Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

Ravinia Park, located north of Chicago, is also a favorite destination for many Chicagoans, with performances occasionally given in Chicago locations such as the Harris Theater.

Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque.

Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves – to give its full title.

Harris himself considered it a dictionary ; the work is one of the first technical dictionaries in any language.

" This, Harris contends, is part of what it means to practice a science of morality.

Sam Harris argues that there are societally optimal " moral peaks " to discover. In modern times, many thinkers discussing the fact-value distinction and the Is-ought problem have settled on the idea that one cannot derive ought from is.

Conversely, Harris maintains that the fact-value distinction is a confusion, proposing that values are really a certain kind of fact.

* 1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.

Its most celebrated song is a Parsons-Harris duet cover of " Love Hurts ", a song that long remained in Harris ' solo repertoire.

The song's chorus is a lyrical acknowledgment of the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris singing partnership.

It is the second favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible, according to a 2008 Harris Poll.

Sam Harris wrote, " It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it.

Lewis and Harris is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland.

Remarkably, the island does not have a common name in either English or Gaelic and is referred to as " Lewis and Harris ", " Lewis with Harris ", " Harris with Lewis " etc.

The derivation of Lewis may be pre-Celtic ( see above ) and the origin of Harris is no less problematic.

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

* 1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

Conversely, birds of prey-which show distinct reverse sexual dimorphism — tend to be monogamous for long periods or mate for life ; some species like the Snail kite will choose new mates every year, polygyny is noted in many Harriers and polyandry has been observed in the Harris ' Hawk ( notable for being the only bird of prey to regularly live and hunt in family and social groups ) and the aforementioned Galapagos hawk.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.

* 1856 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor ( d. 1931 )

* 1964 – Joanne Harris, English author

Proponents of this view, such as the author and neuroscientist Sam Harris, see morality as a budding science.

* July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris, American author ( Br ' er Rabbit ) ( b. 1848 )

** Frank Harris, Irish author and editor ( b. 1856 )

** Rosie Harris, English author

* February 14 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor ( d. 1931 )

In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.

In his book, The Moral Landscape, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris mentions some ways that determinism and modern scientific understanding might challenge the idea of a contra-causal free will.

The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel about aggressive plants taking over the world, published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham.

According to author and journalist Martin Dillon, Wright had been inspired by the violent deaths of UVF men Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville, both of whom were blown up after planting a bomb on board The Miami Showband's minibus.

In 2000 and 2001 his online animated series was the top-billed attraction in Mondo Media's lineup of mini-shows, in which the voice of Sparky the Penguin was provided by author and Jeopardy champion Bob Harris.

* Thomas Harris, author of Hannibal Lecter novels ; he was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but raised in Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Coahoma County.

", first published in 1977, author Cyril M Harris states that c1200 Plaistow was recorded as " Plagestoue ", derived from the Old English PLEG, meaning sports or playing, and STOWE ( place ).

Mr. Moody was the author of songs which are today Southern Gospel standards including " Drifting Too Far From the Shore " which has been covered and recorded by such artists as Jerry Garcia, Emmylou Harris, Phil Lesh, Hank Williams and many others.

The county was also home to Corra Harris, author of " A Circuit Rider's Wife ," a book that later inspired the popular movie " I'd Climb the Highest Mountain.

Noted residents include the late zoologist and author Archie Carr and his conservationist wife, Marjorie Harris Carr, who lived for many years at their home at Wewa Pond just outside Micanopy.

The city was the birthplace of several noted writers, such as Alice Walker ( author of The Color Purple ), Joel Chandler Harris ( journalist and author of the Uncle Remus stories ), and Henry Grady Weaver ( author of The Mainspring of Human Progress ).

* Harris Fletcher ( 1892 – 1979 ), academic, author, and leading authority on John Milton

* Judith Rich Harris ( born 1938 ), psychologist and author of The Nurture Assumption.

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris, noted mainly for his contribution to the New Atheism movement, criticized CAIR by doubting their legitimacy saying CAIR is " an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby ".