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A pseudonymous reviewer in New English Weekly wrote, "Mr. Eliot offers an important defense of Kipling's imperialism". [6] [5]: 109 English poet Norman Nicholson asserted his right as one of the presumed intended audience to comment, and gave his own, somewhat equivocal, opinion on Kipling. [7]
Alfonso Wong explained that 老; Lǎo; lou5 ("Lo") means "old", 夫子; fūzi; fu1 zi2 is "a rather ordinary, but respectable title" over two-thousand-year old which denotes a "learned one" "who can become a teacher ('Fu Gee') or, or one who has studied a lot"; the English title "Old Master Q" "sort of" translates the Chinese title, with Q being abbreviated from earlier "Cute".
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (/ vɪˈveɪkrɑːməˈswɑːmiː /; [ 1 ][ 2 ]vih-VAYK rah-mə-SWAH-mee; born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur. He founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, in 2014. In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election.
After studying nutrition and endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley, [5] [6] she received her PhD in 1964. [7] Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris , [ 8 ] is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a PhD ...
The Third Wave was an experimental movement created by the high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War. [1][2][3][4][5] While Jones taught his students about Nazi Germany during his senior level ...
The Cricket in Times Square is a 1960 children's book by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams. It won the Newbery Honor in 1961. [1] Selden gave this explanation of what was the initial idea for the book: One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in Times Square. The story formed in my mind within minutes.
Robert Ng Chee Siong (Chinese: 黃志祥; pinyin: Huáng Zhìxiáng; Jyutping: wong4 zi3 coeng4; born 1952) is a Singaporean billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Hong Kong property development conglomerate Sino Group since 1991. [1] He is the eldest son of Ng Teng Fong, a Singaporean real estate billionaire. Forbes listed them together ...
Wong Fei-hung (born Wong Sek-cheung with the courtesy name Tat-wun; 19 August 1847 – 17 April 1925) [2] was a Chinese martial artist, physician, and folk hero.His recent fame was due to becoming the protagonist of numerous martial arts films and television series.