Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 - 27 June 1942), whose birth name was Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. In total Bramah published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs; his detective stories with Conan Doyle; his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramahs book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. He created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah was a recluse who refused to allow his public even the slightest glimpse of his private life secrecy perhaps only matched by E.W. Hornung, the creator of Raffles, and J.D. Salinger.



[Kai Lung Golden Hours | Max Carrados | The Bunch Of Violets | The Game Played In The Dark | Four Max Carrodos Detective Stories | The Ghost At Massingham Mansions | The Holloway Flat Tragedy | The Ingenious Mr Spinola | The Knight Cross Signal Problem | The Last Exploit Of Harry The Actor | The Mystery Of The Poisoned Dish Of Mushrooms | The Tragedy At Brookbend Cottage]

Monday, July 27, 2009

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)

Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December c. 1820 - 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century."



[The Octoroon]


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Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie

Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 - October 25, 1971) was an American author.



[Gladiator]


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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a British historian, journalist and film director. He has published three books, and been published in numerous publications. In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of a documentary about the Guantanamo detainees. Worthington is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, a liberal weblog. Worthington has published what has been described as the most definitive annotated list of all Guantanamo detainee. In January 2010 he published the first annotated list of Bagram detainees. Worthington's most recent book is The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison. Following its publication in October 2007, Worthington has published articles supplementing the information in his book, to track new developments. Michelle Shephard, author of Guantanamo's Child, when summing up other books on Guantanamo, described his book as: "Perhaps the single most important book to cover the big picture of Guantanamo", even though he "has never even been to Guantanamo Bay. " Stephen Grey, writing in The New Statesman, called the book: "a powerful, essential and long-overdue piece of research". Worthington and Polly Nash co-directed Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, a 75 minute documentary. The film focusses on the cases of United Kingdom citizen Moazzam Begg, and Omar Deghayes and Shaker Aamer, legal residents of the UK. In addition to interviews with Begg and Deghayes, there are interviews with lawyers Clive Stafford Smith and Tom Wilner, and Worthington himself. The film first premiered at the Human Rights Film Festival in Oslo, Sweden, in February 2010. Worthington has made numerous radio and television appearances as a commentator on Guantanamo since the publication of the book. His two earlier books were: Stonehenge: Celebration & Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. The first book concerns modern celebrations at the ancient astronomical site, and the differing interpretations of modern celebrants. The second book concerns a large confrontation between police and new age celebrants traveling to Stonehenge on 1 June 1985. On June 16, 2009 Worthington revealed new information on the death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi a former US ghost prisoner who died in a Libyan jail. He described in particular the prisons in which al Libi was held, and the ways in which torture was used by his interrogators. Worthington reported that former Guantanamo detainee, United Kingdom resident, and citizen of Libya Omar Deghayes was his link to a source within Libya who had spoken with Al Libi prior to his death. Based on his Libyan source Worthington was able to offer a more detailed timeline of Al Libi's last years.



[The Splash Of A Drop]

Frank Johnson Goodnow

Frank Johnson Goodnow (1859-1939)

Frank Johnson Goodnow, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 18, 1859 - November 15, 1939) was an American educator and legal scholar, born in Brooklyn, New York.



[Companions Of The Corpse | Memphis Blues]

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Amber Reeves

Amber Reeves

Amber Reeves (1 July 1887 - 26 December 1981) was a British feminist writer and scholar. She is the daughter of Fabian feminist Maud Pember Reeves and New Zealand politician/social reformer William Pember Reeves.



[Bamboo Tales]

Friday, July 24, 2009

Mario Alberto Leon

Mario Alberto Leon

Mario Alberto Leon (born August 30, 1968, Tulancingo Hidalgo, Mexico) is a Mexican journalist and television executive. He is in charge of international news for Channel 40. He holds a licentiate in journalism.



[La Camicia Rossa]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Helen Gray Cone

Helen Gray Cone

Helen Gray Cone (March 8, 1859January 31, 1934) was a poet and professor of English literature. She spent her entire career at Hunter College in New York City.



