Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Brenda Maddox

Brenda Maddox

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Brenda Maddox is an American author, journalist, and biographer, who has lived in the UK since 1959. Born in Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, she graduated from Harvard University (class of 1953) with a degree in English literature and also studied at the London School of Economics. She is a book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly contributes to BBC Radio 4 as a critic and commentator.



[Gravitys Angel | Halo | Snake Eyes | The Mind Like A Strange Balloon | The Robot And The One You Love]

Monday, June 28, 2010

Andrew Crozier

Andrew Crozier

Andrew Thomas Knights Crozier (July 26, 1943 - April 3, 2008) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. Crozier was educated at Dulwich College, and later Christ's College, Cambridge. He was co-editor of the important Revival magazine The English Intelligencer and his collected poems, All Where Each Is was published in 1985. He has also edited the poems of Carl Rakosi and John Rodker.



[The Cauliflower]


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Euripides

Euripides (480-406)

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Euripides (ca. 480 BC 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his. Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of Athenian tragedy by portraying strong female characters and intelligent slaves and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology. His plays seem modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries, focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences.



[Alcestis | Hippolytusthe Bacchae | The Electra Of Euripides | Andromache | Hecuba | Helen | Heracles | Iphigenia At Aulis | Iphigenia In Tauris | Medea Hecuba Hippolytus The Trojan Women The Bacchantes | Orestes | Rhesus | The Cyclops | The Heracleidae | The Phoenissae]

William Allen Neilson

William Allen Neilson

William Allan Neilson (18691946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939. He was born in Doune, Scotland. He taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1898 to 1900, Harvard from 1900 to 1904, Columbia from 1904 to 1906, and Harvard again from 1906 to 1917. He wrote on poetry and William Shakespeare and was the editor of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934).



[Robert Burns]

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Alun Buffry

Alun Buffry (1950-now)

Alun Buffry (born 1950) in Barry, South Wales, is a cannabis and human rights campaigner. He is associated with the Legalise Cannabis Alliance once a political party of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2006, when it deregistered and became a pressure group. He received a BSC Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, and Dip Com (open) from the Open University.


Alun's Books:


[Gwaith Alun]

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Cliff Temple

Cliff Temple

Cliff Temple was a leading UK athletics journalist, author, commentator and coach. For many years he was the athletics correspondent of The Sunday Times. He was the son of science fiction author William F. Temple and brother of Anne Patrizio MBE, a leading campaigner for the rights of LGBT people and their parents.


E Temple's Books:


[The New York Tunnel Extension Of The Pennsylvania Railroad]


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Charles Francis Adams Jr

Charles Francis Adams Jr (1835-1915)

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Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 - May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.



[The Transgressors | Songs Of The Army Of The Night]

Thursday, June 24, 2010

William Dawson College President

William Dawson College President

Reverend William Dawson (17041752) was the second president of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. A graduate of the Queen's College at Oxford University, Dawson ran the College from 17431752. He is also the brother of Thomas Dawson, who was the fourth president of William & Mary (17551760).



[The Empire Of Love | The Quest Of The Simple Life]

Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill (1957-1995)

Essex Hemphill (1957 - 1995) was an American poet and activist. He was a 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts.



[Living History]


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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

George H Smith Fiction

George H Smith Fiction

George H. Smith (October 27, 1922 - May 22, 1996) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, a libertarian writer, or George O. Smith, another science fiction writer.



[Benefactor | The Ordeal Of Colonel Johns]

Dominic Cotton

Dominic Cotton

Dominic Cotton, is an English sports reporter and correspondent, presently on BBC News. Born in Cheshire but moving to London when he was two, Cotton trained and worked as an actor, gaining parts on The Bill and in London's West End theatre. After two years he undertook a post-graduate diploma at the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University, and started his broadcast career as a regional news reporter in Plymouth for the BBC in 1995.



[The Loom Of Life]


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Arthur Guy Empey

Arthur Guy Empey

Arthur Guy Empey

Arthur Guy Empey was a soldier in both the British and American armies of World War I who later reinvented himself as an author, screenwriter, actor and prolific author of pulp fiction.



[Over The Top]


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Monday, June 21, 2010

Alex James

Alex James (1968-now)

Alex James (1968-now)

Alex James (born Steven Alexander James on 21 November 1968) is an English musician, songwriter and journalist best known as the bass player and occasional vocalist of band Blur. He has also played with temporary bands, Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.



[The Shining Cow]


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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Ed Smith Cricketer

Ed Smith Cricketer

Edward Thomas Smith, is an English author and journalist, and former professional cricketer.



