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Anne Applebaum wrote :" The argument over the profitability, efficiency and fairness of prison labour was to continue for the next quarter-century [...] in the mid 1920s the Karelian local authorities were not winning argument and although as late as 1929, the camp was in fact running a deficit of 1. 6 million roubles-quite possibly because OGPU stole from the till-Solovetsky's supposed economic success was still trumpeted far and wide.
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According to Anne Applebaum, approximately 6000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and 28, 600 in 1916.
Anne Applebaum and Steven Rosefielde estimate that 1. 2 to 1. 5 million people were in Gulag system's prison camps and colonies when the war started.
* Applebaum, Anne ( foreword ) and Hollander, Paul ( introduction PDF file and editor ) From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States.
Robert Conquest, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Anne Applebaum, Adam Hochschild and others ( see bibliography ) describe the Kolyma camps in some detail.
Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize winner, carried out an extensive investigation of the gulags, and explained in a lecture in 2003, that it's extremely difficult not only to document the facts given the extent of the cover-up but to bring the truth home.
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For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".
Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their imagined country, " Angria ", and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about " Gondal ".
* Anne McCaffrey wrote short stories and novels known as The Ship Series ( 1961 -) where otherwise crippled humans live on as the brains of starships and large space stations.
" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.
One such relationship was between Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who wrote to Anne Wortley in 1709: " Nobody was so entirely, so faithfully yours ...
Anne Rice also wrote of fictional Picts, crafting them into the Taltos for her book series The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
" Bradbury's favorite writers growing up included Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote about the American South, Edith Wharton, and Jessamyn West.
It was created by Ragdoll's creative director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes.
In 1530, he wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's planned divorce from Catherine of Aragon, in favour of Anne Boleyn, on the grounds that it was unscriptural and was a plot by Cardinal Wolsey to get Henry entangled in the papal courts of Pope Clement VII.
She wrote it in French to her father, who was still living in England while Anne was completing her education at Mechelen, in the contemporary Netherlands, now Belgium.
This is supported by claims by a chronicler from the late 16th century, who wrote that Anne was twenty when she returned from France.
Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.
Simon Grynée wrote to Martin Bucer in September 1531 that Anne was " young, good-looking, of a rather dark complexion ".
Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.
" I shall never now be satisfied ", Anne wrote to her sister Mary, " whether the child be true or false.
His widow, Anne's stepmother, the former Queen, wrote to Anne to inform her that her father forgave her and to remind her of her promise to seek the restoration of his line.
" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".
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