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TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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Oscar Wilde said that we are all in the gutter but some of us are
looking at the stars. Boris Pasternak, it seems, was in the gutter
looking at the gutter. The name for the hero of his great romantic
novel, Doctor Zhivago, came from a drain. At least, it did according
to Olga Ivinskaya, his mistress (who spent eight years in labour
camps, from 1949-53 and 1960-64, solely due to her association with
him), writing in her 1979 ...
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The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present, and Future1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
; ...Forkl and Karl Peter Thunberg, the first field taxonomists to visit Asia, and the pioneering insect taxonomist Johan Christian Fabricius. The systematic exploration of the biosphere had begun, in what today can legitimately be called the Linnaean...
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