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Shi Tiesheng (Chinese: 史铁生; 4 January 1951 – 31 December 2010) was a Chinese novelist, known for his story which was the basis of the film Life on a String.The China Daily stated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived, "Many critics have considered I and the Temple of Earth [] (Chinese: 我与地坛) as one of the best Chinese prose essays of the 20th century."
Tycho Brahe (/ ˈ t aɪ k oʊ ˈ b r ɑː (h) i,-ˈ b r ɑː (h ə)/ TY-koh BRAH-(h)ee, - BRAH(-hə), Danish: [ˈtsʰykʰo ˈpʁɑːə] ⓘ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, Danish: [ˈtsʰyːjə ˈʌtəsn̩ ˈpʁɑːə]; [note 1] 14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly ...
Xeniades liked his spirit and hired Diogenes to tutor his children. As tutor to Xeniades's two sons, [39] it is said that he lived in Corinth for the rest of his life, which he devoted to preaching the doctrines of virtuous self-control. There are many stories about what actually happened to him after his time with Xeniades's two sons.
A terrifying and quite disgusting story of a spider that burrowed its way inside an Australian man's abdomen. Dylan Thomas was vacationing with a friend in Bali, when the friend pointed out a ...
The first known description of Mordake is found in an 1895 article in The Boston Post authored by fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth. [7] The article describes a number of cases of what Hildreth refers to as "human freaks", including a woman who had the tail of a fish, a man with the body of a spider, a man who was half-crab, and Edward Mordake.
The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman.It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998. [2]
The Derelict is a short story by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.. As he does in many of his stories, Hodgson employs a framework or "story within a story."In the framework, an elderly ship's doctor recounts a strange event that happened to him some years earlier, in the context of discussing his ideas about a fundamental life force that can manifest itself in the presence of ...
The original calculations assumed that the Earth has the same density throughout - and the gravitational force changes as you approach the center, much like the weight of a spring that bounces up ...