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12 hours ago · SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA. 1) Although there were female authors in George Eliot's time, she used a pen name to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to light-hearted romances. 2) Eliot wanted her fiction to be taken seriously. As she already had her extensive work as an editor, translator and critic.
12 hours ago · Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be ...
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12 hours ago · Valeyard. Alma Mater. University of Glasgow [1] The Doctor is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. They are an extraterrestrial Time Lord who travels the universe in a time travelling spaceship, called the TARDIS, often with companions.
12 hours ago · Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood 's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker. [a] [b] [3] [4] [5] Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University ...
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12 hours ago · Sir Lenny was part of the team which had founded Comic Relief in the mid-1980s. Red Nose Day 2024 raises over £40m for charity. [77] 16. Derek Thompson makes his final appearance in Casualty as the character Charlie Fairhead after 38 years with the series and appearances in more than 900 episodes.
12 hours ago · 1. Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California. [1] Leslie Brooks, 89, American actress. [2] Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist. [3] Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer.
12 hours ago · Brian Anderson. Reggie Miller and Candace Parker. Dennis Scott. Ernie Johnson and Adam Lefkoe. Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Grant Hill, and Jamal Crawford. TBS (Inside the All-Star Game) Ernie Johnson. Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O'Neal. Draymond Green.
