Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alanis Nadine Morissette (/ ə ˈ l æ n ɪ s ˌ m ɒr ɪ ˈ s ɛ t / ə-LAN-iss MORR-iss-ET; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian and American [9] singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, [10] [11] [12] she became a cultural phenomenon during the mid 1990s and early 2000s.
As a consequence, Atlantis has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations and continues to inspire contemporary fiction, from comic books to films. While present-day philologists and classicists agree on the story's fictional nature, [10] [11] there is still debate on what served as its inspiration.
According to a 1991 survey done for the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Atlas Shrugged was ranked second among the books that made the most difference in the lives of 17 out of 2,032 Book-of-the-Month club members who responded, between the Bible and M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled.
The Torah (/ ˈ t ɔːr ə / or / ˈ t oʊ r ə /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [2] The Torah is also known as the Pentateuch (/ ˈ p ɛ n t ə tj uː k /) or ...
In 2015, the first three novellas were published as one illustrated collection, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The novella The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens appeared in Tor Books 's 2013 anthology Dangerous Women and explains some of the Targaryen backstory two centuries before the events of the novels.