One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai () which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer.

() is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor, based in Tokyo and New York.

Cyprian () ( died September 14, 258 ) was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant.

Gigi () is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette.

Karel Čapek () ( January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938 ) was a Czech writer of the 20th century.

Louis Petit de Bachaumont () ( June 2, 1690 – April 29, 1771 ) was a French writer, whose historical interest has been connected largely to his alleged role in the gossipy Mémoires secrets pour servir à l ' histoire de la République des Lettres.

The Castle of Crossed Destinies () is a 1973 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Li Ao () ( born April 25, 1935 ), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

Ramon Muntaner () ( c. 1270 – 1336 ) was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras () ( 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996 ) was a French writer and film director.

German writer ( and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia ) W. G. Sebald in his second book The Rings of Saturn () details a coastal walk along the Suffolk coast.

Michael Choniates ( or Acominatus ) () ( c. 1140 – 1220 ), Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was born at Chonae ( the ancient Colossae ).

Georgius Pachymeres () ( 1242 – c. 1310 ), a Byzantine Greek historian, philosopher and miscellaneous writer, was born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, where his father had taken refuge after the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204.

Father Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá () ( August 28, 1810 – July 9, 1848 ), Catalan Spanish Catholic priest, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher.

Matteo Bandello () ( c. 1480 – 1562 ) was an Italian writer, mostly known for his novellas.

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand () ( 4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848 ) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian.

Jin Shengtan () ( 1610 ?－ 7 August 1661 ), former name Jin Renrui ( 金人瑞 ), also known as Jin Kui ( 金喟 ), was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of Vernacular Chinese literature.

Before Night Falls () is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States.

Gish Jen, born Lillian Jen () in 1955, is a contemporary American writer.

Alfred Edmund Brehm () ( born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now called Renthendorf ; died November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf ) was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son of

James Macpherson () ( 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796 ) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the " translator " of the Ossian cycle of poems.

Joachim Neander ( Neumann ) ( 165031 May 1680 ) was a German Reformed ( Calvinist ) Church teacher, theologian and hymn writer whose most famous hymn, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation () is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church and, since being translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in the 19th century, it has appeared in most major hymnals.

One considers a convex combination of the empirical estimator () with some suitable chosen target (), e. g., the diagonal matrix.

If one considers an incident power wave at port 1 () there may result from it waves exiting from either port 1 itself () or port 2 ().

For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted " ideal " as " idealistic " () and used it as a reason not to give the prize to important but less Romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy.

Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.

The Confucian theory of ethics as exemplified in Lǐ () is based on three important conceptual aspects of life: ceremonies associated with sacrifice to ancestors and deities of various types, social and political institutions, and the etiquette of daily behavior.

In the centuries after his death, Mencius () and Xun Zi () both composed important teachings elaborating in different ways on the fundamental ideas associated with Confucius.

The Sword of Osman () was an important sword of state used during the coronation ceremony of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire.

The active enzyme in rennet is called chymosin or rennin () but there are also other important enzymes in it, e. g., pepsin and lipase.

Tlaloc () was an important deity in Aztec religion, a god of rain, fertility, and water.

One of the first acts of the usurper, and one of the most important, was to abandon the semi-ecclesiastical titles of visitor () or defender () of the realm, and to proclaim himself king.

Amphibole () is the name of an important group of generally dark-colored rock-forming inosilicate minerals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and / or magnesium in their structures.

Because of wheat production Sanuki udon () became an important part of the diet in Kagawa Prefecture ( former Sanuki Province ) in the Edo period.

The Temple Mount, known in Hebrew ( and in Judaism ) as Har haBáyith () and in Arabic ( and in Islam ) as the Haram Ash-Sharif (, al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf, Noble Sanctuary ), is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Botifarra () is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine.

Arianrhod () is a figure in Welsh mythology who plays her most important role in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.

La Jeunesse, or New Youth () was an influential Chinese magazine in the 1910s and 1920s that played an important role in initiating the New Culture Movement and spreading the influence of the May Fourth Movement.

Wadjet ( or ; Egyptian, " green one "), known to the Greek world as Uto () or Buto () among other names, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep ( Buto ), which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of Wadjet, and the Greeks called Buto ( Desouk now ), a city that was an important site in the Predynastic era of Ancient Egypt and the cultural developments of the Paleolithic.

Barcelonès () is the most economically important comarca ( county ) of Catalonia, Spain.

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya () ( – ) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.

There are four important mammalian hexokinase isozymes () that vary in subcellular locations and kinetics with respect to different substrates and conditions, and physiological function.

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio ( 1488 / 1490 – 27 August 1576 ) known in English as Titian () was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

The Xi ' an Incident of December 1936 () was an important turning point in Chinese modern history, took place in the city of Xi ' an during the Chinese Civil War between the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and the insurgent Chinese Communist Party and just before the Second Sino-Japanese War.