Old English language - The alphabet
• Old English language - Syntax
• Old English language - Morphology
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Amphibology or amphiboly (from the Greek amphibolia) is, in logic, a verbal fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence. For example: Teenagers shouldn't be allowed to drive. It's getting too dangerous on the streets. From the above statement it could be interpreted that teenagers shouldn't drive because they will be in danger, or that they shouldn't drive as they are causing all the danger. A better example might be 'If you think the waiters are impolite you should see the ma ...

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Hayyim Nahman Bialik (January 9, 1873–July 4, 1934), also commonly written as Chaim or Haim Nachman Bialik and in the Hebrew language as חיים נחמן ביאליק, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik is considered one of the first, and certainly the most influential, of modern Hebrew poets, and is widely recognised as Israel's National Poet. Hayyim Nahman Bialik - Biography. Bialik was born in Radi, Volhynia in Ukraine to Yitzhak Yossef Bialik, a scholar and businessman, and D ...

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August Wilhelm von Schlegel (September 8, 1767 - May 12, 1845), German poet, translator and critic, was born at Hanover, where his father, Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), was a Lutheran pastor. He was educated at the Hanover gymnasium and at the university of Göttingen. With his brother Friedrich, the principal philosopher of German romanticism, he founded Athenaeum (1798-1800), the chief journal of the movement. Having spent some years as a tutor in the house of a banker at Amsterdam, he went to Jena, where, in 1796, he ma ...

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Atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies, which characterizes the sound of classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Atonality usually describes compositions written from about 1923 to the present day, where the hierarchy of tonal centers, in some cases, may not be used as the primary way to organize a work. Tonal centers gradually replaced modal organization starting in the 1500s and culminated with the establishment of the major-min ...

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Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. The building, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, is the largest building in the world reserved exclusively for the preservation of rare books and manuscripts. It is built at the center of the University, in Hewitt Quadrangle, which is more commonly referred to as "Beinecke Plaza". A six-story above-ground tower of book stacks is surrounded by a windowless rectangular building with walls ...

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Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was distinguished by a greater degree of satire. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the eighteenth-century, specifically the first half of the century. The term comes most originally from a term that George ...

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). It produces programmes and information services, broadcasting on television, radio, and the Internet. It is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. The BBC's main domestic services on television include BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, the news channel BBC News 24, BBC Parliament and the children's channels CBBC and CBeebies. BBC One and BBC Two are available via conventio ...

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Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL) is a Canadian alternative rock band composed of Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Steven Page, Tyler Stewart, and Jim Creeggan. They formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Barenaked Ladies - Indie origins. The band's first tape, Buck Naked, released in 1989, was recorded in basements and bedrooms, and featured only Steve and Ed. Barenaked Lunch (also known as the Pink Tape) was released in 1990, and featured two new band mem ...

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894, Bangla: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was an Indian poet and author, most famous as the composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - Life. Bankim was educated at the Hooghly College and belonged to an orthodox family. He did for Bengali fiction what Michael Madhusudan Dutt had done for Bengali poetry, t ...

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Rhyme royal is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. Rhyme royal - Form. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). This allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for longer narrative poems. Rhyme roy ...

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"Believers" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. Believers - Plot synopsis. Dr. Franklin faces an ethical dilemna when the parents of a dying child refuse to let him operate for religious reasons. Believers - Arc significance. Believers - Production details. Believers - Issues. Believers one of a very few Star Trek styled issue episodes which dealt wi ...

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ˈ Art (or the creative arts) commonly refers to the act and process of making material works (or artworks) which, from concept to creation, hold a fidelity to the creative impulse —ie. 'art' is work distinct from creative work that is driven by necessity (ie. vocation), by biological drive (i.e. procreation), or (in art-purist contexts) by any undisciplined pursuit of recreation. The creative arts essentially denotes a collection of disciplines whose principal purpose (or sole purposeIncluding:

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See text Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with about 180 species belonging to the daisy family (Asteraceae). It comprises hardy herbs and sub-shrubs known for their volatile oils. They grow in temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere, usually in dry or semi-dry habitats. The fern-like leaves of many species are covered with white hairs. It contains many well known species, such as Roman wormwood, Sagebrush, Tarragon, Mugwort, and Southernwood. The aromatic leaves of many of these species are medicinal, some are used for flavoring, and some are important range species. All ...

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Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon (c. 92-c. 175), known in English as Arrian, was a Greek historian and philosopher of the Roman period. As with other authors of the Second Sophistic Arrian wrote primarily in Attic. His works preserve the philosophy of Epictetus, and include an important account of Alexander the Great, the Anabasis of Alexander. Arrian - Arrian's Life. Arrian was born in Nicomedia (now Izmit), the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now north-western Turkey. H ...

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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist. Benjamin Britten - Life. Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He began composing prolifically as a child, and in 1927 began private lessons with Frank Bridge. He also studied, less happily, at the Royal College of Music under John Ireland and with some input from Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although ultimately h ...

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The alien, a device used in literature to signify elements foreign, ignored, repressed, or marginalized in a given society. The alien can also offer an outside perspective, illuminating the complexities and/or exposing the hypocrisies and irrationalities in a set social norms. In literature, Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Mary Shelley's monster in Frankenstein are classic examples of the alien. Numerous other examples abound in subsequent literature and film. In American television, the character of Spock on Star Trek presented a celebrated example of t ...

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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. 2001: A Space Odyssey was written concurrently with the film version by Stanley Kubrick. It was loosely inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", but became its own novel ...

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• Arthur C. Clarke - The adapted screenplays of Arthur C. Clarke
• Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
• Arthur C. Clarke - Essays and short stories

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