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Fountain Pen
Fountain Pen Background Humans have used various instruments to convey thoughts and feelings. Man's first writing instrument was his finger, using it to form symbols in the dirt. Later, pieces of metal or bone were used. Ancient Greeks used a stylus to mark on wax-coated... Read more |
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William of Champeaux
William of Champeaux , c.1070-1121, French scholastic philosopher. William studied and taught in Paris. In 1109 he founded the monastic school of St. Victor, which later became famous. From 1113 until his death he was bishop of Châlons-en-Champagne. Although very little of his writings has... Read more |
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William Ernest Hocking
William Ernest Hocking 1873-1966, American idealist philosopher, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1901; Ph.D., 1904). He was professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1914 until his retirement in 1943. His writings, which emphasize in particular the religious aspects of philosophy, include The... Read more |
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William Kennedy
William Kennedy 1928-, American novelist, b. Albany, N.Y., grad. Siena College, 1949. Brought up in Albany, he worked as a journalist from 1949 to 1970, and began to concentrate on writing fiction in the early 1960s. In evocative prose, with vivid characterizations and acutely observed dialog,... Read more |
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William King (poet)
William King 1663-1712, English poet. He supported the Tory and High Church party. He is noted for his humorous and satirical writings, which include Dialogues of the Dead (attacks against Richard Bentley, pub. 1699) and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1709).... Read more |
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Charles Booth
Charles Booth 1840-1916, English social investigator, pioneer in developing the social survey method. Aided by the notable social scientist Beatrice Potter Webb , he made an exhaustive statistical study of poverty in London, showing its extent, causes, and location. This was published as Life and... Read more |
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Louis Braille
Louis Braille , 1809?-1852, French inventor of the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Having become blind from an accident at the age of 3, he was admitted at 10 to the Institution nationale des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. Later he taught there. In order to make his instruction... Read more |
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Israel Regardie
Regardie, (Francis) Israel (1907-1985) Ritual magician, student of Aleister Crowley, and later a chiropractor who utilized the thought of Wilhelm Reich in his work. He was born in England on November 17, 1907, but emigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. He discovered the... Read more |
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William Inge
William Inge , 1913-73, American playwright, b. Independence, Kans., grad. Univ. of Kansas, 1935. He was a teacher and newspaper critic before he won recognition as a dramatist. Inge's plays portray sympathetically the aspirations and frustrations of small-town life in the Midwest. Come Back,... Read more |
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Clinton-Reviled Author Ed Klein Becomes An Issue.(TheFrontPage)
...s college-age lesbian exploits...nonfiction book-writing career has...Onassis and the Kennedy family. (His 2003 entry, The Kennedy Curse, made...approaches his subjects as...answering them comes after. ... |
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This summer's reading list. (recommended books)
...Byatt's writing is extravagant...Cappadora at his mother's...where he and his wife honeymooned...time. Was it his longtime lover...school to middle age, with a parallel...She slowly comes to terms with...CORSAGE, by ... |
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THE 10 LIES ABOUT COMPUTERS
...the view of William Kennedy, executive...Information Age Technology...businesses. And Kennedy has a sense...struggles ahead. His institute...fare, which comes to $840 a...people like Kennedy can ... |
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Ten lies about computers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
...the view of William Kennedy, executive...Information Age Technology...businesses. And Kennedy has a sense...struggles ahead. His institute...fare, which comes to $840 a...people like Kennedy can ... |
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Damages in Age Bias Cases Taxable, High Court Rules; Decision Effectively...
...damages won for an age discrimination...Tax Court, comes when the nation...Paul Stevens, writing for the court...age of 60 or his being laid off on account of his age as the proximate cause of ... |
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Star-spangled 'events' usher in the fall ; Stephen King's book on JFK among...
...Potter's all-ages fantasy throne...of John F. Kennedy by Stephen...survival. "Here Comes Trouble: Stories...available). His publisher is...Shoes" by William Kennedy (Viking...Shore." "The Age of ... |
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Hometown Hero - Joyce Carol Oates explores the teenage world, with all its...
...in creative writing. Book Info...for murdering his mother's lover...eventually does. His real life turns...landscape as William Faulkner's...and William Kennedy's Albany...looking for their ages.") The ... |
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That new-time religion
...certainly enjoyed writing it." Barnhardt...professor and his young woman...notions when it comes to religion...dad estimates his daughter...Africa Dr. William Kennedy Smith spent...as part of his ... |
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Collection by Clarke examines life's ghosts
...died at the age of one of...narrator tells his wife that...phone calls to his lover while...reality hits it comes like a firestorm...s fiction comes draped in...It keeps his writing close to ... |
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Reviewer Presents His Favorite Summer Reading
...included in his original draft...novels, Death Comes for the Archbishop...a book that comes as close as...taking along William Kennedy's novel The...addition to his fictional recreation...the last Ice Age, ... |
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