Search results for "Seventeen (novel)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- where he remained until the unusual age of seventeen and a half. He then entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself as a Greek ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- Perplexed of the Time) is divided into seventeen chapters, of which the ... thought, but they also introduced novel ideas which later became ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Our Times, "I personally like this novel [because] I do not think ... In 1961, Ōe's novellas Seventeen and The Death of a Political ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- 1488, after an absence of sixteen months and seventeen days. He had explored a total of about 2,030 km of unknown African coast. He originally ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- moved to Stoughton, Massachusetts, a town located seventeen miles south of Boston. Sherman's formal education did not extend beyond grammar school ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- the authorities. He published his first novel, Kapalkundala, in 1866, and ... regarded as the “father of the modern novel in India,” because his ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- both of whom tried to suppress it. The seventeen volumes of print and eleven ... The finished Encyclopédie consisted of seventeen volumes and eleven books ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- from ca. 253 until a few months before his death seventeen years later. Porphyry makes note that the Enneads, before being compiled and arranged by himself ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- For seventeen years, until 1528, Beatus spent much of his time at Bâle, directing the publication of the works of Erasmus. He was a loyal and ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over fourteen generations lasting 471 years (another theory 431 years). The legendary ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- on what he would be remembered for, the novel. His fine historical romance ... novels of all time. Thomas Mann praised the novel; its influence on Mann's ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- The middle of seventeen children, Son House was born in Riverton, two miles from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Around age eight, he was brought by ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- journalist, and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- . Zheng Meng is divided into seventeen chapters: 1) "The Great Harmony," 2) "The Triad and Dyad," 3) "The Dao of Heaven ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- At seventeen, despite her family's objections to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- by chance on September 12, 1940 by seventeen year-old Marcel Ravidat, accompanied by three of his friends: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- and W.K. Wright (eds.), Essays in Philosophy by Seventeen Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL: Open Court. ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
- court ranks, and in 604 he introduced the Seventeen-Article Constitution (憲法十七条 ... In 604, Prince Shotoku introduced the Seventeen-Article Constitution ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- Göktürk imperial capital, it sits seventeen kilometers north-to-northeast ... Erdene Zuu monastery had been built, some seventeen kilometers to the southeast ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- 15, 1877, on a farm in Johnson County, Indiana, seventeen miles southeast of Indianapolis. He was the twelfth of fourteen children. When he was 15, he ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- daughter of a wealthy father who died when she was seventeen. O'Neill's mother never recovered from the death of her second son, Edmund, who ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Henan is divided into seventeen prefecture-level divisions – all ... The seventeen prefecture-level divisions and one directly administered ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- the “four talents from Haining.” At seventeen he passed the imperial ... #039;s philosophy in his criticism of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- protect the best interests of former slaves. Seventeen hundred dollars were spent to help establish 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals, and provide homes and ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- to his art. He made a dramatic turn when, after seventeen years, his master Toyohiro died, and Hiroshige came out with the landscape series Views of ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- and, although he rejected the subsequent Seventeen Point Agreement for the ... encouraged the Dalai Lama to work on the Seventeen Point Agreement Tibet had ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- his wife and children for good. Gustav was just seventeen years old. His mother, Barbara packed all the children up and headed for Pennsylvania to be ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- from the college proper in 1807, when he was seventeen years of age. He then studied law and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1809. He practiced ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- the city were forced to pass through one of the seventeen gates, an effective method for protecting the city from invaders. ===Military === ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Murakami (Introduction), Jay Rubin. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics). Penguin Books Ltd., 2006. ISBN 9780143039846 ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- known for Invisible Man, his monumental novel on the state of race relations ... the typescript as it progressed. The novel immediately won the National ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- , pronounced Shwan-dzang, d. 664), who made a seventeen-year trip overland to India and back in the early Tang period. ==Journey to Srivijaya ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- with Gordy's sister, Anna Gordy, seventeen years Marvin's senior ... of jazz musician Slim Gaillard, and seventeen years Marvin's junior ...27 KB (4,247 words) - 08:37, 10 March 2023
