The readings of the second Nocturn are mainly hagiological biography, with homilies or papal documents for certain major feasts, particularly those of Jesus and Mary.

Tacitus ' major historical works, including The Histories and Agricola's biography, were all written and published under Domitian's successors Nerva ( 96 – 98 ) and Trajan ( 98 – 117 ).

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

Sartre wrote self-consciously and successfully in a number of literary modes and made major contributions to literary criticism and literary biography.

John Gillingham, author of a major biography of Richard I, follows this line too, although he considers John a less effective general than do Turner or Warren ; Bradbury takes a moderate line, but suggests that in recent years modern historians have been overly lenient towards John's numerous faults.

The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).

As enlarged in the 6th century, each biography consists of: the birth name of the pope and that of his father, place of birth, profession before elevation, length of pontificate, historical notes of varying thoroughness, major theological pronouncements and decrees, administrative milestones ( including building campaigns, especially of Roman churches ), ordinations, date of death, place of burial, and the duration of the ensuing sede vacante.

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.

According to the publisher, the book will be the first major biography of Daley.

Melbourne ( 1954 ), major biography focused on his psychology

* The Lost Queen by Norah Lofts, a biography of Queen Caroline Matilda, naturally gives a major place to Struensee

* Lovecraft: a Biography ( 1975 )-the first major biography of H. P. Lovecraft

* Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard ( 1983 ) ( with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin )-the first major biography of Robert E. Howard

Henry Clay: The Essential American ( 2010 ), major scholarly biography ; 624pp

This somewhat anachronistic image, fortified by much new scholarship, informed the major new biography by Pasquale Villari, who regarded Savonarola ’ s preaching against Medici despotism as the model for the Italian struggle for liberty and national unification.

Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe ( Knopf, 2010 ), 496pp ; major biography.

This early work, according to Stuart Card's biography, " was a major factor leading to the mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox ".

There is also a surviving ( and possibly abridged ) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author Cornelius Nepos from the first century BC, in the absence of Plutarch's, this becomes a major source for Epaminondas's life.

* Davis, Cynthia J. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography ( Stanford University Press ; 2010 ) 568 pages ; major scholarly biography

Holloway, Rufus Emory-A noted writer, his Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative was the first biography of a major literary figure to win a Pulitzer Prize ( 1926 ).

* Wilson, David A. Thomas D ' Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825 – 1857, ( 2007 ), major scholarly biography

* The film Bugsy ( 1991 ), a biography of Bugsy Siegel, included Lansky as a major character, played by Ben Kingsley, who was nominated Best Supporting Actor for the role.

The only major biography that exists in English is " Tancred: a study of his career and work in their relation to the First Crusade and the establishment of the Latin states in Syria and Palestine " by Robert Lawrence Nicholson.

In 1825 the Irish writer Thomas Moore published a two-volume sympathetic biography Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan which became a major influence on subsequent perceptions of him.

This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

The climax of the third book is the account of the Council of Whitby, traditionally seen as a major turning point in English history.

Following the tumultuous events leading to and including the English Civil War, another major revision was published in 1662.

Although this selected translation is not generally quoted by members of the Church, the English Bible issued by the Church and commonly used by Latter-day Saints contains cross references to the Joseph Smith Translation ( JST ), as well as an appendix containing major excerpts from it.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

English and Serbo-Croatian each have two major variants ( British and American English, and Serbian and Croatian, respectively ), along with numerous other varieties.

Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation the first major English compendium of practice, though it has been claimed that much of it derives from Braunschweig's work.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1583 – 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English Deism ," and his book De Veritate ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury ( d. 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English deism ", and his book De Veritate ( On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False ) ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

This population and their descendants were major influences on the culture of English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish New World colonies.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".