Search results for "Epic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of years, with scorpion-folk depicted in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, among the earliest known works of literary fiction, and scorpions associated ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- the overcrowded 23 foot (7 m) open launch on an epic 47-day voyage first to Tofua and then to Timor equipped only with a sextant and a pocket watch ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- | title="Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter" cohen-dies.html Leonard Cohen, Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter, ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- Florida.Paul Schneider, Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing ... * Schneider, Paul. Brutal Journey: the epic story of the first crossing ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- serials such as The World We Live In and The Epic of Man in the early 1950s. The magazine was losing readers as the 1950s drew to a close. In ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 22:50, 25 October 2022
- India, the city of the hero Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana. U Thong assumed the royal name of Ramathibodi (1350-69) on March 4, 1351. He appointed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855-1931) wrote epic poems about Uruguayan history. Juana de Ibarbourou (1895–1979) and Delmira Agustini (1866-1914 ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- Cecil B. DeMille's sprawling frontier epic The Plainsman, his first of ... Cooper appeared in Cecil B. DeMille's epic adventure film Unconquered ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- poetry more seriously. He was especially drawn to epic poetry. At age 16, he wrote a poem that recounted the circumstances of Napoleon's defeat ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 16:49, 21 May 2024
- heroic. Pope applies Virgil's heroic and epic structure to the story of a young woman (Arabella Fermor) having a lock of hair snipped by an amorous ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- evolved from a yeoman bandit to a national hero of epic proportions, who not only supports the poor by taking from the rich, but heroically defends the ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- * Dennis Quaid in Wyatt Earp, in 1994, a detailed bio-epic of Wyatt Earp's life where Quaid plays a much drunk Doc Holliday, and a Doc Holliday ...32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
- form the trinity that translated the great epic Mahabharatha into Telugu. Bammera Potana, another renown poet from Orugallu (Now Warangal), became ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- For the Byzantines, the victory at Constantinople was an epic triumph; they had turned back the tide of Islamic expansion, ensuring the survival ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- with glottal vibrations, as well as now rare epic bards, who sing the tales of Gesar, Tibet's most popular hero. Tibetan music has influenced ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- * Leslie, Jacques. Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- of his own money to make Hell's Angels, an epic flying film depicting the air battles of World War I over Europe that ultimately became a smash ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- a force of knights won a decisive victory. This epic battle is the subject of the historical fiction, The Religion, by Tim Willocks. ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- of a special prologue for Michael Todd's epic production, Around the World in 80 Days. Although the prologue was generally omitted on telecasts ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
