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Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation of over 1,763 moccasin vamps that was created to remember and honor missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Each pair of moccasin vamps, also known as tops, represents one missing or murdered Indigenous woman from North America .
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
At the award of the 2006 prizes, at which Cormac McCarthy was a winner, McCarthy's publisher commented positively on the selection process, noting that, in the absence of a sponsor and literary or media figures amongst the judging panel, the decision is made by "students and professors, whose only real agenda can be great books and great ...
James "Jim" Keath--Age 19; The main character of the book; he is a white boy with the skills and mannerisms of an Indian. He is almost always at odds with his sister Sally, who wants to get Jim to 'civilize.' Jonathan Keath—Age 17
James Thackara (born 1944), The Book of Kings; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), Vanity Fair; Stephanie Theobald (born 1966) Angela Thirkell (1890–1961) Adam Thirlwell (born 1978) Elizabeth Thomas (1770/1771–1855) Adam Thorpe (born 1956), Ulverton; Colin Thubron (born 1939), A Cruel Madness; Stella Tillyard (living)
[174] Joyce uses the Book of the Dead in Finnegans Wake, "because it is a collection of the incantations for the resurrection and rebirth of the dead on the burial". [175] At one of their final meetings, Joyce suggested to Frank Budgen that he write an article about Finnegans Wake, entitling it "James Joyce's Book of the Dead". Budgen followed ...
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Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, [2] this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom ...