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poet. Baratynsky was a leading figure in the rise of Russian poetry ... accessory's uncle. After three years in the countryside and deep emotional ...

The extant versions of her poems are in a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi ... They are in the bhakti tradition, and most passionately praised Lord ...

, 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主 ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...

One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century English literary ... Frank Raymond Leavis was born in Cambridge, England on the July 14 ...

the other modernists, becoming a master of poetry that was both rigorously ... living at a time of immense transition both in the world at large and in the ...

associated with the Modernist school of poetry, and he was greatly influenced ... In contrast to Eliot, who gave up his American citizenship to become ...

first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Though ... Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. Some ...

Guillaume Apollinaire (in French ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ who is known to have directed French poetry into new contemporary directions ...

large state of Uttar Pradesh (fourth largest in India). As such, she led the ... Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad, India as the eldest daughter ...

Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of ... Boccaccio's poetry would be some of the most widely influential ...

of an embassy of 570 delegates from Japan in 717 and remained there until ... period and worked as intellectual leaders in Japan. However, Nakamaro, for ...

novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. he probed humanity's fragility in a violent world. ...

she came from a family without any sons. (In Joseon Korean culture, the ... Shin Saimdang (1504-1551) was born in the village of Bukpyong, Kangneung ...

the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized by an exuberant ... felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty. ...

7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India, as well as the last ... is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this language of his day, some ...

Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language ... of priests an Estonian grammar was printed in German in 1637. ...

Rimbaud's poetry is notable for its highly experimental, revolutionary ... free verse into the foreground of European poetry. Although he was considered ...

and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ... She was already well-known in Poland, but became better known internationally ...

and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Zenji is a title meaning ... to be the best philosophical work written in the Japanese language. To this ...

Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... were considered to be dire faults in a poem), or even of line. Instead ...

representative of the modern (muhdath) poetry that developed during the ... Abu Nuwas was born in the province of Ahvaz (modern Khuzestan Province ...

Russian Formalism and Phenomenology (such as in the work of Edmund Husserl ... Best known for his four-volume work Studies in Human Time, Poulet ...

the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. A revered ... She developed a soft vocabulary in the Hindi poetry of Khadi Boli ...

Russian Futurism began roughly in the early 1910s; in 1912, a year ... Pushkin and Dostoevsky, according to A Slap in the Face of Public taste, should ...

fighting both racism and black patriarchy in the setting of the American South. ... Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers ...

was a key member of the New York School of poetry. O'Hara was a poet and ... reader to experience life as O'Hara did in New York. ...

Shimazaki Haruki, a Japanese author, active in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa ... himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. He was ...

(南北朝): the Liang Dynasty (梁朝) in southern China, the Northern ... up working on farms or tending to horses in the stable if they were not ...

Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian writings, such as ... The topic of kenosis was revived in the nineteenth century to reinterpret ...

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978, Kyoto — c. 1014 or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese ... The Tale of Genji and to a central character in the novel. ...

(a form of Lord Krishna), the supreme God in Vaishnavism. He is especially ... ways, and was often cheated and humiliated in dealings with the public. His ...

Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ... the world's languages and have appeared in various formats. The Persian ...

and spirit harp, the aeolian harp originated in ancient Greece. The instrument ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...

and studying at some of the leading schools in the Muslim world at the time ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...

Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France ... (1194-1253). She is considered a pioneer in the field of women's education ...

1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s. In her lifetime ... Maria Lokhvitskaya was born on November 19, 1869 in Saint Petersburg ...

romantic elements into literature, especially poetry. Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...

critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... makes him one of the most protean figures in French literature. He left ...

a language capable of poetic greatness, and in the process instituted many ... realism, nuance, and characterization found in Chaucer. Ezra Pound famously ...

one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror ... He won almost every major fantasy fiction award in existence, this ...

both his spiritual and colonial roots in his writing. He received the ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...

from 1976 to 1977. Despite being ousted in a Marxist coup, Mancham returned ... businessman, sent James to law school in England. He also studied at ...

where he remained a figure at the court in the 780s and 790s. He wrote ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...

poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the ... except what can be inferred from his poetry and plays. His works cannot ...

poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing ... play "Lorenzaccio" uses the events in sixteenth century Florence ...

writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists ... verse novel) are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth ...

of new materials are important ways in which unique cultural expressions ... Folklore generally refers to the body of material, in a variety of ...

not been the subject of literature or the arts in general. ... ==Socialist realism in the Soviet Union== Socialist realism was the ...

or 1837Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater ... He traveled throughout West Asia and France in his youth, and after some medical ...

