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111George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax — (November 11 1633 April 5 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician.Family and early lifeHe was the great grandson of Sir George Savile of Lupset and Thornhill in Yorkshire (created baronet in 1611) was the eldest son of Sir William… …
112B. C. Forbes — Bertie Charles Forbes (May 14, 1880 ndash; May 6, 1954) was a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine. B.C. Forbes was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire. After studying at University of Dundee, in 1897 Forbes worked as… …
113Karl Kraus — Plaque of Karl Kraus on the house where he was born in Jičín For the theologian, see Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist,… …
114Chaeremon — See Chaeremon of Alexandria for the Stoic philosopher and grammarian. Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle (Rhetoric, iil. 12) said… …
115French poetry — is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.French prosody and poeticsThe modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (like… …
116Ayako Sono — Ayako Sono(曽野綾子 or 曾野綾子, Sono Ayako (born in Tokyo on September 17 (Shōwa 6) 1931) is a writer and a Catholic. Her baptismal name is Maria Elisabet.She went to the Catholic Sacred Heart School in Tokyo after elementary school. During World War II …
117French literature of the 17th century — mdash;the so called Grand Siècle mdash;spans the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France. The… …
118Samuil Marshak — Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (langWithName|ru|Russian|Самуил Яковлевич Маршак; OldStyleDate|November 3|1887|October 22 June 4 1964) was a Russian writer, translator and children s poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare s… …
119Utopia (book) — Utopia   Illustration for the 1516 first edition of Utopia …
120African literature — refers to the literature of and for the African peoples. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa , while the European perception of literature generally refers to written… …
