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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BedeBede - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · Bede was a teacher as well as a writer; he enjoyed music and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular. It is possible that he suffered a speech impediment, but this depends on a phrase in the introduction to his verse life of St Cuthbert.

  2. 12 hours ago · The court poet Georg Stiernhielm wrote several plays in the Swedish language, such as Den fångne Cupido eller Laviancu de Diane, performed with Christina taking the main part of the goddess Diana. [47] [48] She invited foreign companies to play at Bollhuset , such as an Italian opera troupe in 1652 with Vincenzo Albrici and Angelo Michele ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Omar_KhayyamOmar Khayyam - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · Life Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur —a metropolis in Khorasan province, of Persian stock, in 1048. In medieval Persian texts he is usually simply called Omar Khayyam. : 658 [c] Although open to doubt, it has often been assumed that his forebears followed the trade of tent-making, since Khayyam means 'tent-maker' in Arabic. : 30 The historian Bayhaqi, who was personally acquainted with ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HermesHermes - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · After the Renaissance, the caduceus also appeared in the heraldic crests of several, and currently is a symbol of commerce. [28] [ better source needed ] Hermes' sandals, called pédila by the Greeks and talaria by the Romans, were made of palm and myrtle branches but were described as beautiful, golden and immortal, made a sublime art, able to ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ModernismModernism - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · In literature this often involved the rejection of intelligible plots or characterization in novels, or the creation of poetry that defied clear interpretation. Within the Catholic Church, the spectre of Protestantism and Martin Luther was at play in anxieties over modernism and the notion that doctrine develops and changes over time.

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