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The Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. The campus novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at Hampden College, a small, elite liberal arts college in Vermont .
The Giver. The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their ...
A secret identity is a person's cryptonym, incognito, cover and/or alter ego which is not known to the general populace, most often used in fiction.Brought into popular culture by the Scarlet Pimpernel in 1903, the concept was widespread in pulp heroes and is particularly prevalent in the American comic book genre, and is a trope of the masquerade.
Throwing Copper. Throwing Copper is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Live, released on April 26, 1994, on former MCA Records subsidiary Radioactive Records. [3] It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pachyderm Recording Studio. [4] Throwing Copper has generally been regarded as Live's best ...
The Secret Garden is a musical based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical's script and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 709 performances. [1] The story is set in the early years of the 20th century.
The Illuminati (/ əˌluːmɪˈnɑːti /; plural of Latin illuminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment -era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society's stated goals were to ...
Musicology (from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια -logia, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science. Musicology is traditionally divided into ...
Music performed a cappella (/ ˌɑː kəˈpɛlə / AH kə-PEL-ə, UK also / ˌæ kəˈpɛlə / AK ə-PEL-ə, Italian: [a kkapˈpɛlla]; [1] lit. 'in the style of the chapel'), less commonly spelled a capella in English, [2] is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term a cappella was originally ...