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The title of the song references the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. [1] The novel tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American engaged in guerrilla warfare during the Spanish Civil War. The novel focuses on themes of death and suicide. [2] "For Whom the Bell Tolls" also features background vocals from Kay Foxx. [3]
John Donne (/ d ʌ n / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [2]
John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.
Historically, a bell would be rung on three occasions around the time of a death. The first was the "passing bell" to warn of impending death, followed by the death knell which was the ringing of a bell immediately after the death, and the last was the "lych bell", or "corpse bell" which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church. [1]
For Whom the Bell Tolls, a 1943 film based on Hemingway's novel; For Whom the Bell Tolls, a 1942 painting by Jean Bellette; For Whom the Bell Tolls, a volume of the manga One Piece; Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (known in English as The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls), a 1992 video game for the Game Boy
But Gidget, the gentle-yet-firm Taco Bell Chihuahua, was the real thing: the commercial face of the brand who inspired not just hunger, but joy; not just commerce, but compassion.
Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Drake. Getty Images (2) As his colleagues Kendrick Lamar and Drake go after each other’s throats, J. Cole is just soaking up the sun. In a video posted via TikTok on ...
4 Your Eyez Only is the fourth studio album by American rapper J. Cole.It was released on December 9, 2016, by Dreamville Records, Roc Nation and Interscope Records. [5] The album was Cole's first release with Interscope—his previous albums were released by Columbia Records.