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Fantasy comics. Fantasy comics have been around as long as comics. The classification fantasy comics broadly encompasses illustrated books set in an other-worldly universe or involving elements or actors outside our reality. Fantasy has been a mainstay of fiction for centuries, but burgeoned in the late 1930s and early...
Sligo. Sligo (/ˈslaɪɡoʊ/; Irish: Sligeach [ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟəx]; lit. abounding in shells) is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of 20,608 in 2022, it is the countys largest urban centre (constituting 29.5% of the countys population) and the...
Burbank Animation Studios. Burbank Animation Studios was an Australian film animation production company, formerly named Burbank Films Australia. The companys first animated productions in 1982 were a series of adaptations of books from Charles Dickens; these first few films characterized themselves by their grim appe...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a musical comedy based on the 1876 novel by Mark Twain conceived and written by Ken Ludwig, with music and lyrics by Don Schlitz. The musical is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up in the heartland of America. This Broadway musical vers...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (video game). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 by SETA and was based upon the 1876 book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platformer similar to The Goonies 1 or 2, wherein one plays as Tom ...
Tom Sawyer (1973 film). Tom Sawyer is the 1973 American musical film adaptation of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was directed by Don Taylor. The film was produced by Readers Digest in collaboration with Arthur P. Jacobs, and its screenplay and songs were written by the Sherman Brothers, Robert ...
University College Dublin. University College Dublin (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Irelands largest university.[4] UCD origi...
Fantasy. Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or magical elements, often including completely imaginary realms and creatures.[1][2] The genres roots lie in oral traditions, which later became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various m...
Comedy. Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by poli...
Elizabeth Karlsen. Elizabeth Karlsen is an American–British film producer. Her career has spanned over three and a half decades, and in 2019, she was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.[1] Her work has garnered a total of 52 BAFTA nominations and wins, and 20 Academy Award® nominati...
Water. Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless,[c] and nearly colorless chemical substance. It is the main constituent of Earths hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms in which it acts as a solvent. Water, being a polar molecule, undergoe...
Horror film. Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers.[2] Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Horror films have ...
Hishikawa Moronobu. Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese: 菱川 師宣; 1618 – 25 July 1694)[1] was a Japanese artist known for popularizing the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints and paintings in the late 17th century.[2] He consolidated the works of scattered Japanese art styles and forged the early development of ukiyo-e.[3] Born i...
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.[1] The Tōkaidō road, linking the shōguns capital, Edo...
Utamaro. Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿; Japanese pronunciation: [ɯ.ta.ma.ɾo],[1] c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e large-headed pictures of beautiful women of the 1790s. He al...
Steven Rea. Steven Rea (also known as Steven X. Rea) is an American journalist, film critic,[2][3] web producer, and writer. He was a film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1992 through late 2016. Rea was born in London, and raised in New York City.[4] He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York. Rea...
Abbey Theatre School. The Abbey Theatre School or the Abbey School of Acting, was a drama school associated with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1911 by W. B. Yeats,[1]: 59  it was developed by Lady Gregory to continue performances in Dublin while the main cast of the theatre was overseas, usually i...
Sharaku. Tōshūsai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽; Japanese pronunciation: [toː.ɕɯꜜː.sai | ɕaꜜ.ɾa.kɯ],[1] active 1794–1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known. His active career as a woodblock artist spanned ten months; ...
Dolours Price. Dolours Price (16 December 1950 – 23 January 2013) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. She grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971. She was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and released in 1981. In her later life, Price was a vocal o...
Handsome Harry. Handsome Harry is a 2009 American film written by Nicholas T. Proferes and directed by Bette Gordon.[1] It was the first film produced by Worldview Entertainment and stars Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi, Mariann Mayberry, Aidan Quinn, John Savage, Campbell Scott, Titus Welliver, and Karen Young. The film...
Action film. The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as David Bordwell suggested they were films that favor spectacl...
Aodhan Quinn. Aodhan Quinn (born March 22, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for Indy Eleven in the USL Championship. Quinn played college soccer at Bradley University in 2010 and at the University of Akron between 2011 and 2013.[1] During his time at college Quinn also played for USL ...
Okumura Masanobu. Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative e...
2009 in film. The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards...
Queens University Belfast. The Queens University of Belfast, commonly known as Queens University Belfast (Irish: Ollscoil na Banríona; abbreviated Queens or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of the Queens University o...
Palace of Nations. The Palace of Nations (French: Palais des Nations, pronounced [palɛ de nɑsjɔ̃]) is the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938[2] to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations. It has served as the home of the United Na...
Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories. This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity).[1] The production, distribution and consumption of goods and ser...
Dependent territory. A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling states integral area. A dependent territory is comm...
Novelist. A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most n...
Liam Neeson filmography. Liam Neeson is an Irish actor. Neeson has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. He made his professional acting debut playing Jesus Christ in the film Pilgrims Progress (1978). That same year he acted in the BBC anthology series Play for Today (1978). A few years later he made...
Screenwriter. A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television commercials, video games, and the growing area of online web s...
Ballymena. Ballymena (/ˌbæliˈmiːnə/ BAL-ee-MEE-nə;[1] from Irish: an Baile Meánach [ənˠ ˌbˠalʲə ˈmʲaːn̪ˠəx]ⓘ, meaning the middle townland)[2] is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 31,205 people at the 2021 United Kingdom census, making it the seventh largest town in Northern Ireland by p...
Kagoshima Prefecture. Kagoshima Prefecture (鹿児島県, Kagoshima-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.ɡo.ɕi.ma, -maꜜ.keɴ, ka.ŋo-][2]) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands.[3] Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,527,019 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,...
Member states of the United Nations. The United Nations comprise 193 sovereign states and the worlds largest intergovernmental organization. All members have equal representation in the United Nations General Assembly.[3] The Charter of the United Nations defines the rules for admission of member states. Membership i...
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet. Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet KStJ CVO DSO (10 September 1887 – 30 May 1969), also known by his pen name Henry Wade, was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1954 to 1961.[1] He was also one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fi...
Belfast. Belfast (/ˈbɛlfæst/ ⓘ, /-fɑːst/;[a] from Irish: Béal Feirste [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]ⓘ)[3][4] is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (...
Tokusatsu. Tokusatsu (特撮; lit. special filming) is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, tokusatsu mainly refers to science fiction, superhero, fantasy, or horror media featuring such technolog...
Natasha Richardson. Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was a British actress. A part of the Redgrave family, Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was married to Liam Neeson. Ear...
Order of the British Empire. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities.[2] It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight i...
Mystery fiction. Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.[1] Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The centr...
Constable & Robinson. Constable & Robinson Ltd. is a British book publisher. It serves as an imprint of Little, Brown, publishing fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks. Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 in Edinburgh, Scotland by Archibald Constable, and became the publisher of works by Sir Walter Scott. In 1827, ...
Geneva. Geneva (/dʒɪˈniːvə/ jin-EE-və,[5] Arpitan: [dzəˈnɛva] ⓘ; French: Genève [ʒ(ə)nɛv] ⓘ)[note 1] is the second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canto...
Crime fiction. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.[1] Most crime drama...
Chicago. Chicago[a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the third-most populous city in the United States with a population of 2.74 million at the 2020 census,[9] while the Chicago metropolitan area has 9.41 m...
Fable. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a conc...
Folklore. Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.[1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions.[2][3] This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to ...
Picaresque (album). Picaresque is the third studio album from The Decemberists. It was released in 2005 on the Kill Rock Stars record label. The word picaresque refers to a form of satirical prose originating in Spain, depicting realistically and often humorously the adventures of a low-born, roguish hero living by th...
Folk play. Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mummers Play and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs in European countries, private houses or the open air, at set times of the year such as the Winter or Summer solstices or Christmas and New Year. Many have long traditions, although ...
Family law. Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.[1] Subjects that commonly fall under a nations body of family law include: This list is not exhaustive and varies depending on jurisdiction. Issues may arise...
Legitimacy. Legitimacy, from the Latin legitimare meaning to make lawful, may refer to:
Lazarillo de Tormes. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (Spanish: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades [la ˈβiða ðe laθaˈɾiʎo ðe ˈtoɾmes i ðe sus foɾˈtunas jaðβeɾsiˈðaðes]) is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. The ol...
