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20 hours ago · Angela Yvonne Davis(born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxistand feministpolitical activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousnessat the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA(CPUSA) and a founding ...
20 hours ago · The Texas Chain Saw Massacre[note 1]is a 1974 American independenthorror filmproduced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibalswhile on their way ...
20 hours ago · Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [ 1 ] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
20 hours ago · The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. [1] A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death on March 10, 1940, by his widow Elena Bulgakova (Russian: Елена Булгакова).
20 hours ago · Christian of Brunswick. The Thirty Years' War, [ j ] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [ 19 ]
20 hours ago · The human history of New Zealandcan be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 AD, when the main settlement period started, after it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture.
20 hours ago · Gospel is the Old English translation of the Hellenistic Greek term εὐαγγέλιον, meaning "good news"; [ 35 ] this may be seen from analysis of ευαγγέλιον (εὖ "good" + ἄγγελος "messenger" + -ιον diminutive suffix). The Greek term was Latinized as evangelium in the Vulgate, and translated into Latin as bona ...
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