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Louis Wain

Louis Wain at his drawing table[1] Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although this claim is disputed), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his works. Life and work[edit] A naturalistic cat from early in Wain's career. Louis William Wain was born on 5 August 1860 in Clerkenwell in London. Wain was born with a cleft lip and the doctor gave his parents the orders that he should not be sent to school or taught until he was ten years old. An early Louis Wain caricature, featuring bulldogs rather than cats. Wain soon quit his teaching position to become a freelance artist, and in this role he achieved substantial success. In 1886, Wain's first drawing of anthropomorphised cats was published in the Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News, titled "A Kittens' Christmas Party". Dr. H. Related:  Wiki: PeopleFilm

Misao Fujimura Misao Fujimura Misao Fujimura’s suicide note Misao Fujimura (藤村 操, Fujimura Misao? Biography[edit] Fujimura was born in Hokkaidō. Fujimura became distraught when rejected by Tamiko, the eldest daughter of Kikuchi Dairoku, in favor of Tatsukichi Minobe, whom she later married. Poem[edit] The poem he wrote before his suicide read: For all the truth, all creation, all secrets of yore Can be told in an instant, by then they’re no more. Ah, The Unexplainable All worries unsettled, heartache unresolved… All questions unanswered, with death, shall be solved. We already teeter, this sheer cliff so high. To end is to start; to surrender is to know. Despair and depression, together they grow. References[edit] Nursery rhyme The term nursery rhyme is used for traditional poems and songs for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century and in North America the term "Mother Goose Rhymes", introduced in the mid-1700s, is still often used.[1] History[edit] Lullabies[edit] The oldest children's songs of which we have records are lullabies, intended to help a child sleep. Many medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus take the form of a lullaby, including "Lullay, my liking, my dere son, my sweting" and may be versions of contemporary lullabies.[3] However, most of those used today date from the 17th century. Early nursery rhymes[edit] 19th century[edit] Meanings of nursery rhymes[edit] Many nursery rhymes have been argued to have hidden meanings and origins. Nursery rhyme revisionism[edit] There have been several attempts, across the world, to revise nursery rhymes (along with fairy tales and popular songs). See also[edit] Notes[edit]

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain upcoming biographical film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a 2021 biographical drama film directed by Will Sharpe, from a story by Simon Stephenson, and screenplay by Stephenson and Sharpe. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, and Toby Jones. The film premiered at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021, and then the film is set to have a limited release on October 22, 2021 and then later to be released on Prime Video on November 5, 2021. Premise[edit] The film depicts the life of artist Louis Wain. Cast[edit] Benedict Cumberbatch as Louis WainClaire Foy as Emily Richardson-WainAndrea Riseborough as Caroline WainToby Jones as Sir William IngramJamie Demetriou as Richard Caton Woodville Jr.[2]Aimee Lou Wood as Claire Wain[3]Cassia McCarthy as Young Claire WainHayley Squires as Marie WainStacy Martin as Felicie Wain Indica Watson as Young Felicie WainJulian Barratt as Dr. Production[edit] Release[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]

Olivier Levasseur Olivier Levasseur (1688 or 1690 – 7 July 1730), was a pirate, nicknamed La Buse (The Buzzard) or La Bouche (The Mouth) in his early days, called thus because of the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies. History[edit] Born at Calais during the Nine Years' War (1688–97) to a wealthy bourgeois family, he became a naval officer after receiving an excellent education. After a year of successful looting, the Hornigold party split, with Levasseur deciding to try his luck on the West African coast. They then perpetrated one of piracy's greatest exploits: the capture of the Portuguese great galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape) or Virgem Do Cabo (The Virgin of the Cape), loaded full of treasures belonging to the Bishop of Goa, also called the Patriarch of the East Indies, and the Viceroy of Portugal, who were both on board returning home to Lisbon. The treasure[edit] Alphabet of Olivier Levasseur "I've lost a lot of documents during shipwreck.. "[..]

Carlos Pellicer Cámara Biografía[editar] Los inicios[editar] Era oriundo de San Juan Bautista, capital del estado de Tabasco. Su padre, también llamado Carlos, era farmacéutico. Su madre, Deifilia, fue quién le enseñó las primeras letras, a leer versos y quién despertó en él una preocupación social. Pellicer inició sus estudios de primaria en la escuela Daría González. En 1909, como consecuencia de la situación política que vivía Villahermosa, su padre se alistó en el ejército constitucionalista, por lo que él y su madre se trasladaron a vivir a la ciudad de Campeche. Cursó estudios en la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria y en Colombia, a donde fue enviado por el gobierno del entonces presidente Venustiano Carranza. En la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria se relacionó con intelectuales de primera línea. Profesor y alfabetizador[editar] José Vasconcelos Calderón, rector de la Universidad Nacional, impresionado por sus palabras contra el dictador de Venezuela quiso conocerlo. "¡Y bien! Regreso a México[editar]

