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Bibliography. List of gay novels prior to the Stonewall riots. American author Gore Vidal wrote the pioneering 1948 novel The City and the Pillar about a gay man coming of age. Vidal himself rejected the labels 'gay' and 'straight', believing all people were naturally bisexual. While the modern novel format dates back at least as far as the ...
The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) led the British Expeditionary Force during World War I.His reputation is still controversial. Although a popular commander during the immediate post-war years, [1] with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig also became an object of criticism for his leadership on the Western Fr
11. The Spinanes. At a time when every other band on Sub Pop was loud and over-the-top, Portland’s the Spinanes made a smart, stylish sound with just Rebecca Gates singing and playing guitar in ...
A line is a concept in Western comic books which denotes a specific group of publications by a publisher. Sometimes taking place in a separate continuity or more loose continuity (such as Vertigo by DC Comics) or exploring a kind of subject matter and or genre which the publisher does not want to involve in their main franchise or so called ...
Plot summary. Men Like Gods is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William [ 4] ), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Taking leave of his wife and family, his plans are ...
The British forces in the Western Desert were at the end of a long supply line and not prepared to meet a German offensive as Rommel soon learned from his reconnaissance parties. [116] The British stopped their advance into Libya at El Agheila while the 7th Armoured Division was returned to Egypt to be replaced by the 2nd Armoured Division. [ 116 ]
The band was formed in 2009, when Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir decided to add additional members to her solo project, Songbird. Of Monsters and Men entered 2010's Músíktilraunir, an annual music competition held in Iceland, as a quartet, with Nanna (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Brynjar (electric guitar), Raggi (backing vocals, melodica, glockenspiel), and Arnar (backing vocals, melodica ...