Académie Française
Académie Française Official French literary society, now part of the
Institut de France. Originating as a private discussion group whose members were persuaded by Cardinal
Richelieu to become an official body in 1635, the society is the guardian of the French language and of literary conventions. Past members have included many of the giants of French literature, such as
Racine,
Voltaire, and
Hugo.
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WORLD'S FIRST ROBOT FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY ANNOUNCED; AESOP SHOWS HOW ROBOTICS CAN CUT COSTS IN THE OPERATING ROOM
PR Newswire; 5/9/1994; 700+ words
; ...Gynecologists (ACOG) meeting in Orlando, Fla. AESOP(TM) (Automated Endoscopic Systems for...gynecology and urology. While the name AESOP is usually associated with the legendary teller of fables, this AESOP is already a medical reality, having received...
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A spectrum fable: how AESOP and XML improve naval operations.
Magazine article from: CHIPS; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...like to be a preschooler, you'll recall Aesop's Fables, short stories with moral lessons...ancient times. However, mention the word "AESOP" around the Naval Sea Systems Command...Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Program, or AESOP, is a surface Navy spectrum management...
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It's No Fable: World's First Internet Substitute Teacher Calling System, AESOP, Finds a Teacher for Every Classroom This Fall.
PR Newswire; 9/4/2001; 700+ words
; ...based substitute management system -- AESOP. This fall, some 72,000 teachers in...million students nationwide, will be using AESOP, which allows teachers to post their absences...view and accept as they become available. AESOP also allows teachers and substitute teachers...
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Aesop's magic on stage
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/23/2008; 677 words
; New Straits Times 11-23-2008 Aesop's magic on stage Edition: New Sunday...with a new puppet extravaganza featuring Aesop's fables like The Boy Who Cried Wolf...children. His current repertoire includes Aesop's Fables, Animal Crackers, Mozart...
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Aesop Rock
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/15/2003; ; 548 words
; AESOP ROCK Bowery Ballroom October 4 THE SOUND...BY TA-NEHISICOATES At the beginning of Aesop Rock's October 4 Bowery set, El-P bopped...didn't spend the night engaging in it-at Aesop Rock's expense. On its own merits, Aesop...
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Labor Days; With his latest Def Jux release, Aesop Rock finds himself an unlikely role model
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 3/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...decade now, has been working under the name Aesop Rock -- his razor-tongued hip-hop...and a catalog of albums to his credit, Aesop is preparing for a U.S. tour in support...any artist, and the reason, today, for Aesop's rush to get home. "You can't just...
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Books: Shocking Aesop This version of the fables is a revelation, says Peter Jones
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/18/1998; ; 700+ words
; Aesop: The Complete Fables tr by Olivia and Robert...this ground-breaking new collection of Aesop's fables. Here is the animal kingdom revealed...surprise to those who have dim memories of Aesop as one of the greatest drips of all time...
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AESOP ROCK WEAVES WORDS INTO FABLED INDIE RAP CAREER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/28/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...during the fall in these parts, but when Aesop Rock takes the stage at the Paradise Wednesday...what you have to do." That's the way Aesop Rock has carved a niche for himself as...out of stress or negative situations," Aesop Rock says from his home. "Look at rock...
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Quia ego nominor leo: Barthes, stereotypes, and Aesop's animals.(Roland Barthes)(Foot in Mouth: Animals, Disease, and the Cannibal Complex)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Taking Barthes's discussion of Aesop's lion as a starting point, this essay...borrowed, he says, from the fables of Aesop. At the level of the linguistic system...this time concerning the importance of Aesop, of Latin, of grammar itself. We focus...
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Aesop opens London store and prepares for Switzerland.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)
Magazine article from: Cosmetics International; 5/2/2008; 700+ words
; Australian beauty company Aesop has opened its first standalone store...into UK standalone retail," said an Aesop spokesman. "It has a great neighbourhood...The store will present the entire Aesop range to UK consumers for the first time...
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Aesop
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Aesop (6th century bc ), Greek storyteller. The moral animal fables associated...popularized by the Roman poet Phaedrus, who translated some of them into Latin. Aesop is said to have lived as a slave on the island of Samos.
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Stevens, Janet 1953-
Book article from: Something About the Author
...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1982. Aesop, The Tortoise and the Hare, Holiday House...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1986. Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1988. Aesop, Androcles and the Lion, Holiday House...
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Battle of the Books, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...library and a bee that has got entangled in the spider's web. Aesop sums up the dispute: the spider is like the moderns who spin...bee is like the ancients who go to nature for their honey. Aesop's commentary rouses the books to fury, and they join battle...
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children's book illustration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...animated sketches by Toba Soja and the first English edition of Aesop's Fables, printed by William Caxton in 1484 and illustrated...on Mulberry Street (1937). Boris Artzybasheff illustrated Aesop and The Seven Simeons (both 1937) with bold woodcuts. In...
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Babrius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Babrius , fl. 2d cent.?, Greek fabulist, versifier of the fables of Aesop . Many of the medieval prose collections of Aesop were based on Babrius. He may have been a Hellenized Roman.
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