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 ...
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  • Perplexed of the Time) is divided into seventeen chapters, of which the ... thought, but they also introduced novel ideas which later became ...
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  • Our Times, "I personally like this novel [because] I do not think ... In 1961, Ōe's novellas Seventeen and The Death of a Political ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • moved to Stoughton, Massachusetts, a town located seventeen miles south of Boston. Sherman's formal education did not extend beyond grammar school ...
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  • the authorities. He published his first novel, Kapalkundala, in 1866, and ... regarded as the “father of the modern novel in India,” because his ...
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  • both of whom tried to suppress it. The seventeen volumes of print and eleven ... The finished Encyclopédie consisted of seventeen volumes and eleven books ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over fourteen generations lasting 471 years (another theory 431 years). The legendary ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The middle of seventeen children, Son House was born in Riverton, two miles from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Around age eight, he was brought by ...
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  • journalist, and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...
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  • . Zheng Meng is divided into seventeen chapters: 1) "The Great Harmony," 2) "The Triad and Dyad," 3) "The Dao of Heaven ...
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  • At seventeen, despite her family's objections to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy ...
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  • by chance on September 12, 1940 by seventeen year-old Marcel Ravidat, accompanied by three of his friends: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and ...
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  • and W.K. Wright (eds.), Essays in Philosophy by Seventeen Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL: Open Court. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Göktürk imperial capital, it sits seventeen kilometers north-to-northeast ... Erdene Zuu monastery had been built, some seventeen kilometers to the southeast ...
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  • 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 ...
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