[Ride To The Lady]


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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Johnston Mcculley

Johnston Mcculley

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Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 - November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Many of his novels and stories were written under the pseudonyms Harrison Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, and John Mack Stone, among others.



[The Curse Of Capistrano The Mark Of Zorro | Tragedy Trail]

J Frank Dobie

J Frank Dobie

James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888-September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. As a public figure, he was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and for his long personal war against what he saw as bragging Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and the assault of the mechanized world on the human spirit. He was also instrumental in the saving of the Texas Longhorn breed of cattle from extinction.



[Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest]


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Monday, July 20, 2009

Charles Butler

Charles Butler (1963-now)

Charles Butler is an English academic and author of children's fiction. Butler's works include: Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, ed. (Thoemmes, 1995) The Darkling (Orion, 1997) Timon's Tide (Orion, 1998) Calypso Dreaming (HarperCollins, 2002) The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004) Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006) The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006) Teaching Children's Fiction, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper (Scarecrow/ChLA, 2006). This book won one of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, for Myth and Fantasy Studies. Kiss of Death (Barrington Stoke, 2007) Hand of Blood (Barrington Stoke, 2009) Butler is the sibling of Martin Butler (composer) and the grandchild of Montagu C. Butler.



[The Life Of Hugo Grotius]


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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn (1864-1943)

Elinor Glyn (October 17, 1864 - September 23, 1943), born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She coined the use of It as a euphemism for sex appeal. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20th century popular culture, and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson.



[Beyond The Rocks | Elizabeth Visits America | Evangelines Genvordigheder | Halcyone | His Hour | Red Hair | The Damsel And The Sage | The Man And The Moment | The Price Of Things | The Reflections Of Ambrosine A Novel | The Reason Why | The Reflections Of Ambrosine | The Visits Of Elizabeth | Three Things | Three Weeks]


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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (September 22, 1790-July 9, 1870) was an American lawyer, minster, educator, and humorist, known for his book Georgia Scenes.



[Georgia Scenes]


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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Roel Kuiper

Roel Kuiper (1962-now)

Roelof (Roel) Kuiper (born 5 April 1962, Marinberg) is a Dutch historian, philosopher, ideologue, politician and university professor. He is a member of the Dutch Senate, and is professor of Reformational philosophy at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in the name of the Association for Reformational philosophy, teaching Society Issues at the Christelijke Hogeschool Ede and Gereformeerde Hogeschool Zwolle and Political and social philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).


A Kuiper's Books:


[Elsje | Een Heldin]


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Friday, July 17, 2009

David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan title=

David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and studied at Cornell University, Butler University, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. During 1885, he was named President of Indiana University, becoming the nation's youngest university president at age 34. During 1891, he became president of Stanford University, serving there as president until 1913 and chancellor until his retirement during 1916. Jordan served as a Director of the Sierra Club from 1892 to 1903. Although well regarded as an ichthyologist, Jordan was best known for being a peace activist. He argued that war was detrimental to the human species because it removed the strongest organisms from the gene pool. Jordan was president of the World Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914 and president of the World Peace Conference during 1915, and opposed U.S. involvement in World War I. During 1925, Jordan was an expert witness for the defense in the Scopes Trial. That same year, he was a listed member in the Bohemian Club and the University Club in San Francisco. He served as a member of the initial board of trustees of the Human Betterment Foundation, an eugenics organization established in Pasadena, California in 1928 in order to compile and distribute information about compulsory sterilization legislation in the United States, for the purposes of eugenics. Jordan's files are housed at Swarthmore College.



[California And The Californians | Life Enthusiasms | The Call Of The Twentieth Century | The Philosophy Of Despair | War Selection In The Ancient World]

Timothy Beal

Timothy Beal

Timothy K. Beal (1963-) is a writer and scholar in the field of religious studies whose work explores matters of religion and American culture, past and present. He is currently Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.