John Romeril. John Henry Romeril AM (born 1945) is an Australian playwright and teacher. He has written around 60 plays for theatre, film, radio, and television, and is known for his 1975 play The Floating World. John Henry Romeril was born in 1945 and grew up in Melbourne, living in Moorabbin until 1966. He attended ...
Helen Mirren. Dame Helen Mirren (/ˈmɪrən/; born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff;[a] 26 July 1945) is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades of screen and stage, her accolades include an Academy Award, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, a BAFTA Film Award, three BAFTA Television Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Awa...
Monarch. A monarch (/ˈmɒnərk/) is a head of state[1][2] for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power in the state, or others may wield that power on behalf of the monarch. Usually, a monarch either personally inherits the lawful righ...
Fairy tale. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale,[1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.[2] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myt...
Japan (disambiguation). Japan is an archipelagic country in East Asia, located in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Japan may also refer to:
Vagrancy. Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants[a] usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, vagrancy was historically a crime punishable with forced labor, mili...
Folk music. Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with...
Jack Charles. Jack Charles (5 September 1943 – 13 September 2022), also known as Uncle Jack Charles, was an Australian stage and screen actor and activist, known for his advocacy for Aboriginal people. He was involved in establishing the first Indigenous theatre in Australia, co-founding Nindethana Theatre with Bob Ma...
Monarchy. A monarchy is a hereditary form of government in which political power is legally passed on to the family members of the monarch, a head of state who rules for life.[1] While monarchs gain their power depending on specific succession laws, they can also gain their authority via election.[2] Monarchies were t...
Mandate of Heaven. The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: Tiānmìng; Wade–Giles: Tien1-ming4; lit. Heavens command) is a Chinese political doctrine that was used in Ancient China and Imperial China to legitimize the rule of the king or emperor of China.[1] According to this doctrine, Heaven (天, Tian) bestows its ma...
Nippon (disambiguation). Nippon is a formal way of pronouncing the native name of Japan (日本). Nippon may also refer to:
Family. Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order.[1] Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the commun...
Nihon (disambiguation). Nihon is a formal way of pronouncing the native name of Japan (日本). Nihon may also refer to:
Divine right of kings. Divine right of kings, divine right, or Gods mandation,[dubious – discuss] is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy in Western Christianity during the Age of Absolutism. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship. The doctrine asserts that a monarch...
JPN (disambiguation). Japan an island country in East Asia. (JPN is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for the country) JPN may also refer to:
Okuchichibu Mountains. Okuchichibu Mountains (奥秩父山塊, Okuchichibu Sankai) or the Okuchichibu Mountainous Region (奥秩父山地, Okuchichibu Sanchi) is a mountainous district in the Kantō region and Kōshinetsu region, Japan. It covers the western part of Tokyo, the western part of Saitama Prefecture, the southwestern part of Gun...
Seiyu (disambiguation). Seiyū (声優) is the Japanese word for voice actor. Seiyu may also refer to:
Heir apparent (disambiguation). An heir apparent is someone likely to inherit a throne or title. Heir Apparent may also refer to
Spanish language. Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with 498 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million...
Lycoris radiata. Lycoris radiata, known as the red spider lily, red magic lily, corpse flower, or equinox flower, is a plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.[3] It is originally from China, Japan, Korea and Nepal[1] and spread from there to the United States and elsewhere. It is cons...
United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[m] is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[n] The UK includes the island of Great Britain, ...
Monarchism. Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule.[1] A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist. Conversely, the opposition to monarchical rule is referred to as...
Canyon. A canyon (from Spanish cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon),[1] gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.[2] Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wear...
Stormfield. Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known by his pen name, Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. He derived the propertys name from the short story Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven. The building was destroyed in a...
List of anime companies. This is a list of anime industry companies involved in the production or distribution of anime. There are over 500 animation studios in Japan.[1] Below are those notable enough to have an article.
