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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven is a 2006 novel by Fannie Flagg. Based in the fictional town of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, it is a humorous look at Southern mores and small-town mentality in the context of death and the existence of an afterlife. Elner Shimfissle, the octogenarian protagonist, falls out of a tree while picking figs and is rushed to ...
Proops photographed by Allan Warren. Rebecca Marjorie Proops OBE (formerly Rayle, née Israel; 10 August 1911 – 10 November 1996) was a journalist and agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper.
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
A staple in English language teaching for more than three decades, the series contains dozens of books and is widely used throughout the globe. [1] Azar is a proponent of grammar-based teaching in which grammar serves as the starting point and foundation for the development of all language skills — speaking, listening, writing, and reading ...
Fanny reveals the reason she was avoiding Heaven: she is pregnant with the preacher's baby and has to stay hidden so the preacher and his wife can pretend the baby is theirs, with the preacher's wife faking her own pregnancy. Fanny tells Heaven she loves her, then she and Tom leave. Heaven picks up a local paper and sees Kitty's obituary.
The laudatio Iuliae amitae ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that Julius Caesar said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius. [1] [2] The introduction of this laudatio funebris is reproduced in the work Divus Iulius by the Roman historian Suetonius: [3]
Obituary received positive reviews. [8] [9] It received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews. [10] In The Irish Times, Ed Power praised Siobhán Cullen's and Danielle Galligan's performances, but said "it’s a shame the script isn’t funnier. Obituary is a dark comedy that often forgets the laughs." [11]
"Obituary" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the August 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and reprinted in Asimov's 1968 collection Asimov's Mysteries .