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The Evening and the Morning is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth set starting in 997 AD, and covering a period in the late Early Middle Ages and under the backdrop of Viking raids, through the year 1007. The book expands upon the history and founding of the fictional town of ...
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Octavia Butler.It was first published in Omni in May 1987, and subsequently republished in The Year's Best Science Fiction (fifth edition); in Best New SF 2; in Omni Visions One; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora ...
In Morning, a lady makes her way to church, shielding herself with her fan from the shocking view of two men pawing at the market girls.The scene is the west side of the piazza at Covent Garden, indicated by a part of the Palladian portico of Inigo Jones's Church of St Paul visible behind Tom King's Coffee House, a notorious venue celebrated in pamphlets of the time.
Claude Joseph Vernet was considered the leading French artist of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting.He came from a family of French painters: he was the son of a decorative painter, and his son Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, Carle Vernet (1758–1836), and his grandson Horace Vernet (1789–1863) were known as military painters.
The Evening and the Morning Star was an early Latter Day Saint movement newspaper published monthly in Independence, Missouri, from June 1832 to July 1833, and then in Kirtland, Ohio, from December 1833 to September 1834. Reprints of edited versions of the original issues were also published in Kirtland under the title Evening and Morning Star.
Morning on a farm in Namibia, just after sunrise. Morning is the period from sunrise to noon.It is preceded by the twilight period of dawn.There are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and night) because it can vary according to one's lifestyle, latitude, and the hours of daylight at each time of year. [1]
Eärendil (Quenya pronunciation: [ɛ.aˈrɛn.dil]) the Mariner and his wife Elwing are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They are depicted in The Silmarillion as Half-elven, the children of Men and Elves. He is a great seafarer who, on his brow, carried the Morning Star, [T 1] a jewel called a Silmaril, across the sky
The Encyclopædia Britannica defines evening as varying according to daylight and lifestyle, but says that many people consider it to begin at 5 p.m. [4] In a social context, the Oxford English Dictionary defines evening as "the time from about 6 p.m., or sunset if earlier". [1] As such, there is no fixed consensus on when the period of evening ...