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The Story of Rimini
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Asmodeus
Asmodeus , demon of Hebrew story. He plays an important role in the Book of Tobit.... Read more |
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Laban
Laban , in the Bible, father of Leah and Rachel and uncle of Jacob. The Nuzi tablets contain the stories of Laban and Jacob.... Read more |
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Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany, Jr. 1942– Science fiction and short story writer Read more |
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William Wymark Jacobs
William Wymark Jacobs 1863-1943, English author. His humorous sea stories were first collected in Many Cargoes (1896). Of his several horror stories, the most famous is "The Monkey's Paw."... Read more |
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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885-1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he... Read more |
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , 1814-73, Irish author. He spent his early career as a journalist. In 1863, he began producing a series of stories noted for their reflections of Irish life and supernatural, mysterious atmosphere. His two best works are the novels The House by the Churchyard (1863) and ... Read more |
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William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) Source S CULPTOR Legal Profession.As the son of a respected Supreme Court justice, William Wetmore Story appeared to be headed toward a distinguished career in law. But he became sidetracked from that profession... Read more |
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Bluebeard
Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her... Read more |
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Chopin, Fryderyk
...1849.Although Chopin's pf. mus. is beset with romantic stories and nicknames, he himself insisted on its existence only as absolute...minor, Op.21 (1829–30); Variations on Là ci darem la mano, Op.2 (1827); Grande Fantaisie on Polish Airs, Op.13... |
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Locating the Mano mask.(Cover story)
...seen an exhibition devoted to the face-masks of the Mano people in Liberia? Although there have been numerous...people, it is difficult to locate one focused on the Mano. Yet the Mano, residing in northeastern Liberia, were one of the... |
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The man who put working capital to work. (includes interview with American...
When American Standard faced recession and imminent bankruptcy in 1990, Chief Executive Mano Kampouris stumbled upon a model that would ultimately save the company. Without knowing it at the time, Kampouris prefigured... |
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The champ: going mano a mano with his own image, everyone's favorite...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] John Cusack gets right to the point: "Do you think you can hit the person you're interviewing?" Given that we're standing on a mat-covered floor beside a gym bag full of boxing gloves, his question is not theoretical. Outside the practice studio, one of several in the Malibu |
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'Mano Mano 3:' Ronnie Ricketts' tribute to a lost art, Arnis!(Entertainment)
...This is an entirely different story. It is a martial arts movie...the best among the three Mano Mano films because we were able to...him before to be the third "Mano Mano" movie was a police story that involved guns, heavy ... |
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Grand Mooncake Festival launched 'Mano Po 3'.(Entertainment)
...Mano Po 3, I knew it had to be it. Mano Po 3 tells the story of Lilia Chiong (Vilma Santos...hes back for the third and final Mano Po. (Erik Matti directed Mano Po 2) This time, Joel said, the story deals about the most ... |
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Mano en Mano's New Website Features Tools to Improve Nicaraguan...
...seasons. About Mano en Mano: Mano en Mano was founded in 2008 by Lauren Garcia...donations are tax deductible. Follow Mano en Mano on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube...manoenmano.org ### Read the full story ... |
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Voces con Eco: A Sample of Writing from Mano a Mano
Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders has hosted a weekly gathering of writers...group. The group recently produced a chapbook, Voces con Eco: Writing from Mano a Mano, which was launched through the Mexican Cultural Institute, a project... |
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Vilma's turn in 'Mano Po 3'.(Entertainment)
...certain high as an actress. At the Mano Po 3 launch/Mooncake Festival in...her constituents to do the final story in the Mano Po saga. (Vilmas last big screen...young Boyet and Vilma. If the first Mano Po was about family and the second... |
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Why Vilma accepted 'Mano Po 3'.(Entertainment)
...awarded film festival entry "Mano Po," Vilma Santos plays anew...role as Lilia Chiong Yang in "Mano Po 3" is another challenging...Mother Lily, who said the story is 99.5 percent her story...Santos for the lead role in "Mano Po 3." But at ... |
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Why Vilma accepted 'Mano Po 3'
...awarded filmfestival entry "Mano Po," Vilma Santos plays anew...role as Lilia Chiong Yang in "Mano Po 3" is another challengingassignment...Mother Lily, who said the story is 99.5 percent her story...Santos for the lead role in "Mano Po 3." ... |
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