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Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published.
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) is the oldest and largest non-profit children's literacy organization in the United States.RIF provides books (print and digital) and reading resources to children nationwide with supporting literacy resources for educators, families, and community volunteers.
The couple relocated two blocks to the Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street where they spent half an hour spinning in the revolving door. [98] Fitzgerald likened their juvenile behavior in New York City to two "small children in a great bright unexplored barn." [99] Writer Dorothy Parker first encountered the couple riding on the roof of a taxi. [100 ...
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Books of hours were often the only book in a house, and were commonly used to teach children to read, sometimes having a page with the alphabet to assist this. Towards the end of the 15th century, printers produced books of hours with woodcut illustrations, and the book of hours was one of the main works decorated in the related metalcut technique.
Six Months in a Convent is a memoir written by Rebecca Reed and published in 1835. It is an account of her stay at the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts , in 1832. The account was primarily written before, and published after, the 1834 Ursuline Convent riots , in which the facility was destroyed by rioting Protestants, and may have ...
Half an Hour with Robert Helpmann is a little like that." [4] Over half an hour Helpmann does a variety of solo acts including: singing a ballad; performing the role of Oberon and Hamlet; dancing a solo; singing the song "Surfer Doll" re enacting his appearance in Box for One (with Carole Potter providing female voices).
Rebecca Theresa Reed (1813-1838) was an American escaped nun and author of the memoir Six Months in a Convent, which influenced the first of many anti-Catholic waves. [clarification needed] Reed’s book vividly describes her experience in an Ursuline convent and has sold thousands of copies.