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1 day ago · Technical writer. A technical writer is a professional information communicator whose task is to transfer information between two or more parties, through any medium that best facilitates the transfer and comprehension of the information. Technical writers research and create information through a variety of delivery media (electronic, printed ...
1 day ago · Ariel Castro. 2013. Puerto Rican American man convicted in August 2013 of kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for holding Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus in his Cleveland, Ohio, home over the course of a decade, hanging [100] Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart.
1 day ago · Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 . [4]
23 hours ago · 1. Adaora Adimora, 67, American doctor and academic, cancer. [1] Anthony J. Alvarado, 81, American educator, New York City Schools Chancellor (1983–1984), blood cancer and pneumonia. [2] Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61, Iranian-Belgian charity executive, founder of Kids Company. [3] Mario Boljat, 72, Croatian footballer ( Hajduk Split, Schalke 04 ...
23 hours ago · The standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh was composed by a scribe named Sîn-lēqi-unninni, probably during the Middle Babylonian Period ( c. 1600 – c. 1155 BC ), based on much older source material. In the epic, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who befriends the wild man Enkidu.
2 days ago · Ernest Hemingway (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho) was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.
1 day ago · March 1649 – May 1660. Signature. John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
