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"Science Fiction" - Vonnegut's reflections on writing science fiction. [2]"Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway" (1966) - This recounts a journey from Massachusetts to Florida on the Kennedy yacht crewing for their captain, Frank Wirtanen (whose name had been borrowed for the character of an American intelligence officer in Mother Night).
Dalzanemdor (INN Tooltip International Nonproprietary Name; [1] development code SAGE-718) is experimental drug being investigated for the treatment of neurological disorders and cognitive impairment. [2]
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford.It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley [1] in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated ...
People with dementia need support from their caregivers, yet caregivers do not always have sufficient guidance for using multiple patient interventions. Findings from a 2021 systematic review of the literature found caregivers of patients in nursing homes with dementia do not have sufficient tools or clinical guidance for behavioral and ...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.
A diaeresis indicates that the vowels do not form a diphthong: Arsinoë / ɑːr ˈ s ɪ n oʊ iː / ar-SIN-oh-ee (not * AR-sin-ee). The importance of marking long vowels for Greek words can be illustrated with Ixion, from Greek Ἰξίων. As it is written, the English pronunciation might be expected to be * / ˈ ɪ k s i ɒ n / IK-see-on.
Roger Ascham (/ ˈ æ s k ə m /; c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) [1] was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.