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The general semantics concept " non-Aristotelian logic ", influenced the science fiction of the most prolific, best selling, influential authors of the genre during its flowering and height.
* Isaac Asimov, Science and Science Fiction author, professor of biochemistry, one of the most prolific writers of all time
Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.
Furthermore, this was the period when Aalto was most prolific in his writings, with articles for professional journals and newspapers.
Birdlife is prolific, most often seen at waterholes at dawn and dusk.
Though this enzyme is the most prolific creator of organic bromides by living organisms, other bromoperoxidases exist in nature that do not use vanadium.
He subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters and with his home run hitting prowess, he helped the Yankees win seven pennants and four World Series titles.
According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.
The comedy genre can be considered the oldest film genre ( and one of the most prolific and popular ).
Love also briefly dated Billy Corgan in early 1991, but her most prolific relationship was undoubtedly with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
A most prolific writer, he published a string of grammars, several dictionaries, comparative work, and a history of Bantu linguistics.
Claude Monet () ( 14 November 18405 December 1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
The six-year period after 1931 — when the cane toad was most prolific, and the white-grub saw dramatic decline — saw the highest-ever rainfall for Puerto Rico.
The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.
The most prolific Water Speed Record breakers in history.
The idea of the Erdős number was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of Erdős, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.
Intelligence Service was in fact " Pandora " ( 1985 ), a software developed for their thesis by two academic students of Jean-Louis Laurière, one of the most famous and prolific French AI researcher.
He has been called " the most prolific and influential inventor in radio history ".
The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.
For much of the 1940s, one of the most prolific and successful authors of this often downbeat brand of suspense tale was Cornell Woolrich ( sometimes under the pseudonym George Hopley or William Irish ).
This is also true of the small but still active board game fandom scene, the most prolific subset of which is centered around play-by-mail Diplomacy.
Style Wars is still recognized as the most prolific film representation of what was going on within the young hip hop culture of the early 1980s.
As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.
John Nash was one of the most prolific architects of the late Georgian era known as The Regency style, he was responsible for designing large areas of London.

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While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.
He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.
Diron D'Artaguette, the most prominent trader in the district, was energetic and resourceful, but his methods often aroused the ire of the French governors.
The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.
The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.
He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of " Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa ( then French Equatorial Africa ).
* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
Similar wooden horns were used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from the French Alps to the Carpathians.
By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.
At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.
In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature.
The most popular type of pastry is said to be that of medialunas, based upon French croissants.
As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.
The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.
In 1810 the invading French pillaged the Abbey taking with them most of the many treasures including a noteworthy library.
The majority of Tallard's retreating troops headed for Höchstädt but most did not make the safety of the town, plunging instead into the Danube where upwards of 3, 000 French horsemen drowned ; others were cut down by the pursuing cavalry.
In the words of Marshal Villars, the French defeat at Ramillies was – " The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs.
By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke.
The bikini is perhaps the most popular female beachwear around the globe, according to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to " the power of women, and not the power of fashion ".
Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.
Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
The distractions provided by Heureux, Mercure and Justice allowed Villeneuve to bring most of the surviving French ships to the mouth of the bay at 11: 00.
However the loss of Culloden, the relative sizes of Orient and Leander and the participation in the action by two of the French frigates and several smaller vessels, as well as the theoretical strength of the French position, leads most historians to the conclusion that the French were marginally more powerful.

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