(北海, present day Weifang, Shandong). In 196, he was defeated by Yuan ... a new dimension and vitality to scholarly poetry by introducing plaintive ...

Best known for his introspective poetry and writings on the growth ... John of the Cross was canonized as a saint in 1762 by Pope Benedict ...

of the Arabic novel and drama, especially in the adaptation of the literary ... Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born on October 9, 1898, in Ramleh city ...

In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration ... of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of many ...

novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements in confessional poetry building ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...

a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...

A Greek contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century B.C.E ... stories from the ancient world circulated in vernacular European languages ...

political cartoons and caricatures for Punch in the late nineteenth century ... Tenniel is best remembered today for his illustrations in Lewis Carroll ...

American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays ... the sexes and the distribution of power in society, biological and gender ...

of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition ... and orientalist Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence ...

was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto ... and siblings converted to Roman Catholicism in 1763, he took the name Lorenzo ...

Early on in his college days, Kerouac embraced a bohemian lifestyle ... Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922 with ...

as the primary route to secure positions in the government or military. of imperial China, the gwageo first appeared in Unified Silla, gained importance ...

Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... of non-Japanese haiku. Senryu is a similar poetry form that emphasizes humor ...

Since 1961, she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 novels, 10 books of non ... love of nature born of her early experiences in the wilderness of northern ...

Muhammad bin Suleyman (also spelled in various sources as Muhammad ... ), was a sixteenth-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani ...

commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions around the world ... Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred in 269 C.E ...

1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice ... )Charlotte Vaudeville, "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion ...

Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel ... group around Ezra Pound, the Imagists. In 1911, Pound introduced Hilda ...

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... of the cherished ideals of Western society. In the wake of the Industrial ...

his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers ... Gérard Labrunie was born in Paris on May 22, 1808.Gérard Cogez, ...

and affected every aspect of culture in Europe, including philosophy ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...

Rhodes is an island situated in the eastern Aegean Sea. It lies approximately ... resisted an attack by a powerful army in the aftermath of the division ...

philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America ... Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism ...

genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-exile Jewish culture and ... from the centuries following the Exile in Babylon down to the close of ...

the Victorian era. Her novels, set largely in provincial England, are well ... her works were taken seriously. At the time in England, female authors published ...

language. Khlebnikov was an early pioneer in Russia, but Kharms quickly ... Like most of the modernists, Kharms saw the Russian Revolutions in ...

of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way ... The term was first coined in 1917 by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij ...

movement. The Slavophile movement originated in Moscow in the 1830s. Drawing ... purity of the Russian language had something in common with aesthetic views ...

of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts ... quot; was first popularized by Gaston Paris in 1883, and has since come under ...

or former nomadic lifestyle. Reductions in their grazing ranges and increases ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...

Imperial University (九州帝国大学) in Japan in his youth. After returning ... In 1966, Guo Moruo was forced to give "self-criticism" under ...

Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for ...

a British social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...

Kingship and the beginning of English rule in Ireland, which continued until 1922. Henry II also settled some of his barons in Ireland, beginning a settlement ...

the early Chola kings of the Sangam age in South India, was the son of ... Karikala's Chola garnered great wealth in trade with the Roman ...

known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges ... Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ...

Following a cultured, middle-class upbringing in New York City, during ... In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, Morocco, and his wife, Jane Bowles ...

In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of ... Hellenic Ares, but between them, Mars stood in much higher esteem. ...

appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known ... Myths and speculations about Saint Germain began to be widespread ...

for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published ... 11 fairy tales. All his tales were written in prose with a moral at the end. ...

work on the British radical movements in the late eighteenth and early ... the role of class, elitism, and culture in the construction of history ...

prodigy who produced commissioned portraits in her early teens. She later ... Kauffmann also lived in England and Italy, and she spoke French, German ...

