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41David Hofstein — (Yiddish: דוד האָפשטיין Dovid Hofshteyn, Russian: Давид Гофштейн; 1889 August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Ukraine, Russian Empire and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to the Kiev University was declined.… …
42The Seekers (book) — Infobox Book name = The Seekers author = Daniel Boorstin country = United States language = English cover artist = Bernard Klein series = subject = History publisher = Random House release date = 1998 media type = Print (hardcover pages = 298… …
43Li Shenzhi — Li Zhenzhi (李慎之; 1923 2003) was a prominent Chinese social scientist and public intellectual. For long a trusted spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party, he rose to become Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Dismissed… …
44Lady Florence Dixie — Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (24 May 1855 ndash; 7 November 1905) was a British traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist.Dixie was a sister of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, who gave his name to the rules of boxing and who brought down …
45Roman historiography — History= The History of Roman HistoriographyRoman Historiography is indebted to the Greeks, who invented the form. The Romans had great models to base their works upon, such as Herodotus and Thucydides. Roman historiographical forms are different …
46Domenico Dragonetti — Domenico Dragonetti, Altersporträt um 1840 Zeitgenössische Lithographie nach einem Gemälde von W. F. Rosenberg Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (* 7. April 1763 in Venedig; † 16. April 1846 in London), genannt il Drago (ital.; der Drache) …
47adulate — adulation, n. adulator, n. adulatory /aj euh leuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /aj euh layt /, v.t., adulated, adulating. to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely. [1770 80; back formation from adulation, ME < MF < L… …
48laudatory — laudatorily, adv. /law deuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker s laudatory remarks. Also, laudative. [1545 55; < LL laudatorius, equiv. to lauda(re) to LAUD + torius TORY1] Syn. adulatory,… …
49Genet, Jean — born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France died April 15, 1986, Paris French novelist and dramatist. An illegitimate child abandoned by his mother, Genet began to write while imprisoned for burglary. His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers (1944),… …
50Visistadvaita — Principal school of Vedanta. Its seminal figure was Ramanuja, the first Vedanta thinker to establish as the cornerstone of his system the identification of a personal God with the Brahman of the Upanishads. For him, soul and matter depended on… …
