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Madeleine L'Engle ( / ˈlɛŋɡəl /; November 29, 1918 [ 1] – September 6, 2007) [ 2] was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and ...
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was born on 29 September 1934 in Fiume, [ 4] now known as Rijeka, [ 5] then part of the Kingdom of Italy. His family name derives from the village of Csíkszentmihály in Transylvania. [ 6] He was the third son of a career diplomat at the Hungarian Consulate in Fiume. [ 5][ 7] In 1944, when Csikszentmihalyi was ...
John Gierach. John Gierach is an American author and freelance writer who lives in Larimer County, Colorado. He was born in Illinois in 1946. [ 1] Gierach graduated from Findlay College in Ohio with a degree in philosophy and a minor in English. [ 1] In 1969, he moved to Colorado and began fishing nearly every day while working at a silver mine ...
The relevance of consummation in a civil marriage varies by jurisdiction. For example, under section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a refusal or inability to consummate a marriage is a ground of annulment in England and Wales, [3] but this only applies to heterosexual marriage because Paragraph 4 of schedule 4 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 specifically excludes non ...
The location of Carthage in North Africa. Ceterum (autem) censeo Carthaginem esse delendam ("Furthermore, I consider Carthage to need to be destroyed"), often abbreviated to Carthago delenda est or delenda est Carthago ("Carthage must be destroyed"), is a Latin oratorical phrase pronounced by Cato the Elder, a politician of the Roman Republic.
She focuses on the dual nature of Persephone as both maiden and queen of the underworld, symbolizing the Jungian themes of life, death, and rebirth, and the complexity of the human psyche. Nelson also examines the mother-daughter relationship between Persephone and Demeter, emphasizing its significance in the myth as an embodiment of the ...
Dieterich Buxtehude. Dieterich Buxtehude ( German: [ˈdiːtəʁɪç bʊkstəˈhuːdə]; born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude, [ 1] Danish: [ˈtiðˀəʁek ˈhænˀsn̩ pukstəˈhuːðə]; c. 1637 – 9 May 1707) [ 2] was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school.
Clinical death. Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. [ 1] It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest. The term is also sometimes used in resuscitation ...