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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (/ ˈ r aɪ ər d ə n / RY-ər-dən; born June 5, 1964) [1] is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States.
American author Rick Riordan was approached by Disney about creating an imprint but was initially unable to focus on the request. He later responded to Disney stating that he wanted to launch an imprint that would "find, nurture, and promote the best storytellers for middle grade readers" and "focus on diverse, mythology-based fiction by new, emerging, and under-represented authors". [1]
Kagutsuchi's birth, in Japanese mythology, comes at the end of the creation of the world and marks the beginning of death. [4] In the Engishiki, a source which contains the myth, Izanami, in her death throes, bears the water goddess Mizuhanome, instructing her to pacify Kagu-tsuchi if he should become violent. This story also contains ...
The man hides the snakeskin in a Chinese box and they enjoy their marital life. He later reveals he is a heavenly deity named Dragon Prince (or Dragon King - a kairyūō), [16] and that he must travel somewhere, and asks her to wait for his return. He also begs his wife not to open the chest, lest she will never see him again. His wife asks him ...
His mother was a runaway slave. He was a Union soldier in the American Civil War. He has a rifle and bone steel bayonet, given to him by his father; Tyr. T.J. died charging the battlements at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Due to his parentage, he has a compulsion to accept every battle he is challenged too. "X" / Odin – Odin is the king of ...
Rick Astley had been approached about penning a memoir for decades but always resisted — until now. The singer was a 21-year-old playing local gigs in his small English hometown in 1987 when he ...
Ubasute no tsuki (The Moon of Ubasute), one of the 100 works in the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate ...
Kim Kardashian must be pleased. She has been one of many high-profile people who have spoken up in the matter of Erik and Lyle Menendez, the two no longer young men who killed their parents in ...