* 1866 – Gelett Burgess, American literary humorist ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Gelett Burgess, American author and poet ( b. 1866 )

Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce, Allan Dunn, John Muir, Gelett Burgess, and Frank Norris.

* Gelett Burgess — Goops, and How to Be Them ( 1st Goops book )

Frank Gelett Burgess ( January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951 ) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.

The Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression was formed in Burgess's name in December 2011 to promote " family-friendly books " to parents and educators.

Annually, the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award is given in his honor to the top children's books of the year.

* Richard A. Lupoff on Gelett Burgess

* Toonopedia: Gelett Burgess

* U of Toronto Representative Poetry Online: Gelett Burgess

* Gelett Burgess audiobooks at LibriVox. org

* Guide to the Gelett Burgess Papers at The Bancroft Library

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The impish American writer and Bohemian Club member, Gelett Burgess, who coined the word blurb among other things, supplied this description of the amorphous place called Bohemia:

A blurb is a short summary accompanying a creative work ; the word was coined in 1907 by American humorist Gelett Burgess.

Gelett Burgess circa 1910

" Purple Cow " is the name of a well-known poem by Gelett Burgess, written in 1895:

Anderson took his inspiration for the set from Gelett Burgess ' first purple cow poem, " The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least ".

McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O ' Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.

He met the San Francisco boheme Les Jeunes around Gelett Burgess and then went back to the Pueblos in spring, to the Hopi and Zuni.

* 2011: Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award, Honors, Cosmic

It drew from the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess.

The original nomination and IUCN's recommendation drew attention to the area's " exceptional natural beauty ", " habitats of rare and endangered species " and its natural landforms such as mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, canyons, limestone caves, and the unique Burgess Shale fossils.

In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A. H. Burgess, with the aid of Thomas Hughes, drew up what would be called the " English Book Donation ," which proposed that England should provide a free library to the burnt-out city.

Map of Burgess Park

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Brine seeps are an alternative hypothesis-see Burgess Shale type preservation for a more thorough discussion.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

Burgess was fired for " irreverence ", and Philby was appointed as an instructor in the art of clandestine propaganda at the SOE's training establishment in Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Burgess ' presence was problematic for Philby, yet it was potentially dangerous for Philby to leave him unsupervised.

* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

Jeremy Burgess, Doohan's chief engineer for his entire career, later became Valentino Rossi's chief engineer.

Also in 2009 Crowe persuaded young England international forward Sam Burgess to sign with the Rabbitohs over other clubs that were competing for his signature, after inviting Burgess and his mother to the set of Robin Hood, which he was filming in England at the time.

* February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years.

The better-known genera include, for example, Aysheaia, which was discovered among the Canadian Burgess Shale and which is the most similar of the Lobopoda in appearance to the modern velvet worms ; a pair of appendages on the head have been considered precursors of today's antennae.

Using the principles of Cockney rhyming slang Burgess uses Charlie Chaplin as a synonym for " Chaplain " and shortens it to Charlie.

* Anthony Burgess claimed in a 1972 interview to have written a plan for a novel about the Black Prince which would incorporate John Dos Passos ' narrative techniques: however, the actual novel remains unwritten and / or unplublished.

* District Attorney Lloyd Burgess ( Michael Durrell ) – Chief district attorney for Fulton County ( 1986 – 1992 )

Extant Suryasiddhanta supports the notion of trepidation within a range of ± 27 ° at the rate of 54 " per year according to traditional commentators, but Burgess opined that the original meaning must have been of a cyclical motion, for which he quoted the Suryasiddhanta mentioned by Bhāskar II.

He becomes a secret " go-between " for Marian Maudsley, the daughter of the host family, and nearby tenant farmer Ted Burgess.

The book was adapted by S Lee Pogostin for television in 1959 with narration by Burgess Meredith.

Anthony Burgess sees HCE, through his dream, trying " to make the whole of history swallow up his guilt for him " and to this end " HCE has, so deep in his sleep, sunk to a level of dreaming in which he has become a collective being rehearsing the collective guilt of man.

Anthony Burgess representatively summarized this conception of the " dream " thus: " Mr. Porter and his family are asleep for the greater part of the book [...] Mr. Porter dreams hard, and we are permitted to share his dream [...] Sleeping, he becomes a remarkable mixture of guilty man, beast, and crawling thing, and he even takes on a new and dreamily appropriate name – Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.

" Such concealment of character identity has resulted in some disparity as to how critics identify the book's main protagonists ; for example, while most find consensus that Festy King, who appears on trial in I. 4, is a HCE type, not all analysts agree on this – for example Anthony Burgess believes him to be Shaun.