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The lectures are usually dated by the academic year in which they are given, though sometimes by just the calendar year. Many but not all of the Norton Lectures have subsequently been published by the Harvard University Press. The following table lists all the published lecture series, with academic year given and year of publication, together ...
Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late 19th century.
Charles E. Derbyshire (January 17, 1880 – April 10, 1933) was an American educator and translator active in the Philippines in the early 20th century. Derbyshire is best known for his English translations of Filipino nationalist José Rizal's novels Noli Me Tángere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), titled The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed, respectively.
A crayon portrait of Leonor Rivera by José Rizal. Leonor Rivera is thought to have inspired the character of María Clara in Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo. [34] Rivera and Rizal first met in Manila when Rivera was 14 years old and Rizal was 16. When Rizal left for Europe on May 3, 1882, Rivera was 16 years old.
Rizal wrote a diary entry (January 25, 1884) about finishing Eugène Sue's "The Wandering Jew" and commenting that it was a good book. Rizal added that he felt that the French language was rather intimidating, but doesn't speak to the heart and didn't make him cry.
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says the city needs more cops to crack down on subway mayhem and other crime, noting there were thousands more officers when he was first in charge in the 1990s.
Sweeping deportations pledged by President-elect Donald Trump could pose an economic shock for the restaurant industry in ways that echo the pandemic: pricier menus, rising wages, and shuttered ...