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1402019 | Fabijan Abrantovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabijan%20Abrantovich | Fabijan Abrantovich
Fabijan Abrantovich
Fabijan (Fabian) Abrantovich (Abrantovič, Abrantowicz) (Belarusian: Фабіян Абрантовіч; September 14, 1884 – January 2, 1946) was a prominent religious and civic leader from Belarus. Abrantovich was significant in the struggle for the recognition of the Belarusian language in the... | 17,300 |
1402019 | Fabijan Abrantovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabijan%20Abrantovich | Fabijan Abrantovich
and was ordained to the priesthood on November 9, 1908. As one of the best students at the academy, Abrantovich received scholarship for study at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he received Ph.D. in 1912.
Before World War I, Abrantovich was a faculty member at the Catholic Seminar... | 17,301 |
1402019 | Fabijan Abrantovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabijan%20Abrantovich | Fabijan Abrantovich
one of the Belarusian Roman Catholic priests who initiated the organization of the Belarusian political conference in Minsk in March 1917 and the conference of the Belarusian Roman Catholic Clergy, May 24–25, 1917. When the Roman Catholic Seminary opened in Minsk during the fall of 1918, Abrantovich... | 17,302 |
1402019 | Fabijan Abrantovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabijan%20Abrantovich | Fabijan Abrantovich
moved to the Poland-controlled West Belarus: first to the city of Pinsk, and in 1926 to the town of Druja where the congregation of Marian Fathers has opened a "Gymnasium" and where Marianist priests settled in 1923. However, his political activities did not stop there: he vigorously protested the C... | 17,303 |
1402019 | Fabijan Abrantovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabijan%20Abrantovich | Fabijan Abrantovich
(Belarus and Galicia), but in September the Soviet troops invaded the East part of Poland, and the German troops the West part. Father Abrantovich was arrested by the NKVD in October after an attempt to pass the frontier toward German-occupied Poland. He was imprisoned in Lwow, and tortured. Later o... | 17,304 |
1402029 | Panna Cinka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panna%20Cinka | Panna Cinka
Panna Cinka
Panna Cinka (, ) (1711(?) – 1772) was a famous Hungarian-Romani violinist.
Cinka was born in Sajógömör, Hungary (modern-day Gemer, Slovakia) to a Romani family of musicians. Her father was a court musician of Francis II Rákóczi. Her father and brothers are said to be the authors of the Rákóczi... | 17,305 |
1402029 | Panna Cinka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panna%20Cinka | Panna Cinka
a violin. She played first violin in this ensemble. The band toured abroad and was invited to perform in noble houses. She also gave birth to four sons and one daughter. Her father and brothers are said to be the authors of the Rákóczi March among others.
Panna Cinka died in 1772 and was buried on 5 Februa... | 17,306 |
1402030 | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marginal%20revenue%20productivity%20theory%20of%20wages | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
The marginal revenue productivity theory of wages is a theory in neoclassical economics stating that wages are paid at a level equal to the marginal revenue product of labor, MRP (the value of the marginal product of labor), wh... | 17,307 |
1402030 | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marginal%20revenue%20productivity%20theory%20of%20wages | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
increment to output from an increment to labor used) and the marginal revenue (MR) (the increment to sales revenue from an increment to output): MRP = MP × MR. The theory states that workers will be hired up to the point when the marginal revenue product is equal to the wag... | 17,308 |
1402030 | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marginal%20revenue%20productivity%20theory%20of%20wages | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
the increase in revenue per unit increase in the variable input = ∆TR/∆L
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The change in output is not limited to that directly attributable to the additional worker. Assuming that ... | 17,309 |
1402030 | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marginal%20revenue%20productivity%20theory%20of%20wages | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
competition, marginal revenue product is equal to marginal physical product (extra unit produced as a result of a new employment) multiplied by price.
This is because the firm in perfect competition is a price taker. It does not have to lower the price in order to sell add... | 17,310 |
1402030 | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marginal%20revenue%20productivity%20theory%20of%20wages | Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages
because the firm in perfect competition is a price taker. It does not have to lower the price in order to sell additional units of the good.
