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Denig was the son of a prosperous county doctor, yet he chose to dedicate his adult life to the fur trade.In 1833 he entered into the service of the American Fur Company as a clerk, first at Fort Pierre, and from 1837 at Fort Union.
Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies.
The History of Reynard The Fox by Henry Morley, 1889. Full text of the Middle Dutch poem; Full text of the Middle Dutch poem with notes; Reinardus, the journal for the International Reynard Society. Anne Lair, "The History of Reynard the Fox: How Medieval Literature Reflects Culture," in: Falling into Medievalism, ed. Anne
Bernhard Mayer (July 22, 1866 – July 18, 1946 [1]) was a German fur trader, anarchist, patron and art collector. [2] He laid the foundation for the Merzbacher Collection which is currently housed at Kunsthaus Zürich .
Alternatively, "call to Kingdom". Motto of professional wrestler Triple H, and seen in his entrance video. vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit: called and not called, God will be present: Alternatively, "called and even not called, God approaches". Attributed to the Oracle at Delphi. Motto of Carl Jung, and inscribed in his home and grave.
Ernst Robert Curtius. Ernst Robert Curtius (/ ˈ k ʊər t s i ʊ s /; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
Early examples include a 1616 "testimonial poem" on the "sterling and warlike" character of Captain John Smith (in Barbour, ed. "Works") and Rev. William Morrell's 1625 "Nova Anglia" or "New England", which is a rhymed catalog of everything from American weather to his glimpses of Native American women. [4]
His contribution to medieval literature and history was as a translator from Old English to Anglo-Norman. His L'Estoire des Engleis , or History of the English People , written about 1136–1140, [ 2 ] was a chronicle in eight-syllable rhyming couplets, running to 6,526 lines.