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51Richard M. Weaver — Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr (March 3, 1910 – April 1, 1963) was an American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. He is primarily known as an intellectual historian and apologist for the American South and as an authority on… …
52Mess of pottage — The phrase mess of pottage means something of little value, with a pottage being a type of soup. Though it can appear in general use, it is usually associated with the exchange by Esau of his birthright for a meal of lentil stew, as described in… …
53Space warfare in fiction — Space warfare in science fiction has served as a central theme within the genre, tracing its roots back to the future war novels of the 19th century. (Space warfare can be found in even older works of fiction. Lucian of Samosata s True History… …
54Simon Fish — (d. 1531) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and English propagandist. Fish is best known for helping to spread William Tyndale’s New Testament and for authoring the vehemently anti clerical pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars (also spelled …
55Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters — Debate about the simplification of Chinese characters Traditional Chinese 漢字簡化爭論 Simplified Chinese …
56Society and culture in Saint Petersburg — Music in St. Petersburg, were principal stars of the Mariinsky ballet.Dmitri Shostakovich was born and brought up in St. Petersburg, and dedicated his Seventh Symphony to the city, calling it the Leningrad Symphony. He wrote the symphony while in …
57comic strip — a sequence of drawings, either in color or black and white, relating a comic incident, an adventure or mystery story, etc., often serialized, typically having dialogue printed in balloons, and usually printed as a horizontal strip in daily… …
58LEVINSOHN, ISAAC BAER — (1788–1860), Hebrew author, one of the founders of the haskalah in Russia. He also was known as Ribal (initials of Rabbi Isaac Baer Levinsohn). Levinsohn was born in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russia, into a wealthy family. Later he moved to Radzivilov …
59YAHŪD — YAHŪD, collective noun and appellative for Jews in pre Islamic Arabian poetry, the koran , and Islamic literature, cognate with the less common plural hūd and the uniquely Koranic hāda, a verb that means to be Jewish or to practice Judaism. For… …
60Art — This article is about the general concept of Art. For the categories of different artistic disciplines, see The arts. For the arts that are visual in nature, see Visual arts. For people named Art, see Arthur (disambiguation). For other uses, see… …
