You probably know who Marie Curie was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson.Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years? Jane Addams(1860-1935) Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to...
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…andLa Femme pauvre(1897;The Woman Who Was Poor), express his mystical conception of woman as the Holy Spirit and of love as a devouring fire. The eight volumes of hisJournal(written 1892–1917; complete edition published 1939) reveal him as a crusader of the absolute, launching onslaughts...
Says the Encyclopædia Britannica:“The late Nara period shows a stylistic shift, probably imitating a continental trend, toward more mannered depictions of drapery and a more stolid, fleshy form, conveying a brooding feeling. Typical is the rendering of a tight-fitting garment at the thighs ...
British Naval Intelligence Agent, Author of James Bond Working for the British Naval Intelligence, Ian Flemming first came to Jamaica during World War II, while on a mission to investigate U-boat activities in the Caribbean. In 1946, he purchased 15 acres of land, which was once a donkey ra...
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that they are “herbivorous algae eaters.” while Fishes of Australia describes their exciting superpower: “As a defence against predators, the Unicorn Crestfish can expel black fluid from around the anus.” Much better than farting rainbows. ...
is enough to disqualify it since we have the earlier account, but its popularity makes it an important source. To a large extent Foxe was simply a mouthpiece for the anti-Catholic sentiment in England at the time, and many sources dismiss its accuracy (Wikipedia,1911 Britannica,Catholic Encyclo...
Image Credit: Public Domain; Description: James Naismith with a basketball and a basket; Date: before 1939; Source: https://www.worldbook.com/then-and-now/Two-Peach-Baskets-and-a-Soccer-Ball ; https://www.conversecolombia.org/ ;...
Augé’s poems are commendable for their care, deep thought, and intellectual ambition”, while the Anna Livia Review said that “Fireproof is a remarkably strong debut into the world of short stories and will begin to build what is undoubtedly going to be a strong readership for the author...
Anne Rice was an American author famous for her Vampire Chronicles series and other supernatural novels. She was born Howard Allen O’Brien on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans, but she hated the name so much that she changed it to Anne in the first grade. Her early life was filled with...