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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land (1922).
Nunavut Day is a public holiday, per the 2001 Nunavut Day Holiday Order. [2] Despite being a declared public holiday in the territory, many organizations and stores remain open throughout the day. Employees of the federal government of Canada must still work on this day, as it is not treated as a public holiday for federal public servants ...
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") [1] [2] [3] are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, [4] and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), as well as north of Thlewiaza River ("Big River"), [5] in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq ...
politician, prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut Beatrice Deer [44] Quaqtaq: QC: singer Lisa Dempster [45] Charlottetown: NL: politician Ebierbing [46] c. 1837: Cumberland Sound: NU: c. 1881: guide, husband of Tookoolito: Randy Edmunds [47] North West River: NL: politician Edna Elias [48] 1955: Coppermine: NU ...
The history of Nunavut covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Eskimo thousands of years ago to present day. Prior to the colonization of the continent by Europeans, the lands encompassing present-day Nunavut were inhabited by several historical cultural groups, including the Pre-Dorset , the Dorsets , the Thule and their descendants ...
The Doctor Stories is an eclectic collection of 13 works of short fiction by William Carlos Williams published by New Directions Publishing in 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The stories are representative of Williams’ autobiographical physician-patient narratives that characterize much of his short fiction.
Demuth was known as a painter in the Precisionist style, incorporating clean lines and geometry into images. Art historian H.W. Janson mentions Demuth's interactions with Cubist painters in New York, and the connections between Futurism and Precisionism styles. [5]
A qulliq being lit, Nunavut, 1999. The qulliq [1] or kudlik [2] (Inuktitut: ᖁᓪᓕᖅ, romanized: qulliq, IPA:; Greenlandic: qulleq; Inupiaq: naniq), is the traditional oil lamp used by many circumpolar peoples, including the Inuit, the Chukchi [3] and the Yupik peoples. [4] The fuel is seal-oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of soapstone. [5]