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This week in Jewish history
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Elli Wohlgelernter
Jerusalem Post
12-16-2001
Headline: This week in Jewish history
Byline: Elli Wohlgelernter
Edition; Daily
Section: Jewish World
Page: 07
Sunday, December 16, 2001 -- 1 Tevet
Plague of hail hits Egypt
King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylonia enters Jerusalem and sends King Jehoyachin and 10,000 Jews into captivity, 597 BCE
Esther is presented to King Ahasuerus
Ezra and the Jewish leaders meet to discuss intermarriage in Exile, 456 BCE
Yahrzeit of Manoel Fernandes Villareal, Portuguese soldier, diplomat, consul-general in Paris, executed (December 1) by the Inquisition of Lisbon, author ...
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"Trying to make contact": "Mortmain" as pre-text for Robert Penn Warren's Portrait of a Father.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
; ...opening sequence of Warren's poem "Mortmain," which he added as a kind of appendix...The title of the first section of "Mortmain" stresses contact--specifically and...reach back. The five-sectioned poem "Mortmain" was written long before Portrait of...
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Fatuous fiction; Overload of cliches kills tale of annoying writer and his family
Newspaper article from: Pacific Sun
; ...Resistance. In I Capture the Castle, Mortmain, the blocked writer, does nothing but...happen in this film that do not involve Mortmain directly, he's such a pain in the...didn't know how to write it down. Mortmain (Bill Nighy), who published a a highly...
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'Castle' handles romance with dash, style
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; I Capture the Castle (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)1/2 Cassandra Mortmain Romola Garai Rose Mortmain Rose Byrne Simon Cotton Henry Thomas Neil Cotton Marc Blucas James Mortmain Bill Nighy Topaz Mortmain Tara Fitzgerald Mrs. Cotton Sinead Cusack...
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Conflicts of the heart bittersweet in 'Castle'.(ARTS)(MOVIES)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...protagonist: 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, who describes how good fortune simultaneously...filmmakers settle on 1936, where we find the Mortmain sisters and their blessedly easygoing...the girls' than the father's. Mr. Mortmain has been luckier than he deserves with...
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Examining the Kiwi identity
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...characters in Corbalis's new novel, Mortmain, may have been sparked by distant memories...his family ran the farm. As a book, Mortmain defies exact analysis. More than a social...t care much for her first draft of Mortmain. So much so that she asked for it to...
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Who's the philosopher in the black? `By supporting the ref you get total detachment and involvement. You care about the game but not the winner'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...you." "Try us," we said. "Barry Mortmain," he said. There was a silence. Then...was the referee. His name was Barry Mortmain. I thought he was the only civilised...that the referee was going to be Barry Mortmain, so I thought I'd go along and support...
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The dead hand from beyond the grave
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; MORTMAIN by Judy Corbalis Chatto, ,16.99...Money lay at the heart of the Statute of Mortmain. Edward I passed the twin enactments...slump of the Thirties. The Statute of Mortmain provides a metaphor for the white settlers...
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Princess in the tower Cinema
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Cassandra's mother is dead, and her father Mortmain (Bill Nighy) is a writer who has been...wealthy, languid circle introduces the Mortmain family to a series of temptations and...writer's muse, snarls jealously of Mortmain's new patroness: "I knew it - she...
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Queen of the castle; She's at it again. Rob Driscoll finds out why serial disrober Tara Fitzgerald got naked in Wales for her latest part.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...outside world, with their oddball father Mortmain (Bill Nighy) and their beautiful...former artists' model and second wife to Mortmain, whose first wife died. When their...Tara . ``She lives to inspire, and Mortmain's increasingly prolonged case of writer...
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What to read to... cure writer's block Bibliotherapy
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...17-year-old narrator, Cassandra Mortmain, lives with her family in a dilapidated...who was attempting to intervene - Mr Mortmain has become reclusive, veering from silence...was then, and doubtless older than Mr Mortmain - I understand the difficulties of trying...
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