[[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... are among the oldest surviving writings in any language. ...

writers, and musicians who came together in the bloody third century C ... The Seven Sages’ life of retirement in the countryside became a ...

religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story ... and by the time she met Dmitri Merezhkovsky in 1888, she was already a published ...

but it was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called ... ==People in the culture== [[Image:Everyday Life in Old China 13.jpg ...

auth234 George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03 ... is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world ...

poet, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded ... After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice ...

were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition, though ... sources for much of Western fiction, poetry, film and visual art. Greek ...

could be explained by organic changes in the body and brain. This provoked ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...

c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during ... organization, its profound interest in human origins, in the question ...

), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in ... de Lamartine was a more moderate politician in revolutionary times. He was ...

) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ... Each Surah is named for a word or name mentioned in an ayah (section ...

theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. In his early career, he founded ... Viktor Shklovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was ...

the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the fifth century until the ... " England also became embroiled in a series of European wars and ...

Compiled from Finnish and Karelian folklore in the nineteenth century by Elias ... of the bardic hero-shaman Väinämöinen in his quest for a mate, together ...

W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...

In Greek mythology, Lamia was a Queen of Libya who became a child ... In later writings she is pluralized into many lamiai. The Roman equestrian ...

artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed ... The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout ...

German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late ... object of cognition and the a priori forms in the faculties of the mind. ...

from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche in the nineteenth century, and ... 039;s ideas were refined and carried forward in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger ...

anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home ... Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry had been included in Griswold's ...

of which he later donated to the university. In 1636, he became the first Laudian ... use of primary sources as well as field-work in Muslim contexts. His defense ...

De Stijl (in English, generally də ˈstaɪl , after style; from the ... ), also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded ...

The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ... In contrast to this, the members of the College focused on "Sacred ...

Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) ("Chattopadhyay" in ... revival of Bengal. His writings awakened in the Bengalis a spirit of self ...

Native American people who originally lived in the valley of the Río Yaqui ... successive expeditions of conquistadores in battle. However, they were ...

has been described as the first true empire in world history. It was a flourishing ... but the Empire was an important bridge in the development of the culture ...

with the use of signs or symbols. It is in principle the representation ... and vowels that are used to spell words, in more or less phonetic fashion. ...

Scots, while Ivanhoe (1820) was influential in renewing interest in the Middle ... both the great and the ordinary caught up in historic conflicts between ...

A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or ... Today, in addition to ranch work, some cowboys work in and participate ...

He spent 35 years writing his great Epic in Tus. When the Sultan, Mahmud ... and beauty of Persian, he succeeded in transcending the particularity ...

and diverse output included journalism, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics ... He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations ...

of the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and ... Beginning in the late 1930s, Chandler's work helped to refine ...

André Breton (in French ɑ̃dʀe bʀəˈtɔ̃ surrealism, a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s centered in Paris. ...

movement that marked a turning point in the cultural history of India ... Dasa and Kanaka Dasa played a leading role in propagating Haridasa using ...

Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Sanremo, at that time in the Republic ... In 1644, the Marquis Cornelio Malvasia, who was a senator of Bologna ...

furthered the cause of human rights early in the twentieth century. He is ... Clarence Seward Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, on April 18, 1857 ...

translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[http://www.irishtimes ... Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably ...

Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word ... "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority ...

Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in ... The prosperity of the city is based on maritime trade. In the Middle ...

Empire. He oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the ... welcomed the return to constitutional rule. In 1918, at the time of his death ...

[[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... person who is well educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects ...

the West Country and north-east Hampshire. In addition to his literary body ... Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819 in Holne Vicarage, near ...

of the Korean War. The 1988 Olympics in South Korea marked a phenomenal ... brought many changes to Korean's lives. In the past, most people lived ...

