![]() Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 15. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. ![]() His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. ![]() His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Batgirl, Vol. 3 by Gail Simone![]() ![]() What I meant to say, was that Simone is a great voice for women in comics. * snort* Yeah, it's realistic for a teenage guy to want to Wait For Marriage. Look at all the emo guys wandering around in YA novels. I'm not just bashing boys here! A lot of female writers do the same things to male characters. By that I mean that 'occasionally' men tend to write women the way they see them. She manages to write female superheroes who are a tad more realistic than some of those written by her male counterparts. ![]() I guess I should explain that a bit, but let's start off with. Yeah, I liked Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, but I wanted Barbara. So, the thought of the original Batgirl finally coming back made my inner geek do somersaults. See, I'm one of those who has been rooting for someone to stick Barbara Gordon's ass in a Lazarus Pit for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Contorted carcasses, dappled with cracked skin, will soon dot the razed landscape.” Carpets of vegetation will be reduced to ash. ![]() “In a matter of hours, everything before us will be wiped away. The next day that world is mostly gone, the fascinating prehistoric monsters dead and the world eventually becoming the place for mammals, with only tiny feathered dinosaurs - yes, think about that next time a pigeon poops on you, and a hummingbird is an ex-dino just like a chihuahua is an ex-wolf - living on, while their mighty cousins whose skeletons are breathtaking and majestic and command our imagination remained trapped forever behind the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary. rule the world, shaping itself their needs and creating an ecosystem in which the world of the Cretaceous era thrives. ![]() One day enormous colossal herbivores and carnivores a.k.a. Sixty-something million years ago the world irrevocably changed. “Beginnings need endings, a lesson that we can either hold carefully or that we can deny until it finds us.” ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Ice planet barbarians 2![]() Marlene predicted there would be a special bond between the girls who resonated on that first day. She became the only girl to learn about Ariana's anxiety disorder. They left the group to fulfill resonance, and she found Zennek to be a shy but welcome mate.Īfter resonance was fulfilled she befriended Ariana on the way back to the cave. ![]() While she is aware she should be panicking, she saw hearts and felt comforted that all would be well. In Ice Planet Barbarians, she was awoken from a stasis pod after Sa-khui came to rescue the girls. ![]() While in Fort Lauderdale, she was abducted. Prior to the start of the series, Marlene was visiting friends in America. However, she felt her mother sent her messages through the heart shape, and she found comfort in that. She and her mother were very close and Marlene had a hard time after her mother died of cancer, four years prior to her abduction. It was always just her and her mother, her father abandoned them when she was three years old and she doesn't remember him. Marlene is very superstitious and sees signs of her mother everywhere, especially in things shaped like a heart, which her mother loved. She is best friends with Ariana and offers her emotional support. She is comfortable with her sexuality and discussing sexual topics in public. ![]() Marlene is quiet natured but has a quiet confidence to go with it. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Pirate's Paradox by Lisa Kessler![]() ![]() When a government agent requests her help in a top-secret investigation, she discovers not only is the Holy Grail real, but the lead singer of her favorite band is actually the immortal pilot of the Sea Dog crew. Charlotte Sinclair works for the Maritime Museum in Savannah, an expert on ancient pirate wrecks. She holds all the answers, but she could also spell death for them all.ĭr. But the quest leads him to a historian with raven hair and a wicked smile. Rum and women are plentiful, but his world is changing rapidly now that his crew is back together searching for the Holy Grail to break their curse. Samuel Keegan used to man the wheel of the Sea Dog over 200 years ago, but these days he’s the front man of a southern rock band. Pirate’s Passion by Lisa Kessler #Review #Paranormal #BlogTour #Romance ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Husband material alexis hall![]() "Every once in a while you read a book that you want to SCREAM FROM ROOFTOPS about. "The apotheosis of the rom-com." -Entertainment Weekly, A+ Review, for Boyfriend Material ![]() "Brilliance on every single page." -Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, for Boyfriend Material Good thing Oliver is such perfect husband material. That's what you do when you love someone this desperately, right? But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get this semi-disgraced son of former rock stars and his tightly-buttoned-up boyfriend from I don't know what I'm doing to 'I do'. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. Two years ago, Luc O'Donnell and Oliver Blackwood met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends.and somehow figured out a way to make it all work. ![]() ![]() Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best Husband Material Alexis Hall € 14.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Michael braungart cradle to cradle![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Braungart and McDonough distinguished namely, still two cycles in which materials are allowed to move: the biosphere and the techno atmosphere. It thus covers 'up-cycling' (something even do better or as good) instead of 'down-cycling' (just give a second life to anotherīut only the up-cycling of products and raw Now that gives to recycling often also the case, but what C2C an extra dimension is the fact that the raw Material and any other material used for a product will also be able to be reused again. According to them, the principle of 'waste' really are 'food'. Philosophy, coined by the German chemist Michael Braungart and American architect William McDonough. We figured it out.Ĭradle to Cradle (C2C) is actually a design Makes you again and again and again can be used? Or is it much further. But what is cradle to cradle exactly? What matters is that the product that World 'cradle to cradle' often quoted, and according to SME Service is even "the ultimate form of sustainability. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early seventies my family moved to Washington, a state with gorgeous mountains, beautiful forests, and lots of green, which meant lots of rain, but I love all the seasons. The main street included just the market, a tavern (appropriately called The Stump) and a church we attended each Sunday morning. My sister and I would take daily walks to the main street store-an old, tiny white building that included the town's post office. I have great memories of playing on stumps the size of small houses on my grandmother's acreage in a little town just north of Crescent City called Fort Dick. I was born in Crescent City, California, a small logging town on the Pacific coast, home of enormous redwood trees and clear rivers. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Potiki by Patricia Grace![]() Dutch, Finnish, French, German and Spanish. This article delivers a key to understanding Potiki, a classic text widely used in teaching and already translated into at least five languages, i.e. All readers of translations potentially contribute to indigenous people regaining their voice, but only if these readers can decipher the original actions and discourses in their languages. This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by 'Dollarmen' - property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. Patricia Grace is one of New Zealands most prominent and celebrated authors and a figurehead of modern Indigenous literature. Findings indicate that the book’s essence embedded in a complex interweaving of Maori myths and biblical parallels has not been recognized by professional reviewers of the German translation and that certain mistranslations distort important messages from the original. Potiki (Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature, 10) Paperback March 1, 1995. ![]() This article uses Mediated Discourse Analysis ( Norris & Jones 2005) to investigate a dual translation: One, the English-Maori original Potiki by Patricia Grace (1986), a translation of Maori culture that issues a complex postcolonial challenge and neocolonial protest and two, the German version of the book translated by Martini-Honus and Martini (2005 edition). ![]() ![]() ![]() Binns continued to work as a radio operator until 1912, when he turned down an assignment on the ill-fated Titanic, after which he took up a career in journalism and writing forewords to the Radio Boys series for Edward Stratemeyer. Who the heck is Jack Binns? Glad you asked! Over a century ago, New York held a parade to honor Jack Binns, the 24-year-old British wireless operator of the White Star liner Republic, whose quick thinking and persistence helped save scores of lives when the liner was rammed by a cargo ship in the freezing water off the coast of Nantucket on the early morning of January 23, 1909. Each volume has a forward by Jack Binns, the well known radio expert." - Grosset & Dunlap advertisement. Each volume is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date, and accurate that all modern boys will peruse them with delight. Each story is a record of thrilling adventures-rescues, narrow escapes from death, daring exploits in which radio play a main part. "Here is a series that gives full details of radio work both in sending and receiving-how large and small sets can be made and operated, and with this real information there are stories about the Radio Boys and their adventures. Uniform style of medium-light blue cloth binding. Most of the volumes were written by John W. ![]() |