- married Sophia Julian in 1867, at the age of seventeen, with whom he would eventually have twelve children. At his job and in his local union, Gompers ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- Seventeen members of the PRG and the PRA (army) were convicted. Fourteen were sentenced to death, eventually commuted to life imprisonment after ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- volumes of insight can be compressed into just seventeen syllables. His name and his legacy have virtually become synonymous with the word "haiku ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 16:53, 7 November 2022
- of Mary I) from 1554 to 1558, Lord of the Seventeen Provinces (holding various ... was jailed by the Inquisition for seventeen years merely for ideas ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the seventeen autonomous regions of the country. It contains eight distinct provinces, all with individual ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- team. He stayed in Mount Meigs until he was seventeen. After leaving the school, he sought work in professional baseball. Paige had considerable ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands ... In the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, Charles V established the Seventeen ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- Calatrava falling first. For the next seventeen years, the frontier between ... Alfonso was the subject for Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Die Jüdin ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- For the seventeen years he was an Irish landlord, Youghal became Raleigh ... * Raleigh plays an important part in Anthony Burgess' novel, ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- remains were at hand. He was only seventeen years and nine months old; ... 244, letter Ii.). Peter Ackroyd's 1987 novel Chatterton was an acclaimed ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- hospital in Leicester. In 1724 he published seventeen sermons, eleven of which had not before been printed. In 1727, on the death of Sir Isaac Newton ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- Spinelli, the author of the children's novel Stargirl, also included him ... champion, never counted to ten. Seventeen seconds passed before Liston ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Seventeen days after filming had completed on his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, with Hepburn, he died from heart failure at the ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- As of 2008, Kyoto University had ten Faculties, seventeen Graduate Schools, 13 Research Institutes, and 29 Research and Educational Centers. ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Archive of American Folk Music, and seventeen-year-old Lomax joined his father (and later the black writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- On his return to France he published his first novel, The Temptation ... to raise funds for the Republicans. A novel about his Spanish war experiences ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- returned to Lithuania. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, Levinas began his philosophical studies at Strasbourg University in France. It was there that ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- where it inheres. Kānāda identified seventeen qualities; another seven were added by Prashastapāda. They include spiritual as well as material ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- remained here until about the age of seventeen where he profited less ... No. 2 in B-flat major (D.125) and seventeen songs, which include such ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- to the Saturday Evening Post; the first of seventeen single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- sisters, who were between the ages of ten and seventeen and could apparently use telepathy to psychically identify an object that had been selected in ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- be summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End, "Only connect ... conductor, Mohammed el-Adl, a youth of seventeen with whom he fell in love ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- in Literature for 1920. His most famous novel, Hunger, describes the experiences ... up in poverty in Hamarøy in Nordland. At seventeen, he became an apprentice ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- The complete works of Uchimura consist of some fifty volumes; seventeen of primarily biblical studies, twenty-five volumes of theological works ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- time a flourishing art, at the age of seventeen, but had difficulty finding ... thirteen or older to use chokeholds, and seventeen or older, or hold the rank ...35 KB (5,636 words) - 09:00, 12 May 2024
- a naval officer or a priest, but at the age of seventeen, he decided on a military career, gaining a commission as a second lieutenant in the French ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- The principal feature of the room is the seventeen, mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen arcaded windows that overlook the gardens ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- music legend who had discovered the seventeen-year-old Billie Holiday in 1933, tracked down the forgotten Bessie Smith for a final recording ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- daughter successfully contrived to put her seventeen-year-old son on the Koryo throne as King Injong. Bill Caraway, Ibid. Yejong's Veritable ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- that partially submerged once it was loaded. Seventeen crew members opted to stay aboard the grounded Méduse. The captain and crew aboard the other ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- College de Navarre in Paris. Later at the age of seventeen he began studying theology. In 1606, King Henry IV nominated Richelieu to become Bishop of ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:14, 26 November 2023
