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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge Yury Osipovich Dombrovsky ( Russian : Ю́рий О́сипович Домбро́вский ; 12 May [ O.S. 29 April] 1909 – 29 May 1978) was a Russian writer who spent nearly eighteen years in Soviet prison camps and exile.
The useless paddles are idly dropped, Like a sea-bird's wings that the storm had lopped, And crossed on the railing one o'er one, Like the folded hands when the work is done; While busily back and forth between The spider stretches his silvery screen, And the solemn owl, with his dull " too-hoo,'" Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Russian: Факультет ненужных вещей, romanized: Fakultet nenuzhnykh veshchey) is a novel by Yury Dombrovsky about the fate of Russian intelligentsia in the era of the Great Purge, written in 1964–1975.
Just Say No. Useless purchases come in many forms. There's stuff that's used only a few times before being consigned to the basement or attic; stuff that's pricey to buy but could be rented ...
William McGonagall's parents, Charles and Margaret, were Irish. His Irish surname is a variation on Mag Congail, a popular name in County Donegal. [3] [4] Throughout his adult life he claimed to have been born in Edinburgh, giving his year of birth variously as 1825 [1] or 1830, [5] but his entry in the 1841 Census gives his place of birth, like his parents', as "Ireland". [6]
An AI-enabled chatbot for the European parcel delivery company DPD called itself “useless” and said the company it was built for was “the worst delivery firm in the world,” after a ...
The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem: Vol 1 at the Internet Archive, Vol 2 at the Internet Archive. Reprinted in John Selby Watson's translation On the Nature of Things (1851) Wakefield (1796–97) Blank verse. Facing Latin text. 1813: Busby, Thomas: The Nature of Things: A Didascalic Poem: Heroic couplets. 1851: Watson, John Selby
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