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Adichie was born on 15 September 1977, and raised in Enugu, as the fifth out of six children to Igbo parents. [1] [2] [3] Bearing Amanda as her English name, [4] [5] she made up the Igbo name "Chimamanda" in the 1990s to keep her legal English name and conform with Igbo Christian naming customs.
The collection's title story was (the preface notes) written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I, and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts a hypothetical scenario in which a small, fictional European country manages to defeat the United Kingdom by innovative naval strategy using a new technology, the practical combat submarine. [1]
The Chinese word for "crisis" (危机) is not composed of the symbols for "danger" and "opportunity"; the first does represent danger, but the second instead means "inflection point" (the original meaning of the word "crisis"). [90] [91] The misconception was popularized mainly by campaign speeches by John F. Kennedy. [90]
A single dose of LSD may be between 40 and 500 micrograms—an amount roughly equal to one-tenth the mass of a grain of sand. Threshold effects can be felt with as little as 25 micrograms of LSD. [127] [128] The practice of using sub-threshold doses is called microdosing. [129] Dosages of LSD are measured in micrograms (μg), or millionths of a ...
Therese has been a highly influential model of sanctity for Catholics and for others because of the simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life. She is one of the most popular saints in the history of the church, [4] [5] although she was obscure during her lifetime. [6] Pope Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern ...
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung-influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for 34 years.
A frame story is a literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, either devised by the author or taken from a previous stock of popular tales, slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative. Sometimes a story within the main narrative encapsulates some aspect of the framing ...
At least one study has shown that broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated and that blockchain analysis is an effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool. [168] While some countries have explicitly allowed their use and trade, [169] others have banned or restricted it.