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* Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1940..
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Edmund Wilson argues that statistically " the logic of the ' Modest proposal ' can be compared with defense of crime ( arrogated to Marx ) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population ".
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Sowell cites Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky and Edmund Wilson as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon.
* Edmund Beecher Wilson
* Edmund Beecher Wilson
Boveri influenced two generations of American cytologists: Edmund Beecher Wilson, Walter Sutton and Theophilus Painter were all influenced by Boveri ( Wilson and Painter actually worked with him ).
* Edmund Wilson.
* 1895 – Edmund Wilson, American writer ( d. 1972 )
Books around 1900 from Valentin Häcker, Edmund Wilson
On July 24, a committee of five ( John Rutledge ( SC ), Edmund Randolph ( VA ), Nathaniel Gorham ( MA ), Oliver Ellsworth ( CT ), and James Wilson ( PA ) was elected to draft a detailed constitution.
Historian and Teddy Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris called Wilson in the Governor's race a " dark horse " and attributed his and others ' success against the Taft Republicans in 1910 in part to the emergent national progressive message enunciated by Roosevelt in his post-presidency.
** Edmund Wilson, American writer and critic ( b. 1895 )
* Edmund Wilson, literary critic
Literary critic Edmund Wilson found in Sherman's Memoirs a fascinating and disturbing account of an " appetite for warfare " that " grows as it feeds on the South ".
According to critic Edmund Wilson, Sherman
* Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962.
The XY sex determination system was first described independently by Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson in 1905.
Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens are credited with discovering, in 1905, the chromosomal XY sex-determination system ; the fact that males have XY sex chromosomes and females have XX sex chromosomes.
Some, such as Edmund Wilson, have contended that Marx's attack on Proudhon had its origin in the latter's defense of Karl Grün, whom Marx bitterly disliked, but who had been preparing translations of Proudhon's work.
* Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic gore ; studies in the literature of the American Civil War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962.
Edmund Wilson stated that " To expose oneself in maturity to Uncle Tom's Cabin may ... prove a startling experience.
Post-publication, the book's supporters included Miller, Robert Duncan, and James Laughlin ; its detractors included Schwartz, Edmund Wilson, and Anais Nin.
Edmund and Finland
* Edmund Wilson-To the Finland Station
* To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
* Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History ( 1940 ) is a book by American critic and historian Edmund Wilson.
Edmund and Station
The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver.
Forest Hills Station was designed by Edmund March Wheelwright and was quite different from the other stations along the line.
Edmund and Study
" Dr. Edmund Bailey O ' Callaghan, His Early Years in Medicine, Montreal, 1823 – 1828 ", in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Study Sessions, 47 ( 1980 ), pp. 23 – 40
Edmund and Writing
Writing in 1571, Edmund Campion named the pharaoh Amenophis ; Keating named him Cincris.
The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Edmund Gwenn ), Best Writing, Original Story ( Valentine Davies ) and Best Writing, Screenplay.
The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Edmund Gwenn ), Best Writing, Original Story ( Valentine Davies ) and Best Writing, Screenplay.
Writing later in the eighteenth century, the Whig member of parliament Edmund Burke used the speeches of Whig leaders at the Sacheverell trial in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ( 1791 ) to demonstrate true Whiggism ( as opposed to the beliefs of the Foxite ' New Whigs ').
Edmund and Acting
* Richard Henry Dana on Edmund Kean's Acting, report by Carol McCluer of an Aesthetic Realism lecture by Eli Siegel
Goodwin became Acting Chief Judge in 1876 after Edmund Hornby retired.
Copley died in September 1693, at which time Greenberry was appointed by Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of Virginia, as President of the Council, Acting Governor of Maryland, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Maryland.
Edmund and History
" The Murder of King Edmund at Pucklechurch ", drawn by R. Smirke, published in Ashburton's History of England, 1793
* Royal Berkshire History: St. Edmund of Abingdon
The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.
These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis.
* Edmund Lyne Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky.
( 1927 ) An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times: being the Early History of St Edmund Hall, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Reprinted 1968
( eds ) ( 1994 ) " St. Edmund Hall ", In: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Folkestone: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, ISBN 0-7129-1064-6, p. 319-335.
He sat the History exam for Oxford University and was offered an interview at St Edmund Hall, but missed a place.
* William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella ( The Contemporary History ), Edited by Edmund King, Translated by K. R. Potter, Oxford University Press, 1999.
* Douglas Biggs, “ To Aid the Custodian and Council: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June-July 1399 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History, I ( 2002 ), pp. 125-144.
* Douglas Biggs, “’ A Voyage or Rather and Expedition to Portugal :’ Edmund of Langley in Iberia 1381 / 82 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History 7 ( 2009 ), pp. 57-74.
* Edmund Calamy-An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times
John J. O ' Connor and Edmund F. Robertson write in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:
In 1657 and 1658 the Seneca visited as diplomats, Dutch Colonial officials in New Amsterdam ( Edmund Bailey O ’ Callaghan and Berthonl Fernow, Eds., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York ( Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1881 ) NYCD, 13: 184
Edmund was officially remembered in Comber on Friday 14 September 2007 through the unveiling of an Ulster History Circle " Blue Plaque " in his honour.
* Oct 1887 – Dec 1887: Edmund John T Barton ( later author of the Jubilee History of Queensland )
* April 1903 – 1906: Edmund John T Barton ( later author of the Jubilee History of Queensland )
* Curtis, Edmund, A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922, Routledge ( 2000 RP ), ISBN 0-415-27949-6
Edmund Jephcott ), The Civilising Process: The History of Manners, Vol.
* Cody, Edmund R. History of the Coeur d ' Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart: Old Mission, Cataldo, Idaho: on the Union Pacific between Spokane and Wallace and on the Yellowstone Trail between Coeur d ' Alene and Kellogg.
Gustav Mützel ( December 7, 1839 – October 29, 1893 ) was a German artist, famous for his mammal and bird paintings, including the illustrations for the second edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Thierleben and Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History.
He was also joint author of The Pictorial History of England, and wrote books on Edmund Spenser and Francis Bacon.
biographies of Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, William Blake, and others ; The Age of Dryden ( 1895 ); a History of Italian Literature ; English Literature: An Illustrated Record ( with Edmund Gosse ); and many articles for encyclopaedias and the Dictionary of National Biography.
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