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1 day ago · Fyodor[ a ] Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[ b ] (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [ 3 ][ c ]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, [ 4 ] as many of his works are considered ...
1 day ago · Chronological overview of approved party names per 28 August 2024. Overview (in chronological order by approval and expiry date) of party names that have been approved in accordance with § 12, subsection 1 of the Parliamentary Elections Act. 2, but has not yet led to party notification.
1 hour ago · The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
1 day ago · His main biographical sources in chronological order are: [15] Greek and Roman sources, which are the oldest surviving records that mention Chandragupta. These include works written by Megasthanes , who was a contemporary of Chandragupta, and others by Nearchus , Onesicritus , Aristobulus of Cassandreia , Strabo , Diodorus , Arrian , Pliny the Elder , Plutarch , and Justin .
1 day ago · Whether or not historians are inclined to accept the historicity of the old canonical books of the Hebrew nation, their writers describe a series of conflicts between the Philistines and the Israelites during the period of the Judges, and, allegedly, the Philistines exercised lordship over Israel in the days of Saul and Samuel the prophet, forbidding the Israelites from making iron implements ...
1 day ago · Signature. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [ 1 ] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." [ 3 ]
1 day ago · The greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed. The example of the first successful revolution against a European empire, and the first successful establishment of a republican form of democratically elected government, provided a model for many other colonial peoples ...
