Miguel De Cervantes The son of a deaf surgeon‚ Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575‚ de Cervantes spent five years in prison. He was freed in 1580 and returned home. De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years‚ publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616. For nearly his entire life‚ Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially. His father
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Delhi: Pencraft International‚ pp. 36-53. Dasgupta‚ S. 1993. “Feminist consciousness in Woman-Centered Hindi Films. In The South Asian Women ’s Descent Collective” (Eds.)‚ Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press. Enloe‚ Cynthia. 1990. Bananas‚ Beaches‚ and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley. CA: University of California Press. Franzway‚ Suzanne‚ Court‚ Dianne and Connell. 1989. Staking a Claim: Feminism‚ Bureaucracy‚ and
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Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection (Review) Enayati A‚ Hemingway J‚ Garner P This is a reprint of a Cochrane review‚ prepared and maintained by The Cochrane Collaboration and published in The Cochrane Library 2010‚ Issue 3 http://www.thecochranelibrary.com Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection (Review) Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Electronic Texts in American Studies University of Nebraska - Lincoln Year A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) Thomas Hariot∗ Paul Royster ‚ editor† ∗ † University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ proyster@unl.edu This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/20 T H O M A S H A R IO T A B R I E F E A N D T RU E R E P ORT OF T H E N E W F O U N D L A N
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Gitanjali – Song Offerings Spiritual Poems of Rabindranath Tagore An e-book presentation by The Spiritual Bee For more FREE books visit our website: www.spiritualbee.com Dear Reader‚ This e-book is a reproduction of the original “Gitanjali – Song Offerings” by Rabindranath Tagore‚ first published in 1913. This book is now in the public domain in the United States and in India; because it’s original copyright owned by the Macmillan Company has expired. As per U.S. copyright law‚ any book published
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HARLOT. HAUGHTY. HERETIC. ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION It was a fresh Friday morning — the 19th day of May on the year 1536. A crowd‚ of more or less a thousand; composed of both commoners and aristocrats‚ gathered around a scaffold. On this sea of faces‚ plunged a woman wearing under her petticoat a loose gown of damask trimmed with ermine fur. Whispers began to circulate. The woman was followed by her attendants‚ all of them weeping while she remained
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2. Human Musicality - Donald A. Hodges Music is a universal trait of humankind. Throughout the ages it has played a significant role in the lives of people in every part of the globe. This can be illustrated by imagining an internal soundtrack for each of the following vignettes. Fortaleza‚ Brazil: Nighttime revelers parade down the street by the light of flickering torches. The movements of the cabocolinhos (the dancers) are accompanied by drums‚ caracaxa (a scraped gourd)‚ and flutes (Olsen 1980)
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture The Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations which developed a vast array of diverse structures encompassing ancient Egyptian architecture. The architectural monuments‚ which include the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza‚ are among the largest and most famous. In Ancient Egypt and other early societies‚ people believed in the omnipotence of Gods‚ with many aspects of daily life were carried out with respect to the
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Over a thousand years ago‚ Europe experienced one of its greatest periods of cultural enlightenment.Islam in Spain has had a fundamental presence in the culture and history of the nation. The religion was present inmodern Spanish soil from 711 until 1492 under the rule of the Arabs and Moors of al-Andalus.Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of the people of three great monotheistic religions: Muslims‚Christians‚ and Jews.For more than three centuries in Medieval Spain‚ Muslims‚ Jews and Christians
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