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Empire of Dust is a 2011 documentary film directed by Bram Van Paesschen. The film documents the workers of China Railway Seventh Group (CREC-7), a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), as they are contracted to construct a road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film follows two employees of ...
Anna Smith Spark (born 1978 or 1979) is a British fantasy fiction writer and civil servant from Bishop's Stortford. She wrote a trilogy titled Empires of Dust as well as several other standalone works, and has been styled the "Queen of Grimdark ".
Lawrence Svobida (June 15, 1908 – August 3, 1984) was an American farmer during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and American writer. He is known for his work Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas, which was published in 1940, in which he details his experiences as a farmer in Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Great Plains region from 1929 to 1939.
We live in a golden age of historical fiction, from Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” adapted for television by Barry Jenkins, to Mark Sullivan’s bestseller “Beneath a ...
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Richard R. Smith is a management consultant, author, speaker, and academic. He serves as a professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), [ 1 ] Executive Advisor to the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School , and Founding Faculty Director of the Human Capital Development Lab. [ 2 ]
The Review of Reviews was started in January 1890 by W.T. Stead and Tit-Bits proprietor Sir George Newnes. It was originally to be called the Six Penny Monthly and Review of Reviews, but this was changed at the last minute. According to Stead, it was "the maddest thing" he had yet done, on account that the venture had been decided on only a ...
The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961. [15]The title of the book refers to Arabs without using the definite article "the" (Arabs instead of the Arabs) because, according to the author, the meaning of the word has repeatedly changed over time, making it "misleading" to use. [16]