Restoration comedy is the name given to comedies written and performed ... point for literary freedom of expression in monarchial England. Censorship ...

memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, the first poet to make ...

one of the Pueblo peoples, most of whom live in the Pueblo of Zuñi on the ... farming supplemented by hunting and fishing, in harmony with nature. Their ...

lucrative but disrupted the lives in the communities they ravished ... a criticism of any coercive payment, whether in money or kind. It resembled ...

and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Occurring during the ... The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be ...

an Indian yogi and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation ... of the Bible was unique for someone raised in the Hindu tradition, and he ...

In spiritualism, the term Medium refers to a person with a psychic ... for advice; necromancy was also common. In eighteenth century Europe, ...

Tamil literature refers to literature in the Tamil language. Tamil ... and philosophical nature were written in a style that made it easier ...

In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) ... The Twelve Olympians, led by Zeus, overthrew the Titans in the Titanomachy ...

a high standard of public morality that few in the movie industry could match ... Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Brendan ...

over 15 years during the 1920s and 1930s. In her later career, she focused ... She grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire, after ...

among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery ... As these liturgical dramas increased in popularity, vernacular forms ...

quot;) is an institution of great importance in Tibetan Buddhism, whose incumbent ... In addition to his supreme religious and temporal authority, the Dalai ...

The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's ... In mythology, Prometheus is the entity who stole fire from the gods ...

Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man ... a signatory of Emile Zola's manifesto in support of Jewish naval officer ...

are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction ... Like Victor Hugo, Doyle became increasingly interested in spiritualism ...

poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the ... and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He was inducted into ...

the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his Passion ... The holiday is celebrated with processions in which Christians carry ...

or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information ... Abstraction in philosophy is the process of forming a concept by identifying ...

a distinction between God and the Creation in order to avoid the Neoplatonist ... fil-tibb), which was translated into Latin in the twelfth century, and was ...

gaana) is a traditional dance drama popular in the coastal districts and adjacent ... Yakshagana enjoys great popularity in predominantly rural areas of ...

a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life ... of Poe's writings appears to have roots in his life. Born Edgar Poe in ...

Gennadios II Scholarios or Gennadius II (in Greek, Γεννάδιος ... Aristotelian thought, and compositions in liturgy, ethics, and poetry ...

(1110 - May 1, 1171) was a King of Leinster in Ireland. Ousted as King of ... In this view, MacMurrough shares some of the blame for Ireland's ...

and may lead to inability to function in society. Promotion of mental ... In general terms, mental health involves the successful performance ...

American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-twentieth ... the first Jewish professor to receive tenure in the Department of English. ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Abraham Maslow was the first of seven ... Goodman, an artist, on December 31, 1928. In The Last Interview of Abraham ...

Its original texts were written in Koine Greek by various authors ... The term New Testament came into use in the second century during ...

for humanity's search for meaning in the modern world. for nature, Merton recognized commonalities in the contemplative traditions ...

As a young man, he spent six years in exile working closely with fellow ... #039;s new theory and policy of Socialism in one country. Together, Bukharin ...

intended to be an artist, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There ... , Nina (1858) and Julian (1867), were born in Moore Hall, near Lough Carra ...

trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of ... prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval. ...

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UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened ... UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, and Prince of Asturias ...

to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 ... of the faith founded by the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. There ...

Whewell identified two opposite elements in every act of knowledge, which ... by suggesting that God created the universe in accordance with certain “Divine ...

the meaning of rituals and their symbolism in this context. Through developing ... containing religious or spiritual components in the referents of the symbolism ...

King Atrahasis is listed in the Sumerian king list as one of the monarchs ... B.C.E. The Atrahasis story also exists in a later fragmentary Assyrian ...

The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the ... bond. They lived for thousands of years in close relationship to the natural ...

universal feelings and impulsions of life in concrete, definite form." ... Romantic music is related to romanticism in literature, visual arts ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos ... . The Labyrinth on Crete in which the Minotaur was kept was also created ...

, which appears in the aorist tense; the present tense stem ... In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the period ...

Utility, in a philosophical context, refers to what is good for a ... Classical utilitarianism has its historical origins in seventeenth ...

Samhain (pronounced /ˈsɑːwɪn/ SAH-win or /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/ SOW-in ... from the name of the month SAMON[IOS] in the ancient Celtic calendar ...

