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* John Weever – The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle
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John and Weever
John Weever says, “ Kelly ( otherwise called Talbot ) that famous English alchemist of our times, who flying out of his own country ( after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster ) was entertained with Rudolf the second, and last of that Christian name, Emperor of Germany .” Most accounts say that he first worked as an apothecary's apprentice.
John Weever has been suggested as author of the first play ; the satirist Joseph Hall has been seen as an influence on — if not the author of — the other two, though recent statistical tests bring Hall's authorship into question.
In 1601 a narrative poem, The Mirror of Martyrs, by one John Weever, was published ; it praises Oldcastle has a " valiant captain and most godly martyr.
He may be the son of the John Weever who in 1590 was one of thirteen followers of local landowner Thomas Langton put on trial for murder after a riot which took place at Lea Hall, Lancashire.
In his preface Weever calls it the " first trew Oldcastle ," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's character Falstaff first appeared as ' Sir John Oldcastle '.
* David Kathman, ‘ Weever, John ( 1575 / 6 – 1632 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
John and –
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
John and Mirror
During this time, several works were dedicated to Oxford, Geoffrey Gates ' Defense of Military Profession and Anthony Munday's Mirror of Mutability in 1579, and John Hester's A Short Discourse.
Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.
In August 1992, surreptitiously taken photographs of the Duchess sunbathing topless with John Bryan, an American financial manager, were published in the British tabloid Daily Mirror.
John D. Coon Jr .: originator of the Samak Founder's Day Parade, a short lived but festive annual celebration staged along the Mirror Lake Highway.
According to a computer display in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", historian John Gill considered Archer " the greatest explorer of the 22nd century.
He has said that his early songwriting " was influenced by early Beatles-the sense of a three-minute guitar-pop song ", and early in his career The Cure's second single Boys Don't Cry was compared by British music paper Record Mirror to " John Lennon at 12 or 13 ".
* In 2002, Martina Kudlacek directed a feature-length documentary about Deren, titled In the Mirror of Maya Deren ( Im Spiegel der Maya Deren ), which featured music by John Zorn.
Among the most respected of the postwar American poets are John Ashbery, the key figure of the surrealistic New York School of poetry, and his celebrated Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1976 ); Elizabeth Bishop and her North & South ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1956 ) and " Geography III " ( National Book Award, 1970 ); Richard Wilbur and his Things of This World, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1957 ; John Berryman and his The Dream Songs, ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1964, National Book Award, 1968 ); A. R.
* The Mirror of the Present ( 1967 ), London: John Murray ( presidential address to the Classical Association at the University of Reading )
* John Pilger, an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker, collaborated with filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper on the impact of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian people in a report for the British tabloid Daily Mirror and the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia ( 1979 ) for Associated Television.
Robert Bonazzi subsequently published the book Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me.
* John Gill was mentioned in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ( Part II )," listed in computer records of the USS Defiant in which Gill referred to Jonathan Archer as " the greatest explorer of the 22nd century.
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