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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges , 1899-1986, Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b. Buenos Aires. Borges has been widely hailed as the foremost contemporary Spanish-American writer. He was educated in Switzerland and afterward lived in Spain, where he became an exponent of ultraísmo, a poetic... Read more |
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bestiary
bestiary , a type of medieval book that was widely popular, particularly from the 12th to 14th cent. The bestiary presumed to describe the animals of the world and to show what human traits they severally exemplify. The bestiaries are the source of a bewildering array of fabulous beasts and of many... Read more |
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Victor Borge
Victor Borge Musical Comedian For the Record… The Beginnings of a Comedic Calling Forced to Flee A Danish Comedian Reinvents Himself Sets a World Record Selected discography Read more |
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Borg-Warner Automotive Inc
Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc. 200 South Michigan AvenueChicago, Illinois 60604U.S.A.Telephone: (312) 322-8500Fax: (312) 461-0507Web site: http://www.bwauto.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1987Employees: 10,100Sales: $1.84 billion (1998)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: BWANAIC: 336350... Read more |
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novel
novel in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief. Although the novel has a place in the literatures of all nations, this article concentrates on the... Read more |
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Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia , city (1991 pop. 124,151), Chubut prov., S Argentina, on the Gulf of San Jorge, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The major center of oil production in Argentina, it is connected by a 1,100-mi (1,770-km) pipeline with Buenos Aires. A government-owned corporation runs the oil wells.... Read more |
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Bjorn Borg
Bjorn Borg 1956- Swedish tennis player One of the best all-time performers in tennis history, Swedish player Bjorn Borg won 62 singles titles, including 11 Grand Slam titles, and was ranked number one in the world in 1979 and 1980. With his powerful two-handed backhand, menacing... Read more |
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Moreno
Moreno city (1991 pop. 287,188), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a residential and district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. The district was the scene of several major battles during the Argentine War of Independence and the mid-19th-century unitarian-federalist... Read more |
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San Isidro
San Isidro , city (1991 pop. 299,022), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. San Isidro grew around a chapel built in 1706. The city is known for its cathedral and historical museums. It has light industry.... Read more |
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Sightless seer of Buenos Aires; Jorge Luis Borges.(Borges: A Life)(Book Review)
...housekeeper in a poky Buenos Aires flat until she died...writing of Jorge Luis Borges tells us about the...political naivety, Borges had a nobler vision...he idealised the Buenos Aires underworld--its...his mid-50s, ... |
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Edna Aizenberg. Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff, and...
...Jewish social and cultural presence in Buenos Aires, because it is Aizenberg's position...in an "alien tongue," Yiddish (Buenos Aires as a site of Yiddish cultural production...from the Argentine canon, such as Borges and Gerchunoff, and on ... |
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Alberto Manguel, the author of, among other books, A History of Reading, was...
...serving as a clerk in a Buenos Aires bookstore when he was picked up by Jorge Luis Borges. Not for any nefarious...may be sure, but because Borges was blind and needed someone...him. Manguel says: "Borges used people as his notepads... |
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Books: The place to disappear Amanda Hopkinson celebrates a city composed of...
...has its Virgil: Buenos Aires has Jorge Luis Borges." For Borges...always will be in Buenos Aires." For Borges, the power of memory...drove many of Buenos Aires's most ... |
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Data on kidneys discussed by researchers at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.
...Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (see also Kidneys). The researchers...Daels, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Dept. of Urology, Borges 640, RA-1636 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina. Publisher... |
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Buenos Aires, esa desconocida; sus calles, plazas y monumentos
...Jorge Oscar Canido Borges. Buenos Aires, esa desconocida...extenso de este Buenos Aires, avalarán nuestro...diremos que Canido Borges dispuso para su tarea...este cuadro de Buenos Aires, esa ... |
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William Boyd sends. . .Six Postcards from Buenos Aires
...architecture itself that demands a serious tour. Jorge Luis Borges Borges is to Buenos Aires what James Joyce is to Dublin. If you've read Borges and love him (as I do) you wander this enormous... |
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A Century of Jorge Luis Borges
...A Century of Jorge Luis Borges BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP...Jose Sulich, a clerk at a Buenos Aires bookstore where Borges used to give readings in...age years in Europe, Borges returned to ... |
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Borges and tango: imagining Argentina.(Jorge Luis Borges)
...century. It is to Buenos Aires what jazz is to New...mythic heritage, as Borges indicates in his poem "Fundacion mitica de Buenos Aires": A piano sent forth...Young Jorge Luis Borges, returning to Buenos ... |
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Georgie: 1899-1930: una vida de Jorge Luis Borges/Jorge Luis Borges
Review Essay: "Borges" Vaccaro, Alejandro. Georgie. 1899-1930: una vida de Jorge Luis Borges. Buenos Aires: Editorial Proa/Alberto Casares...7-5 Josef, Bella. Jorge Luis Borges. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Francisco... |
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