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The Dying Negro: A Poetical Epistle was a 1773 abolitionist poem published in England, by John Bicknell and Thomas Day. It has been called "the first significant piece of verse propaganda directed explicitly against the English slave systems". [1] It was quoted in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano of 1789. [2]
John Fitzgerald Lee (May 5, 1813 – June 17, 1884) was the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1849 until 1862 [1] and the first Judge Advocate General since the position had been vacant since 1802. [2]
Tuckerization (or tuckerism [1]) is the act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke.The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends' names for minor characters in his stories.
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
Lee is the author of thirty-seven published books and ten published chapbooks and he is the editor of nearly ten published anthologies. A popular performer of children's poems and songs, he has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, Kitchener Public Library, and Hillfield Strathallen private school.
NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ A Dover man was arraigned Wednesday in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court on a variety of charges, including rape.. John L. Tucker, 48, of 507 Race St., appeared in the ...
The book aroused much controversy. In a pamphlet of "Remarks" (1742), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections (1744–45) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton (who had been his friend), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other critics. As he characterised his opponents in ...
John Tucker Must Die hit theaters in July 2006, earning $68.8 million at the worldwide box office. It followed ladies man John Tucker (Metcalfe) as he dated three girls from different high school ...