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111David Bevington — David Martin Bevington (born May 13, 1931) is an American literary scholar. He is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught… …
112Subliminal self — The phrase subliminal self, which is one that has figured largely of recent years in discussions of the problems of Psychical Research, owes its wide currency to the writings of FWH Myers, especially to his posthumous work Human Personality and… …
113A Vindication of the Rights of Men — A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a political pamphlet, written by the eighteenth century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft …
114Pro Marcello — 51 BCSPEECH IN BEHALF OF MARCUS CLAUDIUS MARCELLUSby Marcus Tullius Cicerotranslated by Charles Duke Yonge, A.B.THE ARGUMENT Marcus Claudius Marcellus was descended from the most illustrious families at Rome, and had been consul with Servius… …
115Pietro Giordani — (January 1 1774 – September 2 1848) was an Italian writer, classical literary scholar, and a close friend of, and influence on, Giacomo Leopardi. Biography Born in Piacenza, Giordani originally set out to become a monk. But after having entered… …
116Sid Waddell — (born August 10, 1940 in Alnwick, Northumberland) is a British born Geordie commentator and television personality. The son of a Northumberland miner, he attended King Edward VI School (KEVI), Morpeth, and he went on to obtain a scholarship to St …
117Saint Apollinaris — Infobox Saint name=Saint Apollinaris birth date=c. 453 death date=c. 520 feast day= venerated in=Roman Catholic Church imagesize= caption= birth place=Vienne death place=Valence titles= beatified date= beatified place= beatified by= canonized… …
118Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde — Already a respected lawyers in Paris, Claude François Chauveau Lagarde (Chartres 1756 – Paris 1841) came into the public spotlight in the early stages of the French Revolution. In 1789, at the outset, when the Estates General were convoked, he… …
119Reform and the Reformers — is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. The essay was never published in his lifetime, and has been cobbled together from existing lecture notes that Thoreau himself picked over for his other writings, such as Walden and A Week on the Concord …
120Assembly of the French clergy — The Assembly of the French Clergy ( Assemblée du Clergé de France ) was in its origins a representative meeting of the Clergy of France, held every five years, for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the clergy of the… …