# MRP in monopoly or imperfect competition.
Firms operating as monopolies or in imperfect competition face downward-sloping demand ... | 17,311 |
1402049 | Free Four | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free%20Four | Free Four
Free Four
"Free Four" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, written by Roger Waters and released on the band's 1972 album "Obscured by Clouds".
# Recording and lyrics.
The song begins with a rock and roll count-in, but in this case Pink Floyd decided to play with words and record, "One, Two, Free ... | 17,312 |
1402049 | Free Four | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free%20Four | Free Four
in World War 2. The music begins in an upbeat manner, while the lyrics tell a very cynical and somewhat depressing story. "Free Four" was released as a single in the U.S. in 1972 but did not chart.
# Track listing.
- US release
- 2. "Free Four" – 3:30
- 3. "Stay" – 3:58
- Italy release
- 2. "Free Four" ... | 17,313 |
1402044 | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church%20of%20St.%20Sophia,%20Ohrid | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid
Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid
"For eponymous churches, see Hagia Sophia (disambiguation)."
The Church of St. Sophia (, "Crkva Sveta Sofija") is a church in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The church is one of the most important monuments of North Macedonia, housing architecture and art from the Midd... | 17,314 |
1402044 | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church%20of%20St.%20Sophia,%20Ohrid | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid
decade of the 10th century as a patriarchal cathedral in the form of a dome basilica, after the replacement of the capital of Bulgaria in Ohrid, during the reign of Tsar Samuil, when the church was the seat of the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
Later it became a seat of the Archbishopric of Ohrid,... | 17,315 |
1402044 | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church%20of%20St.%20Sophia,%20Ohrid | Church of St. Sophia, Ohrid
The interior of the church has been preserved with frescoes from the 11th, 12th and 13th century, which represent some of the most significant achievements in Byzantine painting of the time. The main part of the church was built in the 11th century, while external additions were built by Arc... | 17,316 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
Kanazawa Castle
# History.
During the late Muromachi period, the "Ikkō-ikki", followers of the teachings of priest Rennyo, of the Jōdo Shinshū sect, displaced the official governors of the province, the Togashi clan, and established a kind of theocratic republic later known as "The Peasants' Kingdom".... | 17,317 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
awarded with the province has his fief and started work on the moats and the layout of the surrounding castle town; however, he sided with Shibata Katsuie after the assassination of Nobinaga and was defeated by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, led by Maeda Toshiie in the Battle of Shizugatake of 1583.
... | 17,318 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
the construction.
The new castle originally had a six-story donjon, which burned down in 1602 and was never rebuilt. Instead, the Inner bailey was used for the "Hon-maru" palace, or residence of the Maeda clan, with a three-story "yagura" turret.
The castle burned down in 1631, and was modified extens... | 17,319 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
of the 9th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army.. Most of the surviving structures in the Ni-no-maru enclosure were destroyed in a fire of 1881.
From 1949 to 1989, a portion of the castle site was turned over to Kanazawa University.
The castle was designated a National Historic Site in 2008.
Most o... | 17,320 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
methods.
# Architecture.
Although the Maeda clan were the most powerful "daimyō" in Japan after the ruling Tokugawa clan in terms of "kokudaka", their position was not unassailable. Kanazawa Castle is located at the center of a castle town, which in itself consisted of numerous features which added to... | 17,321 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
series of canals, built from 1583-1630, connected to the moat system. In total, the system was nearly 15 kilometers long.
For further protection, the castle grounds were split into nine enclosures divided with earthen ramparts, stone walls and fortified gates, surrounding the main bailey where the Maed... | 17,322 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
castle's distinctive, whitish roof tiles are made of lead. The reason for that is not only that they are fireproof, but legend says that also that in times of siege, the tiles could be melted down and cast into bullets.
## Main features.
The castle's main features are as follows:
- Hishi Yagura - wat... | 17,323 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
Height of roof: 9.35 to 10.08 m above stone wall; total floor area: 1,384.95 m².
- Hashizume-mon Tsuzuki Yagura - watchtower and command post, three stories. Height of roof: 14.69 m above stone wall; total floor area: 253.93 m².
- Hashizume-ichi-no-mon Gate - entrance gate.
- Tsuru-no-maru Dobei - do... | 17,324 |
1402033 | Kanazawa Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanazawa%20Castle | Kanazawa Castle
e.
- Tsuru-no-maru Dobei - double earthen wall. Height of roof: 2.91 m above stone wall.
- Ishikawa-mon Gate - entrance gate with two distinctive styles of stonework. It has been designated an Important National Cultural Asset by the government. This gate faces one of the entrances of Kenrokuen park.
... | 17,325 |
1402054 | Neustadt an der Waldnaab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neustadt%20an%20der%20Waldnaab | Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Neustadt an der Waldnaab is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Neustadt an der Waldnaab.
# Population development.
- 1900: 1801
- 1925: 3016
- 1939: 3614
- 1961: 5481
- 1970: 5953
- 1987: 5537
- 1992: 5669
- 1997: 6207
- 2002: 619... | 17,326 |
1402046 | Loud Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loud%20Records | Loud Records
Loud Records
Loud is a record label founded by Steve Rifkind and Rich Isaacson in 1991.
Loud is a hip hop label which has released material by acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Big Punisher, Mobb Deep, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks, Pete Rock, Lil' Flip, Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Xzibit, ... | 17,327 |
1402046 | Loud Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loud%20Records | Loud Records
would buy it back, making it a subsidiary of SRC. His 1st act after re-gaining the label was, as he did 15 years earlier, signing the Wu-Tang Clan.
On July 29, 2012, Steve Rifkind announced that he was leaving Universal on September 1, 2012..
On October 6, 2017, after the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher w... | 17,328 |
1402046 | Loud Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loud%20Records | Loud Records
an.
On July 29, 2012, Steve Rifkind announced that he was leaving Universal on September 1, 2012..
On October 6, 2017, after the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher with 6LACK, Tee Grizzley, Little Simz, Mysonne and Axel Leon went live, Axel Leon said that he had made a deal with Rifkind via Instagram. Making... | 17,329 |
1402073 | Eternity (graffito) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternity%20(graffito) | Eternity (graffito)
Eternity (graffito)
The word Eternity was a graffito tag recorded over an approximate 35-year period from 1932 to 1967, written numerous times in chalk in the streets of Sydney, Australia. The word had been written by Arthur Stace, an illiterate former soldier, petty criminal and alcoholic who beca... | 17,330 |
1402073 | Eternity (graffito) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternity%20(graffito) | Eternity (graffito)
times.
Only two original Eternity inscriptions are known to exist. One is on a piece of cardboard Stace gave to a fellow parishioner, and is held by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The other, and the only remaining inscription in situ, is inside the bell of the Sydney General Post Off... | 17,331 |
1402073 | Eternity (graffito) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternity%20(graffito) | Eternity (graffito)
footpaths.
As part of the fireworks on Sydney Harbour to mark New Year's Day of the year 2000, the graffito "Eternity" was illuminated on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This moment was symbolically recreated later that year as part of the Sydney 2000 Olympics Opening Ceremony, beamed to billions of tel... | 17,332 |
1402073 | Eternity (graffito) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternity%20(graffito) | Eternity (graffito)
nity" was named after the tag. Founded in 2009, it has a broad circulation amongst Christian groups in Australia.
One of the works by English street artist Banksy during his October 2013 "residency" in New York City depicts a worker washing away the Eternity tag.
Sculptor, Will Coles, used the wor... | 17,333 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Pharaoh (novel)
Pharaoh () is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847–1912). Composed over a year's time in 1894–95, serialized in 1895–96, and published in book form in 1897, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels... | 17,334 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Through his analysis of the dynamics of an ancient Egyptian society, he... suggest[s] an archetype of the struggle for power that goes on within any state."
"Pharaoh" is set in the Egypt of 1087–85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of... | 17,335 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
of its power from the author's intimate awareness of the final demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, a century before the completion of the novel.
Preparatory to writing "Pharaoh", Prus immersed himself in ancient Egyptian history, geography, customs, religion, art and writings. In the ... | 17,336 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
with moments of transcendent beauty.
"Pharaoh" has been translated into twenty languages and adapted as a 1966 Polish feature film. It is also known to have been Joseph Stalin's favourite book.
# Publication.
"Pharaoh" comprises a compact, substantial introduction; sixty-seven chapters; and an evocat... | 17,337 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
first been composed in its entirety, rather than being written in chapters from issue to issue. This may account for its often being described as Prus' "best-composed novel"—indeed, "one of the best-composed Polish novels."
The original 1897 book edition and some subsequent ones divided the novel into ... | 17,338 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
the utopian novel, the sensation novel. It also comprises a number of interbraided strands — including the plot line, Egypt's cycle of seasons, the country's geography and monuments, and ancient Egyptian practices (e.g. mummification rituals and techniques) — each of which rises to prominence at appropr... | 17,339 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
by, and the uraeus came to adorn the brow of, the eternally living Son of the Sun Sem-amen-Herhor, High Priest of Amon." What the novel will subsequently reveal is the elements that lead to this denouement—the character traits of the principals, the social forces in play.
Ancient Egypt at the end of it... | 17,340 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
luxury and idleness. The country is becoming ever more deeply indebted to Phoenician merchants, as imported goods destroy native industries.
The Egyptian priesthood, backbone of the bureaucracy and virtual monopolists of knowledge, have grown immensely wealthy at the expense of the pharaoh and the coun... | 17,341 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
standing. Ramses plans to win over or subordinate the priesthood, especially the High Priest of Amon, Herhor; obtain for the country's use the treasures that lie stored in the Labyrinth; and, emulating Ramses the Great's military exploits, wage war on Assyria.
Ramses proves himself a brilliant military... | 17,342 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
the conflicting interests of the Phoenicians and the Egyptian high priests.
Ramses' ultimate downfall is caused by his underestimation of his opponents and by his impatience with priestly obscurantism. Along with the chaff of the priests' myths and rituals, he has inadvertently discarded a crucial piec... | 17,343 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
novel closes with a poetic epilogue that reflects Prus' own path through life. The priest Pentuer, who had declined to betray the priesthood and aid Ramses' campaign to reform the Egyptian polity, mourns Ramses, who like the teenage Prus had risked all to save his country. As Pentuer and his mentor, the... | 17,344 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
invented them. The origins of the names of some prominent characters may be of interest:
- Ramses, the novel's protagonist: the name of two pharaohs of the 19th Dynasty and nine pharaohs of the 20th Dynasty.
- Nikotris, Ramses' mother: semi-historic Sixth Dynasty female pharaoh Nitocris; or the identi... | 17,345 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Herhor, High Priest of Amon and Ramses' principal antagonist: historic high priest Herihor.
- Pentuer, scribe to Herhor: historic scribe Pentewere (Pentaur); or perhaps Pentawer, a son of Pharaoh Ramses III.
- Thutmose, Ramses' cousin: a fairly common name, also the name of four pharaohs of the 18th D... | 17,346 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
officer").
- Dagon, a Phoenician merchant: a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth; the national god of the Philistines.
- Tamar, Dagon's wife (chapters 8, 13): Biblical wife of Er, then of his brother Onan; she subsequently had children by their father Judah, eponymous ancestor o... | 17,347 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
historian and astrologer who flourished about 300 BCE.
- Phut (another name used by Berossus): Phut, a descendant of Noah named in Genesis.
- Cush, a guest at Asarhadon's inn: Cush, a descendant of Noah named in Genesis.
- Mephres, an elderly Egyptian high priest and the most implacable foe of the pr... | 17,348 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
an Assyrian envoy: name of two Assyrian kings. Additionally, the earlier Sargon of Akkad was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BCE; he was the founder of one of history's first empires.
- Seti, Rams... | 17,349 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
architect: Dion, a historic name that appears in a number of contexts.
- Hebron, Ramses' last mistress: Hebron, the largest city in the present-day West Bank.
# Themes.
"Pharaoh" belongs to a Polish literary tradition of political fiction whose roots reach back to the 16th century and Jan Kochanowski... | 17,350 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
which Miłosz writes, enables Prus, while formulating an ostensibly objective vision of historic Egypt, simultaneously to create a satire on man and society, much as Jonathan Swift in Britain had done the previous century.
But "Pharaoh" is "par excellence" a political novel. Its young protagonist, Princ... | 17,351 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
similarities have been pointed out between it and Sergei Eisenstein's film "Ivan the Terrible", produced under Stalin's tutelage. The novel's English translator has recounted wondering, well in advance of the event, whether President John F. Kennedy would meet with a fate like that of the book's protago... | 17,352 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
body, and obedience the cement." All of society's organ systems must work together harmoniously, if society is to survive and prosper.
"Pharaoh" is a study of factors that affect the rise and fall of civilizations.
# Inspirations.
"Pharaoh" is unique in Prus' "oeuvre" as a "historical" novel. A Posit... | 17,353 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
points, intentionally introduced some anachronisms and anatopisms into the novel.
The book's depiction of the demise of Egypt's New Kingdom three thousand years earlier, reflects the demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, exactly a century before "Pharaoh"'s completion.
A preliminary sk... | 17,354 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Friedrich III. The latter emperor "would", then unbeknown to Prus, survive his ninety-year-old predecessor, but only by ninety-nine days.
In 1893 Prus' old friend Julian Ochorowicz, having returned to Warsaw from Paris, delivered several public lectures on ancient Egyptian knowledge. Ochorowicz (whom P... | 17,355 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
study of Egyptological sources, including works by John William Draper, Ignacy Żagiell, Georg Ebers and Gaston Maspero. Prus actually incorporated ancient texts into his novel like tesserae into a mosaic; drawn from one such text was a major character, Ennana.
"Pharaoh" also alludes to biblical Old Tes... | 17,356 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
such dually-determined feature relates to Egyptian beliefs about an afterlife. In 1893, the year before beginning his novel, Prus the skeptic had started taking an intense interest in Spiritualism, attending Warsaw séances which featured the Italian medium, Eusapia Palladino—the same medium whose Paris ... | 17,357 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
"spirits'" telegraph-like tapping sounds by snapping their toe joints. Spiritualist "mediums" in America and Europe claimed to communicate through tapping sounds with spirits of the dead, eliciting their secrets and conjuring up voices, music, noises and other antics, and occasionally working "miracles"... | 17,358 |
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back.
Another dually determined feature of the novel is the "Suez Canal" that the Phoenician Prince Hiram proposes digging. The modern Suez Canal had been completed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1869, a quarter-century before Prus commenced writing "Pharaoh". But, as Prus was aware when writing chapter on... | 17,359 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
entirely stone-built administrative center, pronounced it more impressive than the pyramids, declared it "beyond my power to describe"—then proceeded to give a striking description that Prus incorporated into his novel. The Labyrinth had, however, been made palpably real for Prus by an 1878 visit that h... | 17,360 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Prus pictures Egypt's Labyrinth as a perhaps flood-able Egyptian Fort Knox, a repository of gold bullion and of artistic and historic treasures. It was, he writes (chapter 56), "the greatest treasury in Egypt. [H]ere... was preserved the treasure of the Egyptian kingdom, accumulated over centuries, of w... | 17,361 |
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for a year on Jamaica, to extort provisions from the Arawak natives. The latter incident strikingly resembles the exploitation of a "solar" eclipse by Ramses' chief adversary, Herhor, high priest of Amon, in a culminating scene of the novel. (Similar use of Columbus' lunar eclipse had in 1889 been made ... | 17,362 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
1850), Charles Dickens ("A Tale of Two Cities", 1859) and Mark Twain ("The Prince and the Pauper", 1882).
Prus, a disciple of Positivist philosophy, took a strong interest in the history of science. He was aware of Eratosthenes' remarkably accurate calculation of the earth's circumference, and the inve... | 17,363 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
above, bear out that a punctilious historical accuracy was never an object with Prus in writing "Pharaoh." "That's not the point", Prus' compatriot Joseph Conrad told a relative. Prus had long emphasized in his "Weekly Chronicles" articles that historical novels cannot but distort historic reality. He u... | 17,364 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
trades, commerce, social stratification, politics, religion and warfare. Prus succeeds remarkably in transporting readers back to the Egypt of thirty-one centuries ago.
The embalming and funeral scenes; the court protocol; the waking and feeding of the gods; the religious beliefs, ceremonies and proces... | 17,365 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
as a "political novel", has remained perennially topical ever since it was written. The book's enduring popularity, however, has as much to do with a critical yet sympathetic view of human nature and the human condition. Prus offers a vision of mankind as rich as Shakespeare's, ranging from the sublime ... | 17,366 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
hands on. He pronounced his fellow victim of Poland's 1863 Uprising "better than Dickens"—Dickens being a favorite author of Conrad's.
The novel has been translated into twenty-two languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hu... | 17,367 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
# See also.
- "A Legend of Old Egypt"
- "Mold of the Earth"
- Assassinations in fiction
- Egypt in the European imagination
- Political fiction
- Politics in fiction
- Utopian and dystopian fiction
- Bildungsroman
- Solar eclipses ... | 17,368 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
pp. 331–34.
- Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' "Pharaoh" and the Wieliczka Salt Mine", "The Polish Review", vol. XLII, no. 3, 1997, pp. 349–55.
- Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' "Pharaoh" and the Solar Eclipse", "The Polish Review", vol. XLII, no. 4, 1997, pp. 471–78.
- Christopher Kasparek, "A Futurologica... | 17,369 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Fita, "Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości" (Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: a Calendar of [His] Life and Work), edited by Zygmunt Szweykowski, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
- Edward Pieścikowski, "Bolesław Prus", 2nd ed., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1985.
- Stan... | 17,370 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
Szkolnych, 1971.
- Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., "Literatura polska od średniowiecza do pozytywizmu" (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979.
- James Henry Breasted, "A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest", New Yor... | 17,371 |
1401871 | Pharaoh (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%20(novel) | Pharaoh (novel)
England, Penguin Books, 1965.
- Samuel Eliot Morison, "Christopher Columbus, Mariner", Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1955.
- Bolesław Prus, "Pharaoh", translated from the Polish by Christopher Kasparek (2nd, revised ed.), Warsaw, Polestar Publications (), and New York, Hippocrene Books, 2001.
- ... | 17,372 |
1402076 | Chinese Cultural Garden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese%20Cultural%20Garden | Chinese Cultural Garden
Chinese Cultural Garden
The Chinese Cultural Garden occupies of Overfelt Gardens park in San Jose, California. The addition of the Chinese Cultural Garden to Overfelt is primarily the work of Chinese immigrant Frank Lowe, his wife Pauline (who serves as park docent), and Dr. Chen Li-Fu of Taiwa... | 17,373 |
1402076 | Chinese Cultural Garden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese%20Cultural%20Garden | Chinese Cultural Garden
Materials, including 500-year-old juniper wood, were sourced from China. The characters written above the central portal are read right to left as: .
The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is constructed from marble, bronze, and mahogany and was built in Taiwan, disassembled, then shipped and reassemble... | 17,374 |
1402076 | Chinese Cultural Garden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese%20Cultural%20Garden | Chinese Cultural Garden
almost twenty tons.
The large black stone is a gift from Tainan and is at least one million years old. It was placed in Overfelt Gardens on , marking the Chinese day of independence from Imperial rule. The large red carved characters on the rock are , meaning loyalty.
On the third Sunday of Se... | 17,375 |
1402075 | Overfelt Gardens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overfelt%20Gardens | Overfelt Gardens
Overfelt Gardens
Overfelt Gardens is a park in San Jose, California, United States.
# History.
The land for the park was donated by Mildred Overfelt in 1959, in memory of her parents, William and Mary Overfelt, early San Jose pioneers that started grain and dairy farms in the 1850s. Mildred specifie... | 17,376 |
1402075 | Overfelt Gardens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overfelt%20Gardens | Overfelt Gardens
around the rest of the park and its three lakes, with a section designated as a California Native plant and Wildlife Sanctuary. Three large, interconnected percolation ponds rise and shrink throughout the year, providing habitat for birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and fish year-round. A large stat... | 17,377 |
1402075 | Overfelt Gardens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overfelt%20Gardens | Overfelt Gardens
s, around a reflection pond emptying into a small stream, past cultural points of interest and around three percolation ponds. The current park map shows these trails as thick white lines.
The southeast section of the park includes the Chinese Cultural Garden, commemorating Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-she... | 17,378 |
1402128 | Crimdon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crimdon | Crimdon
Crimdon
Crimdon is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated on the North Sea coast, between Blackhall Rocks and Hartlepool on the A1086 road. Crimdon was formerly a popular holiday resort for miners and their families from nearby towns and villages, on account of its affordability for low-income wor... | 17,379 |
1402128 | Crimdon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crimdon | Crimdon
ased. The holiday park is now owned by Park Resorts but there are few facilities, unlike the case in the past, when there was a fairground and pavilion. Park Resorts have built a new clubhouse with a bar, a restaurant, and an indoor swimming pool since buying the holiday park from Easington District Council. Th... | 17,380 |
1402146 | Globes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Globes | Globes
Globes
Globes () is a Hebrew-language daily evening financial newspaper, the largest and the oldest of its kind in Israel. Globes was founded in the early 1980s and published in Tel Aviv, Israel. It deals with economic issues and news from the Israeli and international business worlds. The color of the paper is... | 17,381 |
1402146 | Globes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Globes | Globes
paper founded by Haim Bar-On, the publisher of the newspaper, on the basis of a small, Haifa-based financial newspaper, in partnership with businessman Eliezer Fishman.
Following the success of "Globes", it had a competitor in the form of "Telegraph", which had a lower subscription price and was also printed on... | 17,382 |
1402146 | Globes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Globes | Globes
serts.
"Globes" is distributed each night Sunday through Thursday, with two major parts:
- Titles – the main news part
- Capital markets – stock exchange supplement
Among the supplements / inserts:
- "G" – Main weekend supplement, including regular columns by contributors such as Yoav Karni (foreign affairs... | 17,383 |
1402153 | Athirne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athirne | Athirne
Athirne
Athirne Ailgheasach ("the importunate"), son of Ferchertne, is a poet and satirist of the court of Conchobar mac Nessa in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, who abuses the privileges of poets.
He stole three cranes from Midir of the Tuatha Dé Danann, which stand at his door and refuse entry or hospi... | 17,384 |
1402153 | Athirne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athirne | Athirne
Connacht, Eochaid mac Luchta, a night with the wives of Tigerna Tétbuillech, king of Munster and Mesgegra, king of Leinster, and a mysterious jewel from another Leinster king, Fergus Fairge, which Fergus only finds by appealing for help to the "Lord of the Elements". He captures 150 wives of Leinster nobles and... | 17,385 |
1402153 | Athirne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athirne | Athirne
son of Eccet Sálach the smith, who has lived to the age of fourteen without speaking, suddenly utters a cryptic poem, Athirne fears the boy will replace him as chief poet of Ulster, and resolves to kill him with an axe. Eccet foils the murder attempt by making a lifelike replica of the boy from clay. The Ulster... | 17,386 |
1402153 | Athirne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athirne | Athirne
orce him to pay compensation to Eccet. He takes Amergin as his foster-son and trains him as a poet.
Athirne's downfall comes in the saga "The Wooing of Luaine and Death of Athirne". He and his two sons all fall in love with the beautiful Luaine, who is due to marry Conchobar. She refuses to sleep with them, so... | 17,387 |
1402154 | Sacred Songs for the Holy Year | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacred%20Songs%20for%20the%20Holy%20Year | Sacred Songs for the Holy Year
Sacred Songs for the Holy Year
Sacred Songs for the Holy Year is a 1949 album by RCA of recordings from 1920 and earlier by the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Originally RCA-Victor album DM-1359 it was reedited in 1977 by the record label RCA Victor.
# Track listing.
- 1. Agnus dei (Geor... | 17,388 |
1402156 | Nudes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nudes | Nudes
Nudes
Nudes may refer to:
- Nudity
- Nude (art)
- Nude photographs
- Skin or flesh coloured pantyhose, mostly used in films or modeling
- "Nudes" (album), a 2001 album by the folk rock band The AmusEment
# See also.
- Nude (disambiguation) | 17,389 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
Rate Your Music
Rate Your Music (or RYM) is an online collaborative metadata database of musical and non-musical releases and films which can be catalogued, rated and reviewed by users.
# History and features.
Rate Your Music was founded on December 24, 2000 by Seattle resident Hossein Sharifi, whose... | 17,390 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
to maximum five stars (or 5 points). Users can likewise leave reviews for RYM entries as well as create user profiles. Rate Your Music is generated jointly by the registered user community (artists, releases, biographies, etc.); however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderato... | 17,391 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
and add artists and releases to the database. Over time, other features were added, like cover art, a community board (forums) and private messaging. On August 7, 2006, RYM 2.0, a completely new version of the website was launched, introducing features like the possibility to add track lists, labels, ca... | 17,392 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
3.0 development was announced in July 2010, with an RYM 2.5 release appearing in July 2013 that included updates such as a 'works' feature for classical music compositions, separation of DJ mixes and mixtapes, and split album support. January 2014 marked an announcement that RYM 2.5 and 3.0 would be wor... | 17,393 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
funded on December 30, 2015, with $67,552 raised. As of December 2018, the sites are in the fourth stage of beta, available to be browsed publicly and accessible to test for members who have joined Rate Your Music before July 11, 2017. Rate Your Music's data will be fully synced with Sonemic when the la... | 17,394 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
Side of the Moon". According to RYM, Canadian experimental music collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada" is rated as "the greatest EP of all time."
As of April 2018, it had over 40,000 user-created lists ranging from "popular lists" to "ultimate box sets," which can com... | 17,395 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
Russia, Mexico, Brazil and Australia.
# Music projects.
From 2004 to 2016, Rate Your Music allowed a select number of unsigned artists to host their MP3 files of recordings on the main server.
Members of the site's community released several tribute/cover albums as free downloads.
# Reception.
"Rat... | 17,396 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
his year-by-year mixtapes of the 20th century. "The Daily Star"s Deeparghya Dutta Barau called it "one of those hip sites that offer functionality over aesthetics." "Evolver.fm"s Eliot Van Buskirk recommended to "Keep a wishlist on rateyourmusic.com."
"Flashmode Arabia" staff commended "RYM" as "a fant... | 17,397 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
Ghosh opined the "classic music lover’s past-time of perusing through internet boards such as Rate Your Music."
"M.O.V.I.N [UP]"s Maurício Angelo praised "RYM" as "the best guide to discovering new music, in all styles, of any tempo." "Newonce" staff was critical stating "Extremely ugly visually (its c... | 17,398 |
1402040 | Rate Your Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rate%20Your%20Music | Rate Your Music
Black favoured the forums with "if you haven't already spent half your day exploring the above, there are the highly active, engaged threads to dive in to."
Selecting "Logan Rock Witch" from "Richard D. James Album" as their favourite Aphex Twin track, "The Quietus"s John Doran remarked "this should re... | 17,399 |
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