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The book The Black Wheel was published in 1948, after Merritt's death; it was written by Bok using previously unpublished material as well. Both these books were also illustrated by Bok and published by the small press The New Collectors Group in hardcover. After Merritt's death, Sam Moskowitz discovered a number of poems among his papers ...
At first, biographical writings were regarded merely as a subsection of history with a focus on a particular individual of historical importance. The independent genre of biography as distinct from general history writing, began to emerge in the 18th century and reached its contemporary form at the turn of the 20th century. [1]
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Appletons' Cyclopædia is notorious for including 92 known biographies of fictitious persons, with at least a further 51 entries being deemed suspicious. [4] [5]The first to discover these fictitious biographies was John Hendley Barnhart in 1919 [6] [a] when he identified and reprinted, with commentary, 14 biographical sketches of supposed European botanists who had come to the New World to ...
Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) [1] [2] was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.
The first version of the video game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, published in 1985, included a copy of The World Almanac in the purchase. [6] From the 1968 to 1986 editions the Almanac bore the imprints of local newspapers (in New York, the Daily News for most of the time) in various markets while published by NEA. Thereafter it was ...
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a book about natural history by British paleontologist Richard A. Fortey. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over ...
This was a reversal from Lamarck's previous view, published in his Memoirs of Physics and Natural History (1797), in which he briefly refers to the immutability of species. [25] Lamarck stressed two main themes in his biological work (neither of them to do with soft inheritance). The first was that the environment gives rise to changes in animals.