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Adelaide Crapsey
Crapsey, Adelaide (1878–1914), author of a slender volume, Verse (1915), written in the last year of her brief life. Of her fastidious poetry, the best‐known pieces are her cinquains, a stark metrical form of her own invention, resembling the Japanese haiku. The cinquain is a precise... Read more |
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren Maya Deren (1917-1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker, documentarian, author, and Voudoun priestess, to name a few. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades following her death. Deren was a... Read more |
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Brief for Appellee
Brief for Appellee In the Supreme Court of the United StatesNo. 78–18, 1971 Term Jane Roe, John Doe, Mary Doe, and James Hubert Hallford, M.D. Appellants,vs.Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas Appellee. On Direct Appeal from the United States District Court for the... Read more |
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Brief
BRIEF A summary of the important points of a longer document. An abstract of a published judicial opinion prepared by a law student as part of an assignment in the case method study of law. A written document drawn up by an attorney for a party in a lawsuit or by a party himself or herself... Read more |
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Amicus Curiae
AMICUS CURIAE Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its... Read more |
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John Gay
John Gay 1685-1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple, Devon. Educated at the local grammar school, he was apprenticed to a silk mercer for a brief time before commencing his literary career in London. The first of his writings to have any real merit were the mock pastoral, The Shepherd's... Read more |
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Joseph Justus Scaliger
Joseph Justus Scaliger , 1540-1609, French classical scholar. He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, from whom he acquired his early mastery of Latin. He adopted Protestantism in 1562, served as companion of a Poitevin noble (1563-70), studied under Cujas at Valence (1570-72), and was professor... Read more |
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Brief for Appellant
Brief for Appellant In the Supreme Court of the United StatesOctober Term, 1970No. ….. JANE ROE, JOHN DOE, AND MARY DOE, APPELLANTS,JAMES HUBERT HALLFORD, M.D., APPELLANT-INTERVENOR,V.HENRY WADE, APPELLEE.ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF... Read more |
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F Anstey
Anstey, F., the pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934), author of many novels and stories of fantasy and magic, and comic sketches. They include Vice Versa (1882), Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1891), The Brass Bottle (1900), and In Brief Authority (1915).... Read more |
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battle of Pyramids
battle of Pyramids July, 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, battle fought between the French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and the Egyptian Mamluks led by Murad Bey. Napoleon's victory gave the French access to Cairo and brief control over Egypt .... Read more |
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Clinical governance; a guide to implementation for healthcare professionals,...
...Paperback RA399 McSherry (nursing and practice development, Teesside U., UK) and Pearce (governance, NHS North Yorkshire and...implications, barriers to implementation, and impact. This edition has been updated to incorporate a more integrated approach... |
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Back to the drawing board It's time to reassess Basil Spence, who's been...
...last night's thorough, even-handed edition of Artworks Scotland - a most watchable...money maintaining it. There was also a brief contemporary shot of one of Sir Basil...Starring a most likeable cast led by bumbling Teesside mirth- deity Mark Benton, it bills itself... |