Traditionally, the haggis is cooked in a sheep's stomach, rather ... The haggis is an example of human ingenuity in using every part of ...

became not just drinks to accompany meals in homes or restaurants, but a ... be agreed upon, to the formal tea ceremony in Japan, the serving of tea has ...

Bertha von Suttner), born June 9, 1843 in Prague (now Czech Republic ... President of the International Peace Bureau in Geneva, having served as a ...

theater of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles ... a sometimes grotesque parody of that mindset in his Ubu Roi plays; in addition ...

She was married to actor Ossie Davis until his death in 2005. Dee began her acting career on the Broadway stage before appearing ...

subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), logic ... beginning of "modern" philosophy in the Western world is typically ...

to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy. His most ... of science, Bachelard asserted, consisted in the formation and establishment ...

1943) was a Russian-born composer who later in life became an American citizen ... While his reputation as a composer only came later in life, Rachmaninoff ...

of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language ...

a British-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions ... Although she was not given leading roles in screen productions for ...

conductor. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America ... of Music remained his passion until his death in 1990. Commenting on ...

Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story ... Robin Hood is based on a historical figure. In popular culture Robin Hood ...

and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and ... Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at ...

) and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Observances traditionally ... Year’s Eve has always been a family matter in China. It is the reunion day ...

India, commonly referred to as Manilal in literary circles. He was an ... Yuga, or "Scholar Era" – a time in which Gujarati writers explored ...

different gamelan are not interchangeable. In Indonesia, gamelan usually ... Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records, and instead ...

and their demure conversation. Evolving in the mid-eighteenth century ... The geisha saw their peak numbers in the 1920s, with over 80,000 practicing ...

In a figurative sense, a tragedy (from Classical Greek τραγωδία ... change to bad fortune which he undergoes in not due to any moral defect ...

Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...

he called "dephlogisticated air" in his determination to defend ... Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, in Fieldhead, a village ...

A sari or saree is the traditional female garment in India, Bangladesh ... it is the part thrown over the shoulder in the Nivi style of draping. ...

or good or noteworthy are not beautiful in any usual or reasonable sense ... philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science ...

[[Image:Totem_Park_pole_1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|A totem pole located ... Derived from the term "ototeman" in the Ojibwe language ...

Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located ... In the New Testament, Samaritans were despised by the Judean Jews; ...

(bishop) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the thirteenth century. He ... represent compendia of the state of learning in these fields at the time. Most ...

Music. Traditional music in Korea has been based on the voice, a distinct ... of breathing rather than the heartbeat as in most Western music, creating ...

from medieval Christian that spread widely in Europe in the thirteenth century ... The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different ...

that study human aspects of the world, in particular those involving ... and goals are located much further back in time. Human beings have always ...

Stewart Mill worked for most of his life in the examiner’s office of ... different types of happiness. As a logician, in A System of Logic, Mill describes ...

was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded ... of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment ...

of the twentieth century. Her apartment in Moscow is designated a national ... Ulanova studied in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) under Agrippina ...

The etymological origins of the word (in Greek διά　(diá,through ... existence and elaborated its implications in a broad range of subjects including ...

lived, wrote, and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was a noted poet ... the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with ...

books, and films have been produced in Europe and the United States ... Arthurian writing reached its conclusion in Thomas Mallory's comprehensive ...

widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the ... Shakespeare was born and lived in Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1585 until ...

coined the term "Surrealism" in the program notes describing ... Frenchman André Breton, was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism ...

and maintained the last nomadic empire in East Turkestan (now known as ... Russia, gained the support of the Dalai Lama in Tibet, established a universal ...

Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight ... Greer was born in Melbourne in 1939, growing up in the bayside suburb ...

the last period covers diverse developments in philosophy, which includes ... during the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.E. in ancient Greece. These philosophers ...

the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... day Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded ...

) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in ... Hula as it evolved under Western influence, in the nineteenth and twentieth ...

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was born on December 22, 1883 ... orchestral work was Rhapsodie romane, in the year of 1906, having been ...

Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...

outlaw and gunman who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. ... green decorative band. He was little known in his own lifetime but was catapulted ...

writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... recognize their own dreams and aspirations in those of other times and places ...

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