[Memoirs Of A Southerner | The Pocket George Borrow By George Borrow | Windsor Castle]


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William Martin Beauchamp

William Martin Beauchamp

William Martin Beauchamp

William Martin Beauchamp (March 18301925) was an American ethnologist and Episcopal clergyman. He published several works on the archeology and ethnology of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in New York.



[The Book Of Sports]


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Friday, June 18, 2010

Alexander Lange Johnson

Alexander Lange Johnson

Alexander Lange Johnson (1910 - 1989) was a Norwegian priest, resistance member during World War II, bishop to Hamar, and biographer. He was born in Antsirab, Madagascar. He played a leading role in the Norwegian civil resistance during the German occupation of Norway, being a member of the Coordination Committee, and later also Hjemmefrontens Ledelse. He was a bishop to the diocese of Hamar from 1964 to 1974. He wrote a biography on Eivind Berggrav in 1959.



[Getting Gold]


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John Dalberg Acton

John Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)

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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 - 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.



[A Lecture On The Study Of History | Lectures On Modern History]

Alice Mabel Bacon

Alice Mabel Bacon

Alice Mabel Bacon (February 6, 1858 - May 1, 1918) American writer on Japanese life and customs born in New Haven, Connecticut to Leonard Bacon and Catherine Terry.



[Japanese Girls And Women]


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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Saki

Saki (1870-1916)

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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 13 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window" may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon. In addition to his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was the custom of the time, and then collected into several volumes) he also wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice, and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion of Britain. He was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, and himself influenced A. A. Milne, Nol Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.


Saki's Books:


[Beasts And Super Beasts | The Chronicles Of Clovis]


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Benjamin Franklin Cocker

Benjamin Franklin Cocker

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as a writer and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first American ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical and democratic values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat. " To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin, "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become. " Franklin, always proud of his working class roots, became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies. He became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin gained international renown as a scientists for his famous experiments in electricity and for his many inventions, especially the lightning rod. He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society. Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. for many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network. He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania (officially, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania). Toward the end of his life, he sold his slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists. His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money; warships; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.



[Christianity And Greek Philosophy]


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Monday, June 14, 2010

Barnabas

Barnabas

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Saint Barnabas, born Joseph, was an Early Christian convert, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. Like almost all Christians at the time, Barnabas was one of the Children of Israel, specifically a Levite. Named an apostle in Acts 14:14, he and Saint Paul undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts against the demands of stricter church leaders. They gained many converts in Antioch (c 43-44), traveled together making more converts (c 45-47), and participated in the Council of Jerusalem (c 50). Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the "God-fearing" gentiles who attended synagogues in various Hellenized cities of Anatolia.. Barnabas' story appears in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul mentions him in some of his epistles. Tertullian named him as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, but this and other attributions are conjecture. Clement of Alexandria ascribed an early Christian epistle to Barnabas, but that is highly improbable. Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in AD 61, he is traditionally identified as the founder of the Cypriot Church. The feast day of St Barnabas is celebrated on June 11. Some traditions hold that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas.


Barnabas's Books:


[The Epistle Of Barnabas]

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Lise Reclus

Lise Reclus (1830-1905)

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lise Reclus (March 15, 1830 - July 4, 1905), also known as Jacques lise Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle Gographie universelle, la terre et les hommes over a period of nearly 20 years (1875 1894). In 1892 he was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite his having been banished from France because of his political activism.



[Nouvelle Geographie Universelle V1]

Raymond Beazley

Raymond Beazley

Sir Charles Raymond Beazley (1868 1955) was a British historian. He was Professor of History at the University of Birmingham from 1909-1933. He was educated at St Paul's School, King's College London and Balliol College, Oxford. His academic career was as a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, until his chair at Birmingham.



[Prince Henry The Navigator]

Friday, June 11, 2010

David Masson

David Masson

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David Masson (2 December 1822 - 6 October 1907), was a Scottish writer. He was born in Aberdeen, and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen. Intending to enter the Church, he proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he studied theology under Dr Thomas Chalmers, with whom he remained friendly until the latter's death in 1847. However, abandoning his aspirations to the ministry, be returned to Aberdeen to undertake the editorship of the Banner, a weekly paper devoted to the advocacy of Free Kirk principles. After two years he resigned this post and went back to Edinburgh to pursue a purely literary career. There he wrote a great deal, contributing to Fraser's Magazine, Dublin University Magazine (in which appeared his essays on Thomas Chatterton) and other periodicals. In 1847 he went to London, where he found wider scope for his energy and knowledge. He was secretary (1851-1852) of the "Society of the Friends of Italy. " In a famous interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Florence he contested her admiration for Napoleon III. He had known Thomas de Quincey, whose biography he contributed in 1878 to the "English Men of Letters" series, and he was an enthusiastic friend and admirer of Thomas Carlyle. In 1852 he was appointed professor of English literature at University College, London, in succession to A H Clough, and from 1858 to 1865 he edited the newly established Macmillan's Magazine. In 1865 he was selected for the chair of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh, and during the early years of his professorship actively promoted the movement for the university education of women. In 1879 he became editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, and in 1893 was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland. Two years later he resigned his professorship. In 1896 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner. By 1900 he was Chairman of the Scottish History Society. When he first arrived in Edinburgh in 1865, Masson lived in Rosebery Crescent, then he lived at 10 Regent Terrace from 1869 to 1882 before moving to Great King Street. Among the friends who used to visit him were the famous philosopher John Stuart Mill and the historian Thomas Carlyle. A bust of Masson was presented to the senate of the university of Edinburgh in 1897. Professor Masson had married Emily Rosaline Orme in London on 17th August 1854. Their son, David Orme Masson, became the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne, and their daughter Rosaline was known as a writer and novelist.



