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Marquis introduced Archy into his daily newspaper column at New York's Evening Sun.Archy—whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form—was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in ...
Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli (US: / ˌ ɡ r ɑː t s i ˈ ɑː n i / GRAHT-see-AH-nee, [1] Italian: [roˈdɔlfo ɡratˈtsjaːni]; 11 August 1882 – 11 January 1955), was an Italian military officer in the Kingdom of Italy's Royal Army, primarily noted for his campaigns in Africa before and during World War II.
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.
Don Marquis, early, 1910s. Donald Robert Perry Marquis (/ ˈ m ɑːr k w ɪ s / MAR-kwis; July 29, 1878 – December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author.He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright.
Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras (26 March 1744 – 18 February 1790), was a French aristocrat and supporter of the House of Bourbon during the French Revolution. Often seen as a martyr of the Royalist cause, Favras was executed for his part in "planning against the people of France" under the Count of Provence .
Albert Nelson Marquis (January 10, 1855 – December 21, 1943) was a Chicago publisher best known for creating the Who's Who book series, starting with Who's Who in America, which was first published in 1899. [1] [2] Marquis was born in Decatur, Ohio, and raised by his maternal grandparents in nearby Hamersville.
Like other major Western noble titles, marquess (or marquis) is sometimes used to translate certain titles from non-Western languages with their own traditions, even though they are, as a rule, historically unrelated and thus hard to compare. However, they are considered "equivalent" in relative rank. This is the case with:
He was the fifth son of John I, Marquis of Namur, and Marie of Artois. Because his four elder brothers all died childless between 1333 and 1337, he still became Marquis of Namur. Because he was a minor when he became Marquis, his mother ruled as regent until he became of age. [1] William participated in the Hundred Years' War on the side of the ...