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book and Hereditary
Although Marie Vassiltchikov recounts in her book The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 the story of the 16-year-old Hereditary Prince Maria Emanuel paying her a visit to seek her help in finding a bride, as he felt it was his dynastic obligation to start a family early, Emanuel would not in fact marry until the day of 37th birthday.

book and Genius
" For instance ," said Dr. Joseph Merlino, Senior Editor of the book Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius, " that ... I'm a cross-dresser and I don't want to keep it confined to my circle of friends, or my party circle, and I want to take that to my wife and I don't understand why she doesn't accept it, or I take it to my office and I don't understand why they don't accept it, then it's become a problem because it's interfering with my relationships and environment.
* Toulmin, Stephen, " Fall of a Genius ", a book review of " Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges ", in The New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984, p. 3ff.
* Maskelyne features prominently in Dava Sobel's 1995 book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, as well as the television serial based on the book, where he is portayed by Samuel West.
For example, in an addendum to his book The Heart of Man: Its Genius For Good and Evil, Fromm wrote as part of his Humanist Credo:
Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk ( 1997 ), reported that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia.
* In the book Was This Man a Genius?
His life is the subject of the book, The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, Climatologist-Geographer.
With J. Milligan, he wrote the 2003 book The Wisdom of Big Bird ( and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch ): Lessons from a Life in Feathers ( ISBN 0-375-50781-7 ).
Based on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, the film began shooting in Richmond, Virginia in October 2011, and is scheduled for release on November 16, 2012.
Lombroso published The Man of Genius in 1889, a book which argued that artistic genius was a form of hereditary insanity.
In May 2011, Steven Spielberg cast Tommy Lee Jones to play Stevens in a film adaptation of the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, titled Lincoln, slated for late 2012 release.
Maxim wrote an amusing account of his youth in the book A Genius in the Family: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Through a Small Son's Eyes.
In the book, Genius in the Family ( G. P.
David Lampe, in his book, Pyke, the Unknown Genius, states that the name was derived from Voltaire's Candide and was misspelt by his Canadian secretary.
This field of architectural discourse is explored most notably by the theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz in his book, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture.
On September 13, 2006, after successfully moving Girl Genius from a printed comic book series to a webcomic, Studio Foglio announced it would serialize the existing Buck Godot stories as a webcomic.
His next book, City Of Genius, about Silicon Valley, will be published by Random House in 2014.
Girl Genius is an ongoing comic book series turned webcomic, written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company, Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment.
" Norman Mailer, in his 1976 book on Miller entitled Genius and Lust, called it " one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century, a revolution in consciousness equal to The Sun Also Rises.
Hans Eysenck's book, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity ( 1995 ), " construct ( s )... a model of genius and creativity " whose " novelty lies in ( its ) attempt to make personality differences central to the argument ".
It is the subject of the 2005 documentary Carhenge: Genius or Junk ?, and features in the 2007 travel book 1, 000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die.
Martin Whitman's letters to shareholders of his Third Avenue Value Fund ( TAVF ) are considered valuable resources " for investors to pirate good ideas " by another famous investor Joel Greenblatt in his book on special-situation investment You Can Be a Stock Market Genius ( ISBN 0-684-84007-3, pp 247 ).
Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, who was to be sacked in turn at the end of the 2010 – 2011 season, wrote about Wilkins, in his autobiographical book The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius: " Ray is one of those select few, always present, noble in spirit, a real blue-blood, Chelsea flows in his veins ... without him we wouldn't have won a thing.

book and 1869
* Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace contains an extensive wolf hunting scene with borzoi in book 7, chapters 3 to 6.
The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.
The children's book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the final, record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying of track in a single day on April 28, 1869 to settle a $ 10, 000 bet.
In 1869, during her trip to Geneva, Switzerland, Barton was introduced to the Red Cross and Henry Dunant's book A Memory of Solferino, which called for the formation of national societies to provide relief voluntarily on a neutral basis.
Religious writer Margaret Barber ( 1869 – 1901 ), author of the posthumously published best-selling book of meditations, The Roadmender, settled in Bungay.
In 1869 British anthropologist Alfred Russel Wallace described the colonial governing structure in his book " The Malay Archipelago ":
* The American Woman's Home ( 1869 ) ( with Catherine Beecher ) ( see summary and links to the book here )
With the hanging of Hamiora, November 10, 1869, and the conclusion of Fairweather ’ s desperate attempts first to prevent and then to mitigate it, the book ends.
The book takes place from 1869 – 1870.
Independence, Kansas is the location where the Ingalls family settled on the Osage Diminished Reserve from 1869 – 1870, and was at the center of the plot of the book, Little House on the Prairie.
In 1869 English photographer Henry Peach Robinson published a book entitled Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints On Composition And Chiaroscuro For Photographers.
His works were widely read during his lifetime, and by 1869 he was able to support himself solely on the profit of book sales and on income from his regular contributions to Victorian periodicals which were collected as three volumes of Essays.
* Natural Philosophy in Easy Lessons ( 180 pages ) ( 1869 ) ( a book intended for use in secondary schools )
In 1862 Campbell published Thoughts on Revelation and a few years later ( 1869 ) he published a revised version of his 1851 book: Christ the Bread of Life.
In 1848 Henry L. Valance allegedly confessed to his part in the murder on his deathbed, a story recounted in chapter two of Reverend C. G. Finney's book The Character, Claims, and Practical Workings of Freemasonry ( 1869 ).
The name Hidaka is derived from the province of the same name established in 1869, which in turn was named after an unknown place in the Nihonshoki, a history book written in 720.
During his lifetime, the book became popular and would go through three revisions ( 1850, 1859, and 1869 ), all produced by committees consisting of White and several colleagues working under the auspices of the Southern Musical Convention.
From the original 262 pages, the book was expanded by 1869 to 477.
* 1869: The American Woman's Home ( with Harriet Beecher Stowe ) ( see summary and links to the book here )
Eduard Hanslick, writing in his 1869 book Geschichte des Concertwesens in Wien, opined of Berwald, " a man stimulating, witty, prone to bizarrerie, as a composer lacked creative power and fantasy ".
This was followed by his commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith ( 1869, ISBN 0-8370-0932-4 ), a very useful book, full of clear thinking and compact statement.
However, in 1869, he explained in Différences entre Balzac et moi, why he would not make the same kind of book as Balzac:
It is noteworthy, also, that Darwin lent his copy of Duchenne's book to the British psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne in 1869, that Crichton-Browne seems to have mislaid the book for a year or so ( in the West Riding lunatic asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire-see the Darwin Correspondence Project, Letter 7220 ) and that-in 1872-Crichton-Browne invited Sir David Ferrier to his asylum laboratory to undertake experiments involving the electrical stimulation of motor centres in the brain.

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