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41William Gibson — Infobox Writer name = William Gibson imagesize = 300px caption = William Gibson in August 2007 birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1948|3|17 birthplace = Conway, South Carolina occupation = Novelist citizenship = United States, Canada period =… …
42Bathos — is from the Greek , meaning depth . As used in English it originally referred to a particular type of bad poetry, but it is now used more broadly to cover any ridiculous artwork or performance. More strictly speaking, bathos is unintended humor… …
43André Simon (wine writer) — Infobox writer name = André Simon imagesize = 150px caption = pseudonym = birthname = André Louis Simon birthdate = birth date|1877|02|28|df=y birthplace = Paris deathdate = 1970 deathplace = occupation = Wine merchant and writer nationality =… …
44A Terrible Vengeance — articleissues article = y importance = March 2008 unfinished = March 2008 unreferenced = March 2008 plot = March 2008 context = March 2008 A Terrible Vengeance (Russian: Страшная месть) is a Gothic horror story by Nikolai Gogol. It was published… …
45Hubert Le Blanc — (fl. 1740) was a French viol player, doctor of law and abbé. Strongly regretting that viol playing was falling out of fashion, he wrote the treatise Défense de la basse de viole contre les enterprises du violon et les prétentions du violoncel ,… …
46rhetoric — noun 1) a form of rhetoric Syn: oratory, eloquence, command of language, way with words 2) empty rhetoric Syn: bombast, turgidity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, extravagant language, purple prose; …
47The Armada (book) — The Armada is a popular history by Garrett Mattingly a historian who taught at Columbia University about the attempt of the Spanish Armada to invade England. The book was first published in 1959 by Houghton Mifflin Company and won a special… …
48Garrett Mattingly — (May 6 1900 ndash; December 18 1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history and won a Pulitzer Prize for a bestseller about the Spanish Armada. Born in Washington, D.C.,… …
49Prolixity — (from Latin prolixus , extended, also called verbosity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which uses an excess of words. Adjectival forms include prolix, verbose, and garrulous.Prolixity can also be used to refer to the… …
50Philip Henry Gosse — Philip Henry Gosse, 1855 Born …
