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Albert Harkness (October 6, 1822 – May 27, 1907) was an American classical scholar and educator. He was professor of Greek at Brown University , and helped found the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .
Abridged version of Louis Léouzon le Duc's translation. 1927: Jean Louis Perret: Full translation in metric verse. 1991: Gabriel Rebourcet: Full translation. In old style French vocabulary. English: 1868: John Addison Porter: Partial translation (The story of Aino [2]) via Franz Anton Schiefner's translation. 1869: Edward Taylor Fletcher
The Book of Soyga, also titled Aldaraia, is a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic, one copy of which was owned by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. After Dee's death, the book was thought lost until 1994, when two manuscripts were located in the British Library (Sloane MS 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley MS. 908), under the title Aldaraia ...
It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller. [3] January 9 – John William De Forest, writing for The Nation, calls for a more specifically American literature; [4] the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of ...
In the London version of the novel published by the Guide, the characters and action were revised and relocated. The Masked Mother takes place in the "hilly districts of North Wales" instead of Virginia, the protagonist is discovered in Dublin rather than New York, and the war segment of the novel is also shifted from Mexico to Crimea. Some ...
In “American Historia: The Untold Story of Latinos,” Leguizamo sets the record straight as he delves into U.S. Latino and Latin American history in a three-part series.
While exiled in Chile, Sarmiento wrote Facundo in 1845 as an attack on Juan Manuel de Rosas, the Argentine dictator at the time.The book was a critical analysis of Argentine culture as he saw it, represented in men such as Rosas and the regional leader Juan Facundo Quiroga, a warlord from La Rioja.
The founder who launched the ‘Amazon of Latin America’ from a parking garage has transformed retail in the region—and earned himself $7 billion. Leo Schwartz. February 1, 2024 at 12:45 PM.