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Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...

uses a loose alliterative scheme. The Pearl Poet uses one of the most ... of several Middle English poems by the Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green ...

) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...

Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...

symbolic and allegoric themes that draw the viewer into the same state ... Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, the art critic W ...

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... The Torres Strait Islanders are a sea-faring people. They have been ...

music albums recorded between 1966 and 1970. The first two with the San Francisco ... 1949, and a brother, Michael Ross in 1953. The family belonged to the Churches ...

French cuisine and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families ... acclaim for her 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...

Czeslaw Milosz (June 30, 1911 - August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet ... A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ...

Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in ... It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic ...

John Gower (c.1330–October 1408) was an English poet who is remembered ... the works of Chaucer, Langland, and The Pearl Poet as one of the great works ...

, 772–846) was a poet of the T'ang dynasty (618–907) in China ... survival. Two of his most famous works are the long narrative poems Song ...

"Talking boards" came into existence during the late 1800s ... ==Precursors to the Ouija== ===Ancient Ouija Boards?=== ...

Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family ... The swan is one of the largest, fastest swimming, and fastest flying ...

The Partition of Bengal in 1947 divided Bengal into the two separate ... The government of Bengal supported a unified, independent Bengal as ...

; April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was a French poet, journalist ... officer, Alfred Dreyfus. He also supported the Russian Revolution. He died ...

October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat ... Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet—also wrote major literary ...

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet—also wrote major literary ...

was a Soviet novelist and playwright of the first half of the twentieth ... Mikhail Bulgakov was born in 1891 in Kiev, Ukraine, the oldest son ...

Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... The novel is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the members ...

Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (London ... und der französischen Revolution," in The Middle East and Europe: Encounters ...

4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...

he only discovered his literary gifts in the folktale genre at the age ... resigned in 1775 and died in 1779, leaving the family destitute. A few years ...

Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... Bahrain was the first location in the region in which oil reserves ...

American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the ... eye, and with only very limited vision in the other. He played piano from ...

in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of ... cultural traditions and introduced them to the West. His witty, sharp analysis ...

genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ... and Aram Khachaturian, Prokofiev was one of the innovators and leading composers ...

– April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, ... Wilson - Sargent was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the ...

an American psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology ... and students of psychology to appreciate the spiritual dimension of human ...

Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious ... The term "pantheism" is a relatively recent one, first used ...

Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time ... To the extent that history is continuous and not generalized, all ...

) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... roads and expressways passing through the city. The opening of the First ...

by various empires and ethnic groups. By the mid-thirteenth century, a ... Southeast Asia, artists typically followed the styles and aesthetic conventions ...

define love more precisely, as living for the sake of another, motivated ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...

regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ...

The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ... The empire's legacy includes many monuments spread over South ...

American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, and actor. The author of ... In 1965, Nelson moved to RCA Victor Records and joined the Grand Ole ...

The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... algae, plants, fungi, and animals, lives in the sea, which offers a wide range ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor ... and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence ...

French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...

Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...

Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have ... : 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote = Of the four literary Dravidian languages ...

work in and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity ... In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... Germany was unified as a nation state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. ...