F L Beal's Books:


[Food Habits Of The Thrushes Of The United States]


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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) title=

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction". Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.



[The Assistant Murderer | Afraid Of A Gun | Bodies Piled Up | Death On Pine Street | Mike Alec Or Rufus | Night Shots | Nightmare Town | One Hour | Ruffian Wife | The Man Who Killed Dan Odams | The Second Story Angel | The Tenth Clew | Who Killed Bob Teal | Zigzags Of Treachery]

Courtney Bugler

Courtney Bugler

Courtney Bugler is an American television soap opera writer. She is also a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed in February 2006, at the age of 29.



[Armageddon And After]

Friday, July 10, 2009

Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnagey until 1922 and possibly somewhat later) (November 24, 1888 November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, a biography of Abraham Lincoln entitled Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.



[The Art Of Public Speaking]

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (26 December 1803 at the Jepere Manor in Kadrina, Lne-Viru County - 25 August 1882 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer and physician who is considered to be the father of Estonia's national literature.



[Ehstnische Merchen]


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Antonio Boto

Antonio Boto

Antnio Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet.



[Canes]

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Charles Francis Horne

Charles Francis Horne

Charles Francis Horne was an American author of books. He wrote or edited more than one hundred books, mostly multi-volume history works. He was a Professor of English at City College of New York. Among his most notable books were:



[Great Men And Famous Women Vol 1 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 2 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 3 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 4 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 5 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 6 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 7 | Great Men And Famous Women Vol 8]


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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 - 2 July 1778) was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the American Revolution and the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, Emile: or, On Education, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Hlose, was of great importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings: his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker were among the pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age. Rousseau also made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.



[Du Contrat Social Ou Principes Du Droit Politique | Emile Ou De Leducation | Les Confessions | Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire | The Confessions]


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Armando Alba Zambrana

Armando Alba Zambrana

Armando Alba Zambrana (1901-1974) was a Bolivian writer, journalist, historian and politician from Potos. He won the Premio Nacional de Cultura in 1969. He was an important member of Gesta Brbara and founded the Editorial Potos groups of writers



[Effeitos Do Hypnotismo]

Anthony Holden

Anthony Holden (1947-now)

Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British Royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales. He has also published translations of opera and Ancient Greek poetry as well as several autobiographical books about poker. In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP), whose proclaimed aim is to win poker legal recognition as a skilled mind-sport.



[A Gift For Terra | The Women Stealers Of Thrayx]

Henry Festing Jones

Henry Festing Jones

Henry Festing Jones (18511928) was the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. His biography of Butler, entitled Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (18351902) A Memoir, won the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 1919.



[Diversions In Sicily | Samuel Butler A Sketch | The Earl Of Essex]

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Charles Smith

Charles Smith

Charles Smith is an African-American playwright born in Chicago. Many of his plays consider political and historical themes from an African-American perspective. He is playwright-in-residence for Indiana Repertory Theatre, which commissioned his plays Les Trois Dumas and Sister Carrie, after the novel by Terre Haute, Indiana-born Theodore Dreiser.



[Journal Of A Trip To California]


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William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson title=

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka. Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publicationsand having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900. http://worldcat. org/identities/lccn-n88-661832http://worldcat. org/identities/lccn-n87-863357



[A Series Of Lessons In Gnani Yoga | A Series Of Lessons In Raja Yoga | Fourteen Lessons In Yogi Philosophy And Oriental Occultism | Mystic Christianity]

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Jack Vance

Jack Vance (1916-now)

Jack Vance (1916-now)

John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the WorldCon in Orlando, Florida; and in 1997 he was named a SFWA Grand Master. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literatures most distinctive and undervalued voices."



[Sjambak]


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William Hutton

William Hutton

William Hutton title=

William Hutton (30 September 1723 - 1815) was a poet and the first significant historian of Birmingham, England. A Unitarian nonconformist born in Derby, he went to school when five years old. Aged seven years he was employed in a Derby Silk Mill on a seven year apprenticeship. In 1737 he took a second apprenticeship as a stocking maker in Nottingham under his uncle. In 1746, after his uncle had died, he taught himself bookbinding, and three years later opened a shop in Southwell. This was not successful and he moved to Birmingham in 1750 and opened a small bookshop. He married Sarah Cock from Aston-on-Trent in 1755 and they had three sons and a daughter, Catherine Hutton (1756-1846), who became a writer. In 1756 he opened a paper warehouse the first in Birmingham which became profitable. He built a country house on Bennetts Hill in Washwood Heath, and bought a house in High Street. He published History of Birmingham in 1782 and was also elected as Fellow of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland (F. A. S. S.). He was elected overseer of the poor, and in 1787, to the Court of Requests, a small claims court for nineteen years, handling over 100,000 claims. Both his houses were destroyed in the Birmingham Riots in 1791 leading to his historical account in Narrative of the riots. He managed to recover 5,390 in a claim for damages against the town. He is generally held to be the first person in modern times to walk the entire length of Hadrian's Wall, producing an account of his 1801 journey in The History of the Roman Wall. Walking 600 miles from his Birmingham home, along the wall, and back home again, he wrote in the preface, "I have given a short sketch of my approach to this famous Bulwark; have described it as it appears in the present day, and stated my return. Perhaps, I am the first man that ever traveled the whole length of this Wall, and probably the last that will ever attempt it... ".



[The Church And The Barbarians]

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Elliott Donnell

Elliott Donnell

Elliott O'Donnell (February 27, 1872 - May 8, 1965) was an Irish author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figured covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by a mysterious phantom in Dublin. He claimed descent from Irish chieftains of ancient times, including Niall of the Nine Hostages (the King Arthur of Irish folklore) and Red Hugh, who fought the English in the sixteenth century. O'Donnell was educated at Clifton College, England, and Queen's Service Academy, Dublin, Ireland. In later life he became a ghost hunter, but first he traveled in America, working on a range in Oregon and becoming a policeman during the Chicago Railway Strike of 1894. Returning to England, he worked as a schoolmaster and trained for the theater. He served in the British army in World War I, and later acted on stage and in movies. His first book, written in his spare time, was a psychic thriller titled For Satan's Sake (1904). From this point onward, he became a writer. He wrote several popular novels but specialized in what were claimed as true stories of ghosts and hauntings. These were immensely popular, but his flamboyant style and amazing stories suggest that he embroidered fact with a romantic flair for fiction. As he became known as an authority on the supernatural, he was called upon as a ghost hunter. He also lectured and broadcast (radio and television) on the paranormal in Britain and the United States. In addition to his more than 50 books, he wrote scores of articles and stories for national newspapers and magazines. He claimed "I have investigated, sometimes alone, and sometimes with other people and the press, many cases of reputed hauntings. I believe in ghosts but am not a spiritualist. " In recent times his work has come into question by Scottish author Graeme Milne.



[British Werewolves | Scottish Ghost Stories]

August Blanche

August Blanche

August Blanche

August Blanche (September 17, 1811 November 30, 1868) was a Swedish journalist, novelist, and a Socialist statesman. August Theodor Blanche was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the illegitimate child of a servant girl and a priest. His mother eventually married Johan Jacob Blanck, a blacksmith and the boy took his stepfather's name. A brilliant student, in 1838 he obtained a law degree and for a time, worked as a civil servant until taking up journalism. In the early 1840s, he began writing plays for the theater as well as translating plays from foreign languages into Swedish. By the middle of the decade, he was writing novels and short stories of intrigue, all of which met with a great deal of success. An activist, in 1859 Blanche was elected to the Swedish Parliament where he served until 1866. He died of a heart attack two years later while participating in a public parade in Stockholm. August Blanche is interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.



[Kalle Saukko | Rikas Eno | Koston Henki]


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