Sunday, May 9, 2010

David N Livingstone

David N Livingstone (1953-now)

David N. Livingstone (born 15 March 1953), OBE, MRIA, FBA, AcSS, MAE, is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, at Queen's University Belfast.



[Travels And Researches In South Africa]


Tags: hugh clifford  mack reynolds  charles major  harriet beecher stowe  alexis de tocqueville  daniel clark  william forbes mitchell  monette cummings  from the papers of thomas jefferson  

Guilherme De Vasconcelos Abreu

Guilherme De Vasconcelos Abreu

Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu (1842-1917) was a Portuguese writer, map maker and orientalist.



[Bases Da Ortografia Portuguesa]

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Emily Henrietta Hickey

Emily Henrietta Hickey

Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1923) was an Irish author and narrative poet from County Wexford. Hickey wrote about religion after converting to Catholicism in 1901. One of her better-known poems is Beloved, It Is Morn.



[Our Catholic Heritage In English Literature Of Pre Conquest]


Tags: christian furchtegott gellert  heinrich von kleist  garrett putnam serviss  corra harris  herman bang  frances brooke  british museum  c clifford  jerome bixby  

Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844-14 November 1916) was an English theologian and church historian. He was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Cambridge in 1891, retiring in 1912.



[The Arian Controversy]

Enrico Castelnuovo

Enrico Castelnuovo

Enrico Castelnuovo (February 12, 1839 February 16, 1915) was an Italian writer who had an active role in the Italian unification movement. He was the father of Guido Castelnuovo.



[Dal Primo Piano Alla Soffitta | I Coniugi Varedo | Il Fallo Duna Donna Onesta | Nella Lotta]

Friday, May 7, 2010

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Fernando Pessa, (April 15, 1902 - April 29, 2002) was a Portuguese journalist and reporter. Early in 2002, Pessa was hailed as the world's oldest journalist. He joined Portugal's state radio in 1934, and covered World War II for BBC radio, for which he was subsequently appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George VI. Pessa later launched Portugal's national radio and TV service in the 1940s and 1950s.



[Antinous A Poem | Orpheu N2 | 35 Sonnets]


Tags: alfredo descragnolle taunay  william mcombie  j smeaton chase  fletcher pratt  a w stirling  friedrich gerstacker  ek jarvis  francis harper  charles beard