Eli Eli most commonly refers to: Eli or ELI may also refer to: Film[edit] Music[edit] Places[edit] Alni, Ardabil Province, Iran, also known as ElīEli, Mateh Binyamin, an Israeli settlement in the West BankÉile or Éli, a medieval kingdom in IrelandEli, Kentucky, United StatesEli, Nebraska, United StatesEli, West Virginia, United States Other uses[edit] See also[edit] Topics referred to by the same term Temple Grandin Early life and education[edit] Grandin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Eustacia Cutler and Richard Grandin. She was diagnosed with autism at the age of two in 1949. Diagnosed and labeled with brain damage, at that early age she was placed in a structured nursery school with what she considers to have been good teachers. After Grandin's mother spoke to a doctor who suggested speech therapy, she hired a nanny who spent hours playing turn-taking games with Grandin and her sister.[3] Grandin suffered from delayed speech development, as she began talking at the age of four (developmental guidelines anticipate a vocabulary of eight to ten words by eighteen months of age.[4]) She considers herself lucky to have had supportive mentors from primary school onward. Career[edit] Grandin is a prominent and widely cited proponent of the rights of autistic persons and of animal welfare.[6] I first met Temple in the mid-1980s [at the] annual [ASA] conference. Personal life[edit] Honors[edit]

George R. R. Martin Biografía[editar] George R. R. Martin es el mayor de tres hermanos. Creció en una familia trabajadora, su padre era estibador de ascendencia italo-germana, y su madre, de ascendencia irlandesa. Desde la infancia se interesa por la lectura y se convierte en un precoz escritor de relatos. Martin fue un prolífico autor de obras cortas de ficción en los años setenta y su obra fue premiada con varios premios Hugo y Nebula. Tras un corto matrimonio con Gale Burnick (1975-1979), comienza a compaginar la escritura con su trabajo en Hollywood, motivado en parte por la mala marcha de su cuarta novela El rag del Armagedón (The Armageddon Rag, 1983). Bibliografía[editar] Novelas[editar] Serie Canción de hielo y fuego[editar] (A Song of Ice and Fire, 1996-???? Novelas cortas[editar] Colecciones[editar] Antologías[editar] Premios[editar] Enlaces externos[editar] Wikimedia Commons alberga contenido multimedia sobre George R. En inglés Web oficial de George R. En castellano

Finch Family of birds Finches and canaries were used in the UK, US and Canada in the coal mining industry to detect carbon monoxide from the eighteenth to twentieth century. This practice ceased in the UK in 1986.[2] Systematics and taxonomy[edit] The taxonomy of the finch family, in particular the cardueline finches, has a long and complicated history. Limits of the genera and relationships among the species are less understood – and subject to more controversy – in the carduelines than in any other species of passerines, with the possible exception of the estrildines [waxbills].[4] Although Przewalski's "rosefinch" (Urocynchramus pylzowi) has ten primary flight feathers rather than the nine primaries of other finches, it was sometimes classified in the Carduelinae. Fossil record[edit] Fossil remains of true finches are rare, and those that are known can mostly be assigned to extant genera at least. Etymology[edit] Description[edit] Distribution and habitat[edit] Behaviour[edit] List of genera[edit]

Olga of Kiev Saint Olga (Old Church Slavonic: Ольга, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga[1] born c. 890 died 11 July 969, Kiev) was a ruler of Kievan Rus' as regent (945–c. 963) for her son, Svyatoslav. Early life[edit] Olga was a Pskov woman of Varangian extraction who married the future Igor of Kiev, arguably in 903. The Primary Chronicle gives 879 as her date of birth, which is rather unlikely, given the fact that her only son was probably born some 65 years after that date. After Igor's death, she ruled Kievan Rus as regent (945-c. 963) for their son, Svyatoslav. Drevlian Uprising[edit] The following account is taken from the Primary Chronicle. With the best and wisest men out of the way, she planned to destroy the remaining Drevlians. Now Olga gave to each soldier in her army a pigeon or a sparrow, and ordered them to attach by thread to each pigeon and sparrow a piece of sulfur bound with small pieces of cloth. Regency[edit] Christianity[edit] Princess Olga meets the body of her husband. See also[edit]

InuYasha Plot[edit] The story begins in Tokyo, Japan, with a fifteen-year-old middle school girl named Kagome Higurashi, who lives on the grounds of her family's hereditary Shinto shrine with her mother, grandfather and her little brother named Sota. When she goes into the well house to retrieve her cat Buyo, a centipede demon bursts out of the enshrined Bone Eater's Well (骨喰いの井戸, Honekui no Ido?) and pulls her back into the well with it. Instead of hitting the bottom of the well, however, Kagome continues to fall as though through a portal, and reappears in the ancient Sengoku period of Japan. Along the way, they join forces with Shippo, a small orphaned fox demon, Miroku, a monk who suffers from a powerful generational and demonic curse given to his ancestors, and Sango, a demon-slayer whose clan was killed by her younger brother Kohaku, who was being possessed/controlled by Naraku. Development[edit] Rumiko Takahashi wrote InuYasha after finishing Ranma ½. Media[edit] Manga[edit] Anime[edit]

L.A. Confidential Novel by James Ellroy Plot[edit] Reception[edit] The Chicago Tribune said, "Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel".[3] The Los Angeles Times gave a critical review, calling the novel "incontinent mayhem" with a plot "faster than a stray bullet and equally random. Kirkus Reviews described LA Confidential as "energetic, sprawling, and often stylistically irritating The New York Times wrote that "the plotting becomes so tortuous and the narrative style so burdened by repetitive scenes of atrocious violence that the author compromises the truthfulness of his own vision Adaptations[edit] Film[edit] Television[edit] In 2003, a television pilot of L.A. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]

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