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Frances Parkinson Keyes. Frances Parkinson Keyes in 1921. Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 – July 3, 1970) was an American author who wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. Senator and novels set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe. A convert to Roman Catholicism, her later works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs.
The route of Cook's first voyage.Parkinson participated until he died at sea shortly after the departure from Indonesia. Sydney Parkinson was born in Edinburgh c. 1745 into a Quaker family and moved to London c. 1766, where Parkinson taught drawing and was introduced to Joseph Banks and worked for him on natural history drawings.
433 (first edition) ISBN. 978-0413438300. The Explorer is a 1964 novel by American author Frances Parkinson Keyes. Set in Virginia 1953, [1] the novel was originally released by McGraw-Hill Book Company, there have since been several reprints of her book, [2] with the latest release in paperback format in June 1994 by Hodder General Publishing ...
Works of Aristotle. The end of Sophistical Refutations and beginning of Physics on page 184 of Bekker 's 1831 edition. The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle 's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates ...
Harvey D. Williams (1930–2020; aged 90), African-American U.S. Army major general and activist, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Army (1980). [185] Robin Williams (1951–2014; aged 63), American actor. [186] Richard Winters (1918–2011; aged 92), American War Hero. WWII veteran and basis for book Band of Brothers and the subsequent HBO ...
Arvid Carlsson. Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) [2][3][4] was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and ...
Joy Street is a 1950 novel by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Despite only being released on December 1, 1950, it was ranked as the second best-selling novel in the United States for 1950. [2] Over two million copies were in print by the mid-1950s. [3] [4] [5] It also topped the New York Times Best Seller list for eight weeks in 1951.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced the eponymous law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", [1] an insight which led him to be regarded as an important scholar in public ...