- has not been definitively established; the next seventeen chapters deal with the Shang Dynasty and its collapse. The blame for this is placed on the ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- In 1762, an introspective youth of seventeen, he came to the local University ... that the Volk was not the rabble was a novel conception in this era, and ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- college at the age of 15. At the age of seventeen, he returned home to inform ... In 1976, Haley published Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. Griffith promised ... For the last seventeen years of his life Griffith lived more-or-less ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- as he did with the Berlin Philharmonic at age seventeen. Szell's work as a composer is virtually unknown today. In addition to writing original ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- No. 22), sits to the left of the larger stairway. Seventeen steps lead the pilgrim through Anyangmun (Peace Enhancing Gate, 안양문), the gate at the ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. ... cover many subjects. The majority of the seventeen later amendments stem from ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- Members may also join any of seventeen round tables that are grouped around more specific interests and issues than the broader set of ALA divisions. ...22 KB (3,187 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- of over one million. In 1869, the seventeen-year-old Emperor Meiji ... by the Meiji Restoration. In 1869, the seventeen-year-old Emperor Meiji ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- Mary Jane McLeod was the fifteenth of seventeen children to Samuel and Patsy MacIntosh McLeod on a South Carolina rice and cotton farm. McLeod ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- post-Han era nature poet of China. At seventeen, Yi began his study of the Confucian commentaries of the Song (Sung Dynasty; 宋朝) Neo-Confucian ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- :Tombs of the seventeen century and a collection of religious art are part of this exhibition. *House of Ecuadorian Culture *Municipal Museum ...19 KB (2,779 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- When he was seventeen, his mother died and his father's health had begun to fail. Watt traveled to Glasgow and was apprenticed to an optician ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- The seventeen main turbine-generator combinations at this powerhouse generate a maximum of 2,074 megawatts of hydroelectric power. All hydroelectric ...19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:41, 2 February 2024
- percent) represented the top domestic visitors. Seventeen percent of visitors were from outside the United States; the most prominently represented nations ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- sisters, who were between the ages of ten and seventeen and could apparently use telepathy to psychically identify an object that had been selected in ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- school with a gold medal at the age of seventeen. He entered the University of Moscow and initially studied medicine, then switched to law. Vygotsky ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- places, exists only in manuscript, "in seventeen enormous folios," at the Observatory of Paris. It was begun in 1792; and "the whole ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Committee approved O'Connor with seventeen votes in favor and one ... was perennial speculation over the next seventeen years that she might retire ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- Osmani International Airport in heavy fog. Seventeen of the 89 people on board were injured. The Fokker F28 was written off. [http://archive.thedailystar ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- the inspiration behind Daniel Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe. ... land mammals, reptiles, or amphibians. Seventeen land and sea-bird species ...22 KB (3,070 words) - 05:59, 10 May 2024
- desert is also home to many cultures including seventeen Native American cultures, as well as Latino, Chinese, Anglo, Arabic, and African immigrant cultures. ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- and king of Spain, the region was part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands, which also included most of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel Xiyou ji (Journey to the ... 6599-6), 7, 193. He became famous for his seventeen year trip to India, during ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- became a ward of his father's parents. At age seventeen, he left school to become more involved with his family's business. ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- the province is subdivided into seventeen regencies and four municipalities. Aceh has a long history of resistance to foreign control. Many Acehnese ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- In the seventeen months of the 'Tsarina's rule', from ... thesis/ "April Thesis,"] Seventeen Moments in Soviet History ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Hussein later wrote in his memoirs; "At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream. I would never be a schoolboy again."'Cable News ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- government felt intimidated by the seventeen-minute puppet film. Trnka took on modern issues in the film Cybernetic Grandma. Story of the Bass ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- in northeastern Somalia. The coup failed and seventeen alleged ringleaders, including Usmaan, were summarily executed. All but one of the executed ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- when he was middle-aged). At the age of seventeen, he entered the University of Leipzig as a student of medicine, perhaps to please his father ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- National Cultural Center on October 10, 1988, seventeen years after the Royal Opera House had been destroyed by fire. The National Cultural Center was ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- :*United Kingdom: seventeen entities :*United States: fourteen entities ; Miscellaneous: This category is for Antarctica and places in dispute ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
- to the presidency in 1998, he granted FARC seventeen thousand square miles of national territory to be used as a demilitarized zone. This was done ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- The seventeen prefecture-level divisions of Shandong are subdivided into 140 county-level divisions (49 districts, 31 county-level cities, and ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies. While in prison, Goldman ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
