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  2. Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir - Wikipedia

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    Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir is an autobiographical essay by Truman Capote about his life in Brooklyn in the late 1950s. While it was eventually combined with the original photo illustrations by David Attie in a coffee table edition, and has been included in anthologies as well, it was first published in the February 1959 issue of the mid-century travel magazine Holiday.

  3. MyHouse.wad - Wikipedia

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    MyHouse.wad (known also as MyHouse.pk3, or simply MyHouse) is a map for Doom II created by Steve Nelson, more commonly known by "Veddge". It is a subversive horror-thriller that revolves around a house that continues to change in shape, sometimes drastically and in a non-euclidean manner.

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been

  5. House - Wikipedia

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    The term house itself gave rise to the letter 'B' through an early Proto-Semitic hieroglyphic symbol depicting a house. The symbol was called "bayt", "bet" or "beth" in various related languages, and became beta, the Greek letter, before it was used by the Romans. [4] Beit in Arabic means house, while in Maltese bejt refers to the roof of the ...

  6. Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays - Wikipedia

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    {{civility essay}} – Essays on the topic of civility. {{essay in development}} - Essay in development {{humorous essay}} - contains comments by one or more Wikipedia contributors and may contain advice {} – Essays intended to expand upon the ideas outlined by policies or guidelines, without having any status as policy.

  7. Even the Stars Look Lonesome - Wikipedia

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    One essay defends Angelou's support of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, and another one centers on her friend Oprah Winfrey. Stars was an immediate bestseller, prompting Random House to increase their first printing of 350,000 copies to 375,000, even before Angelou began her national book tour to promote it.

  8. Verses upon the Burning of Our House - Wikipedia

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    She reminds herself that her future, and anything that has value, lies in heaven. Though she feels guilty, she knows that she is one of the fortunate ones who have salvation regardless; God gives it to his followers, and will help them fight their sin on this earth. The burning of her house was to fight her family's sins of material idols. [1]

  9. Georgian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Westover Plantation - Georgian country house on a James River plantation in Virginia. Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture. Houses were increasingly placed in grand landscaped settings, and large houses were generally made wide and relatively shallow, largely to look more impressive from a ...