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George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
The Dying Negro: A Poetical Epistle was a 1773 abolitionist poem published in England, by John Bicknell and Thomas Day. It has been called "the first significant piece of verse propaganda directed explicitly against the English slave systems". [1] It was quoted in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano of 1789. [2]
Initial reception to The Facts of Reconstruction was mixed, with the Black press generally viewing the book more positively than reviewers writing for predominantly white publications. [ 5 ] : 428–429 Among the book's notable supporters were sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois , African Methodist Episcopal minister Benjamin F. Lee ...
John Fitzgerald Lee (May 5, 1813 – June 17, 1884) was the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1849 until 1862 [1] and the first Judge Advocate ...
Tuckerization (or tuckerism [1]) is the act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke.The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends' names for minor characters in his stories.
John L. Tucker, 48, of 507 Race St., appeared in the court of Judge Elizabeth Lehigh Thomakos, where he entered a plea of not guilty. John L. Tucker appears for arraignment on charges of rape ...
Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.. He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017) and Underland (2019).
John Tucker Must Die hit theaters in July 2006, earning $68.8 million at the worldwide box office. It followed ladies man John Tucker (Metcalfe) as he dated three girls from different high school ...