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David Martin AM (22 December 1915 – 1 July 1997), born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary), was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. He also used the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny, adopting the name David Martin after moving to ...
God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me. I am ready to go. I am one in the number. [224] I am ready to meet my God. [3] [224] I have a very strong conscience." [224] — Lena Baker, African American maid (5 March 1945), prior to execution by electrocution for the murder ...
James David Martin (born December 11, 1971) is an American serial killer who strangled three people across three states between 1989 and 2005. While serving a sentence for the murder of his wife in Pennsylvania, he was connected via DNA profiling to a cold case murder in The Bronx, for which he was later given an additional 20 years imprisonment.
Investors have been burned by past crashes, most notably in the early 1980s, when gold prices fell some 45% as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to stop runaway inflation; and in 2013, when ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from .
American Poetry Review: Mark Strand: from "Dark Harbor" The New Republic: James Tate "In My Own Backyard" American Poetry Review: John Updike "To a Former Mistress, Now Dead" Poetry: Ellen Bryant Voigt "Song and Story" The Atlantic Monthly: Susan Wheeler "A Filial Republic" No Roses Review: C. K. Williams "A Dream of Mind: The Gap" The ...
John "Jack" Lindsay, AM, FRSL (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex.He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane.