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1 day ago · A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be distinguished from successive holders of a bureaucratically-appointed poet-laureate office.
6 hours ago · Moses Brown (1738–1836), American industrialist and philanthropist [54] Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicist [55] Edward Burrough (1634–1663), English member of the Valiant Sixty [56] Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), Major General in the United States Marine Corps and author of War is a Racket.
6 hours ago · Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean/American novelist, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune. Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina. Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919), The Young Trailers. Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
6 hours ago · Morgan ap William was a son of William ap Yevan of Wales. The family line continued through Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), (c. 1500–1544), Henry Williams (alias Cromwell), (c. 1524 – 6 January 1604), then to Oliver's father Robert Williams, alias Cromwell (c. 1560–1617), who married Elizabeth Steward (c. 1564–1654), probably in 1591 ...
6 hours ago · Political party. Whig. Signature. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that ...
6 hours ago · William Robert Smith Obituary. With heavy hearts, we announce the death of William Robert Smith of Eaton, Ohio, born in Oxford, Ohio, who passed away on June 24, 2024 at the age of 40. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family.
6 hours ago · David Brooks, The Balcony, finalist for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3669-3. Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting, winner of the 2007 David Unaipon Award; University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3677-8.