[The Life Of John Milton Vol 3 1643 1649]

Thursday, June 10, 2010

William Mackergo Taylor

William Mackergo Taylor

William Mackergo Taylor (1829 - 1895) was an American Congregational minister, born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. He graduated at the University of Glasgow (1849), and at the divinity hall of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh (1852). He was pastor of churches in Britain till 1872 (for 17 years one in Liverpool). He entered the United States where he became pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational), in New York till 1893 when a paralytic stroke caused his retirement.



[Scenes And Adventures In Affghanistan]


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Wm Robert Wright

Wm Robert Wright (1935-now)

William Robert Wright (born 1935) (goes by Robert Wright) is an American attorney and biographer of David O. McKay. With Gregory Prince, he is the co-author of the book David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, which was named the 2006 Best Biography by the Mormon History Association.



[Adventures And Recollections]


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Alexander Gordon Unitarian

Alexander Gordon Unitarian

Alexander Gordon (18411931) was an English Unitarian minister and religious historian. A prolific contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography, he wrote for it well over seven hundred articles dealing mainly with nonconformists.


A Gordon's Books:


[The Ministry Of The Spirit]

Alexandre Herculano

Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877)

Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877)

Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Arajo (born March 28, 1810 in Lisbon - died September 13, 1877 in Santarm), was a Portuguese novelist and historian. Born of humble stock, his grandfather was a foreman stonemason in the royal employ.



[Lendas E Narrativas | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo 06 | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo 08 | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo I | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo Ii | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo Iv | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo Ix | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo V | Opsculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo Vii | Poesias | A Harpa Do Crente | Lendas E Narrativas tomo I | Opusculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo 03 | Opusculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo 06 | Opusculos Por Alexandre Herculano Tomo 08]


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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves (22 July 1846 - 27 December 1931), was an Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector (HMI). His first marriage to Jane Cooper, eldest daughter of James Cooper of Cooper Hill, Co. Limerick, resulted in five children: the journalist Philip Graves, Mary, Richard, Alfred, and Susan.



[A Celtic Psaltery]


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Monday, June 7, 2010

Clark Gregg

Clark Gregg (1962-now)

Clark Gregg (1962-now) title=

Clark Gregg (born April 2, 1962) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He co-starred as Christine Campbell's ex-husband Richard in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, which debuted in early 2006.


E Gregg's Books:


[How To Tie Flies]

Thursday, June 3, 2010

William Minto

William Minto

William Minto (10 October 1845 - 1 March 1893), Scottish man of letters, was born at Auchintoul, Aberdeenshire. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and spent a year at Merton College, Oxford. He was assistant professor under Alexander Bain at Aberdeen for some years; from 1874 to 1878 he edited the Examiner, and in 1880 he was made full professor of logic



[Daniel Defoe]

James Charles Wall

James Charles Wall

James Charles Wall (AKA J. Charles Wall, J. C. Wall) was a British ecclesiologist, historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the late 19th and early 20th century. He wrote many books, mainly on Church history, and was an early contributor to the Victoria History of the Counties of England magazine.



[History Of The Early Part Of The Reign Of James The Second | History Of James The Second]

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Demosthenes Philalethes

Demosthenes Philalethes

Demosthenes Philalethes (Gr. ) was an ancient Greek physician of Asia Minor who was one of the pupils of Alexander Philalethes, a contemporary of Aristoxenus, and a follower of the teachings of Herophilos. He succeeded Alexander as the head of the Herophilean school of medicine in Carura. He probably lived around the beginning of the 1st century, and was especially celebrated for his skill as an oculist.



[The Olynthiacs And The Phillippics Of Demothenes | The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Vol 1 | The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Vol 2 | The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Volume 1 | The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Volume 2]