One-Punch Man. One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン, Hepburn: Wanpanman; stylized as OnePunch-Man) is a Japanese manga series created by One, originally released as a webcomic in early 2009. It tells the story of Saitama, an independent superhero who, having trained to the point that he can defeat any opponent with a singl...
Florida, Missouri. Florida is a village in Monroe County, Missouri, United States. It is located at the intersection of Missouri Route 107 and State Route U on the shores of Mark Twain Lake. In 1910 the population was 200, per the census data in the 1911 Crams World Atlas.[5] As of the 2020 census, however, the report...
Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York). Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of a cemetery in Elmira, New York, United States. Its most famous burials are Mark Twain and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. Many members of the United States Congress, including Jacob Sloat Fassett are also interred there. Within Woodlawn Cemetery i...
Flag of Japan. The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner with a red circle at its center. The flag is officially called the Nisshōki (日章旗, flag of the sun) but is more commonly known in Japan as the Hinomaru (日の丸, ball of the sun). It embodies the countrys sobriquet: the Land of the Rising Sun. The Nis...
Mark Twain (disambiguation). Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer. Mark Twain may also refer to:
History of anime. The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with Japan producing its first animated films in the 1910s, influenced by Western animation techniques; the earliest verifiable Japanese animated film dates from 1917. However, it was not until the 1960s, with the work of Osam...
Facebook Stories. Facebook Stories are short user-generated photo or video collections that can be uploaded to the users Facebook. Facebook Stories were created on March 28, 2017. They are considered a second news feed for the social media website.[1] It is focused around Facebooks in-app camera which allows users to ...
Article (publishing). An article or piece is a written work published in a print or electronic medium, for the propagation of news, research results, academic analysis or debate. A news article discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political or ...
Short story. A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends...
Redding, Connecticut. Redding is an incorporated town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 8,765 at the 2020 census.[1] The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. At the time colonials began receiving grants for land within the boundaries of present-day Redding, Native ...
Story (social media). In social media, a story is a function in which the user tells a narrative or provides status messages and information in the form of short, time-limited clips in an automatically running sequence.[1] A story is a short sequence of images, videos, or other social media content, which can be accomp...
Storey. A storey (Commonwealth English)[1] or story (American English),[2] is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are storeys (UK, CAN) and stories (US). The terms floor, level, or deck are used in similar ways as st...
Amuse (music company). Amuseio AB, doing business as Amuse, is a global music company offering digital music distribution, funding and artist services to artists and managements, enabling them to stay independent while growing their careers. The company was founded as a modern alternative to major record labels in 2015...
Manga. Manga (Japanese: 漫画; IPA: [maŋga] ⓘ[a]) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.[1] Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century,[2] and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art.[3] The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outsid...
Public company. A public company[a] is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or n...
Narrative Magazine. Narrative Magazine[1] is a non-profit digital publisher of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art founded in 2003 by Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian. Narrative publishes weekly and provides educational resources to teachers and students; subscription and access to its content is free. Narrative was cof...
Romanization. In linguistics, romanization or romanisation is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word, and combination...
Ticker symbol. A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to ref...
Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Tokyo Stock Exchange (東京証券取引所, Tōkyō Shōken Torihikijo), abbreviated as Tosho (東証) or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a holding company that it also lists (TYO: 8697), and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.,[3] a wh...
Political narrative. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Political narrative is a term used in the humanities and political sciences to describe the way in which storytelling can shape fact ...
Personal narrative. Personal narrative (PN) is a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional.[1] Personal refers to a story from ones life or experiences. Nontraditional refers to literature that does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative. Charlotte Lin...
The Narrative. The Narrative (or Narrative) is an American independent indie rock band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2008. They are currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2011, the band has consisted of Suzie Zeldin (vocals, keyboards) and Jesse Gabriel (vocals, guitar). Previously, the group featured ...
Satire (film and television). Satire is a television and film genre in the fictional, pseudo-fictional, or semi-fictional category that employs satirical techniques. Film or television satire may be of the political, religious, or social variety. Works using satire are often seen as controversial or taboo in nature, wi...
Satires (disambiguation). Satires are cultural texts in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule. Satires may also refer to: