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81Pessimism — Is the glass half empty or half full? The pessimist would pick half empty, while the optimist would choose half full. Pessimism, from the Latin word pessimus (worst), is a state of mind in which one perceives life negatively. Value judgments may… …
82Light in August — Infobox Book name = Light in August title orig = translator = image caption = Cover author = William Faulkner illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = subject = genre = realistic fiction publisher = Smith Haas pub date …
83Mimnermus — Mimnermos was one of several ancient, Greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was in fact a total solar eclipse of his home town, Smyrna, on April 6, 648 BC[1] His poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us …
84Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics — flow from his doctrine of the primacy of the Will as the thing in itself , the ground of life and all being; and from his judgment that the Will is evil. Schopenhauer held that art offered a way for people to temporarily escape servitude to the… …
85Pierre Bordage — (born January 1955, La Réorthe, Vendée, France) is a French science fiction author. He won the Cosmos 2000 prize in 1996 for his novel La Citadelle Hyponéros .Pierre Bordage is one of France s best selling science fiction writers. With more than… …
86Cigoli — The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Ludovico Cigoli. Lodovico Cardi (12 September 1559 – 18 June 1613), also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in… …
87The Kingdom (Elgar) — The Kingdom, op. 51, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar.It was first performed at the Birmingham Music Festival on October 3, 1906, with the orchestra conducted by the composer, and soloists Agnes Nicholls …
88Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence — The unfinished façade …
89Christopher Shaw (composer) — Christopher Shaw (30 July 1924, London – 27 September 1995, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, Scotland) was a British composer. He lived in London and wrote principally choral music, of which the most notable example may be the cantata Peter and the… …
90Francesco Denanto — was an Italian painter and engraver on wood of the Renaissance period. He was born in Savoy, but worked in Venice from 1440 to 1450, and is said to have been a disciple of Titian. Among other wood cuts by him, there is a large one representing… …
