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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Scott Alan Spellmon [1] (born November 2, 1963) [2] is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who last served as the 55th Chief of Engineers and the commanding general of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [3]
In the book, her role as narrator gave readers insight into feelings Goldberg was obliged to internalize in the 1985 film. Through Marcus Gardley’s screenplay, the musical finds a fresh way into ...
Purple Book may refer to: The Purple Book (Labour Party), a collection of essays by Labour politicians; Compendium of Macromolecular Nomenclature, published by IUPAC; Purple Book, one of the Rainbow Books, defining the double-density compact disc standard
The Corps of Engineers, as it is known today, was established on 16 March 1802, when President Thomas Jefferson signed the Military Peace Establishment Act, whose aim was to "organize and establish a Corps of Engineers ... that the said Corps ... shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York and shall constitute a military academy."
Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars [ 1 ] to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time".
The Purple Book: A Progressive Future For Labour is a 2011 collection of essays by politicians in the UK's Labour Party, many of whom are considered to belong to the Blairite wing of the party. [1] The book was conceived and promoted by Progress , since renamed as Progressive Britain . [ 2 ]
USACE Pacific Ocean Division, in purple. The United States Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (POD) is an Army organization providing Military and Host Nation Construction services, and civil works in the American states and territories in the Pacific: Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.