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Mosharef-ed-Din Mosleh-Ebn Abdollah Shirazi (Saadi)
... are Bustan, The Orchard, and Golestan, The Rose Garden. Bustan is entirely in verse (epic meter) and consists of stories illustrating ...
[ 33% ] Last updated: Fri 23rd Mar 07
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne Martinius (Bjornstjerne)
... theatre, 1868 - He published the "Fiskerjenten" (The Fisher Maiden). 1870 - He published his Poems and Songs and the epic ...
[ 33% ] Last updated: Thu 09th Aug 07
Derek, John (orig. Derek Harris)
... appearance was in a supporting role in the epic film, as the noble Joshua in The Ten Commandments. First married to ...
[ 33% ] Last updated: Sat 16th Dec 06
Macpherson, James (Ossian)
... Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland. 1761 - He announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal. ...
[ 33% ] Last updated: Tue 05th Jun 07
James Willie Brown, Jr. (Komunyakaa-Yusef)
... 2004 - Komunyakaa began a collaboration with dramaturg and theater producer Chad Gracia on a dramatic adaptation of The Epic of ...
[ 32% ] Last updated: Mon 25th Jun 07
Barker, Clive
... novel The Damnation Game. 1987 - Clive Barker moved towards epic modern-day fantasy and urban fantasy with horror elements in "Weaveworld". ...
[ 31% ] Last updated: Mon 27th Nov 06
Stich, Michael
... up with John McEnroe to win the men's doubles title at Wimbledon in an epic five-set and five-hour final which stretched ...
[ 31% ] Last updated: Thu 28th Jun 07
Runeberg, Johan Ludvig
... of Finnish life, Grafven i Perho (“The Grave at Perho”). 1832-1836 - His two epic poems, Elgskyttarne (“The Moose Hunters”) and ...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Thu 28th Jun 07
Howard, Leslie
... in the epic Gone with the Wind , but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood and returned to Britain to help with ...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Mon 09th Apr 07
Carlyle, Thomas
... - Carlyle's last major work was the epic life of "Frederick the Great". Carlyle's opinion about Frederick, it epitomised the transition ...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Mon 13th Nov 06
Joan Lucille Olander (Van Doren, Mamie)
... To College. 1964 - She also showed up in the "musical j.d." epic Born Reckless (singing five songs) and as a ...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Fri 06th Apr 07
Michael Te-Pei Chang
... - His victory is equally remembered for an epic five-set encounter with Ivan Lendl in the fourth round. - He became ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 27th Mar 07
Vinton, Robert Stanley (Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr., Bobby Vinton)
... U.S.A). 1960 - He signed at Epic Records (American record label). 1961 - He released his first hit single "Roses Are ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Thu 08th Mar 07
Linton, Mildred (Morley, Karen)
... the blond moll in the crime epic, Scarface, Morley was put on a contract by MGM and starred in such early ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 22nd May 07
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (Deneuve, Catherine)
... career. 1992 - She was also very good in the recent epic drama Indochine for which she earned her first Academy ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Fri 13th Apr 07
Prabhupada (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; orig. Abhay Charan Dey)
... Radha-Damodara in the holy city of Vrindavan, where he began his translation work on the Sanskrit epic Srimad Bhagavatam. 1959 - ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Thu 24th May 07
Claire Wemlinger (Trevor, Claire)
... 1954 - Appeard in the film, The High and the Mighty, a airplane disaster epic. 1956 - She won an Emmy ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Mon 23rd Apr 07
Taylor, Malcolm John (McDowell, Malcolm)
... of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, and Bob Guccione's porno epic Caligula. - McDowell made his American film debut in the ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Fri 20th Apr 07
Johnson, Amy
... On 5th May, Amy set off from Croydon Aerodrome on her epic endeavour. There was not much interest in the journey ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Wed 11th Apr 07
Alfred Garyevich Schnittke
... Quasi una sonata . 1969 - 1972 - He continued to develop the polystylistic technique in works such as the epic ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Sat 22nd Jan 11
Yusen Wu (Woo-John)
... shoot his next major project, the highly anticipated The Battle of Red Cliff, based on a historical epic battle from Romance ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Mon 09th Apr 07
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb
... In September, he delivered on quitting school a remarkable "leaving oration" on epic poetry; Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Wed 11th Jul 07
Rick Nielsen
... his early bands, Fuse, secured a record deal, issuing a single album for Epic, before splitting up. But Nielsen wasn't going ... a brisk rate, Cheap Trick began touring, building up a following and eventually, another record deal with Epic. The group's look ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Thu 23rd Aug 07
Kubrick, Stanley
... World War I, brought Kubrick into prominence as a director. 1960-1964 - After Spartacus, a historical epic, Kubrick made Lolita, based ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Fri 13th Apr 07
Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard (Mel Gibson)
... of the Christ, a blockbuster movie that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus. 2006 - His next historical ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Wed 27th Jun 07
Byrne, Gabriel
... debut in this year as Lord Uther in John Boorman's classic King Arthur epic, Excalibur. He first visited the United States ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Thu 14th Jun 07
Danes, Claire Catherine
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[ 26% ] Last updated: Sat 28th Apr 07
Blake, William
... This poem is a comparatively brief epic which deals with a contest between the hero (Milton) and Satan; it too is ... longest poem that was written and engraved soon after the completion of "Milton", it is also the most richly decorated of ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Tue 13th Feb 07
Pope, Alexander (the Wasp of Twickenham)
... under the title Moral Essays. 1738 - Pope wrote little. He toyed with the idea of composing a patriotic epic in ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Tue 17th Apr 07
Principale, Concettina Ree (Principal, Victoria)
... Playboy in September, and played a sexy biker chick in the disaster epic "Earthquake" with Charlton Heston and Richard Roundtree. 1976 ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Thu 08th Mar 07
