thematic bibliography

  • 101Indonesian literature — When defining what is understood by Indonesian literature, one has to choose between various possibilities, each of them to a certain degree mutually exclusive. Thus, Indonesian literature may mean: *literature written in the languages of the… …

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  • 102Youssef Ziedan — Professor Youssef Ziedan (Arabic: يوسف زيدان) (born June 30, 1958) is an Egyptian scholar specialized in Arabic and Islamic studies. He works as director of the Manuscript Center and Museum affiliated to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He is a… …

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  • 103Versions of Ramayana — Depending on the methods of counting, as many as three hundred[1][2] versions of the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana, are known to exist. The oldest version is generally recognized to be the Sanskrit version attributed to the sage Valmiki. The… …

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  • 104Barry S. Brook — (November 1, 1918, New York City – December 7, 1997, New York City) was an American musicologist.Brook received his masters’ degree from Columbia University, where he studied with P.H. Lang, Erich Hertzmann, Hugh Ross, and Roger Sessions, in… …

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  • 105Alexander the Great — 356 323 B.C., king of Macedonia 336 323: conqueror of Greek city states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India. * * * or Alexander III born 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia died June 13, 323 BC, Babylon King of Macedonia (336–323)… …

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  • 106Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 107Old English literature — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects …

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  • 108Coherence (The philosophy of) — Green, Bosanquet and the philosophy of coherence Gerald F.Gaus INTRODUCTION Along with F.H.Bradley (Bradley, F.H.), T.H.Green and Bernard Bosanquet were the chief figures in what is commonly called British idealism. Bradley is widely regarded as… …

    History of philosophy

  • 109Some of the Dharma — by Jack Kerouac (1997)    Some of the Dharma began as a series of notes that jack kerouac made of his studies in Buddhism beginning in December 1953 and concluding in May 1956. Initially, Buddhism offered solace to Kerouac when he was going… …

    Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

  • 110BARASH, ASHER — (1889–1952), Hebrew writer. Born in Lopatin, Eastern Galicia, at an early age he was already well acquainted with modern Hebrew literature; however, most of his juvenilia was written in Yiddish, the rest in German and Polish. At the age of 16,… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism