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Sutro in later years. Alfred Sutro OBE (7 August 1863 – 11 September 1933) was an English dramatist, writer and translator. In addition to a succession of successful plays of his own in the first quarter of the 20th century, Sutro made the first English translations of works by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
The first book is structured as a general introduction and table of contents of sixteen categories of knowledge. [43] Book two is about pramana (epistemology), book three is about prameya or the objects of knowledge, and the text discusses the nature of knowledge in remaining books.
Sutro is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Sutro (1784–1869), German rabbi in Gelsenkirchen; Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), Mayor of San Francisco; Florence Sutro (1865–1906), musician and painter, sister-in-law of Adolph and Otto Sutro; Otto Sutro (1833–1896), Adolph's brother, a musician of Baltimore
Educator Jim Trelease however, describes Accelerated Reader, along with Scholastic's Reading Counts!, as "reading incentive software" in an article exploring the pros and cons of the two software packages. [18] Stephen D. Krashen, in a 2003 literature review, also asserts that reading incentives is one of the aspects of Accelerated Reader. He ...
To this end, Sutro began collecting items for his library in the late 1870s and by the time of his death in 1898 had amassed a collection of 300,000 to 500,000 rare books including 4,000 incunabula (the first printed books), which according to contemporary news accounts was the seventh largest in the world. [7]
Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a compilation "from a variety of sources" [1] of Sanskrit sutras on the practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).
I really feel a miserable defeat coming; this will only last 2 or 3 months." [111] Konoe played a role in the fall of the Tōjō Cabinet in 1944 following the defeat in the Battle of Saipan. In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years, [112] he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II.
In this era, the kitab-khana ("book house") was a term serving three definitions – first, it was a public library for the storing and preservation of the books; secondly, it also referred to an individual's own private collection of books; and thirdly to a workshop where books were made with calligraphers, bookbinders and papermakers worked ...