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11The Mother (play) — The Mother (German: Die Mutter) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is based on Maxim Gorky’s 1906 novel of the same name. It was written in collaboration with Hanns Eisler, Slatan Dudow and Günter Weisenborn from… …
12Christ figure — A Christ figure is a literary technique that authors use to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus Christ. More loosely, the Christ Figure is a spiritual or prophetic character who parallels Jesus, or other spiritual or… …
13Songs of Moors and Misty Fields — Infobox Album Name = Songs of Moors Misty Fields Type = Studio album Artist = Empyrium Released = 1997 Recorded = Genre = Folk/Doom Length = 45:09 Label = [http://prophecyproductions.de Prophecy Productions] Producer = Reviews = Last album = A… …
14Po Valley — The Po Valley ( it. Pianura Padana or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature of Italy. It extends some 600 km in an east west direction, including its Venetic extension not actually related to the Po river; it runs from the Western Alps to… …
15Raina Rose — Raina Rose, born Feb. 3rd 1982, is a folksinger (singer/songwriter) from Portland, Oregon, who now lives in Austin, Texas.She has been on a national tour circuit since October 2005. She was a finalists in the 2007 Kerrville Folk Festival new folk …
16Appomattox (opera) — Appomattox is an opera in English based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that… …
17Territories in The Pendragon Adventure — Halla, in D. J. MacHale s Pendragon, refers to everything. Every territory, every person, every living thing, every time there ever was (according to the character Press Tilton in The Merchant of Death). The following is the list of territories… …
18Feet of Clay (radio) — “Feet of Clay” is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales . The anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature for the radio. The series was a recipient of numerous awards, including four Gracie… …
19black hole — Astron. a theoretical massive object, formed at the beginning of the universe or by the gravitational collapse of a star exploding as a supernova, whose gravitational field is so intense that no electromagnetic radiation can escape. * * * Cosmic… …
20Black Hole — 1. Also called Black Hole of Calcutta. a small prison cell in Fort William, Calcutta, in which, in 1756, Indians are said to have imprisoned 146 Europeans, only 23 of whom were alive the following morning. 2. (l.c.) any usually wretched place of… …
